I have three external backups now. One Seagate, and two Western Digital. This is very quite and fast! I was surprised how small it was. It's as small as my 1TB Seagate. It also comes with their Backup Pro software which was a major reason I bought this over the other brand. Highly recommend this

This is my external drive for storing archive copies of all RAW format pictures from my business.

WD has refreshed several of their highly popular portable and external storage solutions, including the My Passport, My Passport for Mac, and the My Book, the latter which we will be looking at for this review.

New modern; compact design; Easy-to-use backup software; Good performance for its intended application

No component upgrades

I have used WD drives as primary data backups in my work for 4+ years, and never had a bad experience. Transferring large data files is relatively fast using the 3.0 interface, and haven't had a drive fail yet. Would recommend as a primary data backup drive.

The My Book offers huge amounts of storage. I purchased to provide a simple backup drive for my home computer - it's unobtrusive and simple to set up.

Thank you littlewoods the order was processed very quick and delivered in one day and once i had opened up the package and read the instructions and the website leading to software for the Western drive to download directly to my computer.

Good and fast work. but never place it vertically. Always put it on its side when it works. If it suddenly falls to the side you will lose your data !!

This hard drive WD but inside plastic box HITACHI; however it have good speed and it reliable hard drive; We recommend this brand and we use it in our business

bad design; Old "my book" style i like better

So far so good, if it is as reliable as other WD drives we have in service, will be great

"Shucked" the internal white label drive out of the enclosure easily enough. Using the drive in a mirror array.

Does exactly what it says on the box. One coat, Clear coat