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I like. =)]]>Feb 18th 2009 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 18th 2009 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 18th 2009 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/
There are single-drive and dual-drive versions with RAID. ]]>Feb 19th 2009 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 18th 2009 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 18th 2009 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 18th 2009 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 18th 2009 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 18th 2009 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 18th 2009 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/
So I do not trust any of the MyBook drives!

I have replaced them with external boxes that take 2 drives and automatically mirror the data. So if a drive fails, I still have my data!]]>Feb 18th 2009 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 18th 2009 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 18th 2009 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 18th 2009 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 18th 2009 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/It had a gigabit ethernet port, but was ungodly slow due to the internals used.
However the DLNA 1.5 and UPnP certification and the fact that the USB port is actually functional are very nice additions.
I guess we'll see...]]>Feb 18th 2009 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/
Where will it end?]]>Feb 18th 2009 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 18th 2009 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/
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Here is a short list of features that you will find in the new product:

Auto discovery with Vista and Mac computers
DLNA 1.5 / UPnP Media Server (TwonkyMedia)
SSH Enabled
iTunes Server
FTP Server
Remote Web Access
Email alert system for critical events
CIFS/SMB, AFP and NFS support

I appreciate everyone's feedback!

-ScottWD]]>Feb 18th 2009 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/
Scott-- But what about all of us first-generation MyBook World Edition owners who caught the short end of the OxNAS kernel module shaft?


The drives (65+ MByte/sec sustained I/O), networking (GigE chip) and backplane chipset (Oxford Semiconductor OX800DSE) on the first-generation MyBook World Edition boards doesn't suck, but the kernel module implementation does (massive interrupt overhead in ehci-oxnas), hence the miserable (7 to 10 MByte/sec) max throughput.

I event went so far as to try and contact Oxford Semiconductor directly in writing almost a year and a half ago, but they never replied.


For reference...

# uptime
20:51:54 up 235 days, 23:51, 0 users, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00

# uname -a
Linux WhirledBook 2.6.17.14 #1 PREEMPT Mon Mar 26 12:36:33 BST 2007 armv5tejl GNU/Linux

http://www.oxsemi.com/products/storage/OXE800DSE.html]]>Feb 18th 2009 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/
What I'd like to know is: now that 1-TB 3.5-inch single-platter drives are being manufactured, when can we expect to find 2TB My Books in a single-size "book" form factor -- and even more important, when will we see 3- and 4TB drives in the double-wide book form?

Thanks. ]]>Feb 18th 2009 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 18th 2009 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/
When to we get to see the new 2TB disk in the Mirror? Or, can we have a RAID NAS My Book?]]>Feb 19th 2009 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 19th 2009 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 19th 2009 1:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 19th 2009 4:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 20th 2009 1:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/wd-debuts-my-book-world-edition-nas-we-go-hands-on/Feb 20th 2009 2:58AM