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Western Digital My Book Essential (WDBAAF series / WDBJRH series)
6.4 out of 10

Western Digital My Book Essential (WDBAAF series / WDBJRH series)

Western Digital 500GB MY BOOK ESSENTIAL ED USB 2.0 7200 RPM 16 Read more

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Reviews and Problems with Western Digital My Book Essential (WDBAAF series / WDBJRH series)

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Overall 2
2.0

Terrible Drive Design, Reliability, and Service.

PIan, Amazon
18 June 2012
  • Summary: This drive has a type of proprietary firmware which is different from a "standard" usb storage drive. It's also quite unreliable (earliest failure of any of the dozen or...
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Overall 2
2.0

maybe someday i will be able to use it....

Panak, Amazon
28 March 2012
  • Summary: seems like a good device; not really able to use it yet because of sluggish and glitchy software. maybe a few more hours of updates will do the trick?
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Overall 2
2.0

Price is $129.99

MFG, Amazon
26 March 2012
  • Summary: Price for this hard drive is $129.99. I hate it when companies make you add the product to your shopping cart before you get to see the price.
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Overall 2
2.0

So very disappointed

LostData, Amazon
6 March 2012
  • Summary: I bought this to back up my disaster recovery files for the office and to free up some space on my laptop.
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Overall 2
2.0

Drive lasted 7 weeks.

J, Amazon
1 March 2012
  • Summary: I do not travel with this, it sits on my desk plugged in to my computer. It has not been dropped or mistreated. After 7 weeks, the drive randomly stopped working.
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Overall 1
1.0

"500GB piece of crap."

rxgest, CNET
7 January 2012
  • Pros: Bought a few years back and it worked for a while but then stopped.
  • Cons: Now works only sporadically and obviously cannot put anything on it. Only starts up sporadically. Planning to junk it very soon.
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Overall 2
2.0

"Very Disappointing"

TOMOLENA, CNET
11 May 2011
  • Pros: Cool looking...That's about it.
  • Cons: USB port VERY fragile.
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Overall 2
2.0

Western Digital drives are sh***

T. Stephens "nature rules", Amazon
4 May 2011
  • Summary: Western Digital large disk technology, My Book, has destroyed all my life's collection of photos. Their compensation is they will replace the disk that failed in the...
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Overall 2
2.0

Less than 3 months old, and it might burn the house down.

R L Johnston, Amazon
30 April 2011
  • Summary: I primarily used the 1TB model to back up an older computer (circa 2006) and it worked fine for a month and a half.
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Overall 2
2.0

Compatibility Issues

Benedicto Evangelista, Amazon
29 March 2011
  • Summary: Western Digital My Book Essential 3 TB USB 3.0/2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive The WD My Book Essential 3TB is not "directly" compatible to the WD TV Live, I plugged it
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