Reviews Written by Tommy
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Western Digital My Book Essential Edition WDG1U5000 Hard Drive
Hard DrivePrice: $99.99 to $130.00 Compare PricesJuly 19, 2007
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Western Digital My Book Premium Edition WDG1C5000 Hard Drive
Hard DrivePrice: $249.99 to $249.99 Compare PricesJuly 10, 2007
Watch out for USB power supply failures
Pros: Fast, large capacity, ease of use
Cons: Lousy power supply, disk fails, data loss, time lost in rebuilding the disks
I have bought two of these drives and both USB power supplies have failed. I got them both replaced but at a price of lost time for data recovery and rebuilding of the disks, since I had to send back the entire units.
The capacity is great but the reliability is terrible. I have two of these now but if they persist in failures, I will rip out the 500 gb drives and buy quality outboard USB enclosures and use them.
The price is good, but the reliability is not there. I like having the drives on my desk but failures outweigh any advantages. WD needs to work on those power supplies and beef them up for drives that are heavily used. ... -
April 21, 2004
DSB-C110 not worth the money
4 of 4 Yahoo! Users found this review helpfulPros: none found
Cons: hard to focus, too light, won't stay put, lousy color and other things
I bought the DSB-C110 today and installed it.
This camera is totally inferior to all others I have used:
* bad color; pasty, faded, no matter how I adjusted it
* grainy color and picture
* exposure control will not work in odd lighting, like when the light is overhead
* the camera housing is far too light (plastic) which will not stay where you put it because of the weight of the cable.
* it is extremely hard to focus and never really focuses sharply.
This an inferior camera and I took it back and got my money back ($26.00). Logitech is far better. ...
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Bought it, and it stopped working 3 weeks later
3 of 3 Yahoo! Users found this review helpfulPros: small, large capacity
Cons: quick failure
I bought a My Book Essential 500 GB drive and loaded it full of my music collection and movies. Three weeks after that, I shut down my system to reboot for Windows patches and the drive never came back up. I tried everything including plugging it into a wall outlet by itself and it refused to come up. Since it had all my music and movies, I ripped the enclosure apart, extracted the drive and mounted it internally.
The problem was a power board within the enclosure and a chip was fried. I bought a second one just to see if it was inherent in the unit or a fluke. Three days and counting.
I would not recommend this storage unit. You can buy the USB unit and disks separately and at least have a unit that you can work on. ...