Comments on: Western Digital My Book World Edition II – 2 TB http://www.nasdrives.net/2010/01/western-digital-my-book-world-edition-ii-2-tb/ Get a NAS Drive Cheap! Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:35:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: M. Shults http://www.nasdrives.net/2010/01/western-digital-my-book-world-edition-ii-2-tb/comment-page-1/#comment-111 M. Shults Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:38:53 +0000 http://www.nasdrives.net/2010/01/western-digital-my-book-world-edition-ii-2-tb/#comment-111 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. <br /> <br />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. <br /> <br /> Rating: 4 / 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

]]> By: Xua http://www.nasdrives.net/2010/01/western-digital-my-book-world-edition-ii-2-tb/comment-page-1/#comment-110 Xua Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:27:02 +0000 http://www.nasdrives.net/2010/01/western-digital-my-book-world-edition-ii-2-tb/#comment-110 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 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

]]> By: Haithum Elhadi http://www.nasdrives.net/2010/01/western-digital-my-book-world-edition-ii-2-tb/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Haithum Elhadi Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:34:53 +0000 http://www.nasdrives.net/2010/01/western-digital-my-book-world-edition-ii-2-tb/#comment-109 This hard disk works as it was advertised! <br /> <br />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 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

]]> By: M. Lommel http://www.nasdrives.net/2010/01/western-digital-my-book-world-edition-ii-2-tb/comment-page-1/#comment-108 M. Lommel Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:14:26 +0000 http://www.nasdrives.net/2010/01/western-digital-my-book-world-edition-ii-2-tb/#comment-108 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 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

]]> By: Marlon http://www.nasdrives.net/2010/01/western-digital-my-book-world-edition-ii-2-tb/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Marlon Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:32:01 +0000 http://www.nasdrives.net/2010/01/western-digital-my-book-world-edition-ii-2-tb/#comment-107 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 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

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