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Western Digital My Book Studio 2 TB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/800, Desktop External Hard Drive WDBAAJ0020HSL-NESN | 
| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $259.99
Buy New: $189.00
as of 7/30/2010 21:53 CDT details
You Save: $70.99 (27%)
Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 416
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
System Memory: 32
Hard Drive Size: 2
Size: 2 TB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 8 x 7.1 x 5.4
Warranty: 3 years warranty
MPN: WDBAAJ0020HSL-NESN
Model: WDBAAJ0020HSL-NESN
UPC: 718037754741
EAN: 0718037754741
ASIN: B002RL8J12
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| Features:
| | Pure performance for Mac with FireWire 800 | | | Customizable e-label | | | Automatic, continuous backup | | | Password protection and 256-bit encryption |
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Product Description
Pure performance for Mac.Designed for Mac, My Book Studio external drives feature a customizable e-label, automatic, visual backup, and password protection. The high-performance FireWire 800 interface gives you the speed you need for creative endeavors like photo and video editing and graphic design. Our popular My Book Studio external drive is the high-performance answer to your storage needs. Formatted for Mac, it features an innovative e-label system to personalize your drive and easily archive media collections; WD SmartWare and a fast FireWire 800 interface. Smart display - Create your own personalized drive label to remind you what's stored on each drive. You can even view the label when the drive is unplugged. The display also includes available capacity and security status. Pure performance - Save and access data at top speeds with the high-performance FireWire 800 interface. Also includes USB 2.0 interface for maximum flexibility. Designed for Mac - Formatted for Mac and compatible with Apple® TimeMachine, this drive is plug-and-play ready for Mac computer users. WD SmartWare - See your life safe in one place. See your backup as it happens - Seeing is believing. Visual backup displays your content in categories and shows the progress of your backup.Protect your data automatically - Relax, your data is secure. Automatic, continuous backup will instantly make a second copy whenever you add or change a file.Bring back lost files effortlessly - Retrieve your valuable data to its original location whether you've lost all your data or just overwritten an important file.Take control - Customize your backup, set drive security, run diagnostics, manage the power settings, and more from the WD SmartWare control center.Drive lock - Gain peace of mind knowing that your data is protected from unauthorized access or theft with password protection and 256-
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 56
 Amazon policy July 26, 2010
R. Ho (USA)
This is not a fair review but I have no other option to vent. The drive was shipped on 7/16 from a distribution center no more than 15 miles from my house to Amazon's shipping partner which is supposed to hand over to USPS, as of today (7/26) there is still no sign of the drive, and according to the shipping status, it is still being held by Amazon's shipping partner. I emailed Amazon twice and they insisted that I wait another 2 weeks before asking for replacement or refund. It is obvious that the package is lost with their shipping partner and never made it to USPS. It frustrates me greatly that Amazon refused to follow up with their shipping partner. I understand the delay with UPS, but with USPS less than 15 miles from my house?
NOT reliable and NOT A GOOD FIT W MAC OS X July 24, 2010
V. Brown (the hinterlands of Idaho-ho-ho)
I bought TWO of these and the speed is OK but the remarks of other reviewers on the aggravating "smartware" are on the mark. Worse still is that neither drive lasted more than 7 months - both are now dead. I have a seagate freeagent desk firewire drive now that is running my time capsule backups without error or problems for over 16 months. I would recommend you look at that drive for Mac OS users.
HATE the smartware on this drive, you can't delete it and can't recover the lost space. July 15, 2010
Sir Lancelot (Los Angeles, CA)
WD put some very unsmart 'smartware' on this drive, on a CD partition that shows up on your desktop every time you use the drive.
You can disable it from showing up, but it'll take you several hours trying to figure out how. However you can't erase that partition. I tried, apple disk utility cannot see the CD partition so you'll never recover that space. This is so annoying I probably won't buy WD again - It's beyond frustrating - I just spent an hour or so downloading different updaters to fix the problem to no avail. It's doubly annoying as WD make create drives. GRRRRRRR... WD please dump this stupid unsmartware CD partition, put that stuff on a separate, real CD if you must.
 Perfect if not for unwanted software July 5, 2010
Raymond Yu (Florida)
It's exactly as described. I ordered this Firewire drive not for time machine purposes but to use as a dedicated itunes content storage.
It's lightning fast compared to USB, so far it has been reliable, it's cosmetically pleasing, blends in with my Aluminum 24" iMac.
I agree with other reviewers on Western digital utilizing their software to run the drive is totally lame, but it's not so bad when you update the firmware.
If you're anal about unwanted software than stay away from this drive.
I love it, just wish you could permanently rid their software.
A nice touch that you can label the drive and the label remains even when disconnected from power source.
Ignore Smartware and you have a great drive June 30, 2010
idesign
This is the 6th WD HD I have in my collection. I am a data hog. And a total mac head. So When I read reviews like the ones above, and then I see that Amazon has stopped shipping the device because everyone is pissed at the Smartware, I find it a bit unfair. This is a good product with bad software. But then again, Western Digital is a Hard Drive company, not a backup company.
Your macs come with Time machine. Why would you want to use Smartware? If you don't want to use time machine, why not use Carbon Copy Cloner from Bombich software? TIme machine works fine. If your still on 10.4 Tiger, then clone your system. But 10.5 came out over 3 years ago, and is the best Mac OS to date.
So instead of convincing amazon that there is a problem with this device, call WD. I admit, the firmware update didn't seem to do anything for my drive, but my drive is backing up just fine using Time Machine.
IF YOU IGNORE THE INCLUDED SOFTWARE, THIS IS A GREAT, FAST, DEPENDABLE DRIVE. PERIOD.
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