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Batteries Included: 0 Binding: Electronics Brand: Western Digital EAN: 0718037122779 Is Fragile: 0 Label: Western Digital Manufacturer: Western Digital Model: WDH1Q10000E Publisher: Western Digital Release Date: 2007-10-07 Studio: Western Digital
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Great Firewire Performance Comment: I was using the Essential version of the Western Digital My Book, but after accumulating three 500GB models I thought I would just upgrade to a single 1TB model instead. As a Mac Mini user, I was amazed at how much faster FireWire 400 transfers are over USB 2.0--it takes under three mins to move 4GB of data to this drive. It's also a lot quieter than my old Essential drive, fits in well with the Mac and is future-proofed with FireWire 800 support. I cannot recommend the Studio edition highly enough. Customer Rating: Summary: A good purchase Comment: PLUSES. Very stylish. Reasonably quiet. It does not over-heat. Versatile connections (USB+Firewire400+Firewire800+eSATA). Good price. I've had it for about a month now, and it's working fine with Time Machine on my Mac. MINUSES. It does have its occasional hick-ups (sometimes it does not come up in Finder); disconnecting the cable and reconnecting it back again always solves the problem. No software CD: all software is pre-recorded on the disk (so you may want to make a backup copy of all that, then again, all software is available for download from Western Digital website). ALL IN ALL. Not pefect, but very VERY good value for money! I am quite happy with my purchase. Customer Rating: Summary: Performance figures (OS X & Xbench) Comment: Performance figures for this using a MacBook Pro using XBench. I have also included a comparative run against my MBP's internal 5400rpm Fujistu SATA 150 drive (otherwise that uncached 4K read speed may scare you!). In short: (fastest) Firewire 800 > eSATA > FW400 > USB2.0 > Internal drive (slowest) In detail: USB 2.0: Disk Test 40.46 Sequential 35.97 Uncached Write 39.91 24.50 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 40.70 23.03 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 21.58 6.32 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 65.61 32.97 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 46.22 Uncached Write 20.02 2.12 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 74.30 23.79 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 78.90 0.56 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 95.63 17.75 MB/sec [256K blocks] Firewire 400: Disk Test 52.25 Sequential 52.74 Uncached Write 52.94 32.50 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 55.84 31.60 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 39.39 11.53 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 73.21 36.80 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 51.77 Uncached Write 22.11 2.34 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 98.08 31.40 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 82.34 0.58 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 102.96 19.10 MB/sec [256K blocks] Firewire 800: Disk Test 64.76 Sequential 76.64 Uncached Write 79.66 48.91 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 89.94 50.89 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 47.61 13.93 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 132.98 66.84 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 56.08 Uncached Write 22.50 2.38 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 134.88 43.18 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 83.38 0.59 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 133.63 24.80 MB/sec [256K blocks] eSATA 300: Disk Test 46.94 Sequential 44.51 Uncached Write 79.46 48.79 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 104.25 58.99 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 16.56 4.85 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 136.98 68.85 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 49.66 Uncached Write 19.02 2.01 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 139.89 44.78 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 75.97 0.54 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 130.44 24.20 MB/sec [256K blocks] Intern MBP drive: Disk Test 25.42 Sequential 33.01 Uncached Write 36.87 22.64 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 31.44 17.79 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 25.52 7.47 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 43.37 21.80 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 20.66 Uncached Write 7.27 0.77 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 42.72 13.68 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 57.50 0.41 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 65.83 12.21 MB/sec [256K blocks] Drive set up as Apple Partition, Mac OS Extended (non-journalled) and excluded from Spotlight indexing. MacBook Pro 15" 2.4GHz, 4GB (santa rosa), 8600M GT 256MB. OS: Leopard 10.5.2 Lindy ExpressCard 3/4 SATA II 300 2port card using Silicon Image 3132 drivers 1.1.9 (from their website) Xbench v1.3. No apps loaded. I hope that helps! Customer Rating: Summary: Died after 16 hours, don't waste your time with it. Comment: Out of the box, I was disappointed with the cheap "silver colour" plastic housing which doesn't really fit the my new iMac. It is significantly louder than the iMac's internal drive - not ideal. Having completed a 64Gb Time Machine backup, and copied across my iTunes stuff I went off to bed. Sadly the drive wouldn't restart, and no amount of plugging / unplugging on/off type shenanigans would revive it. A call to WD helpline (at 11:30) revealed they were closed. Already packaged up to return for and exchange, but tempted by a Time Capsule... In the BRIEF period it worked, I was impressed with the speed (Firewire800) and the flashing lights on the housing. Customer Rating: Summary: nothing but trouble Comment: bought this back in january, for the first 2 months it was a dream then it started crashing, 5 minutes on then it announces that windows delay write failed and shuts down. i emailed WD customer service for a replacement so they told me to send it in, I would only recive a replacement after they recived it or i have to supply my credit card details for an immediate replacement, for insurance which is fair enough. i spent £20 sendin it back on top of the £189 i bought it for, i recived my replacement 9 days later and now im being threatened that they are going to deduct $455 from my credit card in the next 10 days. I got an email from their warehouse saying they recived it however they say that the systems wont update until its recived in the service center for testing (i have news its faulty of course its not going to be working). its overall been a bad experience with the replacements eSATA not working and stress of my CC being charged for summat thats out of my control. overall product 3/5 service 0/5. NEVER USE WD AGAIN. More Reviews
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