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Western Digital WDG1T3200N My Book Pro Edition 320 GB USB/Firewire Triple Interface External Hard Drive | 
| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $199.99
Buy New: $160.99
You Save: $39.00 (20%)
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 22114
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
System Memory: 0
Hard Drive Size: 0.00032
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.3
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Warranty: 3 years warranty
MPN: WDG1T3200N
Model: WDG1T3200N
UPC: 100000012925
EAN: 0100000012925
ASIN: B000Q1S56Y
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Triple interface ? FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and USB 2.0 | | • | EMC Retrospect Express ? Powerful backup software that includes full system backup and recovery, easy scheduling, and encryption | | • | Capacity gauge ? See at a glance how much space is available on your drive. | | • | Intelligent drive management features ? Automatic power-up, Safe Shutdown, and LED activity lights make this drive especially easy to use. | | • | Smart design ? The compact elegant case, iconic of a book, takes up less space on your desk, stacks horizontally, and allows two or more drives to nestle neatly together like volumes on a shelf. |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
WD's My Book Pro Edition external hard drive with triple interface combines three leading external hard drive interfaces (FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and USB 2.0) on one drive for maximum performance and universal connectivity. Designed to work on both Macintosh computers and PCs, this drive includes powerful EMC Retrospect Express backup and recovery software, a unique Capacity Gauge LED, and a 3-year limited warranty. High quality hard drive ? Inside the case is an exceptionally fast (7200 RPM spin speed), ultra quiet, cool-running hard drive from WD. of course! Western Digital 3-year limited warranty System Requirements - Available USB or Firewire Port / Windows 2000/XP/Vista or Mac OS X 10.2.8+ This drive requires a USB, FireWire 400 or FireWire 800 connection - Cables included
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| Customer Reviews:
 Got refurbished version and had to return it twice November 2, 2008
J. Sharp (Ohio United States)
This item had good ratings, and maybe it is a good product, but I purchased a refurbished model and it would not turn on, I exchanged it for another refurbished model and that one kept giving me errors when I tried to copy the information. I returned it and exchanged it for a Lacie--I have several of them and they have always been good and reliable.
 Absolutely content. July 18, 2008
Jared E. Knight (Buffalo NY)
Bought this product to work with my iMac in order to take advantage of the time machine program. I've had it approximately for six months and works flawlessly.
Unreliable long term WD320GB January 3, 2008
David Mintz (Hollywood, CA)
This was easy to setup and use. It comes with a 1yr warrenty and flat out died just after the warrenty expired... The company (WD) was extremely unhelpfull and insisted the product was outside of warrenty and the only way to recover my data is to pay a lot of money to an external data recovery center. You want your data safe, and this HD is NOT safe or secure. I just bought a replacement from Seagate, and while I can't say anything about how long it will work for, they are known to be reliable and that is what you want with a HD. DO NOT BUY WESTERN DIGITAL if you value your files...
Try this instead:
Seagate ST303204FPA1E3-RK FreeAgent Pro 320 GB USB/eSATA/FireWire400 External Hard Drive
Great Addition To My Set Up December 28, 2007
John (NYC)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased this xmas night (tuesday) and received it thursday morning! I have an apple computer as my main workstation and was running out of storage space quick since i recently got into video editing with Final Cut Studio 2. I got this one since it has USB, FW400, and FW800, the 2 latter which stream audio and video extremely quickly (USB 2.0 sends data in packets so HD video would stutter on playback in the editor, FireWire sends data as streams).
The Drive is Very quiet, dosnt make a peep, even when reading or writing, and there is no annoying fan noise. The sleek aluminum case never gets hot and it matches perfectly to my sleek apple laptop.
Even though it is not as portable as some other drives are marketed to be, it is still very easy to transport with WD's simple button interface. Hit the center button and the drive will eject and turn itself off! All you have to do is unplug and toss in your bag or w/e.
Must have for anyone that has a lot of music, pictures, or videos.
One thing you should all know if you didnt all ready, the reason why computers seem to get slow over time is because as a HD gets full, the seek time increases for info, getting all the large files and the bulk of your collection on an external leaves the main HD fairly clean for faster system performance.
Buy this instead of Premium or Essential!! August 21, 2007
Matt (California, USA)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
In my opinion, if you are in the market for an External Hard Drive and Western Digital 320GB My Book is what you want, but can't decide between Essential Edition, Premium Edition, and this one - Pro Edition, this is the one to get. With it's triple interface you can transfer files using USB 2.0, FireWire 400, and FireWire 800. If your computer is not compatible with FireWire 800, I would reccommend the Essential Edition. I wouldn't reccommend the Premium Edition at all. It's really the same as Essential, except it has FireWire 400, the ring on the front that lights up to tell you how full it is, and back-up software, which isn't good at all. FireWire 400 is worse than USB 2.0, in my opinion, so obviously don't buy it for that reason. If you're going to use FireWire, get FireWire 800. This allows 800Mbit/s, while FireWire 400 allows 400Mbit/s, and USB 2.0 480Mbits/s. If you're looking to get it, but don't want just the essential edition, get this edition, don't even contemplate getting the premium edition, as it'd be a waste of money!
I also like the colors of this one (silver case, blue light) more than the Essential and Premium ones (black case, green light), but that's just my opinion.
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