Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition (1TB) (06/25/2008)

Great Valueby fasacosta - September 29, 2011

Pros: Build Quality is okay.
Price is a bargain.
Power Brick size is manageable enough to carry around along with the Hard Drive itself.

Cons: Could have been a tad faster.
Don't even try to watch a movie off of it with it on the same table you're using because this thing vibrates like crazy. You can very much hear it spinning, too.

Western Digital vs. Seagateby brandonmaui0000 - August 22, 2011

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worked great! For a year, now it won't turn on.by Arrest45 - August 22, 2011

Pros: Easy to manage files

Cons: Stopped working after a year

No problems, does things as advertisedby pmignini - April 26, 2011

Pros: Quiet, easy to use software, plug and play

Cons: None so far

I have had no issues.by joneskeith - March 29, 2011

Pros: The drive is dependable as long as you let it get air. I am not sure how the other guy managed to get two 500 gig drives out of a 1 tb mirrored drive?? 2x1tb = 1tb mirrored.

Cons: only as fast as USB will allow.

ABSOLUTE GARBAGE!by Iced9 - October 12, 2010

Pros: It's size and price.

Cons: After trying this on my desk top and a brand new Sony Vaio lap top, both of which had problems with this drive. I returned it to the store, bought a seagate and have had no problems.

AVOID THIS PRODUCT!

Failed within 5 monthsby lucibella - August 22, 2010

Pros: 2 Terabytes is a great size for storing massive amounts of photographs.

Cons: I had my data rescued and found images on it that were not mine. The only explanation for it is they sold me a hard drive as new that was actually refurbished. None of my rescued images were usable after data recovery so save yourself the expense.

Terrible! Do Not use the software!!!!by mwermuth - August 20, 2010

Pros: Big extra storage.

Cons: Software will render your computer virtually useless!!!

The worst computer product I've ever purchasedby kamm747 - August 19, 2010

Pros: I have nothing good to say about this product

Cons: Failure of these drive is widespread
Software is way below par
Not a reliable way to store data

ABSOLUTE GARBAGE!by txsar - June 15, 2010

Pros: NONE, IT DOESN'T WORK

Cons: BOUGHT ONE (IT WENT OUT), REPLACED IT, THAT ONE DIED WITHIN A MONTH TOO, IT'S A BAD PRODUCT! I NOW HAVE OVER $2000 IN LOST REVENUE AND HAVE NO WAY OF RECOVERING ALL OF MY STORED CUSTOMER FILES. THANKS WESTERN DIGITAL FOR DESTROYING MY BUSINESS!

Can't stress enough: DON'T BUYby StefanHH - May 12, 2010

Pros: Can't really think of anything.

Cons: Hideous design
Undependable
WILL die on you

Expensive and not a good product.by irescue - April 1, 2010

Pros: absolutely nothing

Cons: I didn't like that it didn't work when I needed it to. All the info on it is lost and my computer crashed and lost everything. So the reason for having it is mute. TERRIBLE product. Will never buy WD again.

Good drive but bad USBby madak16 - January 22, 2010

Pros: God drive reliable

Cons: Even so the drive is good and reliable the USB interface is not. Especially Mac computers seams to have problems with the USB dropping signals and other problems that disappear by inserting the drives in a NEW USB HOUSING from other companies.

don't buy itby bfost1 - December 13, 2009

Pros: not aware of any

Cons: unintuitive. confusing. hard to use unless you are very computer savvy

Works as intended. Dependable.by JustMe2a - October 24, 2009

Pros: 1) Realatively inexpensive for an external mirrored drive 2) Easy to use 3) Dependable 4) Relatively quiet

Cons: 1) Bulky 2) Not the fastest drive but on par with other external drives 3) Shinny Plastic 4) Huge blue activity light can be annoying if left operating in a dark room, but it's not as bad as past models with the round ring.

DO NOT BUY WESTERN DIGITAL HARD DRIVESby dacruz104 - October 8, 2009

Pros: It's heavy enough that the papers under it don't blow away even with an industrial fan.

Cons: Ugly paperweight.
Unreliable piece of garbage.
Not even worth the half star that cnet made me give it.

Do Not BUY!!!by torres1856 - September 26, 2009

Pros: While it worked for 3 months, not a problem

Cons: Uploaded 365 GB of files, folders, and photos. Opened it up one day and found one folder with absolutely nothing in it. Called support and they just said it was corrupted and I needed to reformat it. Upsetting to say the least.

My 1 TB MyBook Just Died !!!!by anthonymaw - August 9, 2009

Pros: great storage and network access including from the Internet

Cons: The CPU circuit board suffered unexpected power problems and does not boot up anymore!!!!!! Drives OK - I pulled them out, reformatted and reused the pair of 500 GB SATA drives but the main circuit board is now just e-waste!!!

Worst product I have ever boughtby wernerwirth - July 31, 2009

Pros: Absolutely nothing

Cons: Crashing is it's best trait not to mention loosing all of your most valuable informatin. WARNING, Do not buy this junk. No feedback, no support, no information.

Great backup drive, easy to useby rollednomore - July 28, 2009

Pros: RAID 1 redundancy

Cons: USB connection only

I would never buy another one already replaced it twiceby jglenj - June 5, 2009

Pros: really easy to set up

Cons: I will never purchase another one tired of replaceing every few months, an then trying to recover all the photos i had on it

Pretty dependable. I have it for 1 year and no problem.by alicepuy - March 26, 2009

Pros: Pretty decent for its price, i have not encounter any start up problem. It always is connected to my computer and works the way I want it.

Cons: a little bulky,

WD My Book = My Agonyby Gasmeister - March 1, 2009

Pros: While it worked, it was quiet

Cons: Failure, unpredictable and total, but consistent with my previous two WD My Book HDs

WARNING-All WD my books have been having power up probsby jim2046 - November 13, 2008

Pros: Small and easy to operate (when it was working)

Cons: Simply dont buy any WD external hardrive.. They have known problems and a very high failure rate. Maybe cnet can run a poll?