Western Digital WDG1U7500N My Book Essential Edition 750 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive | 
| Brand: Western Digital
List Price: $279.99
Buy Refurbished: $111.61
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 21430
Format: Cd
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows & Macintosh
Hard Drive Size: 750
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 4.5 x 8
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: WDG1U7500N
Model: WDG1U7500N
UPC: 718037120324
EAN: 0718037120324
ASIN: B000RY2PLG
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Easy to set up, easy to use -- This drive is all about simplicity. Plug it into your computer's USB 2.0 port and start saving. | | • | Intelligent drive management features -- The My Book drive turns itself on and off with your computer. | | • | Smart design -- The elegant case, iconic of a book, takes up less space on your desk, stacks horizontally, and allows two or more drives to stand neatly together like volumes on a shelf. | | • | High quality hard drive -- Inside the case is an exceptionally fast, ultra quiet, cool-running hard drive from Western Digital. | | • | Free Google software -- Search your drive, manage your photos, and simplify Web searches with included Google software. Note: Google software is compatible with Windows 2000 and XP only. |
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Product Description
The WDG1U7500N MyBook Essential Edition External Hard Drive is small, simple, elegant and very easy to use. Simply plug it in and you have room to back up your valuable data, music, photos and movies. Intelligent drive management features MyBook drive turns itself on and off with your computer. The elegant book design case takes up less space on your desk and allows two or more drives to stand neatly together like volumes on a shelf. Exceptionally fast while ultra quiet & cool running, the MyBook Essential Edition External Hard Drive includes Free Google software to search your drive, manage your photos and simplify Web searches.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 External storage of Hi Def recordings December 24, 2007
E. Rasmussen (Plano, Texas United States)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I bought this drive to use with my Dish Network HD DVR. It was very easy to hook up and caused no problems with authorization or operation. It has provided a solution for my disk space shortage on my DVR. I have no complaints at all.
Everything works as expected with reasonable performance November 2, 2007
Michael Andrew Streib (SF Bay Area, CA United States)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Reasonable performance (30-40MB/sec write performance), and is working well for me.
I repartitioned and reformatted this as HFS+ (Journaled) for my MacBook Pro, but everything should apply to Windows machines as well.
The DC power supply is smaller than I've seen in the past for drives, which is nice, and this unit is reasonably well cooled, half-stylish, quiet, and has good performance.
Couldn't expect much more.
External Hard Disk for MOXI August 20, 2007
Anthony Whitford
7 out of 19 found this review helpful
I bought this to extend my MOXI set top box. Just plugged it in, and it worked. So far, so good.
Just a simple Plug-n-Play and your on your way! December 6, 2007
J. Ruiz (Houston, TX)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought this to put next to the WD320 with a matching case. The connection was easy and I began copying all the files over immediately. The performance works good enough to stream video to my media center PC which is all I really need.
You can't go wrong with this one.
 a bit disappointed October 6, 2007
Enclosed Garden (SSF, CA)
5 out of 28 found this review helpful
After getting this hard drive (new), I transferred files from an internal storage disk on an old Mac. Not all the files had extensions. So I found I had to rename files and add extentions for it to copy. It ended up being long tedious work. Then, once the files were transferred, I made the grave mistake of deleting them off my old Mac which I had intended to give to a friend, only to learn later that MANY files got corrupted. What a painful lesson to learn. I even opted for a slower transfer speed to ensure its success.
Then, upon trying to navigate to some files to use in any given application, both the window and application quit unexpectedly. I have found that the way I'm having to repair this with the aid of a pc and then on a Mac. Again, very time consuming. Otherwise, I'm able to find files again, though many are corrupted from the initial transfer :-(
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