Western Digital My Book Home Edition 320 GB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive

by Western Digital

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 8.5 x 6.8 inches ; 3.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000WGM1HC
• Item model number: WDH1CS3200N
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 18, 2007

Product Description

320GB MyBook Home Edition- 3.5" External Combo USB 2.0/Firewire eSATA

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Software IS Included!, February 19, 2008

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C. Bender (PacNW) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Digital My Book Home Edition 320 GB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

Just fyi, but the software is included with this device. You need to enter the software key that is printed on a lable and stuck to the "installation guide". If you do that, the backup software shifts from being a "trial version" to a fully licensed and functional version. Thus far, it seems to work well.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I definitely recommend this drive, April 7, 2008

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Kris King (San Antonio, TX) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Western Digital My Book Home Edition 320 GB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

This drive works great. I needed a drive to store 50-100GB of images for access from our company website, and I was concerned that the access speed would be an issue (not to mention the sleep mode I've heard others talk about). I bought the IOGear eSATA 3Gbps RAID 5 adapter from Amazon, and man is it fast. For those of you who said that USB seemed to be about the same or faster than eSATA... well, you need to try this eSATA card. Using USB, it took 1 min 14 secs to copy a 197mb file to the drive. It only took 8 secs using eSATA. A little side note... this card only works in a PCIe (express) slot.

Needless to say, this drive is quiet (no fans), and only slightly warm. While copying 50gb of images on to it, the drive never got warmer than the screen on my flat panel monitor. I've read that the light on the front only indicates drive activity if you're using USB or Firewire, but mine works the same for eSATA too.

I've only had the drive for two days, but it's working great so far. It's a winner in my book. (no pun intended)

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Can't speak for the software, but the hardware is great!, January 26, 2008

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Vincent Bondy "will have the fish." (Awesome) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Digital My Book Home Edition 320 GB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

Apart from making my other portable hard drives look rather frumpy, I have no complaints about this hard drive. It turned itself on when I first plugged it in and autoran the installer for the software that is included. I deleted the stuff, so I can't say whether it was good or not, but it was bundled software, so you can probably guess. Regardless, all I needed was more space to store my stuff, and the fact that it sits there all black and sleek and pulses with light in the front makes it good eye-candy, too. It's a portable hard drive, it works, it's cheap, and it's sexy. I win!