Western Digital My Book External Hard Drive

Western Digital has brought plug and play technology to the external hard drive and it is truly plug and play. For Windows XP you merely turn your computer on and the drive senses that the system is starting and turns the drive on along with the your system. The installation instructions, if you can call it that, reads like how to plug in a lamp. The four step procedure is turn on your computer, connect the power and USB 2.0 cords and then if, and it is IF, a security warning comes up you hit accept to install the drive to your system.

My son has recently joined the computer world with his purchase of an Acer Aspire notebook and has been setting up his system with good old dad's help. We have a stand for the notebook for ease of use and viewing while he has the notebook at home at his desk. He has a USB hub with a Microsoft keyboard and mouse for comfort instead of the notebooks keyboard. And for backup and more storage he now has the USB connected My Book external hard drive. And it was really easy to start up and connect. The drive has true plug and play features. We hooked up the power cord and the USB cord and the computer recognized it, ran through some install thing and it was ready to go in less than a minute.

Western Digital is recognizing that people want ease of use and easy to connect hardware and granted users this in their new line of external hard drives. The MY Book series includes smaller sized drives such as the 80 Gigabyte up to the 500 Gigabyte size in three different editions. The Essentials series is a no frills easy to use external hard drive for whatever you need an extra drive for. Storage, backup or a temporary drive for video editing is right at your finger tips and so easy to use. The Essentials series comes in 80 up to 500 Gigabyte sizes.

My Book from Western Digital

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