My Book Studio Edition WDH1Q10000 - Hard drive - 1 TB - external - FireWire / FireWire 800 / Hi-Speed USB / eSATA-300

From Western Digital
	Price: $451.99
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Features - This drive is formatted and the pre-loaded software is designed for a Macintosh operating system Product Description Speed is what you need for video editing, big design projects, or managing photo shoots and that's what this drive delivers with FireWire 800 and eSATA connectivity. With our automatic backup capability your creative masterpieces will be backed up the minute you save them. Customer Reviews Great drive for Macs! Love it! Date: 2008-06-13 | Rating: 5 I've done a lot of research in purchasing an external drive for my iMac and this drive came as my #1 choice. First of all I would like to address all the other reviewers saying they have problems with this product - please note that YOU MUST UPGRADE product's firmware software before you can use it with Leopard (a small download from WD web site and software installation)! In my product packaging I've had a written notice on this from WD and this was the first thing I did! This is the only con I have for this product, however once your firmware is updated, the drive works like a charm!!! WD made this model specifically for Macs, the drive is even HFS+ (Apple) formatted. I've also seen this drive being sold in Apple retail stores! I've had this drive for the last couple of months and I've never had problems with it, I love it! The product is very much aesthetically pleasing, its operation is dead quiet and I love the automated power save feature (drive powers off automatically when not in use)! The drive features quadruple interface (USB, ESATA, FW400, FW800) - I use firewire 800 and the data transfer is blazing fast!! In my research the runner up was LaCie Big Disk Extreme 1 TB having similar features as this WD drive, however besides a small difference in price, the major difference was that WD extends 5 year warranty for its WD drive, whereas LaCie gives you only 3 years warranty! I would highly recommend Western Digital My Book Studio 1TB hard drive, Mac (WDH1Q10000N) to all Mac users, you cannot go wrong with this one! :) Exceeded expectations Date: 2007-11-16 | Rating: 5 I had read reviews of previous versions of the WD MyBook series drives being excessively loud. This 1TB (931GB actually) drive is very quiet, just a slight hum to it. I have an iMac with a 1TB drive and I am using this WD external for Time Machine under Leopard with FireWire 800. I have had it about a month and am very pleased so far. The front has a light bar that strobes or flashes depending on what the drive is doing. Some may find that annoying (for example if used in a bedroom). I'm not sure if this can be turned off. I have not tried the backup software that came on the drive. Great Mac Backup Drive Date: 2008-02-18 | Rating: 5 I'm a recent switcher from PC to Mac and in the process of moving all my personal 'stuff' (digital pictures, iTunes library, documents, etc.) realized that my 300GB USB drive, while probably sufficient, would always leave me wondering if it was 'enough' for Time Machine. Info online said your backup drive should be 2-3 times the size of your hard drive, so I figured for the 320GB drive in my iMac, I should go with a 1TB backup drive. I wanted FireWire connectivity as well, so I started searching. I found this drive, and although the reviews were generally good, there were some that were scary - and who wants to take a chance with the backup of your irreplaceable memories and creations? So, I bought it and have to say I'm thrilled. It's incredibly quiet, its aluminum-silver look matches my iMac perfectly, and most of all - it works. Time Machine saw it right away, did it's initial backup overnight and I haven't had any problems going 'back in time' to retrieve files (thankfully, just to test - I haven't had any problems that caused actual data loss). Peace of mind, good price, easy-as-pie setup (on a mac, anyway), and more storage than you can shake a stick at. Go for it. If your experience is like mine, you'll be satisfied. It works if it's not defective Date: 2008-08-19 | Rating: 5 This is my third WD My Book Studio Edition. The first two were defective with the familiar freezing problem that WD's technical support pretended not to be familiar with (have they ever heard of Google?). After two bad drives I wanted to have my money back but WD talked me into getting a third one. So far the third works well. I gave the 5 stars to my third drive. My first two drives deserve 0 stars each. THE GOOD. Beautiful, well made, quiet, not too hot, multiple interfaces, great warranty, excellent and smooth exchange policy. THE BAD. Too many defective drives. THE UGLY. Technical support pretends that problems don't exist and I was just unlucky. Yeah right. NOTE. This is a 5200 RPM drive and not 7200 RPM (at least mine). Excellent at first, disappointing in the the end Date: 2008-04-13 | Rating: 5 I have owned several external hard drives with mixed results. A couple have just outright failed. This drive has been solid and the price was great. The firewire 800 on my iMac lets me back up my 750GB hard drive in half the time of my USB or other firewire 400 drives. This drive is quiet, well ventilated and yet compact enough to fit in out of the way places. I highly recommend this drive. Update: After 6 months this drive completely died and could not be recovered. Therefore I have to revoke my 5 star and say buyer beware.