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Item Description
The Western Digital 3TB My Book Essential USB 3.0 External Hard Drive comes in a sleek and modern design. The hard drive makes it convenient for you to save your digital files easily. The password protection external hard drive is compatible with both USB 3.0 and USB 2.0. eliminating the need to upgrade as USB 3.0 becomes the norm. The 3TB external hard drive provides you with 3 time faster transfer when used with USB 3.0. The dual USB external hard drive has features like automatic continuous backup and password protection, which ensures that your private and sensitive data remains safe. The hard drive provides you with extra storage space for saving your pictures, music, photos and videos.
Western Digital 3TB My Book Essential USB 3.0 External Hard Drive:Dual USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatibility Connectivity for today; speed for tomorrow Up to 3x faster transfer rates with USB 3.0 Hardware encryption, password protection Connecting with your USB 2.0 port today and using with USB 3.0 when you're ready Protecting your data with automatic, continuous backup Adding extra storage space for photos, videos and music Securing private or sensitive data with password protection and hardware enc
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Specifications
| Model No.: | WDBACW0030HBK-NESN |
| Shipping Weight (in pounds): | 3.0 |
| Product in Inches (L x W x H): | 5.56 x 6.94 x 7.94 |
| Walmart No.: | 007214644 |
Western Digital My Book Essentials 3TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive 11 15
A little pricey if you just need the space. Background: I am a semi-pro photographer looking for additional local short-term storage solution aside from my HP Media Smart Server (more long term limited need to access for editing). I am using the WD Dard Drive with a Dell Inspiron Desktop using USB 2.0 under Windows 7 (64 bit).Western Digital is a reputable brand for all types of storage solutions. This WD drive installed quickly and painlessly; even the packaging is easy to deal with. WD includes a longer than standard USB cable, which was a really nice surprise. The drive IS NOT powered by USB and requires an electrical outlet nearby. NOTE: I strongly recommend you do not install the typical WD software. Instead, rely on backup software already on your OS or Microsoft's Sync Toy (I use to replicate my client photo sessions folders). This will allow you to avoid conflicts I always seem to encounter. WD software is not needed and the drive is pre-formatted. Literally, "plug and play." WD provides little hard copy documentation. However, everything you need is provided (startup poster). For some reason, people are still hung up on the lack of documentation. Everything you need is in the box and any information you could want is on their site. IMHO, the less paper, the better.Upon installation, the drive was immediately recognized by my computer. The drive is incredibly quiet with no fan noise and I have to look at the light on the front of the unit to determine if it is on unless I have my drives open on my computer. The drive sits upright (or you can lay it down and stack drives) and is barely noticeable next to my computer. The drive comes with a Kennsington lock slot and the ability to password protect drive contents.Speed: I am not a test freak so my tests are based on practical usage. I transferred 25 GB of Raw image files (about 12-18 mb a piece) in about 15 minutes @ USB 2.0. The drive did not hesitate once during this process (straight copy over as opposed to SyncToy replication). My system backups seem slower, though acceptable. There is no noticeable adverse impact on computer performance when using the drive, so you can easily continue working on other tasks. As I sometimes edit large Raw files directly on the WD drive, I can comment that the speed was more than acceptable for my purposes (using Nikon Capture NX2 and Photoshop CS5). However, pro-photographers would probably need a faster solution.In summation, I trust WD and find this drive a great solution for my needs. I recommend this drive. If anything changes, I will update my review. 02/20/2011
Good value. Buying online and then picking up in the store saves about $10 over in store price. If you have USB 3.0, this would be a good thing. USB 2.0 backing up 1.4TB took 23 hours. No problem accessing data for applications, USB 2.0 seems to be a good fit for my needs. 06/21/2011
Western Digital is notorious for installing there own software on the drives. The size of this drive makes it difficult to format like you would any other drive.Once you download the WD software and use it to "unlock" and format the drive it works great.All 3T in one partition. 05/20/2011
Good, but some issues I use this with Windows 2003 Server. When I tried to copy 35 Gb files to the HDD, it fails as I received the HDD. But when I format it NTFS using Windows 2003, then larger files can be copied to the HDD. 06/27/2011
1-4 of 12 total reviews
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