Western Digital My Book Studio 500 GB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/800/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive WDH1Q5000N

From Western Digital
	Price: $209.99
Similar Items - My Book Studio Edition WDH1Q10000 - Hard drive - 1 TB - external - FireWire / FireWire 800 / Hi-Speed USB / eSATA-300 - Western Digital My Book Home Edition 1 TB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive WDH1CS10000N - Western Digital My Passport Studio 500 GB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/800 Portable External Hard Drive WDMT5000TN - Western Digital My Book Studio 2 TB FireWire 800/400, USB 2.0 External Hard Drive WDBAAJ0020HSL-NESN - Western Digital 750 GB My Book Studio Edition USB 2.0 Esata FW400 FW800	Accessories - Case Logic Compact Portable Hard Drive Case (Black) - AmazonBasics IEEE 1394 4-Pin/6-Pin FireWire Cable (6 Feet / 1.8 Meters) [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging] - AmazonBasics USB 2.0 A-Male to Mini-B Cable (6 Feet / 1.8 Meters) [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging] - AmazonBasics USB 2.0 A-Male to B-Male Cable (6 Feet / 1.8 Meters) [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging] - Case Logic VHS-101 Portable Hard Drive Case (Black)
Features - Plug-and-play setup for easy installation - Automatically backs up important data, synchronizes files to keep them current - Compatible with USB 2.0, FireWire 400 and 800, and eSATA - Formatted for Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later, can be reformatted for Windows 2000, XP, and Vista - Turns itself on and off with your computer and Safe Shutdown prevents the drive from being powered down until all your data has been written Product Description Speed is what you need when for video editing, big design projects, or managing photo shoots and thats 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 The perfect pairing for Time Machine Date: 2007-11-28 | Rating: 5 I recently bought a new iMac and immediately fell in love with the Leopard operating system(I'm someone that uses both Vista and Leopard now, and as much as I hate the advocates on either side, I'm finding myself using the Mac all the time and only using my Vista box when I'm forced to). One of the features I was looking forward to using was Time Machine, which for those that aren't familiar is a new program in Leopard that automatically(automagically?) backs up your entire Mac and then does hourly backups of any changes that occur thereafter. Wow. Erased an email yesterday that all of a sudden you wished you had today? Go to Mail, click on Time Machine and then go back in time to when that email still existed on your machine and recover it. Awesome. Simple. So enough about that. Obviously you need a drive to do this, and I didn't have one until the other day when I bought this WD My Book. I plugged it in and immediately Leopard spotted it and asked me if I wanted to use it for Time Machine. I sure did! It's quiet, it's cool to the touch, and it looks cool as well! It matches my Aluminum iMac. The only downside is I hate the light on the front, which is easily solvable...I turned it around! Now if my Mac ever crashes, I can be back to exaclty where I was within 15-20 minutes. Brilliant. Thank you WD and thanks Apple for making this software a part of your base OS. The best companion for my MacBook Pro and Time Machine! Date: 2007-11-16 | Rating: 5 I have this model and hooked it up to my MacBook Pro using the included(!) Firewire 800 cable. Then I reformatted the drive and partitioned it to dedicate half of the drive for Time Machine and the other half for a clean install of OS X for backup in case I have troubles with my MacBook Pro. I setup the drive to shutdown whenever I remove it from my desktop or turn off my computer and setup Time Machine to do the backups on this drive. Now all I do is plug the firewire cable to my computer (which starts up the drive), start Time Machine to start a back up and when it's all done, I eject the drive from the desktop and it automatically turns the drive off and then remove the cable from the computer. The drive is very quiet and compact. It only gets really hot the first time you run Time Machine because it does that initial back up of all kinds of files, but after that, it runs cool. I always keep this drive plugged into the wall outlet and only plug the firewire cable to my computer when I want to make backups. You may want to use it on your desktop computer and keep it plugged to the computer at all times, but I take my laptop all over the house and at least once a week I hook it up to the drive to do my backups. It really doesn't matter what hard drive you use to do backups, the important thing is to do backup regularly. But with this drive (and of course, a Mac using OS X 10.5, specifically using the Time Machine backup software) this process is soooo much easier, it is truly the poster child of real "plug and play" (and backup, in this case). Works Magic for the Mac Date: 2008-02-06 | Rating: 5 I am speaking about the My Studio 500GB for the Mac. In looking for a good external storage device for regular daily back-up I was guided to all sorts of products. But the My Studio was recommended the most and even was a highly recommended drive from the experts at Apple. The installation was easy (just connect and the software is loaded onto the computer automatically). Keep the software icon in the dock and you are all set. I travel a lot and I use the MacBook Pro (I still use Tiger OS X) and when I get home I simply attach the Firewire 800 (included in the box along with Firewire 400 and a USB cord) and the External Drive updates my backup within seconds. Yes, the initial back-up of the files took about 45 minutes, but then I had a lot of huge files and photos and music on my internal drive. But now, I leave the My Studio plugged into the power outlet and all I need to do is attach the firewire and the external drive turns on and backs up any changes within a minute. I can purge deleted files if I want, but I prefer to keep old files and the 500GB has the room. When I leave, I just quit the software and eject the My Book and it turns off all by itself (don't touch the on/off button; it is all automatic). I highly recommend this to Mac users. Don't get the WD 500GB for the PC even though it says it is good for Mac. You have to reformat the entire Drive and it does not work well with Mac. It costs a little more for the My Studio 500GB for Mac, but the ease of use is well worth it. Thanks Apple for the recommendation! Very Quiet and Fast. Date: 2007-11-01 | Rating: 5 The Western Digital My Book Studio Edition 500GB was an excellent purchase from the Apple store. I previously owned a LaCie d2 160GB with firewire 800 hard drive which did the job but just became to small to hold my backups. It is not easy to find an enclosure with firewire 800 and eSATA with a 16 MB cache/7200 rpm speed. What I did not realize until I used the WD hard drive was how obnoxiously noisy the LaCie was when it ran. This WD is hardly audible and fast. I did not use the backup software that was included (no cd, it's on the drive) since Leopard has Time Machine. However, I am using the Smart Power software which powers on and off the WD hard drive in sync with the Mac. It was difficult to get the WD to show up on the Mac, but after power cycling and re-attaching the firewire 800 it was good to go. Please remember I have only had this for one day, but the money is well spent! Quick, cool, quiet Date: 2007-11-02 | Rating: 5 I've had this hard drive for a few days and I have it hooked up to my Dell XPS Laptop. My notebook is very very quiet and this hard drive is a little noisy when you have dead silence. It is very small and cool looking. It stays pretty cool temperature wise as well. The light in the front is much less bright than the previous versions of Western Digital's hard drives, and I like this one much better. If the hard drive is in sight though, the light can get a little annoying because it is pretty much always moving around and pulsing. Speed wise it is one of the fastest I have used. And I am using USB. The coolest feature I think is how it starts up and shuts down with you PC. Very handy compared to other hard drives I have owned. One small problem that I have run into is that when I shutdown my computer, it doesn't always recognize this hard drive when I get back into Windows. I mostly just put my notebook to sleep, when it wakes up, the hard drive wakes up with it and works great. But for some reason when I shutdown and start up again, it never recognizes it. I have to unplug it and hook it up agian. A little annoying, but I don't shutdown much. Overall, I would highly recemmend this hard drive. Granted I have only had it for a few days, but it has suprized me in speed and reliablilty. UPDATE... This hard drive crapped out on me after less than a month. It just stopped working and I lost all of my information. Really really sucked. DO NOT BUY!!!