Title: Hardly Worth the Money
Product review: Last week I bought a WD My Book Essential Edition, 320 GB, connected it and began backing up data. 7 hours later, the job--8 GB--was done! When I had the unit setup for automatic backup, my PC took at least 20 minutes to bootup to the desktop screen.Finally, my computer began showing "I/O error" after I turned off the hard drive off; I wanted to do some manual backups. To top it all, My Computer would not always show the unit as being installed.In short, my unit did not work quite as well as I expected. I am returning it this aftrnoon, for another make and model.One final note. This unit was released in July 2007; I suspect there are some bugs needing to be worked out.And the documentation is nothing more than a 4-page illustrated guide to connecting the unit. I would like a bit more than that.
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