Western Digital 500 GB My Book Studio Edition External Hard Drive

Western Digital 500 GB My Book Studio Edition External Hard Drive

Speed is what you need when for video editing, big design projects, or managing photo shoots and thats what this drive delivers with FireWire 800 and eSATA connectivity. With our automatic backup capability your creative masterpieces will be backed up the minute you save them.

My Book Studio Edition is easy to set up and easy to use. Installation is a snap because you don't really install this drive, you just plug it in and it's ready to use. There is no CD to install; the included software loads from the drive the first time you plug it in.
By using the automatic backup, you can back up important projects to multiple destinations including file servers, portable drives, and My Book. You can use it to synchronize project files to keep them current and secure. Set it and forget it; every time you save a change it's automatically backed up.
The quad interface system provides flexibility and performance with connections for ultra-fast eSATA, FireWire 400 and 800, and USB 2.0. The eSATA interface gives you speed comparable to a state-of-the-art internal hard drive, while the FireWire connection delivers a high-performance interface that is perfect for Macintosh computers. USB 2.0 is also available for convenience and compatibility among multiple computers.
My Book Studio Edition takes no more space than a paperback book. Collect two or more and they nest neatly together like volumes on a shelf. This external hard drive also turns itself on and off with your computer, while Safe Shutdown prevents the drive from being powered down until all your data has been written. (Works with the USB and FireWire connection only.)
This environmentally friendly drive is designed to save power by going into standby mode after 10 minutes of inactivity. When you're ready to use it, it wakes up automatically. My Book enclosure's heat-dissipating design with Morse Code also prevents heat buildup, a notorious data killer.

How cool is that?
The My Book Studio Edition is backed by a 5-year limited warranty.

What's in the Box?

WDH1Q5000N My Book Studio Edition external hard drive, USB cable, FireWire 800 cable, FireWire 800 to 400 cable, AC adapter, and quick install guide.

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Small, simple, elegant, and very easy to use. Just plug it in, and you've got plenty of room to back up and save your valuable data, music, photos, and movies.

External hard drive

External hard drive

An external hard drive is a type of hard disk drive which is externally connected to a computer, and may be portable. External hard disk drives are connected to the computer using a cable which is compatible with Small Computer System Interface (SCSI), Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE), Universal Serial Bus (USB), IEEE 1394 (Firewire), CAT-3 or CAT-5 cable (Ethernet), eSATA or other bus standards.[1]

History

Main article: History of hard disk drives
The first commercial hard disks were large and cumbersome, and were not stored within the computer itself so therefore fits within the definition external hard disk. The hard disk platters are stored within protective covers or memory units, which sits outside. These hard disks were soon evolved to be compact enough that the disks were able to be mounted into bays inside a computer.
By the end of 20th century, internal drives became the system of choice for computers running Windows, while external hard drives remained popular for much longer on the Apple Macintosh and other platforms. Every Mac made between 1986 and 1998 has a SCSI port on the back, making external expansion easy; also, "toaster" Macs did not have easily accessible hard drive bays (or, in the case of the Mac Plus, any hard drive bay at all), so on those models, external SCSI disks were the only reasonable option. These external drives, like the Apple ProFile are in no way as portable nor as compact as the modern ones for commercial use.[2] [3] [4]
After the Internet has been introduced, more information and files needs to be stored than ever before, and more back-ups be made due to threats such as viruses. Once again, external hard drives are popular among users of all platforms.[5]
Presently, the market for external hard disks are aimed towards portability, as well as a higher amount of memory. Currently the commercial external hard disks of the highest capacity are usually found at 1 TB or 1.5 TB from manufacturers such as Hitachi, SimpleTech, Western Digital, Seagate, CMS, RecoNdata, Maxtor and LaCie

Structure and design

The internal structure of external hard disk drives is similar to normal hard disk drives; in fact, they include a normal hard disk drive which is mounted on a disk enclosure. [5] For the same reason, high capacity external hard disk drives (which weigh more) were for a time less common, although external hard disk drives with more than 500 GB of storage capacity are now commonly manufactured.
Although external hard disk drives are aimed to be portable, the data cannot be secured on them due to their insufficient shock protection [6] especially compared to digital portable media storage devices such flash memories and memory cards. Nonetheless, external hard disk drives cost less than memory cards or flash memories of the same storage, and are the only portable media storage options available in the size of hundreds of gigabytes.