If you call WD they will tell you how to download SOMETHING THAT WILL DISABLE TWO OF THE FEATURES SO YOU CAN USE IT AS AN OCCASIONAL DRAG AND DROP BACKUP rather than CONTINUOUS WITH THE WDSMARTWARE (THAT'S THE CULPRIT). Collect two or more and they nest neatly together like volumes on a shelf. Fits right in: Takes no more space than a paperback book. Installation is a snap because you don't really install this drive, you just plug it in and it's ready to use. I would never have purchased it had I known it was ONLY a continuous backup and not meant to back up just when you choose, or that it was incompatible with so many programs (patches are NOT available as WD says, btw). FEATURED Western Digital 1TB My Book Essential USB 2.0 External Hard Drive. Overall Review: It's a bit bulky but smaller than my old My Book from 3 years ago. Took all day to backup 240GB the first time. If you do an automatic backup and have lots of folders, it separates them and you have to search endlessly to find the file you're looking for. This is not in the literature or specs because they just found out in November 2009.
This hard drive is part of the My Book Essential group and has a ton of awesome features. If your Western digital 1TB external usb 3. For more information about the Kensington security slot and available products, visit. Pros: Easy to install, easy automatic or drag and drop backups.Ĭons: It crashed my system ("serious error") twice before I called WD and found out that it is not compatible with Norton GoBack, Roxio or Sonic programs. Featuring 1000 memory capacity and 65536 KB buffer size, the My Book Essential model provides storage space for the users data.
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