I purchased this hard drive after I read reviews of it unexpectedly dying. I figured that most people overall had a positive experience with it so a few people had a problem. I used this hard drive as a backup drive for several months before...it died. I submitted a warranty claim and received a new hard drive. That drive also worked well for a few months. Now with the second drive dead I have had enough. THIS HARD DRIVE IS A FAILED PRODUCT. Believe this review. Buy a Seagate drive with a cheap enclosure. It's cheaper and Seagate drives have a much higher reliability. I have four 500 Gig internal Seagate drives in my MAC PRO as well as two external 1.5 Tb Seagate drives. Never had a failure, thank G-d, in three years. With this WD drive I had two failures in less than two years.

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Hi guys.
All things are good about this drive BUT speed of writing. I am not sure how important it is for somebody. I believe reliability and throughput are 2 most important parameters for external drive.
It shows 13mb/s or 104 mbits/sec.
This device produces less than 25% !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
of frequently advertised throughput on box of 480mbits/sec as usb 2.0 ability.
My other 2 compact drives which are not using external power supply but usb port fire 20mb/sec.
Still too slow but at least better than this one.
Other then that - case, printing materials, workmanship are excellent.
I believe somebody on technical side in WD did very poor job.
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