Western Digital My Book Essential 2TB Now Featured on Best External Hard Drives Website

Online, May 20, 2012 (Newswire.com) - The BestExternalHard-Drives.com blog recently released a post on the Western Digital My Book Essential 2TB. The My Book Essential is a dual USB 2.0/3.0 external hard drive with enough capacity to store plenty of multimedia files or other important data. You can easily attach it to a DVR to store all your favorite movies. The drive is a desktop drive and is designed to sit vertically on a flat surface.

The My Book Essential comes formatted out of the box to work with a Windows PC, but can be easily reformatted to work with a Mac. It requires a separate power adaptor (it isn't powered by the USB cable), but it runs smooth and quiet.

The Western Digital My Book Essential 2TB's features include both password protection and data encryption. It also comes with a full suite of backup utilities, which you can choose to use if and as you deem appropriate. It also has some self-diagnostic capabilities should you experience any problems with the drive.

The drive comes in other capacities if 2 TB is too much or too little for your needs. Most experts recommend that you buy as much capacity as you can afford because it's virtually inevitable that you'll need it at some point in the future. People's data storage needs tend to expand as they save more data and as average file sizes become larger.

As for data transfer rate, the My Book Essential's USB 2.0 gives you up to 480 Mb/sec, while USB 3.0 gives you up to 5 Gb/sec. This allows you to transfer even large files quite quickly.

The drive comes with a standard 2 year standard warranty. You can find the exact terms and conditions on the manufacturer's site.

To learn more about the My Book Essential and to find out where you can buy one for yourself, hop over to the blog and check out the Western Digital My Book Essential 2TB page.

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