http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/ Engadget Comments for Western Digital My Book series bumped to 2TB 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/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 25th 2009 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/
Now 3TB or 4TB would be even better.]]>Mar 25th 2009 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/
Or you could just be a video editor.

I will say no more...]]>Mar 25th 2009 10:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/
Im gonna need a few of deez for all my ultra high res family photos]]>Mar 25th 2009 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9238265&type=product&id=1218065493311

Can someone help me decide between the two? I know the old seagates had a bad rep, but perhaps this one has the new 700.12 internal drive. It doesn't have any info on the seagate site and there are no reviews so far.]]>Mar 25th 2009 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 25th 2009 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 25th 2009 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 25th 2009 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve]]>Mar 25th 2009 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 25th 2009 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/
So I do not trust WD's MyBook drives anymore. I have replaced them with RAID0 boxes, so if a drive fails, I still have my data.]]>Mar 25th 2009 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/
I take it you mean Raid 1 and not Raid 0 right?

Right now I have 2 1TB Western Digital "Black" drives in Raid 1 and two external cheap drives to back up that data on another raid 1 setup. It's a bit overboard, but i'm weird. Overall it wasn't too expensive and worth it.

Can't wait until motherboards have more than 4 internal SATA ports standard.]]>Mar 25th 2009 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/
The sad thing is the oldest of the MyBooks I have are fine. After my 500gig one died, I put fans on all my drives... And they STILL died!!!

Between that, and the fact that the MyBook drives are "Sealed" so you can't really just swap out a drive...

I'll stick to my external RAID boxes that auto mirror the drives. That way if a drive fails, I just power it off, swap out the drive, and turn it back on. It will automaticaly rebuild the mirror for me.
It may be more expensive up front, but my data is safer, and in the long run it will make my life easier.]]>Mar 25th 2009 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 25th 2009 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/And I will have mirroring software running to mirror my laptop's internal drives to an external backup drive.]]>Mar 26th 2009 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/
I went with a Fantom eSATA external. It was dirt cheap and made of alumin(i)um and inside is a Western Digital "Green" 1TB drive. ]]>Mar 25th 2009 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 25th 2009 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 25th 2009 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/aluminium for brits]]>Mar 25th 2009 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 26th 2009 12:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/aluminium for brits"

More like aluminum for the americans who have to be different in every way possible (they tried it with the economy ...)
And aluminium for the rest of the world.]]>Mar 26th 2009 2:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 25th 2009 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 26th 2009 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 26th 2009 1:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Its more than enough for a storage hard drive

However if you wanna use this drive for video editing/etc then E.sata is a must]]>Mar 26th 2009 2:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 25th 2009 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 25th 2009 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 25th 2009 11:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 26th 2009 1:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/The WD 1.5T HD is much much better however its slower than the seagate unreliable drive
Right only 1 manufacture makes the 2Terra HD (Western digital) so its gonna be overpriced for a while
Seagate will launch there 2Terra HD (And samsung) around July with 7200RPM speed

Current WD 2terra HD spin in 2 Speeds to keep its heat low (Between 5400 and 7200RPM) however the HD has proven to be reliable hard drive

Best time to buy your hard drives is in july 2009 , its going to cost 199$ and stable 7200rpm speed]]>Mar 26th 2009 2:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 26th 2009 5:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 26th 2009 5:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 26th 2009 5:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Firewire got messed up in windows vista (After the release of service pack 1) hopefully microsoft will fix that with SP2
They released a 3 patches to fix it after SP1 however its still not working well as it suppose to]]>Mar 26th 2009 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/

Shit... what if this IS the backup strategy?]]>Mar 26th 2009 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 26th 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 26th 2009 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 26th 2009 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 27th 2009 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 26th 2009 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 27th 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/western-digital-my-book-series-bumped-to-2tb/Mar 27th 2009 1:47PM