WD My Book Pro Review

Posted in Hardware by Elliott Back on October 8th, 2006.

I had the pleasure of buying a Western Digital My Book Pro Edition 500 GB External Hard Drive the other week to augment my external storage array. Up to now, I’d been working with Seagate external USB/Firewire drives, but the pricepoint for this WD box was too good to pass up!

The WD: MyBook features FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and USB 2.0 interfaces, which let me chain it together with my Seagate drives. Unfortunately, it’s one downside is that it is not a Firewire 400 hub, so it has to sit at the end of my drive chain. It comes with great backup software that, unlike Seagate’s crappy Bounceback Express, actually works. It also has a very stylish glowing blue LED! Note that while the My Book comes in Essential, Premium, and Pro editions, the interface specs and probably parts qualities are quite different. I bought the Pro.

You might be interested in a performance comparison between the MyBook and the Seagate drives. The My Book gets a sizzling 32MB/s read, and the Seagates top in at 28MB/s.

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