Western Digital 750 GB My Book Studio Edition USB 2.0 Esata FW400 FW800
Thursday, September 4, 2008 1:41
Binding : Electronics
ProductGroup : CE
Manufacturer : Western Digital
Brand : Western Digital
Label : Western Digital
Publisher : Western Digital
Model : WDH1Q7500N
Platform : Mac
Studio : Western Digital
- Easy to set up, easy to use: Installation is a snap because you dont really install this drive
- Automatic backup: Back up important projects to multiple destinations including files servers, portable drives and My Book
- Powerful quad interface: For convenience and compatibility among multiple computers, FireWire 400 and 800
- Formatted for Macintosh: Set up with HFS+ Journaled formatting for complete Macintosh compatibility
- Fits right in: Takes no more space than a paperback book. Collect two or more and they nest neatly together like volumes on a shelf
Creative Power for Mac.
High-speed interfaces make this an ideal solution for creative professionals and video editors.
Speed is what you need for video editing, big design projects, or managing photo shoots and that's what this drive delivers with FireWire 800 and eSATA connectivity. With our automatic backup capability your creative masterpieces will be backed up the minute you save them.
Easy to set up, 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 - Back up important projects to multiple destinations including files servers, portable drives and My Book. Synchronize project files to keep them current and secure. Set it and forget it; every time you save a change it's automatically backed up.
Powerful quad interface:
Formatted for Macintosh - Set up with HFS+ Journaled formatting for complete Macintosh compatibility. Software included requires Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later. Can easily be reformatted for Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
Fits right in - Takes no more space than a paperback book. Collect two or more and they nest neatly together like volumes on a shelf.
Capacity gauge - See at a glance how much space is available on your drive. (Works with the USB and FireWire connection only.)
Environmentally friendly - Our environmentally-friendly drive is designed to save power by going into standby mode after 10 minutes of inactivity. When you're ready to use it, My Book wakes up automatically.
SmartPower features - This driv
great hard drive (2010-01-02)
The drive works great. I've had no problems so far as I've read others have in other reviews. I use it with my Mac (FW 800 connection), but I don't use it with Time Machine. I also don't let the drive sleep and wake with my computer. I keep it turned off when I'm not using it. I don't know if that increases the odds of a problem free experience, but from what I hear from others, it might.
Good, but a little too costly (2009-11-30)
The Western Digital line of hard drives is remarkably quiet and physically beautiful, and the one we just bought has a five-year warranty, which was the deciding factor.
Awesome Device (2009-11-27)
Works great, I'm very happy with my purchase. My only issue is its a little noisy when sitting next to a whisper quiet Mac. And once after I set it up it froze and didn't auto back up for days, I fixed it by rebooting it and it has worked well since. I recommend it to anyone who wants to pair it up with the Apple Time Machine program.
Great Video Storage Device (2009-11-02)
I do a lot of video editing and this is one of several WD multi-interface external drives used with my iMac. All three of the WD external drives and my camcorder's DV output jack are daisy chained to my computer via the FireWire 800 interface. Installing this drive couldn't have been easier. Plugged in the power, attached the provided IEEE cables to my other externals, and my iMac immediately recognized the drive. Works great and am very pleased with its size and virtually noiseless operation.
Huge, quick, quiet drive, but a little hot (2009-08-05)
The MyBook Studio Edition 750gb is a heck of a drive. More storage than I (literally) know what to do with. It's quiet, and really fast, with plenty of connection options. USB 2.0, the old standby, is quite fast; eSATA, an emerging standard for external drives at internal hard drive speeds; and FireWire 800, a rather obscure but welcome standard that makes USB 2.0 seem "slow" by comparison. You should, of course, use the fastest interface your computer supports (eSATA, then Firewire, then USB if nothing else is available).
It's a very quiet drive, almost entirely inaudible. Inside the case is a Western Digital GreenPower 750gb SATA II hard drive, which is the quietest, most efficient hard drive WD has to offer. It runs on a small "wall wart" power adapter at 12Vdc.
My only concern with this drive is that it gets quite warm on top after hours of continuous use (e.g. slowly reading video data as it encodes). I've placed mine on a laptop cooling pad, which draws some moving air through the case (which has many cooling holes, but apparently not quite enough) and keeps it ice cool. Cooling has always been a concern with Western Digital external drives, and they seem to have never fixed that design flaw (although I think some MyBook models had fans?). There's also a slight concern regarding the LED patterns: after the drive is idle, it should enter a "sleep" mode, where the indicator LED starts to pulse slowly. On mine, it does that for a while before it stops pulsing and stays on full brightness for no good reason. Not sure what it's indicating, but in a dark room (like a bedroom) it can get almost distracting. The LED lightshow while it's in operation is quite entertaining, and the white LEDs are beautiful against the silver case finish.
Overall I'd say it's a very, very good hard drive for someone with hungry storage needs. It can store over a hundred full DVDs or almost 175 4.7gb DVDs. It also works great as a backup drive to be used in conjunction with image-based backup solutions like Ghost or True Image.
