Desktop Computer Review: Western Digital WDH1CS20000N My Book Home Edition 2TB USB/Firewire/eSATA External Hard Drive (Black) Review

I can't express enough how awful these drives are. We bought a batch of 12 of them a few months ago, and half of them have now failed. We got these after having repeated issues with LaCie drives, which use mirrored/striped smaller drives. They seem to last almost a year before dying.

This is a single 2TB drive. They began failing out of the box, while a few waited a couple of months before unexpectedly dying. We have used these in conjunction with Macs and PCs; USB and Firewire. We constantly have media failures, directory corruption, etc. This is in a corporate setting, where we were rel;ying on these for temporary backups and archiving. They have been useless.

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Product Description:
My Book Home Edition is easy to set up and easy to use. Installation is a snap because you don't really install this drive, you just plug it in and it's ready to use. There is no CD to install; the included software loads from the drive the first time you plug it in. Automatic backup allows you to save a copy of your photos to an online sharing service, duplicate your email and contacts to your iPod, and back up all your precious files to your My Book. Set it and forget it; every time you save something it's automatically backed up.