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As difficult as it is to get excited about a hard drive, the Western Digital My Book Home Edition has performed well enough for me over the past 5 months, that I have accumulated 3 of them: 2 of the 500GB flavors and a 1TB monster-in-disguise. Both models have identical physical dimensions and appearance and thus look rather nice flashing ominously as the three wise men standing watch over my Mac Mini. I use one of the 500GB models as a bootable, external hard drive that has been used to boot an aluminum iMac(2008), MacBook Pro(2006), and Mac Mini(2009). The other 500GB drive is used as storage for an iTunes Music Folder. It currently contains approximately 110GB of music files for iTunes to work with. Finally, the 1TB drive is used as a multipurpose, lab experiment drive. I have beaten it up pretty bad repartitioning, reformatting, and in general treating it like a late 90's floppy disk dug out of the trash. They have all held up brilliantly.
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Western Digital My Book Home Edition
Specifications
Dimensions:
(as shown standing up) | Height: 6.5 in / 166 mm |
| Width: 2.1 in / 54 mm |
| Depth: 5.4 in / 137 mm |
| Weight: | 2.5 lb / 1.15 g |
| Interfaces: | eSATA |
| FireWire 400 |
| USB 2.0 |
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Summary
Overall, these 3 Western Digital My Book Home Edition drives have been spectacular. Using them to boot an operating system from both USB and FireWire interfaces has been a breeze, and their response time and capacity as basic storage devices is better than I could have expected given their price. I would highly recommend these to anyone looking to expand the capabilities of his or her Mac.
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