http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/ Engadget Comments for Western Digital pumps out the My Book Studio Edition II http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/

Is that the real silver color? WOW]]>Apr 2nd 2008 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/
Makes it sound as though the two are mutually exclusive...That's bad PR- WD!]]>Apr 2nd 2008 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/archaic PC interfaces from the past and a 10mb hard drive.]]>Apr 2nd 2008 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/
If only that thing is capable for wireless access as well. :D]]>Apr 2nd 2008 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/
I think on the mac, the problem may be WD's software RAID solution. Others have said that these drives perform better in Windows. Also, I searched everywhere to find the buffer size on these drives and they don't appear to have one (at least worth advertising).]]>Apr 2nd 2008 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Which LaCie drive do you have?
I am in between Lacie 2Big and WD MyBook Studio II.

You already mentioned that LaCie is faster.
How about the noise level?

One last question, are these drives spins down after 10 min of no activity? I think My Book does, but not sure for LaCie.

Thanks in advance.]]>Apr 8th 2008 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Apr 2nd 2008 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/
if you'd said pr0n, I'd know what you were on about.]]>Apr 2nd 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/
What I'm really wondering is why they would sell these HFS+ formatted. Is the Mac market really that big now?]]>Apr 2nd 2008 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Apr 2nd 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Apr 2nd 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Apr 2nd 2008 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Apr 2nd 2008 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Apr 2nd 2008 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/
Cheers to the day I can have 1 large external to do all my backups.]]>Apr 3rd 2008 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Apr 2nd 2008 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Apr 2nd 2008 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Apr 2nd 2008 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Apr 2nd 2008 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Apr 2nd 2008 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Apr 2nd 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/]]>Apr 2nd 2008 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/
i mean hell, the only difference between essentials and premium is firewire($40 difference in 500GB model), and the only difference between premium and studio is an added eSATA port, but they only charge like $7 for that and the silver finish.]]>Apr 2nd 2008 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Apr 2nd 2008 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Apr 2nd 2008 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Apr 2nd 2008 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Apr 2nd 2008 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Apr 2nd 2008 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Apr 2nd 2008 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/
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it comes formatted for mac. great..

.... took about 30 minutes of pounding my head into the desk to realize that.

theres actually a step by step in the printed manual on how to format it to NTFS
(in case you didn't already know.. I didn't)

the whole green power thing is great, I'm all for power saving.
but it seems to be a narcoleptic
it just sleeps whenever the fuck it wants

and when i need a file in a jiffy it's like .... "Dave's not here man"
"what drive? never heard of him"

wich leads to constant pressing of the confusing "do I hold down or press once" power button on the back.

there seems to be no way to make it full performance mode all the time.
even after changing the obvious setting that would keep it on all the time in policies.

at the end of the day it does look sexy, and is A terrabye. I'm not bitching for $299 either

but might mount it internally to keep it more active]]>Apr 4th 2008 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/
I'm a lot about style, but this unit sucks in the style category. However, I could give it some points for the MAC matching finish...if I had a MAC. This may happen sooner than I'd have imagined a year or so ago. With the Intel/Windows marriage, I've gotten over the proprietary thing. Now Apple just needs to get their pricing in line. Way too much premium for the MAC OS.]]>Apr 13th 2008 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/western-digital-pumps-out-the-my-book-studio-edition-ii/Jun 5th 2008 12:58PM