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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Useful piece of kit. This has been a great buy for me, I have managed to get the kids to dump all their music, movies and 12 megapixel photographs on this to free up space on our PC.
I still have a small issue to resolve, my PC keeps trying to boot off of this before the main hard drive but if I get time to sort this out it will be perfect.
Steve
An external hard drive that actually looks nice. Okay, there are a lot of reviews for this product already and a lot of misinformation so I thought I'd try to clear the air a bit and lay down the key points for external hard drives: * You will not get 1TB of storage on this product. The industry measures 1TB as 1000 GB, but your computer measures it as 1024GB. The same goes for GB into MB. The true capacity of this drive when formatted will be in the region of 930GB. * It comes with a multi-plug. Follow the instructions to clip off the USA plug... more info
Great piece of hardware. I have now got four of these drives. That should be all that needs said. I bought my first one of these terabyte drives over a year ago and have never had the slightest problem with it. The drive works great as soon as it's plugged in. I use these drives to store music, videos, photographs and software and have never had a problem or lost any data. The lack of a cooling fan is very good as it lets the drive run almost completely silent. The drive spins down after a few minutes of idleness but takes only a... more info
So Far, So Good Been going a fair few months now with no problems (touch wood). It stores most of our DVDs and gets used daily. Cool, and more importantly, quiet and the fact that it sleeps and wakes with your computer is excellent. Will certainly look at Western Digital again when it's time to upgrade.
