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Western Digital WDG2TP20000N My Book Pro Edition II 2 TB USB2.0/Firewire RAID Triple Interface External Hard Drive | List Price: $599.99
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Brand: Western Digital
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 3 years warranty
Features: - Up to 2 TB of storage in a small design lets you store an entire digital photo library, your HD movie collection and hours and hours of DV video
- For extra data protection, dedicate half the capacity for mirroring and automatically and instantaneously back up data every time you save it
- FireWire 400/800 and RAID striping gives the speed you need for fast, smooth video editing, an extra-responsive Photoshop scratch disk, rendering complex 3D objects or special effects, and saving huge blocks of data in record time
- Easy to set up, easy to use. RAID configuration is easy with WD's intuitive RAID Wizard software
- Easy access allows you to open the case and replace a drive. No need to send the entire system in for service
Storage for Mac [Posted on 2008-03-25]
I love my new Western Digital Firewire 800 hard drive. Easy install and flawless operation. I hope it holds up the the use.
unreliable: 2 drives died within a year [Posted on 2008-03-26]
The first drive died after about two months of very light use. Then I got a replacement drive from Western Digital. This second drive died a few days ago, after about a year of very light use. Both drives died the same way, with the clicking sound of death.
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My cat purrs louder than these things. [Posted on 2008-03-26]
I installed two of these units side by side yesterday, and they have been running nonstop on my desk with input/output since then. So where is all the noise I keep hearing about? They are behaving very politely with just a gentle hum from each. So far, I like 'em.
Beware - requires dedicated Firewire port [Posted on 2008-04-01]
When I installed this drive on my PowerPC G5 tower it would not work for transfers of more than a few Mbytes at a time. On Mac OS X 10.5 I got a Finder error (error code -36) indicating a write failure. Got a similar failure from Time Machine. After some investigation I discovered that the drive worked OK only when it was the only thing on the port (either FW400 or FW800) but failed if it was on a FW400 hub or FW800 daisychain with other devices (even just an iSight). I discussed this with WD Tech Support and received the following reply:
If the drive works connected directly to a port then the device is working. We do no support daisy chaining, even though it may work. We also do not test the drives with third-party products, and as such cannot support using them with the drive.
Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.
Sincerely,
Nicole R.
Western Digital Service and Support
Added 8 April 2008:
It turned out that the drive actually does work correctly daisy-chained on the FW800 port and the cause of my problem was elsewhere all along, just misdiagnosed. (The iSight on the FW4000 hub apparently was underpowered and causing delay and confusion on the whole Firewire subsystem. Moving the iSight to a dedicated port cleared things up.) I did buy a PCI Firewire 800 card in the interim and am running the drive off a dedicated port as WD requires, but that turned out not to be necessary. Time Machine is ticking away and all is happy now and I'd adjust the stars up to 4 if I could, but I have spent a great deal more time on this than I had budgeted and clearly Western Digital's official position was... unhelpful.
Nice hard drive so far [Posted on 2008-05-02]
I've only been using this hard drive for a month, but so far, so good. It's quiet and isn't much larger than other drives I own that have less than half the storage capacity. I'd recommend this product and the seller.
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