This thing does what it's supposed to with different interfaces. It runs cooler than my hitachi external 1tb and is decent size. Comparing w/ the previous model line where the light was a circle, the power button is now on the backside.

slim size; runs cool; multiple interfaces

like the previous person said; this thing sometimes disappears from device manager; but I've noticed this in most western digital external harddrives that I've owned in the past 3 years firewire/usb

All-in-all I 100% highly recommend this drive. I have always been a fan of WD's quality in products. They do not let me down with this one. Yet another great WD product!

Reliable; Have never had any issue with losing data or something not working, aside from the firewire conking out randomly at one point; Fast, Tons of storage, love it

Firewire went out on me recently, working on figuring out why..; otherwise it's great

I have a few of these daisy chained together. Would buy again, although FW has been superseded, they still work perfectly for my Mac Pro 5,1

As of 2010, this is the previous model of the Western Digital My Book Studio Edition drive. One key difference between this model and the latest one is that this one does not have a "virtual disk" that always pops up, which is good.

High Performance; Quiet; Stylish

Blinky

Versatil and great for portable uses and desktop backups... Love the brand and this is the most quiet HD i ever used!!

Not a bad drive but niggles let it down

Multiple connections; light; nice finish; easy to use

Annoying light; poor power button; only vertical

I bought this HDD about a year ago now and I have not been disappointed since. Whilst searching the market for the best product I was amazed at the number of external hard drives which are not Mac OSX compatible, this HDD was one of the only ones available back then which was.

Looks great on your desk as well as being extremely accessible

Quite bulky in comparison to some modern competition

Surprised to find a 3TB Firewire drive available for the price (ca £146). Drive arrived fairly promptly, certainly within the week. I had no urgent need for it so this was fine. The package included the drive itself, a FW 800 cable and a USB cable, a power cable with adapters for a variety of...

Purchased this unit for use as a fourth external backup unit using the Firewire connector. The Best Buy techie said that it was pre-formatted as NTFS. On connecting, using disk management utility, received message that disk was not initialized. Initialized and formatted partition.

Good connection options

Unusable when connected with a PC

Watch YouTube Review I made. It is a pretty good external harddrive , specially for us who have a Mac and are looking for a good FireWire harddrive, it is way faster than a USB external harddrive.