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4.29 out of 5 4.3 5
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6 of 7 customers would recommend this product.
Performance 4.286 out of 5 4.3 5
Ease of Use 4.714 out of 5 4.7 5


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Mac Enthusiast Mac Enthusiast
Overall Rating: 5 out of 5 5 5
Performance: 5 out of 5 5 5
Ease of Use: 5 out of 5 5 5
good move on my part Date: August 13, 2009
Written By: JeffM23 From: Alameda CA (read all my reviews) (read all my reviews)
Owned this Product for: 0-3 Months
Level of Expertise: Expert
Pros: Easy to Setup/Install, easy to use, fast, high capacity, quiet, reliable, Highly Compatible

Needed to replace a MAXTOR USB that was unreliable, this item (although it wasn't in stock) was a good price compromise between the 500GB and the 1TB model. Selling point was FW800. Works great as a Time Machine volume, as well as a networked "Backup" destination volume. All necessary cables were included, which means I now have yet more spare FW and USB cables, but that's OK. Nice and compact, smaller than the MAXTOR.

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Overall Rating: 5 out of 5 5 5
Performance: 5 out of 5 5 5
Ease of Use: 4 out of 5 4 5
Works great with Final Cut Pro Date: May 29, 2009
Written By: briman From: San Jose, CA (read all my reviews) (read all my reviews)
Owned this Product for: 1+ Years
Level of Expertise: Good
Pros: Easy to Setup/Install, easy to use, fast, high capacity, quiet
Cons: distracting indicator lights

I bought two 750GB My Studio drives to use as a scratch disk and file backup for video editing in Final Cut Pro. One of my original enclosures had an issue with the second FW port, but the replacement from PC Connection has worked flawlessly. They are quiet, and fast enough that I have no issues while editing HD over FW 800. I use the WD Anywhere Backup (free license is enclosed) to backup from one drive to the other.
My only gripe would be that the indicator lights will flash when my MacBook goes to sleep and this is annoying when I'm also trying to sleep, as they are sitting on my bedroom desk. I simply turn them off.

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Mac Enthusiast Mac Enthusiast
Overall Rating: 1 out of 5 1 5
Performance: 1 out of 5 1 5
Ease of Use: 4 out of 5 4 5
Yikes! Date: May 12, 2009
Written By: Jaysean From: Denver (read all my reviews) (read all my reviews)
Owned this Product for: 0-3 Months
Level of Expertise: Expert
Pros: quiet
Cons: unreliable

After attempting to transfer a 80GB folder of video, graphics, aiff files etc. the WD HD kept freezing at 14GB. It eventually froze my MacPro, where force quitting was the only option. After trying to run a project on FCP 6.0 from the WD HD, it caused FCP to unexpectedly quit. Sticking with Lacie from now on.

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Overall Rating: 5 out of 5 5 5
Performance: 5 out of 5 5 5
Ease of Use: 5 out of 5 5 5
Good Price for Features Date: April 13, 2009
Written By: GeneralLudd From: Saint Paul, MN (read all my reviews) (read all my reviews)
Owned this Product for: 0-3 Months
Level of Expertise: Expert
Pros: Easy to Setup/Install, easy to use, fast, high capacity, quiet, Highly Compatible

This is a great backup drive. Although I haven't used it for very long, it didn't complain being used to do a full Retrospect 6.1 network backup of our server and several clients for a full week straight. I especially like that the device comes with a FireWire 400/800 adapter cable and USB. I happen to have the needed eSATA cables so not getting those with the device was no big deal. The only problem is that being able to remove the drive and add a bigger one when the time comes for such action does not appear to be easy or straight forward. This is probably not something the average user needs to worry about, though.

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