My Book Premium Edition II WDG2T10000 - hard drive array

Advantages: Small, Compact, Quite, Ease of Installation
Disadvantages: None that i can think of

...This is one excellent product. i bought one with my other 3 hard drives being filled with files and music etc. i thought that buying an external would cut all of my problems with the fact that i went through a lot of DVD-r's with burning data for work and other things. By jove has it done the job, i now store all of my work files, music, videos and all sorts of other data. i carry it into work in the morning and plug it in, i then use it for the day and then unplug, carry it home again and plug it in. i have tried in either port USB or Firewire and they both work like a treat. it is quiet and doesnt heat up tooo much.i also like the way that the led on the front has 4 differnet modes and these are the following: Power on state or power save mode Transitioning to System Standy Standby Mode System Standby Drive In Use... Read review

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Advantages: Simple setup, Quiet, Small size, large capacity
Disadvantages: none

...SUMMARY The Western Digital (WD) My Book Premium 500GB is a small, well built external hard drive which is quiet in operation, with excellent capacity and choice of USB 2 or Firewire connectivity. As someone who is interested in technology, photography and video editing, I often end up running low on storage space on my PC. I had been looking to get another hard drive for some time and had seen the WD advertised in a magazine at a reasonable price. I bought mine from an online retailer and as of March 2006 have been using it for 3 months and I have not experienced any problems with it. FEATURES Well without wanting to make it sound as though it's not a good product, because I think it is, there's not much to it, it's just an external hard drive, however it is stylish and feels well built. It is quiet as there is noisy fan... Read review

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Advantages: Large capacity, quiet when not in use
Disadvantages: Can in noisy when in use

...of the capacity. The downside of using NTFS is that it won’t work with Windows 95, 98 and ME, but since I use Windows 2000 and XP NTFS is fine. Once switched on, using a small button at the top of the device a drive letter appear, just like a normal hard drive, and you can use it just like an internal drive (c:). It has a fan inside the case, which can be a bit noisy, but it only starts when your using it for fairly long periods (ie. Copying large files or many files, such as a 30gb of MP3 files, in my case). The drive spins down (shuts down) after about 10 minutes of not being used, which is nice. It comes with two V-shaped feet, which can be attached to the bottom of the case. This is important to allow air to circulate and help keep it cool. I found it a little difficult to attached them to the case but once you work out how it works it becomes... Read review

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