Developer's Notes

FUCK WD 500 gigs of data out the windows due to horrible heat elimination, even witha ghetto ass fan rigged up it still heat colored the metal casing, fuckign pathetic.

The worst thing about it? It tips over on a dime, and if you unplug it before windows will allow you to remove it (which happens many times because it causes an error in explorer) it will start to degrade all your data.

AWFUL product. POS doesn't begin to cover it. Designers should be punched in the face then beaten with ham.

I have the 750 GB And the fucking USB circuit broke off after four months! THEY STILL WONT REPLACE IT and its under warranty.

I have a 1TB drive and have seen similar problem. It is taking me 200minutes to copy a 400MB files over the router, and I am not even using wireless.

God knows what the heck WesternDigital is doing on the drive...I regret buying it.....

I have a passport 250, I didn't realize this but by default it doesn't copy autodesk files, I backed up my whole computer and got it re-imaged (erased and updated) only to realize that all of the drawings I have from my past two years of school were not on my passport, just empty folders. I now have to redraw everything or use sad old images for my portfolio.

I have a Mybook 500 and god knows I regret the purchase!!! It's an awful piece of shit and the guys responsible for this deserve a beating!

Always hated WD drives, but this is the worst I've barely used my MyBook 500 and now just when I need to restore something can't get the POS to spin up. Never Never Never buy anything from WD!

I have gone threw 2 of the 500gb MyBooks. I think they are made out of crystal inside or something. They fail to power up after a few months. Even if you place them somewhere safe where they never topple and have adequate ventilation. Good morning all your data is gone, for no reason. They should come in two packs. One to back up the other which will enviably fail. Least reliable electronic device i have ever owned. i have crap from the 80's that still runs. These last 6 months.

mine fucking wont get recognized. at all. it turns on and the led lights up but nothing. 320 gigs gone. all my music. gone. fuck you western digital.

I'll chime in here too just to vent. In fact, a vent, and a fan would have been a good idea on the WD MyBook but it is obvious that WD doesn't want these things to last very long. I've had one enclosure die but the drive was still functioning (barely) after I ripped it out of the little cooker box they put it in. At least I didn't lose much data from that one. Another one (500GB) was getting hot and shutting off if I tried copying more than 50GB at a time. Also, the eSATA plug hole isn't big enough to accommodate most eSATA cables. Something in the drive/electronics limits it to about 1/3 of what USB 2.0 can do. The same computer transfers data 3x as fast using a cheap $30 enclosure. NEVER AGAIN. WD used to be worth buying over a no-name brand but their drives and especially their MyBook external drives are 100% garbage any more. I wouldn't stop at simply not recommending these worthless products. I would STRONGLY RECOMMEND AGAINST these unless you just like spending all your time trying to get your data back from a @#$%^ failing drive. I could understand the high probability that these MyBook external hard drives will lose data if the product served _any_ _other_ _purpose_ at all, but the one and only reason this product exists is supposed to be to reliably STORE DATA, and it FAILS TO PERFORM its single, solitary, sole function. To me, that means the WD company needs to cease to exist. DO NOT BUY.

Glad (?) to see I'm not alone. What a piece of crap.

I have 2 MyBook Studio II ... the 2 TB VErsion .. and ... ah just don t ask.... Sometimes I wish I had my floppy back ;o)

I have a WD My Book 1TB and have been using it for 6 months. Then one day, heard a loud 'snap' like sound. Turns out to be the adapter had blown itself.