http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/ Engadget Comments for Western Digital gets NASty with My Book World Edition HDDs http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 21st 2007 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 21st 2007 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 21st 2007 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 21st 2007 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 21st 2007 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 21st 2007 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/
Still funny though, just thought i would point that out.]]>Feb 21st 2007 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 21st 2007 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 21st 2007 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 21st 2007 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 21st 2007 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 21st 2007 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/
This really grinds my gears!

I paid around $400 for the 500GB MyBook last year.. and now it's only #279?!

God damn, now I can get the 1TB MyBook.. something I've been wanting for a long time now for only $499, that's a pretty sweet deal! I guess hardrive space is getting cheaper and cheaper these days.]]>Feb 21st 2007 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/May 19th 2007 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Jun 1st 2007 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Jun 1st 2007 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/
The MyBooks, as far as I know, doesn't require any software to install on your computer. It's basically "Plug & Play" meaning all you have to do is plug it in your computer and it will install itself.

What OS is your computer, anyway? Are you running Windows XP? Windows Vista? A Mac, perhaps? You don't give much information about your computer, so all I can do is guess.

If it's Windows Vista (the newly released operating system), then it may or may not be compatible with your external hardrive.

As you asked earlier, you don't need a network or hub to hook up any external hardrive. It's just a nifty feature if you're into networking files with other computers around a small work area. Hope this helps, just give me another reply.]]>Jun 4th 2007 3:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 21st 2007 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 21st 2007 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 21st 2007 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/
For $179 plug in a USB drive you have lying around and get a wireless N router too.]]>Feb 21st 2007 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/
This product is pretty reasonably priced for what it does, assuming it's not a terrible performer.]]>Feb 21st 2007 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 21st 2007 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/What happened to Mac and Linux support? :(]]>Feb 21st 2007 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 21st 2007 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 21st 2007 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/ What? This drive only supports Windows???
> What happened to Mac and Linux support? :(

Where did you find that? I've been scouring their site looking for *any* system requirements, and have found none. Not that I expect better from WD...]]>Feb 21st 2007 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Connecting to the drive should be no matter of operating system since it works over ethernet ]]>Feb 23rd 2007 2:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 21st 2007 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/
Just gathering data on hard drives until either BDR or HDDVD are ubiquitous enough to start laying things off to disc...

]]>Feb 21st 2007 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/
I wonder why they so underprogrammed the machine. It has great potential. It has an ARM9 based chip and 32MB of ram. The firmware is linux, and so there is potential to improve it by hacking.

Anyone got ideas on how to get the source? WD still had not put it up yet.]]>Mar 11th 2007 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/
AAIEFP
RAOSRI
EBITNBT
NBOAE
EMISFNE
EERFNAM

Then it repeats:

AAIEFP
RAOSRI
EBITNBT
NBOAE
EMISFNE

Not inlucing what is above the main "body" (which would be "E EE N S")]]>Feb 21st 2007 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Available 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet connection (network adapter, router, switch, or hub port)
Broadband Internet connection
500 MB of available local hard drive space
512 MB RAM
Pentium III class, 500 MHz or newer
Windows® 2000/XP Home/Pro
Web browser (Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 or later)
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive

There is no comment if WINDOWS is only neede to set up the thing, because conecting to a netbased disk should be possible for any operating system ?!]]>Feb 23rd 2007 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Feb 22nd 2007 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/
I was going to buy the Airport Extreme and connect a NAS via Firewire 800. This seemed a more economical solution. Although the price is right, beware the noise from the unit.]]>Mar 3rd 2007 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Mar 5th 2007 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Mar 5th 2007 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/
I have looked into its details and its very interesting. It runs on an ARM9E based chip, has 32Megs Ram. The drives are have 16MB caches and are SATA 300. I am not sure if the interface itself runs at 300. I look forward to recompiling the firmware and making something useful out of it. The webserver which runs on it is Lighttpd. ]]>Mar 11th 2007 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/1.) you must install wd software, and connect to medion servers for each and every share
2.) you CANNOT share many popular media formats!!!! mp3, aac, avi, wma, wmv, mpeg, mov....
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1495]]>Mar 8th 2007 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/
It's claim to fame is that it ahs 1000BaseT (Gigabit) Ethernet connection to it, but the troughput is SO bad that it's hard to believe that Western Digital is actually selling this product.

In a comparison between backing up my workstation to the MyBook Wolrd Edition II and another computer on my network, the MyBook too 3 and 1/2 times LONGER to backup the same about of data.

It took 80 mintues (1 hour and 20 minutes) to backup 78GB (Gigabytes) to my other computer, verses 270 minutes (4 1/2 hours) to the MyBook.

The documentions is horrible and completely lacks any concrete information on how the drive it used. (The only thing it says is that you MUST install their software, but you don't actually need it unless you want your files available on the web.)

Lastly, this little device is LOUDER than TWO FILE SERVERS IN THE SAME ROOM WITH IT!

It's noisey as heck.

Frankly, I just can't understand how Western Digial could put of such a poor product.

It looks good. That's it.]]>Mar 9th 2007 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Sep 4th 2007 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/
Anyone get one of the smaller (one disk) versions? How noisy are they?]]>Mar 12th 2007 4:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/]]>Mar 20th 2007 6:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=31&swid=64

I'd be happy to test out any hacks you do. I'm not sure how to communicate with the device as it rejects FTP, SSH and Telenet?

Does anyone else have problems with the device freezing up? I originally thought it was going into sleep mode when not in use. But I was listening to an mp3 I had stored on the device and it froze up halfway through the song. The only way to get it back online is to re-boot - a real PITA!

The MioNet software sucks]]>May 7th 2007 3:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/
http://www.stevetrefethen.com/blog/WesternDigitalMyBookProEditionII1TBSecondTryGoesUpInSmoke.aspx

According to a comment to this blog post WD shipped with defective Firewire cables though I haven't verified that with WD. That said WD did offer to replace my Firewire port:

http://www.stevetrefethen.com/blog/WesternDigitalCustomerServiceReachesOutRegardingMyMyBookProEditionIIExperience.aspx]]>May 7th 2007 2:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/western-digital-gets-nasty-with-my-book-world-edition-hdds/Jun 13th 2007 1:35AM