Western Digital My Book 3.0 1TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Review

External hard drives are great, especially for people who do not want to open their system up to add more storage.  They are also very useful for people whose main system is a laptop and adding extra internal storage is not an option.  Western Digital is one of the big storage companies we all know and their My Book drives have been out for quite a while.  They have recently released the My Book 3.0 drives, which feature SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connectivity.  Today we will be checking out the 1TB version of the drive, let’s see if it is perfect for your storage needs.

Special thanks to Western Digital for providing us with the My Book 3.0 1TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive to review.

Performance Specifications
USB 3.0: Serial Bus Transfer Rate (USB 3.0) 5 Gb/s (Max)
USB 2.0: Serial Bus Transfer Rate (USB 2.0) 480 Mb/s (Max)

Physical Specifications
Formatted Capacity 1,000,204 MB
Capacity 1 TB
Interface USB 3.0

Physical Dimensions
English
Height 6.50 Inches
Depth 5.3 Inches
Width 1.9 Inches
Weight 2.60 Pounds

Metric
Height 165 mm
Depth 135 mm
Width 48.0 mm
Weight 1.18 kg

Environmental Specifications
Temperature (Metric)
Operating 5° C to 35° C
Non-operating -20° C to 65° C

Electrical Specifications
Current Requirements
Power Dissipation
AC Input Voltage 100-240 VAC
AC Input Frequency 47-63 Hz

Packaging
The My Book 3.0 comes in Western Digital’s standard packaging with a picture of the drive on the front and more information about the drive on the back.

Opening the package up everything is nicely packed inside.  Getting it all out you have the My Book 3.0 drive, USB 3.0 PCI-Express card, USB 3.0 cable, AC adapter, driver CD and a user’s guide.