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Western Digital WDH1CS5000N 500GB My Book Home Edition External Hard Drive | 
| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $159.99
Buy New: $135.99
You Save: $24.00 (15%)
Rating:  26 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Hard Drive Size: 500
Clothing Size: 500 GB
Size: 500 GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 2.1 x 6.5
nv:Capacity (GB): 500
Interface: USB 2.0/eSATA/FireWire
Spindle Speed (RPM): 7200
Buffer Memory: 8MB
Data Transfer Rate on USB 2.0: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Data Transfer Rate on FireWire: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Data Transfer Rate on Serial ATA: Up to 3000 Mb/sec
Temperature, Operating (C): 5 to 35
Temperature, Nonoperating (C): -20 to 65
Type: Retail
Warranty: 3 years warranty
MPN: WDH1CS5000N
Model: WDH1CS5000N
UPC: 718037121208
EAN: 0718037121208
ASIN: B000WGSAAE
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Storage Capacity: 500GB; Rotational Speed: 7200 rpm | | • | Data Transfer Rate: 300MBps External Maximum External SATA/480Mbps External Maximum USB 2.0/400Mbps External Maximum FireWire 400 | | • | Interfaces/Ports: 7-pin Serial ATA/300 External SATA /6-pin IEEE 1394a FireWire /USB 2.0 USB | | • | Form Factor: 3.5" External Hot-swappable | | • | Standard Warranty: 3 Year(s) Limited |
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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 a My Book Home Edition triple interface external hard drive.With this elegant, collectable product that takes no more space than a paperback book, you can save a copy of your photos to an online sharing service, duplicate your e-mail 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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
Firewire seems buggy - Where my ESATA CORD!??? September 2, 2008
Siskoray
Honestly I love this HD, and the design is spectacular for space saving. However, I am a bit disappointed with the Firewire being fickle. For two days it worked fantastic, then all of a sudden (without a reboot or software install) the Firewire simply stopped being recognized.
After using the USB port I was able to use the unit again, but at a sacrifice to speed stability.
Also, it sure woulda been nice to have an Esata cable in the box since it was the reason for my purchase. NOOOOooo I didn't read specs, bra brah brah brahhhhhhh. But still, a $[...] cable, c'mon.
 Great with Apple AEBS August 30, 2008
R. Ferguson (Earth)
I connected this drive to the USB port of my Apple Airport Extreme Base Station (i.e. as an AirDisk). It works great as a network drive in this configuration. The drive is a fast performer and over this network (802.11n) it is able to supply multiple video streams to different computers without performance degradation. The drive does go to sleep (which I consider a benefit), but if you are using AirDisk for Time Machine (not yet an officially supported option, but doable) then the delay from waking may cause hiccups for Time Machine. For Time Machine, you are better off with a drive that does not go to sleep (e.g., some of the later LaCie USB drives). Finally, I don't think the drive gauges (the capacity light on the side) work in the NAS setup but I don't care because the drive is sitting in a basement network box. Anyway, the drive provides a lot of capacity at a good price in a setup that works nicely with the AEBS.
 MAC USERS-- Run screaming into the night! Copy and paste from My Book to restore to Mac??? August 23, 2008
M. A. Moore (Benicia, CA USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really had high hopes for this and it's probably great if you have a PC
So--I bought My Book to backup my Mac hard drive before I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard. I used the WD Anywhere software for Mac that comes with the My Book. The backup to My Book was seamless and I confirmed the files had in fact made it safely to the external hard drive. So that's good.
However, after installing Leopard, I couldn't seem to get WD Anywhere to put the files back on my Mac. Searched support documents online and discovered the following:
"Unlike the PC version of WD Backup, the Mac version of WD Backup essentially performs a "copy and paste" of your data from the source drive to the My Book Premium Edition hard drive. You can restore this data by opening the My Book Premium Edition hard drive and then copying the data back onto the internal hard drive."
You can erase the MyBook hard drive and then Time Machine will do whatever it needs to do to the hard drive to make it compatible. (I'm new to Time Machine) But the point is, I can't let that happen until I move the files to the Mac and I can't move the files easily to the Mac without erasing the external hard drive.
WD SUPPORT: Perhaps this wasn't a good day for them. But I called tech support before I got the bad news from support docs online. Waited on the phone for 30+ mintues (with the promise the wait time was 10 minutes). Left message with operator who finally came on. He said they would call within an hour. They didn't.
I'm sure you can work around this, there's no headsup and the problem is not well documented.
Awful Backup Software August 22, 2008
Nom de Plume (Colorado, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought 2 of these for our computer and our son's new school laptop. While the drive hardware works fine and can be connected via USB or Firewire or e-sata, the software is unacceptable.
On our XP machine, setup wasn't nearly as intuitive as it could be or should have been, but we did manage to get it installed and set to back up two "plans" which included files from both of our internal drives. After about 5 hours of backup, everything looked like it was working.
However, the software is supposed to work in the background and yield system resources to all other tasks. This is not really the case. Even though it ran minimized, it routinely used 30% of the CPU load, and seriously slowed the machine for all tasks. We have also had a number of hangs/lockups and have lost some setting files due to this software as well- the machine is much faster and more stable when the Memeo software isn't running. Additionally, its very active software, popping up an annoying notice box over the system tray basically constantly.
We finally had to resort to installing the StartupCPL tool (this is a very useful freeware tool) to prevent it from automatically running at boot up, so we can just start it manually when we want the backup updated. However, it has now lost one of my backup plans (the backed up files are still on the my book, it just wont back up any file updates anymore). We followed the instructions to re-attach the inactive backup but it will no longer see it.
We have written to WD a number of times and no useful info has been provided. At all. They did basically blame Memeo for the software and said I should look for updates from Memeo.
Now, I'm not sure if Id call this part worse or just as bad (or maybe a blessing in disguise)but the software will not even install on our son's vista premium 64 bit OS machine (even in admin mode). It blinks a few times, nothing happens, and then quits!
In my opinion, this software is unfit for use. August 2008
Firewire support lacking July 28, 2008
Fidel, MD (Saving Lives, everywhere)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have two of these, so I think they're OK...I do wish that instead of (or in addition to) the non-standard 6-wire IEEE1384 (firewire) cable, a compliant 4-wire cable was included. While the 6-wire configuration is fine for Macs most Wintel laptops have the standard 4-wire configuration.
Once I got the correct cable, the drive works fine. I reformatted to NTFS, which only took twenty or so minutes, and proceeded to use it - it's been 4 months now on the first one, and no problems at all. Once I got the second drive, I daisy-chained them together (using the 6-wire firewire cable) and they work just fine that way too.
Next, I think a 1 or 1.5 TB drive with ethernet capability to use as NAS would be good.
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