Western Digital My Book Essential 3TB External USB 3.0/2.0 Hard Drive - Black Reviews
USB 3.0/2.0 interface - data transfer rate up to 5 Gbps via USB 3.0 and 480 Mbps via USB 2.0 - 32MB cache buffer - password protection and hardware encryption
Most Recent Reviews
Great price after coupon :)
Mar. 1, 2013Using it continuously since I got it, no issue so far. I have it connected to my old laptop to stream movies from my harddrives via DLNA to my bluray player. I can not tell about speed cause my laptop...
Absolutely Great Product!!
Jan. 29, 2013I purchased this item to backup 2 computers with both of them having 2 operating systems on it. There is so much room on here at 3TB that I still have space to back up new items I might have to add to...
Crashed in 3 weeks
Jan. 29, 20133 weeks after I bought the Hard Drive and transferred all my photos and music, it suddenly stopped working. my computer wouldn't recognize the drive. I called Support and was told that I would need to...
Adequate
Jan. 28, 2013I have a very high end computer with an experimental chip of 4.1 gigahertz and 32G of RAM. Still, this external drive seems to be slow to copy or backup files.
Perfect for my needs.
Jan. 26, 2013Perfect for my needs storing large multi-media files.
Excellent storage device
Jan. 26, 2013I have a tb with a usb 2 and it was a breeze to install, I bought this one 3tb with a usb 3 and it was a little more difficult to install easy enough though. I would keep buying these for all my stora...
Setup was easy but product locked up.
Jan. 25, 2013The product manufacturer trouble phone line has responded quickly to possible product failure.
great buy
Jan. 25, 2013works well with my MAC. no problem with the set up
Outstanding product for the price
Jan. 25, 2013Excellent product for the beginner or professional who needs a large storage media device.
Another Fine product from Western Digital
Jan. 24, 2013I purchased one of these units a few weeks ago to free up space on my laptop's solid state hard drive. The solid state drives are lightning fast, but they have limited space, so I needed more storage ...
Excellent Drive
Jan. 24, 2013I used it to back up over 400 HD movies.
Good So Far
Jan. 24, 2013So far - so good. Wish the instructions would have been in a booklet instead of/in addition to having to look it up in the computer.
Good Buy
Jan. 23, 2013This is a very good buy. If you want to get savvy you can delete all the WD stuff it comes preloaded with and hook it up to a netgear WIFI router with USB 3.0 ports (sold here on walmart.com e.g netge...
Photo Storage
Jan. 21, 2013It was exactly what I needed to store raw photo images.
Puchased 2 units and both had problems
Jan. 20, 2013Loaded over 2 tb of infomation on boith units. Checked them and they worked fine. Now they both say they need to be formatted. Seems they have lost their partions. These units lasted less than 30 days...
If you need alot of room, this hard drive is it.
Jan. 19, 2013Great hard drive, for the price easy to install. Really fast; just a lot or room for files. I have had 500 GB drives before, and they would fill up really fast; and I would have to move files all the ...
WD Quality, Massive Capacity
Jan. 17, 2013Easy to install and setup. Massive capacity for my home videos, fast file retrieval. This is my thrid one, used for backups of files and video projects. I haven't tried accessing the drive from offist...
Great External HD w Lots of Storage for the Price!
Jan. 9, 2013I've had this External Hard Drive for a little over 2 months now and overall, I have been very satisfied with it. I paid $149.99 for 3TB of storage space, which I thought was extremely reasonable afte...
Price was great.
Dec. 11, 2012I like the price i got for it, but i dont like that you have to plug it in to power it up. I need something that is more mobile friendly.
Overall great HD and value.
Dec. 8, 2012I've always preferred Western Digital drives, and this is no exception. While my 2TB My Drive did fail (which is why I bought this one,) given other drives and my friends drives from WD that are still...
Very happy with this 3TB hard drive
Dec. 8, 2012This 3TB hard drive was very easy to re-format for MAC, very easy to install, and works seamlessly with Time Machine. No issues at all with this product.
worth every penny
Dec. 8, 2012needed to have a full system backup, needed storage for lots of video/pics/docs and i got it all with this nice, quiet, easy to use drive.
Great external hard drive
Dec. 7, 2012I got it to use at work to back up old floppy disk files so that when we upgrade computers we can have access to the old files if we ever needed to (since floppy drives are obsolete). It is so nice to...
