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Western Digital WDG1SU5000 My Book Premium ES Edition 500 GB USB/eSATA External Hard Drive

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Western Digital WDG1SU5000 My Book Premium ES Edition 500 GB USB/eSATA External Hard Drive

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With both the popular USB 2.0 and the ultra-fast eSATA 3 Gb per seconds interfaces on board, the My Book Premium ES Edition external hard drive offers universal connectivity and unbeatable performance in one high-value package. The My Book external drive turns itself on and off with Intelligent drive management and Safe Shutdown prevents the drive from being powered down until all your data has been written. Automatic backups of your existing hard drive Archiving the music stored on your MP3 player Adding plenty of space for digital video capture and editing Saving and organizing your digital photo collection Read Seek Time - 8.9 ms Track-To-Track Seek Time - 2.0 ms (average) Dual eSATA Interface eSATA Serial Bus Transfer Rate - 3 Gb/s (Max) Universal Serial Bus (USB) Transfer Rate - 480 Mbits/s (Max) System Requirements - Available USB port, or eSATA port, Windows 2000, XP, Mac OS X 10.3 or later Dimensions - Height 6.780 x Length 5.630 x Width 2.23 inch Weight - 2.90 pounds

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Product Details

Product Length:	11.5 inches
Product Width:	8.0 inches
Product Height:	4.5 inches
Product Weight:	6.0 pounds
Package Length:	11.4 inches
Package Width:	8.0 inches
Package Height:	4.6 inches
Package Weight:	3.9 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 28 reviews

Features

Form Factor - 3.5" x 1/3H
Dimensions WxDxH - 2.23 x 5.63 x 6.78 inches
Weight - 2.9 lbs
Interface - USB 2.0 / eSATA

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 2.5

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Unreliable Sep 14, 2008
Do NOT buy this drive. Western Digital My Book is unreliable. I've had two of these drives, and they both died after a few months of very light use. In both cases, the drive suddenly started making the infamous clicking sound of death, and all the data was lost.

3 Dead Drives in 18 Months Jul 25, 2008
We bought two of these drives 18 months ago. Within 6 months, one was dead - bad drive sectors, 300gigs of data lost, and it wouldn't even let me reformat to try over again. I received good customer service, and a new drive. Three months after the new drive arrived (9 months after purchase), the second original drive died, same problems, data lost.

Now, 18 months after we first bought the drives and a year after this new replacement drive was sent, IT dies too! Again, bad sectors, windows fails to write, ALL 300GIGS OF DATA LOST.

I bought this drive when Amazon had it available, but I will never buy a Western Digital brand again. After being burned THREE TIMES, I'd be a fool to trust their products!

Stay Away!!! Jul 23, 2008
This drive failed after 2 months of use. Lost all data. Won't go near any WD My Book product again.

Failed after 9 months. Jul 21, 2008
The title says it all. Worked flawlessly for 9 months (had it mated with a Tivo series 3), and then failed. The Tivo drive tests say that it is suffering from read errors.

The drive warranty is only one year. That says a lot about the product, but fair enough. So, I go to the Western Digital support site and enter the serial number. It says the drive was manufactured in 2006 and I need to provide a purchase receipt to get warranty coverage. A hassle, but again, fair enough. So, I find my Amazon receipt online, save as PDF, upload to Western Digital support site and... nothing. No response except an email saying they have received my message. That was 10 days ago. I again send an email. Again, no response. Perhaps they are trying to wait out the warranty. Anyway, given the hassle, I can't recommend this drive.

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Don't Buy A plug-in external Jun 17, 2008
I bought this drive and it taught me a lesson. I planned to use it with my laptop but since the drive needs it's own power supply it's not very mobile. I should've gotten a USB powered drive instead. If you want more storage space for your home, just buy an internal and have your kid install it. Also, WD's SATA enclosures are terrible. They bend the SATA cable at 90 degrees which causes guaranteed failure. So if you have one of these and it no longer works, take the HDD out of the enclosure and put it in your PC. You should be able to get your data. (Doing that will probably void your warranty)