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1. #Wd my book essential 1tb usb2.0 install#
2. #Wd my book essential 1tb usb2.0 software#
3. #Wd my book essential 1tb usb2.0 windows 8#
4. #Wd my book essential 1tb usb2.0 mac#

The entire top and bottom edge, as well as most of the back edge, is actually a vent. The left, right sides and curved front “spine” of the My Book are formed by a seamless solid piece of plastic. A welcome feature of the enclosure is generous ventilation. It can be set vertically or horizontally, but the presence of rubber feet only along the bottom edge suggests that vertical is the preferred orientation. This edition is encased a glossy jet-black plastic enclosure. It shares the now-familiar stylized book shape that gives the line its name. The exterior of the WD My Book Essential hasn’t changed significantly since the line was first introduced.

#Wd my book essential 1tb usb2.0 mac#

Mac users who want to take advantage of the USB3.0 interface shipping on current generations of Apple hardware can reformat the drive to HFS+ and use the drive as a Time Machine volume.

#Wd my book essential 1tb usb2.0 software#

After a straightforward initial setup and backup session, the software will run in the background and create incremental backups transparently and with adjustable levels of version control.

#Wd my book essential 1tb usb2.0 windows 8#

It ships formatted as NTFS and includes WD SmartWare backup software for Windows 7 and Windows 8 pre-installed. Like its predecessors in the Essentials line, the My Book is marketed primarily as a backup storage device. The top model features a single 4TB drive and a USB3.0 interface to help speed up the process of filling it up. The physical drive within the unit seems to work fine, so I'll probably put it into service elsewhere, but I'm going to make sure I purchase another external hard drive with NO encryption.Western Digital has taken a “more is better” approach with its latest iteration of the WD My Book Essential HDD. However, its a nasty surprise when it comes up like this. Overall Review: Hard drive encryption is great, assuming you know what you're getting into. We'll see if I can get anything back, but now I'm trying to explain to my wife where all our photos went (luckily, the wedding was backed up on dvds.). I've put the drive back in the enclosure, and I'm trying to recover the files again. Turns out that the enclosure uses hardware encryption, rendering most file recovery utilities useless. I've had this happen before, so I removed the drive and went after my files using a direct sata connection and testdisk (file/partition recovery tool). Pros: It was free, but I suppose you get what you pay for.Ĭons: Drive died after about 6 months, taking several thousand family photos with it (vacations, my wedding, etc.). This is normal, but my goodness, they should have listed it as a 940GB drive rather than a TB.

Only 930GB usable / 1TB = 1024gb, thats 94GB missing. I usually only access stuff on a drive 1-2 times in a month, so I just unplug the usb cable from the computer, it stays off until I need it, no unnecessary wear. Overall Review: -The drive seems to endure unnecessary wear & tear, turn your computer on, it powers on, about 30mins later it turns itself off, go to turn your computer off or it goes to sleep, the drive powers on, stalls windows while it cycles, then powers back off with the machine. Though it looks cool from the top, the whole inside is lit up :P The indicator lights on the front are an eye sore, they bleed into each other. Power button on the back takes so much force to push, its far easier and safer just to unplug the usb cable.

#Wd my book essential 1tb usb2.0 install#

(you can just disable it with the software once you install it if you want to use it later) Luckily you can just delete that hidden 1GB partition in manage disks and voila no more annoyance. I installed it to check it out, it added FOUR processes in taskmanager. The software will bug constantly to install everytime you restart your machine. Pros: -Fast for external, moved about 250GB in about 1 1/2 hoursĬons: -Like with 95% of external drives, software, software, software.