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El Guru (Al)

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Western Digital My Book 500 GB
« on: November 29, 2008, 09:22:40 PM »
Decided to get a real external hard drive. I was using a couple old IDE Hard Drives OMD had gave me a couple years back. Neither drive has been the same after the crash I had last summer. I would get random errors and sometimes when I booted up Vista didn't pickup the drives (of course that could have to do with me forgetting to turn them on).

So while I was out this evening I went over to Wal Mart and picked up a Western Digital My Book 500 GB external drive. Having dealt with trying to get those make-shift externals to work, I was prepared for a bit of challenge with this new drive. There was a fold-out double-sided 11x17 piece of paper containing 3 simple steps. Plug the power cable into the drive, plug the USB cable into the drive and then follow the on-screen install instructions. I was up and running in less than 2-minutes.

I really like how I don't have to remember to turn it on and off. When the computer is off the drive turns off automagically. Also has a nice compact adapter plug which barley takes any space. Even the unit itself is fairly compact , about the size of paperback book.
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Re: Western Digital My Book 500 GB
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2008, 03:51:07 PM »
The external drives these days are pretty nice, especially because they come with decent software for scheduling backups. Glad it all worked out for you, and hopefully you got a good deal on the drive. I know Best Buy had a 1.5TB drive on Friday for $150 which is an incredible deal. I'm guessing they sold out of those rather quickly though.
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