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Western Digital My Book Studio Edition External Hard Drive - 1TB - 7200rpm - Serial ATA/300, FireWire, USB 2.0, Mac (WDH1Q10000N) | 
| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $399.99
Buy New: $219.99
You Save: $180.00 (45%)
Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 348
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Hard Drive Size: 1000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 2.1 x 6.5
nv:Capacity (GB): 1000
Interface: USB 2.0/eSATA/FireWire
Spindle Speed (RPM): 7200
Buffer Memory: 8MB
Data Transfer Rate on USB 2.0: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Data Transfer Rate on FireWire: Up to 800 Mb/sec
Data Transfer Rate on Serial ATA: Up to 3000 Mb/sec
Temperature, Operating (C): 5 to 35
Temperature, Nonoperating (C): -20 to 65
Type: Retail
Warranty: 5 years warranty
MPN: WDH1Q10000N
Model: WDH1Q10000N
UPC: 718037122762
EAN: 0718037122762
ASIN: B000VZCEU8
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 2 months
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| • | Buy with confidence! | | • | 1TB USB 2.0/Firewire 400/ eSATA-Mac Format |
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Product Description
E-SATA - USB 2.0 - Firewire 400 and 800 Interface / Mac Formatted Only
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| Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...
 Do NOT use on OS X August 25, 2008
Simon Templar (New York, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was a great product until most of my applications started to hung.
I thought it was because of OSX , so I reinstalled everything.
Same crap. I just unplugged everything from my computer, and everything worked great. Little by little, I plugged back all external HD I had, until it was the MyBook turn. Application hunging came back ! From my researches (thanks to the guys at #macosx@undernet.org channels), it looks like it is the enclosure of the HD. If you are going to use an external hard drive, you want to be sure that the enclosure will use OXFORD chips. Not like this one. GREAT HD, but not for OS X !
 It works if it's not defective August 19, 2008
Paul Nevai (Columbus, OH United States)
This is my third WD My Book Studio Edition. The first two were defective with the familiar freezing problem that WD's technical support pretended not to be familiar with (have they ever heard of Google?). After two bad drives I wanted to have my money back but WD talked me into getting a third one. So far the third works well. I gave the 5 stars to my third drive. My first two drives deserve 0 stars each.
THE GOOD. Beautiful, well made, quiet, not too hot, multiple interfaces, great warranty, excellent and smooth exchange policy.
THE BAD. Too many defective drives.
THE UGLY. Technical support pretends that problems don't exist and I was just unlucky. Yeah right.
NOTE. This is a 5200 RPM drive and not 7200 RPM (at least mine).
A class action suit waiting to happen! August 18, 2008
J. Moore (Nashville)
The My Book series is a class action lawsuit waiting to happen and I would be happy to join it. The design is so inferior that the drives get too hot and burn up - on both Mac and Windows. If it's under warranty, they send you a used, beat up replacement that someone else returned ... and the warranty does NOT start all over again. It applies only to your original piece of junk.
Customer "service" is based in India and the techies can't speak English.
I bought 3 of these and am considering legal action after the replacement also went belly up - very hot to the touch. It was my backup drive and now the backup is gone.
I used to sing the praises of WD, but never again. They care nothing about the customer - only about how money they can screw you out of.
If you have a My Book that has NOT fried yet, remove it from that horrible case so ti can stay cool. The warranty for it is worthless anyway. YouTube has a decent video on how to open the case and remove it. Search "remove My Book".
The best external HDD that I've got! August 13, 2008
Juan Elias
I've tried several external HDD, beside my WD Passport which I like because it's portable, this is the fastest and best external HDD I've got.
I even tried buying the case and using any HDD but it's not as fast as this one is, nor efficient.
If you are not sure, just go for it!
Worth every penny!
ALL YOU COULD EXPECT! August 9, 2008
P. Cournoyer (Manchester, NH USA)
Simply plugged it in and hooked it up via firewire and it worked perfectly. Very quiet. I like it so much, I will be buying another soon.
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