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Western Digital My Book World Edition 1 TB Network Storage System - WDG1NC10000N | List Price: $229.99
Discount Price: $173.97
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Brand: Western Digital
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 3 years warranty
Features: - Includes - Remote access storage system, Ethernet cable, AC adapter, Installation and software CD and Quick Install Guide
- High-performance 1000/100/10 compatible Ethernet connection
- EMC Retrospect Express backup software - Easy-to-use software for scheduled or on-demand file backup
- Makes network configuration easy and convenient
- See at a glance how much space is available on your storage system
It does what I expected [Posted on 2008-08-22]
Awhile ago I had decided to buy this product, then read the reviews. So I put it off. I didn't really care about the internet availability of the data ... I just wanted a local network hard drive that didn't need a computer to be turned on. Anyway, it went on sale a few months ago and I bought it. It is slower than I think it should be, but it has otherwise been reliable. I keep all the stuff on it that I want readily availabe on both of my computers. It took a fair amount of time to transfer the files to it, but they are available quickly enough for me. I gave this three stars because of the speed and internet restrictions (even though I don't use that part).
Hardware good, Software not so good.. [Posted on 2008-09-09]
Bought this about a week ago at Sam's Club for $180, and so far so good. A friend who's into building computers, programming, etc. bought this himself and suggested 3 things:
1- if possible network it so it resides in your basement or other very cool place. Heat is a hard drives worst enemy
2- don't install the software. He spent many hours trying to get it to work to his satisfaction, and ultimately uninstalled it all
3- buy at Sam's or other retailer which does not constrain returns, as all hard drives are prone to malfunction.
I've done all 3 and have no major complaints. I installed it via a cat 5 cable hooked to a network port in the basement, and after a minute of booting up it was visible on all computers in my house, including my wireless laptop. With 2 teenagers in the house they have a ton of mp3's and pictures, and I've put about 100gb of pictures, music and movies on it. I can pull, view, listen to all with normal quickness, as if its an internal hard drive. I'm not an IT specialist, and I don't access unordinary files from remote locations, so I can't attest to speed issues or weird file restrictions. But I can say for 180 clams it solves my: "oops, my hard drives are filling up, what do I do with all these files" dilemna.
Side note: as another poster has noted, it dropped off of my network tonight. I rebooted it, and it's back. If it keeps this up, I might change my tune.
Meh [Posted on 2008-09-09]
If I had to do it all over again, I would not buy this drive. When I read the box, I was excited about using. I thought it would be great to save all my precious files and be able to access them from anywhere over the Internet. Little did I know that in order to access my own files over the Internet I would have to pay $8 to a Canadian company (fyi, some banks will charge a fee to overseas companies). So at first I used this over my home network. First of all, it will not transfer files over 1GB over wireless. That's straight from their customer support because I would transfer my pictures from my laptop over my wireless connection, but then could not find the files when I tried accessing them from my desktop via the wired connection. Luckily I still had those files on my laptop so I had to copy them to a DVD and then transfer them over the wired connection to My Book. Next, one day the drive just dropped of the map, completely disappeared. I had to restart the darn thing, which isn't easy. You have to hold the button for about five minutes before the thing will turn off. Then, I reformatted my laptop due to unrelated problems. It took two weeks to get the My Book to connect with my laptop again. The MioNet software sucks! Don't install it if you happen to buy this paperweight. I then bit the bullet and subscribed to the MioNet service in order to access my files from work. In order for that to work, you have to install the software on the receiving computer (so if you're not allowed to do this at your job, your SOL). You can run it virtually, but it's very unstable. So I finally cancelled the MioNet service. As it is, the transfers are suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper slooooooooooooooooooow. The drive also heats up to where you can't really touch it. I put my itunes library on it, but it usually takes about five or six tries to get my computer to connect to it in order to access the library (I try to keep it off as much as possible because I don't have an air conditioner where the drive is located). Then it arbitrarily assigns different drive letters, so it screws up my itunes. All I wanted was a simple drive where I could drag and drop files and keep them safe. After all these problems, I give up with it. I may try deleting the MioNet software and see how it works, but in the meantime I will put my pictures on picasa and I bought an iomega drive (the camo one) because I saw a video on popular mechanics of an SUV running over it and the thing still worked. Save yourself the headache, don't buy Western Digital.
Excellent. n00bs complain. [Posted on 2008-09-18]
1.) One of the fastest, non direct connected drives available on a HOME network (unless you feel like setting up your own server, but the speed differences aren't that much faster).
2.) Wireless and Wired access for all your computers if you want, on your network.
3.) REMOTE DRIVE ACCESS IF FREE. Yes, they charge a fee to have the 'premium' benefits of being able to control your networked pc's remotely, but you'll not find a decent remote access program that's free.
4.) Drag and drop files if you want, just like any folder, it should be n00b proof, but seing from the bad reviews, its not ;p.
5.) 3 YEAR MANUFACUTERS WARRANTY and Windows certified. Important thing to know. Alot of external hard drives are not windows certified (LaCie) and I've had a few crash and you're up the creek with no pattle in that situation... its a conveniant excuse by LaCie and Windows to not offer support... so with WD and other Windows Certified HD makers, you will get better support.
6.) Some people don't like mionet. Some businesses/most colleges have admistrative blocks on downloading and executing unapproved software, which is what mionet does to allow you to access your info/pcs. There are ways around it. Google is your friend. Its like complaining about buying a non fully loaded car... because they want to charge you more for power windows, sunroof and dvd player. Who would have thought that getting more might cost you more? GLOBAL ACCESS IS FREE FOR LIFE... CONTROLLING YOUR NETWORKED PC'S IS EXTRA. I guess given the current state of our economy that people want to try to fight to keep every dime they can.
7.) Why would you want to share music with your 'friends' globally? WD is covering their buns by trying to probihit some GLOBAL file sharing. Any file can be shared on the NETWORK. So... ya, unless you think you'll need to log onto the net to access your favorite song from China, because you forgot your mp3 player.... Again... if you really felt you needed to access these files GLOBALLY there are ways to. Google.
8.) Given the 3 year Warranty, The near Plug and Play simplicity, and the ease of use, I give this drive 5 stars. If you want to spend $100 less and have your drive crash in 11 months, get a non windows certified drive. Theres nothing like having 1 Terabyte of storage available on a home network. No more full local hard drives, which equals faster computers.
9.) This also has a usb 2.0 port.... why the hec would anyone think they could get any data transferred over a usb2.0 port before they die is beyond me. Usb 2.0 and ethernet is like comparing a snail to a fired bullet.
10.) Did I say this was simple? I'm pretty sure someone with basic reading skills and no computer skills could set this up.
Nice networked solution at a resonable price [Posted on 2008-09-23]
Although it is true if you follow directly the instructions for installation the software forces you to use "WD anywhere access" which _is_ restricted for protected material, you do not need to do so. So long as you only need to access the drive on your own network you can install it as a simple network drive and have no issues with content.
The only problem I have with this is it wasn't clear until after I bought it that there is a parallel product that has two drives allowing you to use mirroring, doing away with questions about backups - given the choice I would have gone with that.
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