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I brought this refurbished, so basically "you get what you paid for." The inputs in the back were not properly installed, as some ports were being blocked by the outer case of the hard drive. This sets the whole system off as certain things are not properly aligned. For example, the power on button has an issue as it needs you to constantly play with it to get it to turn on. To be fair, when hard drive work, its a great steal.

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Excellent backup solution. Cost effective. Works great.

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Easy to use. Does what the ad said it would and does it well. The fact that it was refurbished means to me that a person looked this over and made quite sure it would work and deliver...and it does. That it was sold at an incredible reduction in price over the stock price is what drew me to this Hard Drive. After reading what it was capable of, I was sold. All in all, quality; price; value...and it was delivered right to my door.

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works well, nice to have only con: because it was refurbished, the software that comes on it was corrupt and i dont have it.

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I received the Western Digital My Book Home Edition WDH1CS5000N Hard Drive quickly. However, I am not a computer wizard so has taken me sometime to figure which cords to connect and how to use the Hard Drive... there was no instruction booklet included with the Hard Drive and the only instruction booklet available was inside the unit....once I had it installed. But I had to install it in order to read the instructions.....may have been great for someone with computer knowledge, but would have been nice to have received a booklet, it would have taken the guess work out of installation. Apparently in the...What is included in your packet section on line....an instruction booklet was suppose to have been included....but wasn't. Still haven't transferred my pictures on the Hard Drive yet. But hopefully it will work.

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For the price and two weeks usage, this appears to be a good product so far. Many bad reviews on performance and early fail rate but many similar products rated the same. With luck, the unit should last for years. Only 3 stars for installation because installation was somewhat challenging for a Macintosh user such as myself. The unit comes pre-configured for Windows and the lack of Macintosh-specific documentation didn't help. However, the Western Digital website offered clear direction and with a few clicks, the unit was working like a charm.

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I have one of these and saw the price to buy another for my sister. Luckily she had somewhere to save her data after the system crashed. The cheaper one does not have the firewire feature if you need to transfer quickly.

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I was truly surprised at how fast and easy it is to move huge files and folders to this drive. For a change, I won on this deal

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I got this product knowing very little about external harddrives. I opened the box, took out the harddrive, and plugged it in. Knowing how time consuming defraging can be I knew I had to partition the drive. It couldn't have been simpler. I haven't had anything but good issues with this driive.

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Haven't had any problems with this refurbished unit *knocks on wood*, it's about $20 cheaper than anything comparable I can find online, and it works perfectly on my new iMac with Time Machine! East set up, just plugged in using the Fire Wire cable and it worked. Great deal from Overstock!