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Western Digital My Book Studio Ed 500 GB
Saturday, April 05, 2008
It might have happened a number of times that you were in the middle of
something extremely important, and up comes a balloon warning you about low-disk
space. Well, this won't happen anymore if you have the Western Digital MyBook
external hard drive which has a humongous storage space of 500 GB. Designed
primarily for Mac users, the device boasts of quad interface viz. USB 2.0,
FireWire 800 and 400 and eSATA, and can easily be re-formatted for usage on
Windows. The test unit which we got came in an elegant silver casing and the box
had the device, quick installation guide, mini USB cable, FireWire 800 and 400
cables and an AC adaptor. As soon as you plug the drive in, it's ready to use.
An interesting in-built feature called the martPowerTM prevents the drive from
being powered down until whole of your data has been written. It even drifts to
standby mode after 10 minutes of inactivity and wakes up automatically, thus
saving power. During operation, it emitted negligible heat or sound.
We tested it via its USB interface on an Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2 GB
RAM using HDTach, HDTune and WinBench99 benchmark tests. In Business Disk and
high-end Disk Winmark tests of the suite [WinBench99], the drive returned 18
MB/s and 38.6 MB/s of throughputs respectively with an access time of 13.2 ms.
Its average throughput stood at 34.5 MB/s.
Price: Rs 9,
700 (5 yrs warranty)
Key Specs: 6.5” x 5.4” x 2.1”, 500 GB
capacity, USB 2.0, FireWire 800 and 400, eSATA connectivity,
SmartPowerTM power saver feature
Contact: Western Digital
Tel: 9321029204
Website: www.wdc.com
SMS Buy 130485 to 56677 |
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Bottomline: A good buy for professionals who
need something extra rather than just a mere storage device.
Ankush Sharma
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