Western Digital WD My Book Studio WDBC3G0030HAL-AESN 3 TB 3.5" External Hard Drive

Western Digital My Book Studio (4TB)

Aimed at the Mac user, the Western Digital My Book Studio (4TB) ($259.99 list) is a metal-clad external hard drive. Its matte silver chassis matches the aluminum case of your new iMac, Mac mini, or MacBook Pro, and its USB 3.0 connection means that it's s...Read more

Large capacity. Fanless. Speedy.

No visual capacity indicator. No Thunderbolt.

Western Digital My Book Studio Review (3TB)

This summer WD revamped their My Book Studio line of desktop external hard drives. The new My Book Studios feature an all metal aluminum enclosure and an increased capacity 3TB Caviar Green hard drive inside....Read more

Great looking brushed metal case, Strong performance from FireWire 800, Quiet, passively cooled, design

No eSATA for PC users

My Book Studio review

Now that Apple has adopted USB 3.0 across most of the Mac range – apart, of course, from the aging Mac Pro – we can finally take advantage of the wide range of affordable USB 3.0 drives that have been available to PC users for a couple of years now....Read more

attractive aluminium design, good performance, includes password and encryption software for Macs

no Firewire or Thunderbolt ports, requires its own mains adaptor

This WD My Book Studio desktop hard drive from Western Digital offers plenty of storage, up to 3TB in one very modestly sized and stylish metal chassis....Read more

The Western Digital My Book Studio Edition allows you to easily stow away precious digital memories without breaking the bank....Read more

Why is it essential? File sizes are always increasing, requiring even more disk space. Filling up your computer hard drive can cause problems; Photoshop may slow down and it can even decrease the performance of your processor....Read more

Western Digital My Book Studio Edition (1TB)

The My Book Studio Edition is a welcome addition to the My Book family, and should find a home on many Mac and PC users' desks....Read more

No fans, Little heat, Huge capacity, Attractive design, Five year warranty, Fully featured Mac software

Capacity indicator isn't accurate, Not the fastest eSATA drive

Western Digital MY Book Studio 2TB Ext Drive For Mac, Metal Enclosure, FW800 WDBC3G0020HAL-AESN...Read more

Western Digital My Book Studio (4TB)

Aimed at the Mac user, the Western Digital My Book Studio (4TB) ($259.99 list) is a metal-clad external hard drive. Its matte silver chassis matches the aluminum case of your new iMac, Mac mini, or MacBook Pro, and its USB 3.0 connection means that it's s...Read more

Western Digital My Book Studio Edition (2TB)

For the Mac user who requires copious storage but not the mirroring capability of the Studio II, the Western Digital My Book Studio (2TB) makes a good Time Machine or working storage drive....Read more

Quad interface. Speedy. Mac-formatted. Lots of storage space in a physically small package

Windows compatibility requires reformat. No Windows utilities.

Western Digital My Book Studio Edition (1TB)

This thing does what it's supposed to with different interfaces. It runs cooler than my hitachi external 1tb and is decent size. Comparing w/ the previous model line where the light was a circle, the power button is now on the backside....Read more

slim size, runs cool, multiple interfaces

like the previous person said, this thing sometimes disappears from device manager, but I've noticed this in most western digital external harddrives that I've owned in the past 3 years firewire/usb

UNUSABLE

Purchased this unit for use as a fourth external backup unit using the Firewire connector. The Best Buy techie said that it was pre-formatted as NTFS. On connecting, using disk management utility, received message that disk was not initialized. Initialize...Read more

Good connection options

Unusable when connected with a PC

Better quality than what you see in the pictures

Watch YouTube Review I made. It is a pretty good external harddrive , specially for us who have a Mac and are looking for a good FireWire harddrive, it is way faster than a USB external harddrive....Read more

Crazy fast and completely quite

I've had the WD MyBook Studio 2 TB for a few months now and it has performed very well. It's hooked up to a Mac Mini via Firewire and the performance is great. Seems just as fast as an internal drive. What is most surprising about this external drive is j...Read more

Server Backup

Yes, I would recommend this to a friend...Read more

Fast, Reliable

3rd one I bought

I work in Video so I've gone through a few drives. The My Book Studio line by WD has to be my favorite so far. They look great, although the light can get annoying in a dark room. They are quiet and fast, and everything you want from a drive. The only qui...Read more

Easy To Install, Fast, Highly Compatible, Quiet

Unreliable

Western Digital My Book Studio 2TB

Pretty cool! Just plugged it in and followed simple instructions. And it is really good looking along side my MacBook Pro. The time machine just did its thing and man the firewire is fast....Read more

Software ruins the product

I have owned several WD Mybooks over the years and I use them for video projects. They have been very useful and simple to move between machines for capturing and editing and have performed well. However, this new model comes with a "vitual CD"....Read more

A Fantastic External Hard Drive

This hard drive is extremely fast (around 60-70Mbs per second) when using the firewire cord. The software is also awesome. The software that comes with it has help topics for absolutely everything about it, so you will always know what to do....Read more

judge a book by its cover?

this is one of the best drives i've had,its quite cheap,very quiet,i use it to back up loads of films,music,photos and really important documents,the auto backup is a good feature,however when starting my pc i am getting error reports about beibg unable t...Read more

Great For Backing Up, Silent, Small And Discreet

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