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Description

The listing, Multi-terabyte hard drive has ended.

This drive was bought and put on the shelf in reserve. It has been so long, that I have forgotten whether its 3T or 4T. It is highly likely that its a 4T.

Questions & Comments

so it does work?

Jul 20th, 2014 at 7:58:12 AM PDT by

Please read entire comment. I tested this drive on both vista home and system 7. Other than the prominent WD on the sides, the only visible printing is a label on the bottom, using very small print. The software install DVD calls the device "mybook". While the device appeared to work, I did not get a drive letter assigned nor a drive icon in mycomputer. The windows OS installed the device driver with no help from the DVD.

The device is not your typical plug and play general purpose read/write disk. The software on the dvd is oriented toward managing the disk in a backup role. The are thrre cables, a power dupply and software DVD provided. The three cables are USB 2.0, Firewire 400 and Firewire 800.

Jul 20th, 2014 at 5:10:28 PM PDT by

davidder92 so you say this came formatted for Mac, can this be formatted for PC then?

Jul 22nd, 2014 at 10:56:05 AM PDT by

As you can see by previous comments, my experience with the drive is limited. Since access to it appears to be through apps, it would be a realistic conclusion that it comes formatted.

Jul 22nd, 2014 at 11:13:01 AM PDT by

Wow. That will hold a lot of videos :-)

Jul 17th, 2014 at 6:38:48 PM PDT by

Manufacturer and model number? Working?

Jul 18th, 2014 at 3:39:28 AM PDT by

Maker is WD, Western Digital. I will hook it up and test it later today and let you know.

Jul 18th, 2014 at 6:26:01 AM PDT by

Of corse it works toadslinger don't list broken items!!!

Jul 18th, 2014 at 9:53:22 AM PDT by

Is this a portable/external drive?

Jul 19th, 2014 at 1:02:33 PM PDT by

Technically, it is portable. BUT, the drive is fairly heavy and should not be handled too casually. And if you were to travel with it, you would want signification cushionning.

Jul 20th, 2014 at 5:14:38 PM PDT by

F&W

Jul 20th, 2014 at 3:00:22 PM PDT by

Appears to be a WD My Book Studio II which came in 2/4/6/8TB sizes

Jul 20th, 2014 at 7:37:02 PM PDT by

If it is indeed a WD My Book Studio II it came factory formatted for MAC computers.

Jul 21st, 2014 at 8:40:55 PM PDT by

Interesting Drive. F&W

Jul 22nd, 2014 at 8:48:02 AM PDT by

yes, but unless you have firewire 800 this would be pointless for you, as the only other connection is usb2 mini, and that would be too slow to utilize this kind of drive space

Jul 22nd, 2014 at 7:11:54 PM PDT by

The auction item comes with firewire 800. Its bidders issue whether they can support it or not.

Jul 22nd, 2014 at 7:24:04 PM PDT by

exactly
BTW, hello from La Marque

Jul 23rd, 2014 at 9:47:42 AM PDT by

Ok confused.....More than usual. Will this work on a Win OS?
F&W

Jul 23rd, 2014 at 10:35:47 PM PDT by

I didn't read or write any data on the drive, but the device manager from Vista and System 7 both said the device was installed and working properly.

Additionaly, the install disk actually installed a Win application.

Jul 24th, 2014 at 4:46:08 AM PDT by

Great thanks.

Jul 24th, 2014 at 10:38:58 AM PDT by

-WD My Book 4 TB USB 3.0 Hard Drive- is the item being listed. Easy installation, if you're a Mac user setting up or erasing a flash, thumb or hard drive up with your MacBook.For retail, it is targeted for a Mac OSX desktop but will work for any desktop with a Windows OS, including W8. The ExFat format is new to Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks and doesn't have a 4gb file size limit the "MS-DOS fat" or Fat32 does. Not all devices like cameras & digital devices can read or write to it. Still, a big bang storage device- Pretty Nice Listing. TY

Jul 25th, 2014 at 10:18:42 AM PDT by

Multi-terabyte hard drive is in the Computers & Networking | Computer Storage category