Western Digital My Book Essential 2 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive WDH1U20000N (Black)

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	Price: $249.99
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Features - Easy to set up, easy to use: Just plug it in and it's ready to use. There is no CD to install. - Automatic backup: every time you save something it's automatically backed up. - Fits right in: Takes no more space than a paperback book. - Environmentally friendly: Designed to save power by going into standby mode after 10 minutes of inactivity - Interface: USB 2.0 Product Description Are you running out of hard drive capacity? Do you need to archive some important digital documents, photos, or music? The Western Digital WDH1U10000N My Book Essential Edition 2.0 1 TB external hard drive, which takes no more space than a paperback book, is the perfect solution. Collect two or more and they nest neatly together like volumes on a shelf. Customer Reviews Very good external hard drive Date: 2009-08-11 | Rating: 5 This is a great external hard drive. We bought two, and swap them out weekly for backups, and it has performed fantastic. The transfer speed is very fast, and hookup was simple and fast. I would definitely buy this hard drive again. The Future is here Date: 2009-09-15 | Rating: 5 WD has done it again. This 2TB External Hard Drive is the essence of simplicity and modern design. The external size is the same as the 500 GB WD that I purchased mere months ago. Now, it contains 4X that memory. This makes eight WD drives in my Media Center and I have had perfect success. Thank you WD!!! Quiet And Compact Date: 2009-09-17 | Rating: 5 Plugged it in and it was there. Am using WinXP, so I reformatted the drive. It runs very quiet, and appears to be well ventilated to keep it cool. We use it for music and seems very fast. I would definitely buy it again. Amazon had a very good price. Love it! Date: 2009-11-01 | Rating: 5 Works fabulously! I have moved most of my personal data to it; all video, music, and picture files - and am installing any new programs to it instead of to my laptop's hard drive. There is a few second delay in finding the files at first, only because it seems to be resting and has to sort of wake up - but nothing that is irritating. Seamless connection, slow copy Date: 2009-08-06 | Rating: 4 I bought the 2TB WD My Book in exchange to the aging 1TB My Book (and previously the 500GB My Book). There are very few changes. This time they fixed the loose usb coupling on the unit. Everything works as advertised. The unit connects easily to my windows xp sp2 laptop as well as to my windows vista laptop. With the 500GB I had to reboot windows vista. Now i don't. The only thing I don't like is the speed, it only averaged 5MB/s of write speed when I copied the data from the old one. I also recommend to format it to NTFS since it comes with FAT32. Formatting to NTFS makes it work faster and allows you to copy 4GB+ files which many of us increasingly have. A marginal plus is the polished black finish that goes with my Panasonic flat screen.