Western Digital WDG1U5000WN 500GB External USB 2.0
Thursday, December 20, 2007, 08:58 AM CST [Electronics]
Product Name:
Western Digital WDG1U5000WN 500GB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive
Website: www.walmart.com
Price:
$87.97
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Description:
This My Book Essential Edition drive connects to your PC and is powered from a USB cable. Just connect it to a USB 2.0 port on your PC and you're ready to go. In fact, the drive even turns on and off with your computer. It can hold your choice of 142,000 photos, 125,000 MP3 songs or 200 hours of DVD-quality video.
This My Book Essential Edition drive connects to your PC and is powered from a USB cable. Just connect it to a USB 2.0 port on your PC and you're ready to go. In fact, the drive even turns on and off with your computer. It can hold your choice of 142,000 photos, 125,000 MP3 songs or 200 hours of DVD-quality video.
The My Book is a nice external hard drive. I have purchased two in recent months. This particular model is nice for its higher capacity though USB-only connections will be slow for most people. I use this drive as the backup drive for Time Machine on my Mac. They have a low, quiet profile and seem fairly discreet in terms of look and even noise so I would definitely recommend. If you can spring for the model that has FireWire - go for it since it's much faster.
I have another My Book (320 GB) which sports both FireWire and USB. Though it uses an external AC adapter as well so it's not nearly as portable.