Western Digital My Book World Edition II – 2 TB
- Offers 2 TB storage capacity in an elegant, small footprint design
- Easy access allows you to open the case and replace a drive
- UPnP enabled, makes network configuration easy and convenient
- 2TB = 2000GB Hard Drive Capacity
- Configurable to RAID 1 (Mirrored)
Product Description
Western Digital presents the WD My Book World II 2TB Network Hard Drive Storage Device - WDG2NC20000N, a superior STORAGE product. Designed for home users, creative professionals, workgroups, and anyone looking for shared storage, WD's My Book World Edition II offers a surprisingly simple and secure way to access and share your data, presentations, and photos at home, in the office and anywhere in the world, even when your local computer is turned off. The dualdrive... More >>
Our company purchased 12 of these units and over half of them have crashed already, or have lost one of the two drives, or have lost a power supply. These units are crap! We have lost much data! Do not use this if you are planning on keeping data “Safe”. Fine for quick transfers on non-critical data. Use at your own risk! The units worked fine for about three months.
Rating: 1 / 5
We had to return it because it was not compatible with Snow Leopard, Mac’s newest operating system. The description did not reveal this little detail.
Rating: 2 / 5
This hard disk works as it was advertised!
I didn’t try all of the features yet, but I was able to setup several machines to backup and access files remotely.
Rating: 5 / 5
It is very unfortunate that WD has released such a bad product. Its a real shame. A friend and I bought 2 of of them to integrate our massive multimedia databases. We just could not copy our data (3.5TB) to the drives. They would just crash as the copy got going. I suspect it is a temperature problem. Support (even 2nd level) had no clue. The box has no fans, thats nice but didn’t work. Took the disks out of the box, used them elsewhere with no problem. Another USB box with same ‘Green’ technology fried the HDD in about 15 minutes of data loading, again no fan.Western Digital My Book Studio 2 TB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/800/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive WDH1Q20000N Too bad.
Rating: 1 / 5
This installed easily (plug in, turn on) and works well, and has scads of space. For the price, it’s hard to beat. The only negative is that it’s very specifically focused on being a home storage “server” with fancy built-in automatic services it just assumes you want.
For my part, I want to use it as JUST another disk drive without any preconceived utilities, bells, whistles, or doo-dahs beyond that. I turned off as much as I could easily find a way to turn off, and there are almost surely ways, if I spent hours geeking, turn everything off but what I want. As it is I live with the drive’s mildly annoying behaviors of automatically installing network shares I don’t want, and showing up on my Ipod as a synch device, etc. Putting those things aside, I got what I really wanted with this device, which is a lot of byte for the buck.
Rating: 4 / 5