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Elegant design.
This book-like shape takes up minimal space on your desk and allows two or more My Book drives to nestle neatly together like volumes on a shelf.
See your life safe in one place.
WD SmartWare software - A visual control center with a single screen view of all your data. From it you can back up, retrieve, and secure your files.
Password protection.
An extra level of security with password protection and 256-bit hardware-based encryption.
Our best-selling My Book external drive is an elegant, high-capacity storage solution for all the chapters of your digital life. Our latest edition now features visual, easy-to-use, automatic, continuous backup software and drive lock security protection. At last, beauty, brains, and simplicity together.
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Smaller, sleeker, more streamlined design - We’ve made these award-winning drives even smaller, sleeker, and more elegant. As always, this book-like shape takes up minimal space on your desk and allows two or more My Book drives to nestle neatly together like volumes on a shelf.
WD SmartWare - See your life safe in one place.
See your backup as it happens – Seeing is believing. Visual backup displays your content in categories and shows the progress of your backup.
Protect your data automatically – Relax, your data is secure. Automatic, continuous backup will instantly make a second copy whenever you add or change a file.
Bring back lost files effortlessly – Retrieve your valuable data to its original location whether you’ve lost all your data or just overwritten an important file.
Take control – Customize your backup, set drive security, run diagnostics, manage the power settings, and more from the WD SmartWare control center.
Drive lock - Gain peace of mind knowing that your data is protected from unauthorized access or theft with password protection and 256-bit hardware-based encryption.
Illuminated capacity gauge - See at a glance how much space is available on your drive.
USB 2.0 interface - A simple connection that offers convenience and compatibility among multiple computers.
Power miser - My Book external drives are designed to save energy. WD GreenPower Technology™ lowers internal drive power consumption by up to 30%, a sleep mode reduces power during idle times, and a power-saving feature turns the drive on and off with your computer.
Planet friendly - We designed a small retail box from recycled materials to minimize waste. We encourage you to recycle it.
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Easy to use(plug and play all the way) Quick spin up time and reads/writes as would be expected with a usb connected harddrive. No complaints and at this price (49.99) can't go wrong.
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This is a good drive that does what it's supposed to do. The WD Smart Ware is useless except if you want to backup your whole hard drive and it's always crashing when it starts on my Win 64bits system.
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Purchased this for my mom to bring to work. They don't have enough storage space on their network so she can use this. So far I have not heard any complaints.
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I ordered 2 of these online on Sunday, they arrived Friday.
Just took one out of the box and it was making rattling noises, I took a closer look, and there is a loose screw in the thing! Not the fault of NCIX obviously, but WD. Good thing I didn't power it on! Now to try and get it out (I have no idea how to open this) and hope this thing even works.
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Good quality Hard drive from Western digital. It does the job well, not noisy at all, and it is compact. Sometimes drive takes a while to wake up.
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I have had this drive for a while now and it performs as it should. Sometimes it the drive will power one with the computer if it is plugged in via USB and sometimes it won't but all you need to do then is just hit the power button. Overall a quality product from WD.
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