Good product for the price -Satisfied-
For the price, this product does the job. The instructions were a little poor. For example, they state to set the drive jumper to “master”. Well, I did that and it did not work. I really had to set the jumper to “single”. After I got that figured out, [...]
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High Quality at Affordable Price
If you are looking for a high quality portable external USB-powered high capacity hard drive at an affordable price, this is your choice!
Ownership: 5 days.
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1. High quality as SimpleTech is using a Western Digital (WD) internal hard drive disk (HDD) known to be a state-of-the-art HDD.
2. As portable (small size and [...]
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One of my best investments
This is an excellent product. I was needing to backup al my Cds collection (over 2500 CDs) an this drive helps me in all. The speed is good, the usability incredible. The only tip that I post for all the future users of this item is “Don’t use the soft included [...]
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Multiple FireWire 400 Failures
I needed another large capacity external hard drive that was both USB 2.0 and FireWire 400 compatible. The SimpleTech PRO1000Q looked to fit the bill perfectly.
Unfortunately, when the drive arrived I found that, while the USB interface worked fine the drive refused to mount at all using FireWire 400. I tried it [...]
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Great product! Convenient size!
Just bought this HD to back up my MacBook Pro. Hooks up in seconds, Mac recognizes it immediately and you can just drag and drop files to store or backup. I use Time Machine with this to back up my whole system and it works flawlessly. I used to have Apple’s [...]
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Comes with everything you need.
I’ve been using this for a few months and I’m probably going to get another one soon. I’ve checked out other drives with esata, and they were more expensive and/or didn’t have the esata accessories. Also, some of the esata drives didn’t have USB 2.0 and just had esata. [...]
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What in the hell is wrong with Western Digital
If you are just looking to add an additional drive for storage, don’t buy this new version of My Book Essential. Especially if you plan to buy more than one (which you of course should unless it’s purely a backup drive). You will regret it unless you [...]
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Poor backup option in image mode
If you purchased this drive and software (as I did) to restore after system crashes you may be in for a rude surprise - the included Safetydrill software does not (as claimed) delete older versions of backups as required to make space for newer ones, instead it MOVES them to [...]
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Western Digital Passport - A Great Value In Portable External HDs
The Western Digital My Passport Essential 320GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (Midnight Black) is the largest capacity in the portable essentials line-up. This comes in a variety of colors including Pink, Real Red, Artic White and Intense Blue. They say that this [...]
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Reliable Inexpensive Data Storage
I’ve heard some complaints about this line of external drives, so let me address those first. Yes, there is a slight “hum” or high frequency vibration. But I have several of these drives in different capacities and some hum a little, some not so much. Bottom line is that [...]
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