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Western Digital My Book Essential Edition - 500GB

I kept running out of storage space, so finally picked up two Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 500GB external hard drive, one for me and another for Aditya.

They come in sealed boxes complete with the essentials to get it up and running.

Installation of the hard disk is extremely simple. It is accompanied by a user manual for newbies, but I doubt you will need it because everything is just plug and play.

You get prompted to install software that comes bundled with the HDD, but I chose to not bother with the 30 day trials.

I resized the partition to around 500MB and then created a single partition with the remaining space.

Though claimed to be 500GB, the hard disk is actually 465GB. Well, it still a good amount of space in addition to my 120GB and 160GB hard disks.

Now, I wonder when I will need to pick up another disk. Next stop 2TB

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Post Date :: Monday, Jun 9th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
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Greg says:
June 12th, 2008 at 11:19 am
The problem with large hard drives is backup. It’s important to have another drive acting as a backup or mirror so that you don’t lose 500gb of data in the event of a hard drive crash.
Ajay says:
June 13th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
That is a big problem indeed. That’s why I refrained from picking up the 1TB drive.

I also make sure I backup all my important files onto online file backup services.
ArpitNext says:
June 15th, 2008 at 4:55 am
Hi !

Thanks for sharing ! I don’t think that It is a cool idea to have such a large volume EXTERNAL drives !

Speed may matter !

well , how much it costs ??
acakadut says:
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:37 am
wohoho … I would LOVE to get this kind of ext HDD

will search one for me
Andrew says:
June 24th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
I can’t get what you keep there
In my modest opinion 100G is enough
Ajay says:
June 24th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Depends on the type of usage
Craig @ Traffic Secrets says:
July 8th, 2008 at 4:28 am
Man that’s a huge hard-drive. My PC only has 250 Gigs.

Although it’s always good to have a backup, your idea about backing up online is also good.

Just because you have a backup drive, don’t think it wont break aswell - I recently had a 250Gb Packard-Bell drive quit on me for no reason

Luckily, everything on my PC was still good
luz says:
July 13th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Nice gadget Very cool!

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