Western Digital My Book Essential 3TB Review

Western Digital (WDC), one of the world's premier manufacturer of storage capacity of 3TB external hard drive brings to the Indonesian market. Although not the first company to launch a hard disk with a capacity for it, but the products offered by Western Digital is the first that fully supports USB 3.0 connection.

Items referred to the My Book Essential 3TB. In contrast to the My Passport Essential series, this product is an external hard drive which is intended to accommodate data users in the office or at home. Not to carry around, although you can still portable if needed.

Specifications and Features

There are several models that are provided by the WDC to drive this series. Ranging from 500GB to 3TB capacity as discussed this time, and from which only supports USB 2.0 to support USB 2.0 as well as 3.0.

Western Digital My Book Essential, especially WDBACW0030HBK model supports USB 3.0 and also continue to support USB 2.0. As is known, USB 3.0 capable of transmitting data with maximum speeds up to 5Gbps, while USB 2.0 only a maximum of 480Mbps. The following specifications WD My Book Essential WDBACW0030HBK 3TB.

3TB Capacity

Connectivity USB 3.0 (Max 5GBps)

USB 2.0 (Max 480Mbps)

Physical Dimensions 165 x 135 x 48 millimeters

1.18 kilograms

Working temperature 5 to 35 degrees Celsius

Storage temperature -20 to 65 degrees Celsius

System files

NTFS

Supported operating systems Windows XP, Vista, 7, Mac OS X, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard (need to be reformatted)

Just as the Western Digital external hard drives made by others, this model also comes with the application SmartWare. This application allows users to perform backups automatically, synchronize the files easily, and protect certain files by using passwords.

Trial

Western Digital My Book Essential use glossy casing that makes it look simple. For he was still working in cool conditions, ventilation is provided at the top, rear, and bottom. Input panel output connector and the power button itself is located in the rear.

When connected to a computer with operating system Windows XP 32-bit, direct product can be recognized. However, the detected only 2TB capacity. Similarly, when installed on the operating system Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

To be able to fully utilize the capacity of 3TB, you need to run applications WD SmartWare, do Set Up Drive, then format the drive. After formatting is completed, the capacity of a relief it is ready for use.

In Windows XP, the time required to transfer 1GB of data to the hard drive via the USB 2.0 connection to reach 46.75 seconds. Conversely, to transmit data from the My Book Essential to the computer, it takes only 39.84 seconds.

Using Windows 7, the time to send data to a 1GB hard drive a little longer which is 1 minute 4.84 seconds. Conversely, sending data from an external hard drive to a computer via the USB 2.0 it took 39.84 seconds.

From experiments using CrystalDiskMark application, a sequential, using a USB 2.0 connection, this hard drive can write data up to 34.58 MBps and write up to 26.5 MBps. As a comparison, if the Western Digital hard drive Essential paired in port that supports USB 3.0, speed reading achieve 65.95MBps, while he wrote in 64.97MBps speed.

Today, Western Digital MyBook Essential 3TB began to be marketed in a price range of Rp2 million. Price ratio is still large enough adrift with a smaller version that is 2TB and 1TB are marketed in a price range of Rp1, 2 million and Rp850 thousand. However, it is worth the price if needed relief capacity hard drive in one unit.

Excess
- Large capacity
- Supports USB 3.0 for faster data transmission


Deficiency
- The price far adrift with a size below it.