Western Digital 1TB My Book HE - Reviewed, Dissected and Destroyed.

[RainMotorsports]

Originally Posted by LPTP-LVR

I've beenusing the same drive through eSATA for quite some time and never experienced this freezing issue. The only slightly annoying thing is that i always have to "import foreign disk" through disk management if i plug the HDD in while Windows is already running. No such issue if i plug it in before boot though.

Interesting Problem

@ John nah havent touched the intel software, once i get my esata to sata cable and then hack the enclosure up to hold my ide externals power supply and then route the cable out the back and call it fixed I will give that a shot.

[MikePowell]

Nice review! I bought this ehhd about 4 months ago and have just one issue... It freezes up my pc. I've used it under windows vista and windows 7, both 64-bit. From time to time my PC freezes up and the only way to get it going again is by rebooting through hitting the reset button. When it happens the light on the MyBook turns off and then on, like it does when you start the computer. When I unplugged it, everything worked fine, no freezes in about three days. When used with USB it works fine too... It seems it's only eSata that freezes my pc, but I bought this (slightly more expensive) version of the drive just for the eSata. Bah.
What should I do? Contact WD? I don't want to send them my drive, since I can't backup 1tb... Could I take it out of its casing and use it like a normal drive?

Sorry if this is a bit off-topic.

[hydra]

Originally Posted by ClutchX2

Western Digital 1TB My Book HE - Reviewed, Dissected and Destroyed.

I was never big on the need for FireWire, people always saying how its blazing fast compared to USB 2.0. I feel this drive is not an adequate test of the two bus's but the drive is obviously able to deliver. In the field of Western Digital external hard drives, FireWire fanboys mind as well keep their mouths shut and save 30-40 bucks by buying the usb essentials edition. For those who can benefit from the performance of the eSATA connector the price is worth it.

A late post; looking for a solution with this new 1.5 WD my book that totally locks up my laptop using eSata. My Thermaltake and Seagate eSata works fine over same port on vista laptop.

Now I'm using the FW interface transferring a 350 gig file in just 1 hour and 10 minutes. Count me a firewire fanboy..this cut off 1 hour and 66 minutes prior file transfer using USB 2.0. This is a REAL world file transfer, not a synthetic test. I'm doing this because the triple interface drive may be going back if I cannot find a driver update for the intel 82801 driver.

[sean473]

Maybe ur Chipset drivers are not working? try installing the latest intel chipset drivers...

[hydra]

Yep. It's all about your laptops chipset and triple interface chipsets. I borrowed an esata express card and drive works much better. However my Thermaltake drive dock blows the doors off the mybook using realtime and HD Tune. The web is flooded with lock ups on certain dell laptops as well. Check out WD forums.

Oh well, back to BB.