Product Description

Your baby's first step, your wedding in Bali, all your important milestones...all captured in digital photos and video. What could be more important? Store them safely and keep them backed up on My Book Home Edition external hard drives.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #795 in Consumer Electronics
• Size: 1 TB
• Brand: Western Digital
• Model: WDH1CS10000N
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 210.00" h x 540.00" w x 650.00" l, 1.00 pounds
• Hard Disk: 1000GB

Features

• Sold Individually

From the Manufacturer
Your baby's first step, your wedding in Bali, all your milestones--all captured in digital photos and video. What could be more important? Store them safely and keep them backed up on the Western Digital WDH1CS10000N My Book Home Edition 1 TB external hard drive.

My Book Home Edition is easy to set up and easy to use. Installation is a snap because you don't really install this drive, you just plug it in and it's ready to use. There is no CD to install; the included software loads from the drive the first time you plug it in. Automatic backup allows you to save a copy of your photos to an online sharing service, duplicate your email and contacts to your iPod, and back up all your precious files to your My Book. Set it and forget it; every time you save something it's automatically backed up.

The triple interface system provides flexibility and performance with connections for ultra-fast eSATA, FireWire 400, and USB 2.0. The eSATA interface gives you speed comparable to a state-of-the-art internal hard drive, while the FireWire connection delivers a high-performance interface that is perfect for Macintosh computers. USB 2.0 is also available for convenience and compatibility among multiple computers.

My Book Home Edition takes no more space than a paperback book. Collect two or more and they nest neatly together like volumes on a shelf. This external hard drive also turns itself on and off with your computer, while Safe Shutdown prevents the drive from being powered down until all your data has been written. (Works with the USB and FireWire connection only.)

This environmentally friendly drive is designed to save power by going into standby mode after 10 minutes of inactivity. When you're ready to use it, it wakes up automatically. My Book enclosure's heat-dissipating design with Morse Code also prevents heat buildup, a notorious data killer. How cool is that?

The My Book Home Edition offers:

• Continuous and automatic backup of your important digital assets.
• Extra storage for your computer.
• An archive of the music stored on your MP3 player.
• Plenty of space for digital photo and video capture and editing.

What's in the Box
WDH1CS10000N external hard drive, USB cable, FireWire cable, AC adapter, and quick install guide.

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Customer Reviews

works great
My drive works flawlessly.
It's plugged to an Intel Mac Mini through FW.
It was recognized immediately but I had to do a quick re-format to HPFS
as it comes formated for Windows.
No problem there, just remember to save the Windows tools which are inside the drive if you think you might need them later.

I also love the fact that it doesn't have a separate power brick.
The power supply is a "wall wart" that's smaller and lighter than other drive's bricks and it fits nicely in my overcrowded power strip.

The drive is surprisingly quiet and has a very decent performance.

The "breathing" or scrolling light effects are annoying though.
A dim, discrete LED would have been better.
There are lots of options out there for you to pimp your rig if you like that stuff.
Still, for me it's a no brainer.
Not only I'm considering getting another one as I'm recommending it to my friends.
But I might get the model with FW800 this time.

Easy-to-Use. Fast. Reliable. Great Value.
The Western Digital "My Book" Terra Byte external hard drive is a great value, east-to-use, and solid performer. I am using it on a home network though an HP Desktop (Pavilion 450n) as a group backup device with VISTA.

The easiest thing was setting it up. Plug in the firewire (faster than the USB 2.0) and the power cable, turn it on and you're in business. VISTA recognized it immediately as an external hard drive and it was easy to access.

I am using it for regular (weekly) backups of three computers on the network as a central backup device.

I have found it to be fast and quiet. I am thrilled with it and highly recommend central backup - safe from any single device failing or becoming corrupted. All those wedding pictures, personal photos, financial records, etc. etc.

Very good, but consider the bundled software
OK, from what I've read, you're going to be better off with the Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme. Why? Because from the research I've done, the backup software that comes with the Western Digital My Book Home Edition is only a 30 day trial version. I had a hard time finding thorough reviews of the latest hard drives (October 1, 2008). The Western Digital and Seagate models I've mentioned are pretty equally ranked. However, what sold me on the Seagate FreeAgent Extreme is that it has built-in software (not trial software) for backing up your data. That means no additional expense for the software. The reviews from various sources like PCworld.com, cnet.com, bit-tech.net, consumersearch.com, had good things to say about both the Western Digital and the Seagate hard drives that I've mentioned.

This obviously isn't a full review of this hard drive -I'm no computer guru, but the software package is very important to me and I thought this little bit of information might be helpful to someone else too.