WD My Book Essential 500GB USB 2.0 3.5" External Hard Drive WDG1U5000N

Name: WD My Book Essential 500GB USB 2.0 3.5" External Hard Drive
Brand: Western Digital
SKU: N82E16822136025
Rating: 4 (380 reviews)

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WDG1U5000N
USB 2.0
3.5"
1 year limited

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The Western Digital My Book Essential is a clear leader in the race for the peak of external desktop drives. Its 500 GB drive 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.

This hard drive 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!

This hard drive 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!

Smart DesignThe elegant Western Digital My Book Essential WDG1U5000N looks just like a book and takes up less desktop space, stacks horizontally and allows two or more drives to stand neatly together like volumes on a shelf.
USB 2.0 InterfaceThe Western Digital My Book Essential WDG1U5000N features a USB 2.0 interface for speed and plug-and-play connectivity.
Performance You can UseThe proprietary Western Digital hard drive inside delivers exceptionally fast, ultra-quiet and cool-running performance with a 500 GB capacity, 7200 RPM spindle speed and 16MB L2 Cache.
Intelligent Drive ManagementThe Intelligent Drive Management function enables automatic power-up and shutdown of the Western Digital My Book hard drive.