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| Western Digital 500 GB My Book Essential 2.0 - USB 2.0 External Hard Drive WDH1U5000N | 
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| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $169.99
Buy New: $97.99
You Save: $72.00 (42%)
New (33) Used (1) from $97.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  78 reviews
Sales Rank: 45
Media: Personal Computers
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Hard Drive Size: 500
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 2.1 x 6.5
nv:Capacity (GB): 500
Interface: USB 2.0
Spindle Speed (RPM): 7200
Buffer Memory: 16MB
Average Seek (msec): <8.9
Track-to-Track Seek Time (typical read, ms): 2.0
Data Transfer Rate on USB 2.0: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Temperature, Operating (C): 5 to 35
Temperature, Nonoperating (C): -40 to 65
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: WDH1U5000N
Model: WDH1U5000N
UPC: 718037120805
EAN: 0718037120805
ASIN: B000XRK3LG
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great product for price August 16, 2008
this is a bare bones hard drive that works great. just plug in and start using. no bells, no whistles, this is for the do it urself back-it-upper. love it. even talked family in to buying one and they love it as well.
 Worst product ever August 15, 2008
As many reviewers are already commenting, this product is the worst I've bought in my life. 2 My book, one of 250GB and another of 500 GB failed in just a year in the same way as explained by most of the reviewers (from one day to another any computer is capable of recognize de drive)... The sad thing, is that aside of the useless warranty, you will surely loose ALL your data.... so is MORE THAN "BAD LUCK" as customer support people said to me..
PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCTS, NOT ANY "MY BOOK" hardrive, YOU WILL REGRET IT AND DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T TELL YOU...
 Well, at least it still works... August 12, 2008
I bought my WD drive (320 GB) without reading any of the reviews. There are many reviews saying that it dies after a year. I don't know, I guess I'll wait and see since I've only had mine about three or four months.
My main gripe is the way this damn thing works. It takes extremely long to put all your data on it, it comes with Autosync, which it INSISTS on opening automatically each time I turn on my computer, slowing my laptop down to a crawl. The instructions are virtually non-existant. Need help with something? Too bad. Figure it out yourself.
I was so frustrated that I've already bought a new external HD (because I don't trust this one and it drives me crazy) and the new Toshiba that I bought worked so much more smoothly. No software starts up when I turn on my laptop, no slowing it down and the program it comes with (NTI Shadow) is easy to use and contains detailed PDF instructions.
I give it two stars because it still works.
 Bought the 320 GByte version of this model line August 10, 2008
I purchased the 320 gigabyte version of this model line from a national office supplies store. For what I paid for it, I thought it was a good deal, to act as a backup for files, and not as an everyday drive. If the
files are very important, I burn them to a CD/DVD. I prefer Western Digital drives to their competition, since none of my WD drives have failed. I can't say the same for the likes of Maxtor, etc.
It's a HDD, it works. August 9, 2008
Not much to say because it is an external HDD. It works.
Plug it into my PC USB port and it turns on when it senses power on the USB port and turns itself off when there is no power on the USB port. There is no manual power switch.
On par with other external HDD's with respect to speed and noise.
No real positives, but no real negatives. Like I said, it's an external USB HDD. It works like it should.
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