Western Digital 500GB My Book Essential High Speed USB 2.0 External Hard Drive ( WDG1U5000N )

Item # WDMBE500U (Part # WDG1U5000N)
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Item Description:
High Speed USB 2.0, Small, simple, elegant, and very easy to use. Just plug it in, and you've got plenty of room to back up and save your valuable data, music, photos, and movies

High Speed USB 2.0, Small, simple, elegant, and very easy to use. Just plug it in, and you've got plenty of room to back up and save your valuable data, music, photos, and movies

Product Features

  • Easy to set up, easy to use -- This drive is all about simplicity. Plug it into your computers USB 2.0 port and start saving.
  • Intelligent drive management features -- The My Book drive turns itself on and off with your computer.
  • Smart design  The elegant case, iconic of a book, takes up less space on your desk, stacks horizontally, and allows two or more drives to stand neatly together like volumes on a shelf.
  • High quality hard drive  Inside the case is an exceptionally fast, ultra quiet, cool-running hard drive from Western Digital.
  • Free Google software  Search your drive, manage your photos, and simplify Web searches with included Google software.  Note: Google software is compatible with Windows 2000 and XP only
  • Ideal For Simple add-on storage for your files, music, photos and movies Adding virtually unlimited storage with multiple USB 2.0 external hard drives


System Requirements

  • Available USB Port
  • Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP
  • Mac OS X 10.2.8+

Package Includes

  • USB 2.0 external hard drive
  • USB cable
  • AC adapter with power cord
  • Quick Install Guide


Important interface information

This drive requires a USB connection



Up to 142,000 digital photos
Up to 125,000 songs (MP3)
Up to 12,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
Up to 38 hours of Digital Video (DV)
Up to 200 hours of DVD quality video
Up to 60 hours of HD video

Mouse over each item to see how it was calculated.(Examples of the number of photos, songs, videos and any other files that can be stored on a hard drive are provided for illustrative purposes only. Your results will vary based on file size and format, settings, features, software and other factors.)

One gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes.
One terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total

accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.

USB 2.0 external hard drive
USB cable
AC adapter with power cord
Quick Install Guide
This Kit Includes: