WD My Book: The External Hard Drive With Massive Storage Capacity

WD My Book is another popular series of external hard drives developed and released by Western Digital. The My Book drives include ten editions at present, they are:

• Home Edition
• Office Edition
• Essential Edition
• Pro Edition
• Studio Edition
• Mirror Edition
• Elite Edition
• Premium Edition
• World Edition
• AV Dvr “Live Edition”

WD My Book Review

I’ll discuss the Western Digital My Book from the following aspects.

Package

There are many things included in the package of WD My Book portable backup drive.

• The first thing is of course the drive itself: My Book External Hard Drive.
• The second thing to mention is the connection: USB 3.0 cable and AC adapter.
• The third thing is WD My Book software: WD Discovery™ software with WD Backup™, WD Security™ and WD Drives Utilities™.
• The last one is the quick install guide and user manual.

Appearance

How WD My Book get its name? Obviously, it is because that it has the book-like appearance.

• The World Edition is like a white book.
• The Pro Edition and Studio Edition are like a silver book.
• All the other editions look like just a standard black hardback book.

Originally, a plenty of vent holes are located on the top of the drives to spell out a message in Morse code.

Capacity and Price

If you visit the official website of Western Digital, you’ll find it provides users with 5 choices in terms of capacity.

• 3TB: the promo price is $89.99, while the regular price is $99.99.
• 4TB: the promo price is $99.99; the regular price is $119.99.
• 6TB: the promo price is $129.99; the regular price is $149.99.
• 8TB: the promo price is $159.99; the regular price is $179.99.
• 10TB: the promo price is $219.99; the regular price is $279.99.

Among them, the WD My Book 4TB seems to be the most popular model. Just purchase one according to your needs. You don’t need to worry about the performance since Western Digital provides you with the 30 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE. What’s more, the standard shipping is free.

Software

WD My Book supply: as long as you get a WD My Book, you can enjoy the WD Discovery and WD Backup software.

WD Discovery

The main function of WD Discovery is providing connections to the popular social media (like Facebook) and cloud storage services (such as Dropbox and Google Drive). Another function of it is managing My Book drive with the help of WD Drive Utilities.

You can fully enjoy your online life by importing photos, videos and documents to My Book.

WD Backup

With the backup software, you are able to back what’s important to you in an easy and fast way. Besides, the software helps to protect the backup files well.

Interface and Compatibility

The WD My Book is equipped with a USB 3.0 interface which provides a fast data transfer rate. It’s backwards compatible with the previous generations, like USB 2.0. The Western Digital My Book drive itself can be compatible with Mac & Windows 7 and up.

WD My Book Troubleshooting

You are likely to encounter the following problems when using your WD My Book. Please click on the one you are in face of right now to find solutions for it.

• My Book is not showing up or recognized.
• Some files not showing in My Book.
• My Book portable drive becomes dead or stops working.
• Important data get lost from WD My Book (WD external hard drive data recovery).