I purchased the My Book, 3Tb, for the purpose of containing all of my personal information from my computer. The main reason was incase my computer ever failed I would still have the info that I had prior to failure. So far it has met or exceeded my specifications.

I have been using a 1 TB WD External hard drive for personal use. I recently took up photography and have needed a ton of extra space and since I already knew how my 1 TB was and how good of a purchase that has been, I did not hesitate to get the 3 TB version. It is reliable, quick and easy to use. I have seen other similar devices that my friends use and it doesn't look like there is that much of a difference, I just decided to go with WD as I am familiar with them and have loved using their products.

after spending some time using portable hd, I had to move to an external hd with greater capacity. I have chosen to keep the WD, very reliable and have a very good and reliable management software that I have used for years

This does exactly what I need it to do. Something sort of a long term storage without having to store so many things on there that are too important if that make sense. The only reason for four stars is because, while this is on, if you turn your computer on (or in my case my computer can't speak for everyone else) your computer will not boot up. I've tried changing the settings in the bios and see if that would make a difference but it hasn't. I have to have it off first and then turn my computer on and then turn it on to get it to work. It's kind of annoying but besides that little blip for me, I would definitely recommend this to someone looking for a HDD.

Needed an extra drive for more storage and picked this one up at a good sale price. Still running smoothly. No complaints here.