Lqv2015 Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 personally don't much see the advantage of these "pre-built" external hard drives. From what I've seen, most of the time it's a lot cheaper than buying the HD & the enclosure. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-588869844 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinggus Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 Well, now that my OneTouch Maxtor II 250GB is 30GB free, I feel its time to upgrade to 500GB+ HD, I plan on getting one of these :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-588873471 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lqv2015 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 Does anyone know what's the real upgrade from this to the newer versions that just came out? Their site didn't give me any info. http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/...asp?DriveID=353 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-588882150 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightCrawler. Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Thatt does look sweet! On another topic here's a problem I'm currently having with my mybook, the icon doesn't appear anymore, although sometimes it does. I think it may of been because I deleted the 'Autorun' folder that arrived preput on the hard drive disk, any ideas? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-588885507 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lqv2015 Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 I think you can change/add the icon with something like iphile. Works for me. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-588885539 Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardsim7 Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Show hidden files, there should be an autorun.ini file, delete it, then unplug/plug back in your drive :D ;) -Rich- Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-588885551 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieS Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 its realy good but a lil expensive Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-588885576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugballou Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Have been using a 250G and a 500G Essential for over a year now, no problems yet... Aren't the 1T's on the market now? Great gifts too, and the price has come down quite a bit in the past year or so (around 50% here). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-588956010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jugaaru Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Nice review, might buy this drive. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-588956134 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HroSCeK Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Update: 3 Days of usageFan Noise reduction -?Workaround> I got some really good advice from Amazon and newegg customer reviews. About flipping the internal fan around, looks like a design oversight, as the fan sucks in air, instead of out. After flipping the fan around the drives are running much cooler and its not kicking into leaf blower mode even with FireWire (400). Eventhough I've been stress testing the drives in RAID 0 mode and had?left it constantly copying 200?gigs?of?data?and?managed?to?fill?it?up?last?night?and?all?that?time?it?was?was?in?silent?mode.?I?even?tried?to? stress test it further by playing three MPEG 2 VOB files during the:)opy process. Still silent :) Amazon User Reviews WD Button Manager[/b]l] WD Button Manager I also noticed the WD button manager doesn't even load if both USB and firewire (400) are connected or even just FireWire. Anyone else have that issue with WinXP SP2? I hope WD would release a firmware update, to JBOD the drives into one logical volume or just two drives. Anyone got their product support link? I couldn't find it. About that last part "WD Button Manager".. I actualy DO have the SAME problem.. Did anyone found the solution about the problem? I'm tired of google-ing around.. I just :cry:39;t get it to work.. :cry: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-588998270 Share on other sites More sharing options...
htwho Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 I got a Lacie 500GB instead for $109. It's running perfectly even though it's been on almost 24/7 for the past two months. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-588998763 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Neo Posted November 24, 2007 Author Share Posted November 24, 2007 I got a Lacie 500GB instead for $109. It's running perfectly even though it's been on almost 24/7 for the past two months. So far I haven't seen one LaCie 500GB drive here under ?200,- with a FireWire 800 connection. The LaCie USB 2.0 only models are about ?100, but then again so are the ones from Western Digital. The only thing that does tick me off at the moment is that Western Digital neglected to update their Button Drivers to support Mac OS X Leopa:crazy:azy: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-589014275 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Neo Posted November 24, 2007 Author Share Posted November 24, 2007 Double post Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-589014276 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kraftman Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Is this "Pro" edition similar to the Premium edition? http://tiny url.com/256esu Neowin doesn't like tinyurl? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-589039820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Neo Posted December 16, 2007 Author Share Posted December 16, 2007 Is this "Pro" edition similar to the Premium edition? http://tiny url.com/256esuNeowin doesn't like tinyurl? It lacks the FireWire 800 connection and spots a black casing (instead of silver). Beyond that they're the same. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-589065057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxondale. Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Sorry to bump this, i just got the WD My Studio 500GB, it's nice but louder than i expected. Luckily, i always have music playing when i'm using my computer. I found it very slow when i was backing up with Time Machine. I was using Firewire 800. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-589122920 Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuarterSwede Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Sorry to bump this, i just got the WD My Studio 500GB, it's nice but louder than i expected. That's strange because my 320GB My Book is basically silent. Now that I have it under the desk on the floor I can't hear it at all. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-589122932 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightCrawler. Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Its as loud as ****. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-589122986 Share on other sites More sharing options...
peacemf Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 ok mine isnt working anymore after 6 months!!! basically it lights up, and you can hear the hard drive spinning etc, but it shows on on vista now as UNKNOWN USB DEVICE, and if you touch the mybook in certain places it powers down!! :( once in a while it gets detected and everything is running fine!!!! any idea on how to fix it? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-589123555 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delightus14 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Very nice review mate, looks like a nice as external. I might upgrade my one soon, got a 300 gig ext so might need some more space soon :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-589123651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lqv2015 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 It lacks the FireWire 800 connection and spots a black casing (instead of silver). Beyond that they're the same. I heard the drives is a lot cooler than previous MyBook models. ok mine isnt working anymore after 6 months!!! basically it lights up, and you can hear the hard drive spinning etc, but it shows on on vista now as UNKNOWN USB DEVICE, and if you touch the mybook in certain places it powers down!! :( once in a while it gets detected and everything is running fine!!!! any idea on how to fix it? I guess it's time to back up mine. Can't afford to lose all my stuff...again. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-589124685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
peacemf Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 well it looks like i can get a replacement, cos its only 6 bloody months old! but still, its the data!!!!! ive got copies of photos and documents, just not the audio and video stuff :( ah man! also i just brought the new mybook 500gb ess 2. its smaller, glossy (fingerprints!!!) and the light is blue, which is brighter in the dark! still the same noise, also you can see this time throught the device (from top looking in) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/572515-western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-500gb-review/page/4/#findComment-589126060 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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