( 24 reviews )
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Posted: 11-20-2008
I bought the WD "My Book" external hard drive because it was on sale and it had SO MUCH memory. I didn't expect the thing to go buggy on me right away. The first thing WD's "My Book" did was to "drop" itself from my PC. It was always wandering off somewhere where my OS couldn't find it. I kept on having to disconnect it and connect it just to use it. The drive has decided - after these many weeks of losing itself in the ether - to stick around. How long will it stay? That's impossible to say. "My Book" (when its working) is noisy. It's as if the drive wants to be a turbojet when it grows up. It does get quiet between its tantrums, however, which is, I suppose, a redeeming quality. In addition, "My Book" has a nasty tendency to embed itself so deeply into the inner workings its host PC that the user can hardly do anything without it "spinning up." Even surfing the net can be negatively impacted by "My Book." Files are often directed without the user's volition or knowledge to this blue-eyed cyclops. Considering the data retrieval times associated with the drive, depositing critical files in the beastie is not a good thing. WD's "My Book" can be best described as a noisy vampiric tumor. It invades its PC host and degrades its performance. Still want all that memory?
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Posted: 09-08-2008
Died after 10 months Used on a Vista OS. Also had to often unplug and replug it in to get my computer to see it. All to often it just wasn't there. That is you couldn't find it in windows Explorer. So person isn't going to send it back to the manufacterer with your data on it. Bought another from another manufacturer hoping to have better luck.
