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title: Western Digital My Book Essential 1TB
date: 2010-01-18 20:37:25
permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2010/01/18/western-digital-my-book-essential-1tb/
author: Lester Chan
excerpt: "My D-Link DNS-323 died two days ago, so I needed temporary storage to transfer its data. My computer lacked space and my old 300GB external runs on slow IDE, so I bought the Western Digital My Book Essential 1TB."
categories:
  - Storage
tags:
  - 1TB
  - external hard drive
  - hard drive
  - My Book
  - Western Digital
---

My D-Link DNS-323 decided to give up to me 2 days ago and I have to find a temporary storage to transfer the data from my DNS-323. Unfortunately, I do not have enough space on my computer to store the data and my old external HDD has only 300GB and it is running on IDE. So I decided to get a new external storage as a temporary solution before I get a new NAS or if D-Link is reading this post would be so kind to RMA my DNS-323 (the warranty is over by 3 months).

More on the death of my DNS-323 in the upcoming blog post.

Hooted the Western Digital My Book Essential 1TB from Challenger at VivoCity for S$169 (member’s price) and I get to claim S$2.00 off for the carpark, so the final amount is S$167.

On top of that, for every S$50 spend at VivoCity shops, you can get to redeem S$1.00 worth of parking at VivoCity. So I got S$3.34 in carpark rebates by VivoCity and plus the S$2.00 given by Challenger, I got a total of S$5.34 in discount!

[![Box Front](https://files.lesterchan.net/photos/western_digital/mybook_essential_1tb/box_front.jpg)](https://files.lesterchan.net/photos/western_digital/mybook_essential_1tb/box_front.jpg "Box Front")

[![Box Side](https://files.lesterchan.net/photos/western_digital/mybook_essential_1tb/box_side.jpg)](https://files.lesterchan.net/photos/western_digital/mybook_essential_1tb/box_side.jpg "Box Side")

[![Box Back](https://files.lesterchan.net/photos/western_digital/mybook_essential_1tb/box_back.jpg)](https://files.lesterchan.net/photos/western_digital/mybook_essential_1tb/box_back.jpg "Box Back")

[![Box Contents](https://files.lesterchan.net/photos/western_digital/mybook_essential_1tb/contents.jpg)](https://files.lesterchan.net/photos/western_digital/mybook_essential_1tb/contents.jpg "Box Contents")

[![Front View](https://files.lesterchan.net/photos/western_digital/mybook_essential_1tb/front.jpg)](https://files.lesterchan.net/photos/western_digital/mybook_essential_1tb/front.jpg "Front View")

[![Ports](https://files.lesterchan.net/photos/western_digital/mybook_essential_1tb/ports.jpg)](https://files.lesterchan.net/photos/western_digital/mybook_essential_1tb/ports.jpg "Ports")