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Western Digital My Book Home Edition External Hard Drive

Filed under: electronics — Tags: , , , , , , , , — admin @ 7:48 pm January 26, 2009

I got my My Book (is that how you would say that?) awhile back, mostly just for Time Machine backups on my Mac. I’ve had hard drives die on me before, and nothing sucks worse than losing your all your work, music, and data.

western digital my book hard driveThe drive has a rotation speed of 7200 RPM. The version I got, the Triple Interface, features USB, Firewire, and eSATA connectivity. I use Firewire for its speed and to keep my USB hub less tangled.

While multiple capacities are available, I opted for the 1TB version, and partitioned it so 250GB would be used for Time Machine backups and the rest would be free, open storage.

It is ” hot-swappable” and, more or less, plug-and-play. Though you will have to format it for whatever particular system you’re using.

The software the hard drive comes with will probably be useless to you. In fact, the useless Western Digital software icon still clutters up my menu bar, seemingly completely unable to be uninstalled. :(

Even still, the Western Digital My Book Home Edition External Hard Drive (1TB, Triple Interface) works wonderfully, certainly helps to ease my mind, and didn’t put the dent in my wallet that other comparable drives could have.

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