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08-07-2007, 07:27 PM
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| Grab Life By The Balls   Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Michigan
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| Western Digital My Book, Who has one? I just ordered a Western Digital My Book 500gb for $115 shipped. I read the reviews and they look pretty good and the way WD did the external case looks sweet. Does anyone have any comments on the Western Digital My Book? |
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08-07-2007, 07:45 PM
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| Waiting for HL2 Ep:3  Join Date: Feb 2001
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| I have a 250GB version. Seems ok. Just use it for storage. Never really pay much attention to it but it worked great right out of the box.
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08-07-2007, 07:55 PM
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| Grab Life By The Balls Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Michigan
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| I plan on using mine for backup and transfering files around. Should work fine for that only thing that catches my eye is that it only has a 1year warranty. |
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08-07-2007, 09:49 PM
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| Where to next?  Join Date: May 2001 Location: South Florida
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| Use it for storage only. I used one of mine actively for almost 24/7. It burned out in 11 months. Just in time for warranty replacement. My internal drives never had that problem. Which one did you get? What color is it?  __________________ Asus P4P800 Deluxe Intel P4 3.2 Extreme Edition @ 3.50 / Zalman CNPS7000-AlCu / Arctic Silver Ceramique 4x1024 OCZ PC3200 EL Dual Ch High Performance Platinum Edition @ 2-2-2-5 ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon X800 XT / Samsung Syncmaster 215TW 21" Wide Screen LCD Two Western Digital RE2 500 Gb YS Raid Edition SATA hdd's Two Western Digital 250 Gb Raid Edition hdd's Two Western Digital My Book 500 Gb external USB2/Firewire hard drives LiteOn 165H6S DVD Super AllWriter / LiteOn 166s 16x DVD-Rom Onboard LAN Antec SX1240 full tower Soundblaster Audigy 2 zs Platinum / CambridgeSoundworks 5.1 DTT 3500 Digital Speakers Logitech G5 Laser Mouse Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard Razer eXactMat + eXactRest win2000 |
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08-07-2007, 10:05 PM
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| Mine is the usb only one in black. |
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08-07-2007, 10:43 PM
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| Grab Life By The Balls Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Michigan
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| Seems like a lot of people are having a power failure with these units. |
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08-07-2007, 11:02 PM
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| missin' TQ   Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Apple Valley, MN
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| USB drives are prone to failure as far as my usage goes...they don't like to be moved around much it seems. I tried having a few movies on one and used it for traveling... bad idea I guess... 
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08-08-2007, 04:12 AM
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Must be why they came out with the RAID 1 version. | |
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08-16-2007, 11:09 PM
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| Grab Life By The Balls Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Michigan
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| Well this drive didnt last very long at all. I sent the drive back and got my money back. I knew i should of gotten a seagate drive, oh well. |
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08-17-2007, 12:35 AM
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| But you can call me Brain  Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Georgetown, Ontario
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| Get this: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive And this: Antec MX-1 USB2.0 & eSATA External Enclosure - Retail Use the eSATA interface and you will be a very happy camper! I know I am! 
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08-17-2007, 01:34 AM
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08-17-2007, 01:42 AM
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Does the Antec case have a power on light and a drive active light? Sadly the on/off switch is on the backside of the case. | |
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08-17-2007, 01:46 AM
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| I have one of the 160GB passport drives from them and it works great. Use it all the time.
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08-17-2007, 01:47 AM
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| Where to next? Join Date: May 2001 Location: South Florida
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| I've just read some rescent reviews of the MyBooks. The ones to get are the new ones with the big screws on the outside of the case so you can open them up yourself. You can change fans or drives if you wish. The user can open the drive case without violating the warranty from what I understand. |
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03-19-2008, 07:49 PM
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| Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: N. GA US
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| Re: Western Digital My Book, Who has one? I have an older one. I have dropped it 3 feet to the floor. Cords got caught and it flopped over on a glass table, it's had a few bumps and still runs fine. quiet. Fast enough. For me |
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