Binding: Electronics Brand: Western Digital Clothing Size: 500 GB EAN: 0718037121208 Feature: 500GB My Book Home Ed. USB/FW Hard Disk Size: 500 GB Label: Western Digital Manufacturer: Western Digital Model: WDH1CS5000N Publisher: Western Digital Sales Rank: 975 Size: 500 GB Studio: Western Digital Warranty: 3 years warranty
Product DescriptionE-SATA - USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 Interface
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - On the basis of its internal hard drives, giving a WD external another try...
This was a replacement for an earlier model Western Digital external hard disk drive (HDD) that inexplicably bricked after 17 months. The details of that drive are presented in an earlier review by me.
So why chose WD again? Mostly for the solid reputation of their internal HDDs and reasonable pricing. This particular model added an eSATA interface option that allows faster (than USB) data rates.
Installation was problem-free. It powers on and off with my Vista machine, ... Read More
Rating: - Dreaded click of dying
Worked great for about 14 months; Then the drive started to disappear on my PC. After doing many things. New Firmware update, different cable, tweaked, updated, and rolled back drivers to no success; even put in a new PCI USB 2.0 adapter. I began noticing a clicking. click.. click.. click.. trying to spin up. over and over. This is evidently not a good sign. I was able to recover the data or at least see it before I resigned it as a hardware problem (This I did buy continually flashing - unplugging ... Read More
Rating: - Satisfied purchase
Had this product for only a few days so can't offer any reliability comments.
No issues with hooking this drive up. Plugged in the power supply and connected to the computer (Win XP) via FireWire/1394 interface. Drive was instantly recognized and could R/W to the drive.
No supplied software installed automatically or manually by me. Since drive came formated to FAT, it was only a DOS command away from converting to NTFS. Couple min later and drive converted and all initial data ... Read More
Rating: - If you value your data do not bother!
I bought this external HD and out of the box it did not work, does not mount on any Mac or PC that I have, even after running multiple tests. The HD spins up, but does not mount or can be found by any disk utility tool. I am also an IT professional and have used these in the past before at work, but even those are starting to give us flaky results! Mine just happened to not work out of the box (lucky me, huh) Anyway this thing is a total waste, stick with Seagate, LaCie or G Force.
Rating: - Plug in and forget
Beautiful! Set up is very easy, thereafter, it's there when you
want it, otherwise, it "sleeps" and wakes when you need files from
it. No muss, no fuss!
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Electronics : Western Digital WDH1CS5000N 500GB My Book Home Edition External Hard Drive
- On the basis of its internal hard drives, giving a WD external another try...
- Dreaded click of dying
- If you value your data do not bother!