Product Description

WD's My Book Pro Edition external hard drive with triple interface combines three leading external hard drive interfaces (FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and USB 2.0) on one drive for maximum performance and universal connectivity. Designed to work on both Macintosh computers and PCs, this drive includes powerful EMC Retrospect Express backup and recovery software, a unique Capacity Gauge LED, and a 3-year limited warranty. High quality hard drive ? Inside the case is an exceptionally fast (7200 RPM spin speed), ultra quiet, cool-running hard drive from WD. of course! Western Digital 3-year limited warranty System Requirements - Available USB or Firewire Port / Windows 2000/XP/Vista or Mac OS X 10.2.8+ This drive requires a USB, FireWire 400 or FireWire 800 connection - Cables included

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25060 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Western Digital
• Model: WDG1T3200N
• Dimensions: 470.00" h x 810.00" w x 1160.00" l, 2.00 pounds
• Memory: 0MB
• Hard Disk: 0.00032GB

Features

• Triple interface ? FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and USB 2.0
• EMC Retrospect Express ? Powerful backup software that includes full system backup and recovery, easy scheduling, and encryption
• Capacity gauge ? See at a glance how much space is available on your drive.
• Intelligent drive management features ? Automatic power-up, Safe Shutdown, and LED activity lights make this drive especially easy to use.
• Smart design ? The compact elegant case, iconic of a book, takes up less space on your desk, stacks horizontally, and allows two or more drives to nestle neatly together like volumes on a shelf.

Customer Reviews

Great Addition To My Set Up
I purchased this xmas night (tuesday) and received it thursday morning! I have an apple computer as my main workstation and was running out of storage space quick since i recently got into video editing with Final Cut Studio 2. I got this one since it has USB, FW400, and FW800, the 2 latter which stream audio and video extremely quickly (USB 2.0 sends data in packets so HD video would stutter on playback in the editor, FireWire sends data as streams).

The Drive is Very quiet, dosnt make a peep, even when reading or writing, and there is no annoying fan noise. The sleek aluminum case never gets hot and it matches perfectly to my sleek apple laptop.

Even though it is not as portable as some other drives are marketed to be, it is still very easy to transport with WD's simple button interface. Hit the center button and the drive will eject and turn itself off! All you have to do is unplug and toss in your bag or w/e.

Must have for anyone that has a lot of music, pictures, or videos.
One thing you should all know if you didnt all ready, the reason why computers seem to get slow over time is because as a HD gets full, the seek time increases for info, getting all the large files and the bulk of your collection on an external leaves the main HD fairly clean for faster system performance.

Buy this instead of Premium or Essential!!
In my opinion, if you are in the market for an External Hard Drive and Western Digital 320GB My Book is what you want, but can't decide between Essential Edition, Premium Edition, and this one - Pro Edition, this is the one to get. With it's triple interface you can transfer files using USB 2.0, FireWire 400, and FireWire 800. If your computer is not compatible with FireWire 800, I would reccommend the Essential Edition. I wouldn't reccommend the Premium Edition at all. It's really the same as Essential, except it has FireWire 400, the ring on the front that lights up to tell you how full it is, and back-up software, which isn't good at all. FireWire 400 is worse than USB 2.0, in my opinion, so obviously don't buy it for that reason. If you're going to use FireWire, get FireWire 800. This allows 800Mbit/s, while FireWire 400 allows 400Mbit/s, and USB 2.0 480Mbits/s. If you're looking to get it, but don't want just the essential edition, get this edition, don't even contemplate getting the premium edition, as it'd be a waste of money!
I also like the colors of this one (silver case, blue light) more than the Essential and Premium ones (black case, green light), but that's just my opinion.

Western Digital HD
I have had this unit several months now and I am very happy with the unit. I know that this unit is now out of production so you would have to find a similar WD unit, I wanted a external HD that would last me several years years as I do not upgrade CPU every time a new one comes out. That is why I wanted one that had USB, and both 400 and 800 firewire interfaces.

I would recommend any of Western Digital Hard drives to anyone looking for external or for that matter internal drives. I am a buyer for a university bookstore and have found Western Digital to be very reliable. We have not had to sent one unit back as being defective. I cannot tell you how many have purchased in the various My Book Series of HD's.