Western Digital MyBook

There was a time when I thought 9.52 GB was more than enough for me. That was what my HDD space was on my very first Desktop. Well, it seems the amount of space needed by an average person has increased drastically! A few of my friends are cribbing because they don't have enough space on their 250 GB Hard Disk Drives! :O

Yep.... we are on that phase where even 250 GB is easily shattered by the likes of high speed broadband Internet.... I mean just imagine.... I was searching for the movie, Jackass Number One.... I got a Blu-Ray result.... 44 GB !!!! Thats what am talking about....


I recently got a Western Digital MyBook 250 GB for my 18th birthday.... xD

For those who don't know Western Digital... go die... :P ...hehe its a rival company to Seagate...

OK... the MyBook is basically an External HDD. Note that it is NOT a portable hard disk...its an EXTERNAL HDD... it means its huge... :P

Now, I had an option of going for the MyBook Pro, Essential and Premium....but I chose the Essential... a pretty good choice if you want to just store your files and want a good bargain for the best per GB price.

The difference was that....
Premium: It has a FireWire (thats IEEE 1394 port) 400 port along with the usual USB 2.0. It has a back-up software and a really nifty disk-usage indicator.

Pro: The best in line... but too expensive. Its got a FireWire 400 and two FireWire 800 ports and a USB 2.0 port. It has a better back-up software.



Now, all the MyBooks look like...well... books! I sometimes keep them with my books. :P

Front View


Rear View


The specifications of the WD MyBook 250 GB are as follows:

1] Price: Rs. 7000/- as of 7th July, 2007... now for same price we get 500 GB!
2] Drive Capacity: 250 GB.....but after the cut-downs on the FAT32 file-system etc... 234 GB
3] Interface: USB 2.0
4] Other Stuff: Got some wires n plugs, some back-up software and other crap...
5] Write Speed: 25.5 Mb/s...... once I got a burst speed of 27 Mb/s
6] Read Speed: 29.8 Mb/s
7] Dimensions:
Height 6.710 Inches (Max)
Length 5.550 Inches (Max)
Width 2.25 Inches (+/- 0.010 inch)
Weight 2.90 Pounds
8] 7200 rpm

This External Storage device is definitely worth a buy at the moment, considerinthe fact that the cost of External HDDs have drastically crashed rock-bottom low. But unfortunately, it is EXTERNAL, pretty annoying if you want to carry it around, for which I would suggest a Western Digital Passport 250 GB.