Western Digital My Book™ Essential Edition™ WDG1U2500N 250 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive
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Western Digital My Book™ Essential Edition™ WDG1U2500N 250 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive

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  • Capacity: 250 GB
  • Interface: USB
  • Enclosure: External
  • Spindle Speed: 7200 RPM
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Western Digital - A hard drive with a green-lighted ring

byrated-r Jan 15, 2007
78 Helpfuls 79 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros A good price, a good looking unit, and a good performing hard drive.
Cons Doesn't have firewire connectivity, thus daisy-chaining is out of the question.
Recommended it? Yes

Introduction:

Only in recent days, I have received my Dell Dimension 4600 computer from my time living around the South Bend, Indiana area. I did a lot of music with my Nephew, and that filled up my 80 gigabyte drive in a serious hurry. I was down to about 7% hard drive space, and needed... Read full review »

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Buy The Book

byAhab1973 Nov 13, 2006
32 Helpfuls 33 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Simplicity personified, relatively attractive, small, inexpensive.
Cons That light ring is annoying! No software CD. No paper manual. Slightly noisy.
Recommended it? Yes

Intro - After installing a 160 gig Seagate a while back, I figured I wouldn't need another hard drive for a while.

Unfortunately, I managed to quickly accumulate about 60 gigs of stuff I wanted to keep. Since I have a bad habit of getting Windows all out of whack every now and then... Read full review »

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Indeed, DO Buy the Book

bylsander Jan 10, 2007
7 Helpfuls 8 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Small, capable, inexpensive, easy to install and use.
Cons Weak and confusing installation instructions.
Recommended it? Yes

I've had an 80 GB external drive for several years, and I've used it for (somewhat irregular) backups of My Documents. It's not big enough any more, so I looked around for a larger alternative. Buy.com had this 250 GB drive on sale for under $100, and the reviews looked pretty good, so I bought it... Read full review »

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Excellent HD!

bydjdawg Jul 18, 2007
5 Helpfuls 6 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Um....everything???!!!!!!
Cons Can't really think of any...I LOVE the cool green power ring!
Recommended it? Yes

I find it amusing that a common complaint has been the lack of documentation or instructions that accompany this hd but there's a reason for it....YOU DON'T NEED ANY!!! :)

This hd is literally plug and play...I am a dj and have been using it for 3 months now with nary a blip. It's fast,... Read full review »

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do not waste your money

byvampireg Feb 3, 2009
3 Helpfuls 4 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros nice price.
Cons faulty product.<br>accident waiting to happen.
Recommended it? No

this is terrible product. i bought and used it for just past the warranty period. the unit made noises at the end. i lost all of my wedding photos and important documents. the company was willing to do absolutely nothing about retrieving my stuff. if i can save just one person from facing lost... Read full review »

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Stay away from this drive

byawesomefx Apr 7, 2007
3 Helpfuls 4 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros nice concept, convenient
Cons defective product
Recommended it? No

I have been a fan of Western Digital hard drives for many years, but that ended with this product. I purchased an Essential Edition 250GB drive for my daughter as a Christmas gift, by New Years it was DOA. Giving WD the benefit of the doubt, I exchanged it for an identical replacement. This one... Read full review »

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western digital 250 external hard drive

bysnackatack2000 Mar 9, 2007
3 Helpfuls 4 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros size, price, ease of use
Cons user manual on board not paper
Recommended it? Yes

i bought one of these last year as i needed extra space to store all my stuff on.

i have found that it is one of the easiest hard drives i have used, i was disappointed that the user manual was on board and not a paper one but it did not take long to figure it out anyway.

its... Read full review »

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Western Digital-250 GB, Slow and steady, noisy but does not wake up my wife.

byhowru Feb 22, 2007
3 Helpfuls 4 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Served me well(and my pocket) for 9 months
Cons a little noisy and slow
Recommended it? Yes

Hi How are you?
Got this 9 months back and has been doing very well. I have used its capacity to about 60% without any complaints from the disk.Takes a little while to show up on the my computer icon list of peripherals after turning on.The size is a little too big to fit in with every thing... Read full review »

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Not the Book for Me

bywdreturnman Feb 18, 2007
2 Helpfuls 3 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Seems to be well-built hardware Lot's of storage for the $$
Cons Very poor support website Very poor manual
Recommended it? No

Wanted an external Hard Drive after brother's recent experience with corrupted files saved by his external Hard Drive backup. Saw this unit on sale at Best Buy for $90, thought lot of storage for that price, so purchased. The floor sales guy seemed way too positive when I asked him about the unit,... Read full review »

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The Western Digital My Book Essential Edition WDG1U2500N 250 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive is fully compatible with PC, Mac systems.The Hard Drive connect by: USB 2.0 for External utilization. Spinning up to 7200 RPM and offering capacity as large as 250 GB

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Small, simple, elegant, and very easy to use. Just plug it in, and you've got plenty of room to back up and save your valuable data, music, photos, and movies.

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