Hi, I have one of these drives, the 2 tb model, it's absolutely wonderful. I had to move about 40 gb of stuff, it only took about 15 mintutes or so. Courtney
Tune into my show, moopie's mix, every Thursday morning at 2 UTC or 10 PM Eastern on the Global Voice Internet Radio, http://www.theglobalvoice.info. Moopie's Mix can also be downloaded from the program gallery on that site. On Sep 13, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: > Hello everybody > > Today we went to a local computer hardware store and bought one of the new > Western Digital MyBook Essential drives. These new drives are absolutely > light years ahead of the previous generation. > > Western Digital has now dropped support for FireWire 800 (1394B), in favour > of USB 3.0. This is probably a logical step; although we were a little > disappointed that the drives are not Thunderbolt compatible. > > Be that as it may, these new drives come in 1, 2 and 3TB versions, and what > we were just as pleased about is that Western Digital has done away with the > idea of creating hidden, locked, partitions on your drive. They now just > give you a single partitioned NTFS format drive. We, being Mac users, > re-partitioned the drive, and it went without a hitch. > > Currently, we are getting some pretty amazing throughput figures from the > drive. We are moving a large amount of data from an older version of the same > kind of drive. It has FireWire 800. We realise that this isn't really a full > test because the other drive isn't as fast as the target. However, it is > positively flying and we should manage to get all 1.5TB of our data moved > today. > > Given previous history of WD, very impressive on this occasion. > > Lynne > > > ======================================= > > The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free > > To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web > pages located at > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at > either of the following websites: > > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html > > Or: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> > you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > --------------------------------------- ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
