First time using a WD hard drive, currently doing brilliantly. Price is very good on Play-Asia.

The My Book VelociRaptor Duo is one of the best storage devices thanks to its balanced combination of excellent performance, practical design, and relatively friendly pricing.

The WD My Book VelociRaptor Duo offers stellar performance; includes a Thunderbolt cable; and is easy to service

The My Book VelociRaptor Duo doesn't offer any other connection types and is relatively pricey

With both USB2 and Firewire 800, this drive is a good choice if you've got an older Mac that doesn't support USB3 or Thunderbolt.Its metal enclosure feels sturdier than the plastic casings of other external hard drives, and both USB and Firewire cables are included in the box.Note that it has an...

Durable; Great Features

Needs External Power

This came with one of the new blue drives installed, which replaces the old green drives. Drives me mad as every 20s there is a buzz on sound despite no data being written. Should have looked for one with a red drive or gotten a different brand.

This Western Digital External Hard Drive is of the MyBook2 Essential Brand, with a total storage capacity of five hundred gigabytes. Capacity Five hundred gigabytes is enough. In fact, it's considerably more than enough for a majority of people.

Capacity; Design; Ease of Use; Transfer Speed

Poor reliability as it will occasionally fail to connect

THIS IS ONE BAD ASS STORAGE DEVICE!!!

Bought this for my dad so he could back up his computer. Plugged it into the router so it would function as a make-shift NAS and works perfectly. Has been running for 6 months now without issue and no need to reboot thus far.

Why is this external hard drive different from all other external hard drives?

Whats not to like...? 3TB of USB 3.0 space. It comes with good build quality from a well known brand.

I just got 2 of these as well as 2 of the portable WD 4TB My Passport drives (B&H # WEMP4WDBYFB). WD's portable drives are 5 stars, because you can password protect them and when you connect your drive to a new computer, there's a small 30MB partition on the drive that acts as a virtual CD-ROM to...