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I have several of these. The only issue was one with a dead circuit board which I replaced with a used one at a cost of $9. Western Digital will NOT supply parts for their drives, don't even ask them.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
there are no written instructions for installation or use of this product. hooking it up is easy and fool proof; the power light came on and remains on as long as my computer is on. I cannot tell it is storing data or not, how do I access stored data if my main hard drive fails. what can I do to verify this product is working properly? how do I retrieve information from it?
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Refurbished
I bought this drive to serve as backup for two computers, and for the use of USB 3.0. To my surprise, the drive is actually kinda slow. I'm not sure what the spindle speed is, but I would guess it's probably only 5400rpm. However, that is not to say its always slow. For some reason, Western Digital seems to have designed this drive only to be used with USB 3.0. The 2.0 speeds float around 10MB/sec (despite the fact that 2.0 can handle up to 50MB/sec). That said, I've been able to get around 100MB/sec and a max of 320MB/sec with 3.0, thus my belief that WD intended consumers to use 3.0 with this drive. In addition, I would not recommend this drive to someone who truly wants to use it as a "portable" drive (ie plug n play between lots of computers) due to the fact that for the drive to run at full-speed you must load a special driver onto every machine. The annoyance comes from the fact that you must reload/reinstall this driver every time. Furthermore, if you run the included WD Backup Software, you must then use that software to eject the drive before you can unplug. Another slight annoyance is the existence of a seemingly non-functional power button on the back. I've never had to use it, and when I've tried, it seems not to do anything. Perhaps mine is faulty, or perhaps WD had some inane purpose for this button, but decided to leave it as a vestigial feature.Read full review
This is one of the only units that will work with the DISH network as an additional drive to both store and play. This unit has a Superior build for extended use in both cooling and HD components. My other identical model contained the top rated HD wd black 2g drive. So did this purchase.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Basic hard drive. Does what it promises, good transfers and easy (but simple) encryption. I was optimistic about the western digital backup software, but it does not do a great job so I use Carbon Copy Cloner on my Mac and just windows backup on my PC.
This is a very affordable and capable drive made better by Western Digital's (WD) decision to dial-back the previously aggressive software that installed using two (2) lettered drives rather than one. We like the form factor, 2-TB size, and ease of use which has led us to standardize on this drive with clients for backup to disk. So we've acquired over a dozen of them and have had a couple fail in warranty, but WD replaced them with few problems. BACKUP HINTS: We always try to implement backup with multiple drives to accommodate inevitable failures and we've found the free 'Cobian' backup to be a great tool to make it all work. We typically direct daily backups to 2 or 3 alternating drives and let Cobian advise us of success or failure in a daily E-mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . If you found this review interesting or useful would you vote [YES] below. We're trying to build a reputation on eBay one-person-at-a-time, and we'd like your help to do it! THANK YOU!Read full review
I was easy to set up. Really, it's plug and use. Windows found the driver and added it to my computer. Upright stance takes less room that my old one.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Refurbished
My OPPO BD player requires a 2TB max external USB drive (MBR) and I've had one of these that I purchased new in March 2012. It finally died and was looking for another NEW one...and found this! It works perfectly for my needs, integrated seamlessly on my network, and all network/drive settings remained from the one that died. Simple setup and working like a charm!
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
The WD worked perfectly with my Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) allowing me to save musical compositions easily.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
Actually, I already had one. Second one I bought only because heads on my old one stopped working. I bought second one to use its parts to recovery information from my first hard drive. First one, exactly same hard drive, died after 3 month. I bought it in Target, and I know that they still have many hard drives like that in stores. Although I recovered very important information from my hard drive, I lost the rest of it (almost 250gb). I read many negative review after that, and I found that many people around the world had problems with this type of hard drives (WD Caviar Green). DO NOT USE THIS HARD DRIVE FOR BACKUP FILES! If your one still work, it could die really soon... =(