I get 698.46 GB via FAT32, on the 750 model, and have great luck with it. Have heard of no problems to date with them, although most I know of are not always-on drives. Sometimes on for days though. I've found newegg's product reviews very helpful (even for reference, when purchasing elsewhere), as their user-base has more collective experience to compare with competetive models and across product lines.
ben On Dec 7, 2007 1:56 PM, dooger watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kool. Just what I wanted to hear. > > Have read that there's a ten percent loss off the actual 500gigs in > formatting--but this seems pretty standard. > > The advertised space on the 250 claims that, formatted, there's slightly > MORE than 250 gigs of space, so maybe they're packing a 280gig drive in > there--or else they're lying. > > But anyhoo, I'm glad to hear there are no overheating probs. > > Thanx Rachel for your prompt and thoughtful reply, > m > > RK R wrote: > > I've used them a bit and they seem to work fairly well. I've been using > > a 500GB model for an external backup drive at a client's for about 4 > > months now without any issues. > > > > ~Rachel > > > > On Dec 7, 2007 12:59 PM, dooger watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Just wondering if any of you rotorheads have any experience with the WD > > MyBook external hard drive. > > > > They seem to get cheaper every day and I've been thinking how great it > > would be to have a nice 250gig or so external HD to back up to. > > > > My experience with external drive enclosures has been that if they don't > > have cooling fans, they overheat. But most of the new external > > enclosures don't seem to have cooling fans anymore. > > > > Any thoughts/advice, o ye maestros? > > > > Thanx a meg, > > m > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
