2011年5月11日星期三

Western Digital MyBook World Edition 2 Terabyte Review_347

Western Digital MyBook World Edition 2 Terabyte Review Introduction

Western Digital MyBook World Edition comes with 2 Terabytes capacity in two 1 Terabyte Western Digital Green Power disks. The drive is external and can be connected via USB 2.0 and Ethernet.

Features
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The drive is formatted to be used in RAID 1 configuration for extra data safety and this selection makes the drive’s capacity 1 Terabyte. In a RAID 1 configuration, the data is written on both of the disks Toshiba Satellite a215 Battery, so if one fails Dell Inspiron 1520 Adapter, you can still recover it from the other. If you want to utilize the full capacity of the drive and improve your disk’s performance you have to select the RAID 0 configuration. The trade off is that if one drive goes cheap down, the data is 'striped' across both drives and you won't be able to get anything back.

However, in terms of disk replacement, I did not find the World Edition as convenient replacement as the Mirror Edition. If for any reason you want to replace the hard disks, make sure that they are from the Green Power series from Western Digital, otherwise it/they won’t work. shop The case does not have a built-in power supply. Like all of the other Western Digital external disks (except the Passport Edition) it come with a power adapter. The drive is cheap 5.8x14.7x17.3 (WxLxH in cm) and weighs 1.09 kg without the adapter and accessories. With the power adapter, do not consider this drive to be carried except in emergencies. But with the MioNet charger remote access feature, you can access your disk contents anywhere from the Internet. In addition to these features, it can stream your multimedia content (music, videos, photos) and gateway iTunes media server. Being a DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) compliant device, it can talk with any DLNA-compliant device in your network.

Configuration
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As with new the other Western Digital drives, World Edition has software to allow easy installation. The software is indeed installed easily and is well documented in the user guide. But I must store state that I have run into some configuration problems. I had to consult the online Western Digital knowledge base to solve the problems. Make sure that you follow the instructions compaq carefully on the knowledge base. Specifically:

When you plug the WD drive to your network, place the installation CD in your CD/DVD drive and follow the instructions to install. discount When the device is recognized by the wizard and you are asked if you want to map the network drive under the “Things to do” heading Dell Inspiron e1505 Battery, I advise you to do so and map the drive acer aspire automatically. If you want to map the drive manually, you choose the drive letter to be mapped. But in both cases, the assigned drive letter does not change. Once you complete the wizard apple laptop batteries, you do zxcsky09520 not need to run it again because it is needed only for initial drive recognition.

Read on for Western Digital Anywhere Backup configuration and access to MioNet services.

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