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western digital my book

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i have been looking for a [new] external hard drive for a while. i have too many computers and so much media. after one of my desktop hard drives crashed and then my powerbook hard drive bit it about 2 months after buying it, i started getting paranoid about my mass of unprotected digital content. i've finally developed a system for backing stuff up, keeping everything in a central place etc. but the external drive i got is a loaner, and i want something quiet, fast, not too large, and stylish. along comes this beauty from western digital. it's got a 7200rpm drive which is supposedly super quiet. i rather like the ones from lacie but this seems cheaper faster, and it sports firewire 800, 400 and usb 2.0. wohoo. but the best part is the "capacity gauge" a backlit blue led on the front of the drive that tells you at a glance how full it is. oh! and it looks like a book! like all of my other aluminum books, my powerbook, my.... ;]

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