The Western Digital My Book Pro is a clear leader in the race for the peak of external desktop drives. Its 500 GB runs at 7200 RPM with up to 100 MB/s transfer rates. Its breakthrough 16 MB cache makes this hard drive suitable for high-performance home and business computing, as it can handle both data-intensive applications and high-end multimedia applications. It offers average latency of 4.2 ms with an average seek time of only 8.9ms; and average write time of 10.9ms, resulting in both greater efficiency and safer data transfer.

My Book Pro includes EMC Retrospect software for Windows and Mac, which backs up the data, and also allows easy recovery, scheduling, and encryption, to help you hold onto the memories you entrust to this disk. It is shipped with free Google software, which catalogs each and every file in your computer for helping you locate it as and when needed. Using this software you can very easily manage your photos. Think of this as the ultimate answer to all those boxes of photos and slides!