Western Digital My Book World Edition Gigabit Ethernet Shared Storage (Single Drive)

Amazon Customer Reviews

(5 out of 5)

cheapest 250gb i can find anywhere !!

I Bought one of these through a retail outlet (paid over £80 -Boo hoo ) and it is the Cheapest drive i can find anywhere,could only find this WD Elements Drive @ amazon on the internet.Set up in a few minutes and has worked perfectly so far.If you want 250gb of external Storage buy this drive - at the end of the day the drive inside is Western Digital and they are reccomended for there top qualitiy Hard drives!!!!! Buy Buy Buy

(3 out of 5)

Good, so far, second time around

Sorry if this review is long winded, but I'm going to tell you everything about my buying experience!
Was a little bit nervous buying this after reading some of the other reviews, but it IS cheap.
1st delivery arrived and I started to copy files onto it. It kept losing power (the blue light went off) and disappearing from my computer after a few minutes of transfer, but switching it off and on again showed that files were copied across. If you've read the other reviews here you'll know about FAT32 and NTSF drive formats. I didn't realise that the 4GB limit is the TOTAL file size - not each individual file size. So I thought this may be the problem and reformatted to NTFS (right click, Format, Quick Format, no problems). Tried again, but same problem. Followed the Western Digital advice and contacted them, rather than returning the product to the 'shop' I bought it from. Have still not had any response from them and have in the meantime returned the drive to, and got a replacement from Amazon.
2nd Drive arrived. Formatted immediately to NTFS. Transferred 20-30GB of files to it no problem. I could see the files afterwards and managed to run (play) music files from it. If I'd had this drive first the rating would have been a 5.
So in short, Western Digital don't seem to have their support act together, some of their products appear to have faults, but hey, it's cheap, and it's easy to return stuff to Amazon and get a replacement!

(5 out of 5)

Does what it says.

If I was to say that this is easy to set up, that would be an understatement. Just plug in the power, plug it into the computer - and you're off. As I type I'm starting to save my CD collection which has needed organising for years onto it, and the thing is very, very quiet. For the money you can't go wrong really. It looks good, works well and is simple. What more could you want?

(2 out of 5)

Oh no!

How I wish i had actually read the reviews on this before buying it! It was so cheap i just snapped it up whoops! Like other reviewers this works fine for copying over a few files, but when making a full back up eg my documents the "copying" window suddenly freezes and then the drive is no longer recognisable. I turned it off for a while, tried it on my laptop with no luck so went to the website and found a tool the WD Diagnostics tools. i loaded it up thinking it will find the disk repaair or advise me if its overheated. Oh no!! The program was as good as the hard disk. It started to "scan for western drives..." and the dialogue box disappeared leaving me nothing!!!
scream.
backing up should be the thing to put your mind at ease not give you stress!!!!!

(5 out of 5)

Does what it says on the box

Took it out of the box connected the power and USB and Windows XP recognised the device immediately and within a minute I was backing up all my documents and photographs. Easy, clear instructions. No problem, highly recommend it as a simple safe way to safe guard files and pictures.