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1. Wd my book essential 1tb usb 3.0 review portable#
2. Wd my book essential 1tb usb 3.0 review mac#

Wd my book essential 1tb usb 3.0 review portable#

In my opinion, if you are currently in the market for a larger portable hard drive, this is the one to buy as it will be usable with all versions of USB for the foreseeable future. As I said, all of them have held up beautifully so I should expect that this one will too. My oldest, a 40 GB (which was considered HUGE at the time I bought it, perhaps 6 or 7 years ago) is still in regular use as are all the others. I have to admit that I am somewhat prejudiced: I own a half-dozen or more Western Digital hard drives and I like them all very much. I hope this information may be of some interest to anyone who wishes to purchase this drive. I will have had to own it for several years before I can say anything truly useful about that! But all of my other Western Digital hard drives have worked perfectly from Day One and all continue to work perfectly. The only point on which I cannot comment definitively in this review is that of longevity. Of course, like all USB drives, it is fully compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 (though I do not know the power arrangements with USB 1.1). From the examples of file transfer given on the outer box, the speed differential does not appear to be as fast as I had been led to believe from articles in magazines and on the internet. When it becomes standard on notebook or netbook computers, I'll buy one of those I am looking forward to faster transfer speeds. I cannot comment on the speed of USB 3.0 transfers as I don't have anything which has USB 3.0 as yet. This particular external drive is quite nice - small, well-made, and convenient to use.

Wd my book essential 1tb usb 3.0 review mac#

(My system analyzer shows that 100 MB is being used for "something" but I don't know what it is.) I copied some files onto the drive and they installed perfectly, just as they have done on my other external hard drives.Īs is, it will work perfectly with Microsoft Windows systems and, with reformatting, it will work with Apple Mac systems. Fortunately, on this drive, they are easy to delete.) The drive now has 465.6 GiB of available space. (From what I have read, many people do not need or want WD's backup programs. I saw the usual WD backup programs, etc., which are of no use to me and which I immediately removed. Both ends fit easily and perfectly.Īs I am using the Ubuntu Linux operating system on my computer, the drive opened instantly. At that point I inserted the supplied cable's plug into the (new-type) miniature USB port on the drive and inserted the regular USB plug into my computer. Then I physically examined it to make certain that the ports were properly fitted and aligned with the outer case.

Having done that, I gently shook the drive to make certain that nothing was loose inside. When it arrived I opened the box and retrieved the drive.