I'll stick with WD
Dec. 7, 2012Had a WD with a smaller HD and needed a bigger one to store iTunes files as well as other audio/video files--stuck with WD and am not sorry.
Not Totally DLNA Compatible
Dec. 6, 2012For a Device that claims its self to be DLNA compatible which many consumers would like in order to connect to their many devices it falls short. I tested it with my 2012 Samsung Smart TV and it doesn...
An overall good product!
Dec. 2, 2012I like this item. The item is easy to use and set up.It is sleak in design.
Great Harddrive
Dec. 1, 2012I don't know a lot about installing equipment for computers so if I can set it up anyone can. Its works great and I know that my computer is being backed up.
Lacks build quality of older My Books
Nov. 29, 2012I absolutely loved this device until it slipped from my hands when moving from one side of the laptop to the other. It fell a maximum of a foot and never worked again. This was not a heavy fall but it...
Excellent hardware for storage
Nov. 26, 2012The first one of these I bought it had a problem showing only 1.8 Gb of storage and I was unable to claim the rest of the space using the disk management utilities in Windows 7 so I took it back. The ...
Great value.
Nov. 25, 2012Great value, good performance, very large amount of storage for multimedia files.
excellent
Nov. 25, 2012The speed to transfer files its excellent, i really like it.
Excellent External storage device
Nov. 23, 2012Needed to upgrade my external storage and this was just the right unit and size. Great value
Satisfied... eventually
Nov. 21, 2012A few months after purchasing this item it just stopped working one day, thankfully WD promptly replaced the defective item. So far the replacement has worked well. This is the second WD external hard...
Drivers are terrible
Nov. 18, 2012This is the second WD external drive I have purchased, and it is the second one that just decided to not show up in my folder tree. I am an engineer with over 15 years experience with IT, programming,...
Working as stated.
Nov. 18, 2012This seems to working fine. It continuously backs up files so that nothing is lost. I would have liked for there to be some instructions, in fact a lot more instructions. It came with none. I would li...
Good product
Nov. 14, 2012Good product, nice and fast with USB 3.0. Night and Day vs USB 2.0. Only wish it came with a stand.
Works great - so far, so good
Nov. 12, 2012Everything has been fine with this 3 TB external hard drive.
good backup drive if you have no programs to backu
Nov. 10, 2012the drive is very quick of course because of USB 3.0. Other than that the software is pretty easy and self explanatory except for the fact that it does not backup executible files in automatic mode. I...
Great my book ex-harddrive
Nov. 9, 2012I got it couple months ago. So far so good, it does not has any problem. I like WD grand.
This is a fantastic product
Nov. 9, 2012I am going to get a second one to put in my safe deposit box. As I add new things, I can duplicate the drives and keep the most complete one safe.
Two defective drives
Nov. 5, 2012I bought two of these drives, one to act as a back up for 3TB My Book Drive and another for additional storage. They were extremely simple to setup, just plug them in. Good price for the storage. They...
Excellent
Nov. 3, 2012Simply the best and definitely better than Seagate.
Easy External Hard Drive
Nov. 2, 2012Very easy to install. Simply plug it in and connect via USB cable and you are good to go. The PC detected it and correctly catagorized it as a hard disk drive. We were off and running with click and...
Awesome External HD
Oct. 31, 2012Moved all video, music, and photos from my C: drive over to the 3TB drive which freed up 50% of my C: drive. Recording and taking photos of my grandkids sporting events means thousands of clips and ph...
Fantastical drive
Oct. 23, 2012My only beef with this drive is that it goes into some kind of sleep mode after being idle for so long. So when I go to access something, depending on the folder size, it takes a few more seconds for ...
Excellent
Oct. 18, 2012Large capacity, reliable. I have bought several of these.
Does what its supposed to do
Oct. 17, 2012What can I say, true plug and play device which will back up your hard drive. The only problem I found was that I did not want everything backed up, just specific parts of my hard drive and one of my ...
Easy to use!
Oct. 17, 2012It's so convenient and now I have peace of mind that my data is backed up.
Great for the price.
Oct. 12, 2012This is a great drive for the price and it installs easily.
Excellent product, the file security when disconnected is a very good feature
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