WD MB Essential 500GB is $129

[Tulsa1]

Western Digital WDG1U5000N 500GB My Book Essential External USB 2.0 Hard Drive is on sale for $129 at JR.com
http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=4107282&JRSource=chemail.weekendSale.011108

[Kent Taylor]

Western Digital WDG1U5000N 500GB My Book Essential External USB 2.0 Hard Drive is on sale for $129 at JR.com
http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=4107282&JRSource=chemail.weekendSale.011108

Saw this on Newegg.Com
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136025

[bobukcat]

Western Digital WDG1U5000N 500GB My Book Essential External USB 2.0 Hard Drive is on sale for $129 at JR.com
http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=4107282&JRSource=chemail.weekendSale.011108

Best Buy and Circuit City have them for the same price, bought one (2nd one) on Wednesday and BB had a LOT of them in the store.

[Bill R]

I have two of those models (one on each of my ViP receivers) and they work very well. I also have two of the 750 GB models (one on each ViP receivers) and they are very good too (I picked up the 750 GB models for $169 right after Thanksgiving).

I have all my external drives on USB swtiches (one on each ViP receiver) and I like the WB drives because they shut down completely when I switch to another drive or a unused position on the switch box. They power back up when their position on the switch box is selected.

[jrob]

Off topic, but what type of usb switches do you use?

[Bill R]

The USB switches that I have are four port models and I purchased them from this vendor (http://www.national-tech.com/specs/40u1-40295.htm). You do need to get the four USB A Female to B Male Converter/Adapters (http://www.national-tech.com/specs/30u1-03300.htm) (one for each port).