Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 2.0 1000 GB (1 TB)

Pros: Noise, design, capacity, value, ease of installation and use

Cons: Somewhat sparse documentation

The Bottom Line: The ease of use and installation, capacity, performance, product design, and look and feel make this a very nice addition to a PC. Included trial software looks good too.

Review: Quick Summary Good size, quiet, unobtrusive, works as expected. Good value, tons of space. What’s in the Box MyBook, AC adapter, USB cable. Aesthetics The outer shell is a very nice glossy black. The bottom has small ...

Pros: Silent operation, nice status LED

Cons: No chaining of multiple drives

The Bottom Line: Easy expandable storage. I use mine with Time Machine on Mac OSX. It's quiet and reliable.

Review: I am a Macintosh guy. My iMac has a 320Gb hard drive (about 100Gb free). With Leopard, I am making use of the Time Machine automatic backup. Time Machine works great but it eats up drive space. I used to use a 250Gb external but it would only hold ...

Pros: Simple, reliable, quiet, quick installation, cheap, good electronic specs, and housing design.

Cons: No software included. Formatted as FAT32 for Mac compatibility.

The Bottom Line: A best buy for large USB external drives.

Review: For an executive summary, read only the bolded items. Space on hard drives are quickly consumed as fast as available, and equally fast has fallen the price of more bytes. In 2008, terabyte sized hard drives have become prolific for consumers, ...

Pros: Great price for a silent drive that's compact and good looking.

Cons: A small amount of time to figure out how to format it to a Mac.

Review: Out of the box, this drive didn't work with my iMac. Thinking of myself as being savvy, I immediately tried to format it unsuccessfully. Yet, after reading the WD support pages, it was up and running in no time.Like many people, I ran out and ...

Pros: Slick shiny design, Consumer friendly, Compact and portable (1TB platter instead of 2x500GB)

Cons: average data transfer only 1 USB port, average price, software is useless

The Bottom Line: Recommended for the average pc user, if you are advanced.. checking the specs highly advised.

Review: Design & Portability I had 2 external HD's, which were 250GB and 150GB. It was in two different enclosures, so where ever I went, it was a real hassle carrying two HD's. MyBook is pretty compact with 1TB platter inside, helps slimming the width. ...

Pros: Cheap, quiet

Cons: Won't stay connected (interface problems)

Review: This drive constantly "hangs" and needs to be rebooted to reconnect to my PC. I have read similar stories on other review sites...I have tried all the external interfaces (bought it primarily for the E-sata)... The E-sata interface appears to ...