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Western Digital 500 GB My Book Studio Edition External Hard Drive | 
| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $199.99
Buy New: $136.99
You Save: $63.00 (32%)
Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 826
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Hard Drive Size: 500
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 2.1 x 6.5
nv:Capacity (GB): 500
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: WDH1Q5000N
Model: WDH1Q5000N
UPC: 718037121383
EAN: 0718037121383
ASIN: B000WGJZ44
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Plug-and-play setup for easy installation | | • | Automatically backs up important data, synchronizes files to keep them current | | • | Compatible with USB 2.0, FireWire 400 and 800, and eSATA | | • | Formatted for Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later, can be reformatted for Windows 2000, XP, and Vista | | • | Turns itself on and off with your computer and Safe Shutdown prevents the drive from being powered down until all your data has been written |
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Product Description
Speed is what you need when for video editing, big design projects, or managing photo shoots and thats what this drive delivers with FireWire 800 and eSATA connectivity. With our automatic backup capability your creative masterpieces will be backed up the minute you save them.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 31 more reviews...
 Works Great - Easy PC Reformat August 19, 2008
R. Lopez (Palos Verdes, CA)
Fast, bug-free external drive. Easy to format for use with Windows. Couldn't be happier.
Studio Edition Runs Fine August 14, 2008
H. Kane (Henderson, NV USA)
I bought the drive as a backup for my 500GB, 2.8GHz iMac. It was a breeze to install the Firewire 800 interface. Leopard recognized the new drive immediately and asked if I wanted to mount it as my Time Machine backup. I installed the WD driver and never looked back. I'm pleased to report that the drive performs exactly as advertised waking up when required and shutting down when I power down the Mac. The drive is very quiet, runs cool and looks good. Absolutely no complaints.
 annoying August 13, 2008
bob (Boston, MA United States)
plugged it into my pc, nothing happened, didn't show up in 'my computer'. doesn't come with any software or instructions, but at the bottom of a page that come with it it give a criptic message about going to support.wdc.com for installation instructions. looks like once there you have to register with them or something, annoying as hell
Great hard drive! July 23, 2008
F. Bloom (Philadelphia, PA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this hard drive for use with Time Machine on my iMac. It works very well, and is very fast over FireWire 800. It backed up my nearly full 250 GB hard drive in less than an hour. When I accidentally erased my hard drive a couple weeks ago trying to set up a Boot Camp partition, I was able to restore it completely with this drive. Solid construction - great buy!
Please Read, Warning July 10, 2008
Mike W. (Silver Spring, MD)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just want to write and let the world know what kind of company this is. I have owned 3 Western digital (WD) hard drives. All 3 have not lasted longer then 2 years, the most recent has only lasted 1 yr.. 4 months. But the kicker of this situation is the external hard drive WD make have a warranty of 1 year. but the internal Hard drives that are inside the units have a 3-5 year warranty. So I called WD because the hard drive inside the case went bad. So this is how the call went.
The phone rang, and I got contacted to someone over sea's and could barely speak english. I told him my problem and he said sorry it's out of warranty and there is nothing he could do. So i said the hard drive inside the unit has a 3 year warranty. he said well you bought the external hard drive so you only get a 1 year warranty. I was going no where with him so I asked to speak to a manager.
Mind you it's bad enough I lost all my info, but now I couldn't get a replacement. so the manager comes on and says there is nothing he can do. I said to him because I buy the complete package the WD makes I get punished. and if i went out and bought a internal hard drive and put it in a case i'd get a 3-5 year warranty? he responded back, yea. I said dont you think this is a little unfair? and he said sorry. So then trying to be slick I said ok so what if I take the Hard drive out will i get the 3-5 year warranty? he said no you'll void the warranty because they marry the case and the hard drive as 1 unit so they know the hard drive came out of it. But his way of solving the situation he said is they offer a service to recover the data, I asked how much does that cost. he said about $3k. I asked to talk to his manager and he sad it would take 48 hours for them to call me back. (still waiting)
Long story short, if you are interested in buying a western digital I recommend buying a internal hard drive and putting it in a case which are very cheap. Just search external hard drive case, and tons will pop up. by doing this you'll get a real warranty.
I hope this helps others from getting screwed. Good luck
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