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Western Digital My Book 3.0 - 1 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive

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Western Digital My Book 3.0 - 1 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive

(37 customer reviews)

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Features

SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface
Sleek, streamlined design
Compatible with USB 2.0 ports
Ready to plug-and-play with Windows PCs
Formatted NTFS

Description

The elegant My Book 3.0 features SuperSpeed USB 3.0 with unmatched speed of up to 10x USB 2.0 for the fastest transfer speed available. Resource intensive video editing, animation, graphic design, and large media files can be saved so quickly that you no longer have to wait for the technology to keep up with your ideas.

Product Details

Product Length:	5.3 inches
Product Width:	1.9 inches
Product Height:	6.5 inches
Product Weight:	2.6 pounds
Package Length:	8.0 inches
Package Width:	7.0 inches
Package Height:	5.5 inches
Package Weight:	2.65 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 37 reviews

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 3.5

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38 of 42 found the following review helpful:

Western Digital My Book 3.0 - 1 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive Sep 07, 2010 By Gordon
My new computer motherboard came with two of the new USB 3.0 sockets.

I am running Windows 7 Professional 64x with a 16 GB DRAM and a Quad core Pentium i7 and an Intel Solid State Drive for my C: drive.

After unpacking the new MyBook drive, I connected the special USB cable that one needs to use. This special USB cable comes in the package with the MyBook drive. The end of the cable that plugs into the socket on the MyBook is "different", so you won't make a mistake and use an older USB 2 cable by accident. I then powered the MyBook drive up. Very quiet. Good thing it has an LED so you know it is on.

Finally, I started the computer and booted into Windows 7. Nothing to do but watch it boot. I now have One TB of incredibly fast and quiet disk storage. Win 7 assigned the USB drive a letter (F: on my computer) but I changed that drive letter assignment (using control panel) to make the MyBook my U: drive so that as I added and removed other drives on my system, the drive letter for MyBook would remain the same at all times and not confuse my backup software.

PERFORMANCE:

I previously had a 500 MB USB 2.0 MyBook connected to this computer. Top transfer speeds were in the 18-35 MB/s range.

Using the USB 3.0 MyBook, peak transfer rates I've observed so far are 147 MB/s and, depending on file size, seem to vary between 127 MB/s and 135 MB/s most of the time. This was measured while transferring a directory containing several GBs of video files ranging in size from 2.5MB 237MB.

The drive will idle itself when it has not been accessed for a while. Nice. When idle only the LED is working and it is flashing slowly to let you know the drive is connected but idle.

When you do need to access the drive it spins up quickly enough that it should not be an issue. I like having it resting idle when not in use since I use it for storage and I am not accessing it regularly all day long like I do with my C: drive.

The MyBook also senses when you shut down your computer and turns itself off and on with your computer, automatically. Only the LED is using power at those times and you can feel no heat at all coming from the drive while it idles. No power use, no wear on the MyBook HD.

I believe Western Digital really got their act together on this one and I recommend it without reservation for anyone with a USB 3.0 socket on their computer. I have found nothing at all to dislike about this external storage unit.

After the week long delay before it shipped, which I have come to expect when I try to take advantage of free shipping, the drive made it through the mail quickly. The drive was very well and securely packaged, typical of my experience with Amazon. No problems.

The USB 3.0 MyBook is probably not a necessity. But if you have equipment new enough to provide you with a USB 3.0 socket, it is probably a pretty modern and fast computer. Why bog it down with old USB 2 technology if you have a choice.

You will most certainly notice the difference. The increased speed (and convenience) is not something that you will have to wonder about. You will know right away you bought a winner. I know this purchase brought a smile to my face.

11 of 12 found the following review helpful:

USB 3.0 works great! Much smaller than previous generations. Dec 09, 2010 By Sam Archer
I own at least 6 external hard drives to store photos and movies and have LaCie, Seagate, Iomega, and Western Digital.
I've had catastrophic drive failures with Seagate and LaCie, but none so far with Western Digital.

This drive is very small for a 2 TB drive, much smaller than the previous generation USB 2.0 2Tb version.

It comes with an external power cable and a USB 3.0 cable.
The USB 3.0 will also work with a USB 2.0 port on your older computers but will run at the slower USB 2.0 speed.

First, this drive works great right out of the box. You don't need to install any of the crap software it comes with. Just drag and drop the files you want into the drive. A lot of complaints about these drive come from the software which you really don't need at all.

USB 3.0 from this drive works really fast. Paired with my newer motherboard with a USB 3.0 connector this thing can downloads movies and huge files in a fraction of the time as before.

The drive runs silently and not too hot. You don't hear any fan sounds.

9 of 10 found the following review helpful:

Cable didn't work which came with it. Nov 12, 2010 By Digital1
Cable connections did not fit well and therefore didn't work consistently.
After I bought new cables it works fine.

6 of 6 found the following review helpful:

USB socket sucks!! Feb 25, 2011 By moneypig
The hard disk itself (WD2001FASS(Western Digital 2 TB Caviar Black SATA 7200 RPM 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD2001FASS) is solid, quiet, and fast. However, like what many people have pointed out, after using for a while (4 months), the usb socket was loose and I could even pull it out! The only cheap/fast option to resecue my data is buying another usb 3.0 compatible enclosure and replacing the broken board.

2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

WD 2TB MyBook 3.0 Jul 01, 2011 By TestRat
Works. Do not have have any of the negatives about cables written elsewhere. Use it everyday as daily backup with USB 3 port. Get about 5.8GB per min transfer using SSD source. Great combination.

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