Western Digital My Book Pro Edition 500 GB External Hard Drive
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pcadvisor.co.uk Professional Review.

Product Rating: 4.5 star(s) Western Digital My Book Pro (500GB)

Comments:
The Western Digital My Book Pro has an unusual design, looking rather like a fat paperback book that you can sit neatly on your desk or on a shelf.

Review Verdict: This Western Digital drive is more expensive than USB models, but you get a high-capacity, high-performance drive for the money.

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macworld.com Professional Review.

Product Rating: 4.5 star(s) Desktop USB/FireWire unit gives you speed and flexibility

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Desktop Mac users looking for a spacious and speedy extra 500GB of storage should consider the Western Digital My Book Pro Edition 500GB. It's fast, attractive, and its USB, FireWire 400, and FireWire 800 ports give you maximum flexibility when connecting

Review Verdict: The rounded edges and silver finish of the My Book's plastic case give it the style of a glossy, medium-sized book, but the circular blue activity LED on its "spine" gives you important information. For example, the indicator area lets you know at a glanc

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Pros: Fast ; integrated USB, FireWire 400 and 800 ports ; long cables ; bundled back-up software ; visual capacity indicator ; power button ; can boot OS X via FireWire ;
Cons: None significant ;
digitalartsonline.co.uk Professional Review.

Product Rating: 4 star(s) My Book Pro Edition

Comments:
Even if your computer still has plenty of room left on its internal drive, maintaining an external backup is always a smart idea.

Review Verdict: The My Book Pro Edition represents the top end of this line of drives. Lesser models in the My Book product line feature FireWire 400 and USB, or USB alone, and are available in a variety of capacities from 80GB to 500GB

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QuickTake:

Pros: Fast. Long cables. Visual capacity indicator
Cons: External Serial ATA drives offer faster performance
xbitlabs.com Professional Review.

Product Rating: 4.65 star(s) X-bit labs - Western Digital My Book Pro Edition 500GB External HDD Review

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We will discuss a new external solution from Western Digital supporting three different interfaces: FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0. As you will see from the results of our test session it is an excellent solution offering highest practical speed w

Review Verdict: This review has shown that any jewel needs a proper setting. However fast a modern external hard disk drive may be, its speed is going to be limited by the widespread interfaces USB 2.0 and FireWire 400. Our tests of the Western Digital WDG1T5000N prove t

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xbitlabs.com Professional Review.

Product Rating: 5 star(s) X-bit labs - Western Digital 250GB Special Edition Combo Drive Review

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We are going to take a closer look at an outstanding example of an external hard disk drive from Western Digital. It is a 250GB model supporting USB 2.0 and FireWire interfaces and boasting impressive design and superb performance. You really need to chec

Review Verdict: So, despite the fact that we actually knew the results of our tests in advance, I don't regret having spent so much time on running all those benchmarks. Firstly, the external WD drive we have just tested appeared faster and better than the 120GB model, w

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alaTest.com Professional Review.

Product Rating: 4.15 star(s) Review summary of Western Digital My Book Pro Edition

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 191 reviews of Western Digital My Book Pro Edition from international magazines and websites.

Review Verdict: Experts rate this product 92/100 and users 77/100. Comparing these reviews to 48415 other Hard Drives reviews gives this product an overall alaScore™ 83/100 = Very Good.

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itreviews.co.uk Professional Review.

Western Digital - My Book Pro Edition

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With today's plethora of downloadable media, whether it be music or films, the need for large capacity drives is growing and will only get greater. Its OK having a large capacity drive in your system but ...

Review Verdict: If you want loads of storage space for your downloaded files, or want to back up data with blindingly fast transfer speeds (with the Firewire 800 interface), then the My Book Pro Edition is the drive for you.

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itreviews.co.uk Professional Review.

Western Digital - My Book Pro Edition

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500GB or 1TB of portable storage

Review Verdict: If you want loads of storage space for your downloaded files, or want to back up data with blindingly fast transfer speeds (with the Firewire 800 interface), then the My Book Pro Edition is the drive for you.

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