Testseek.com have collected 43 expert reviews of the Western Digital My Book Essential USB3 WDBACW and the average rating is 83%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital My Book Essential USB3 WDBACW.
August 2011
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USB 3.0 could finally put FireWire to bed. should Apple ever adopt it
Abstract: Coming in the now familiar ‘book’ aesthetic common to Western Digital’s desktop drives, this 3TB monster among the most affordable of the 3TB drives on the market, with a street price of around $239. That’s a great deal for a drive that comes w...
USB 3.0 could finally put FireWire to bed. should Apple ever adopt it
eSATA is still faster
If you've set yourself up with a USB 3.0 connection, the My Book Essential is a decent desktop drive to complement it, and shows promise for the interface in the times ahead....
Good value, Includes backup software for Windows users, Top availalable capacity for singledrive externals
Mac users and those PC users who want more performance to go along with raw disk size my want to consider the My Book Studio series
This edition of the Western Digital My Book Essential is an incremental bump to an established line of external hard drives. There's nothing revolutionary in it, but it delivers a solid value, Windows backup software and a 4TB capacity which is the highes...
Abstract: I was an early adopter to USB 3.0 on my PC and I’ve been using Western Digital USB 3.0 drives since shortly after they became available. I’ve been more than happy with with performance, price and durability of these drives over the past year or so.Now...
Published: 2011-07-02, Author: The , review by: hardwarebbq.com
Abstract: Western Digital sends us a large chunk of storage meat to evaluate.A 4x 750GB platter based Western Digital MyBook Essential 3TB with USB 3.0 and 3 years of warranty in India.This is a media sample I received for testing purposes so don't be confused with...
This review was our first look into the performance of the USB3, and what we found was very impressive. USB2.0 has really been killing the performance of the external storage, but the introduction of USB3 has brought the transfer rates back up to date...
A one-stop solution for your back-up needs, the My Book Essential offers speed, space, security and reliability. Were it not for the driver debacle we'd give this external drive a perfect score, but regardless it still comes very highly recommended...
