The MyBook world Edition II by Western Digital
The MyBook world Edition II was introduced by Western Digital a few months ago. This remote access external hard drives is something which you should look at if you are searching for some powerful and fully-featured external drives. This new hard drives allow users to securely access their digital content and share the info from anywhere via its remote access program that comes together with the hard drives.
The My Book World Edition II models come equipped with two 500GB RAID-configured hard disks that can be easily removed and replaced should one fail. Users can choose to reserve half of the hard drive’s capacity to mirror their data in real time using RAID 1. The hard drives use Western Digital’s WD Anywhere Access application that simplifies access to digital content even when the local computer is turned off. The storage appliance of this hard drives comes with EMC Retrospect backup software, an Ethernet port and USB 2.0 port. Another feature that makes My Book World Edition active in Windows Explorer and allows users to actively save and open their files while connected to the internet is “Data OnHand”.
The My Book World Edition II comes in 1TB (Terabyte) and 1.5TB capacities and it is priced at US$580 – US$714. You can read more from Western Digital.
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August 4th, 2008 19:18
indeed… just wondering whether some of you were able to use Vista’s backup utility to backup on the myBook or whether I’m wasting my time trying to…
July 7th, 2008 22:09
There is definitely a problem with Vista, and it has to do with authentication of private shares (that require a username and password) and a conflict between Vista and the version of SAMBA (or whatever) that the Linux-based My Book World is using. I’m looking for a solution myself, but wanted to add my two cents; if you have shares that require an explicit login, your connection may work only sporadically, because the SMB session does not stay alive and Vista is not communicating your credentials “seamlessly” when the session needs to be recreated.
June 28th, 2008 09:21
@Jos: No problem at all with Vista Home and business here! I guess the problem is your network…
September 30th, 2007 17:27
Dear IT Guy
Sorry, but you are talking nonsense. Mybook just doesn’t work under vista. It’s not only the software the doesn’t install. Also the acces to mybook through webacces and shares doesn’t work. You can acces shares with public-acces. Bur shares with user-acces, just forget it. And yes, every thing does work under XP. So where is the problem?? It is WD!!!
September 26th, 2007 02:48
I can not belive WD has not jet published a vista version of WD anyware access !!!
September 12th, 2007 07:46
Both Western Digital and Mionet have directions on how to resolve this problem. On the cd that comes with this product is an instruction manual that tells you how to access and configure the drive without installing the WD Anywhere Access software. The following link explains how to access the drive via a web interface if you are using the Mionet software: http://www.wdmybook.com/en/compare/vista.asp
All it takes is a little attention to detail and a small effort to find solutions to most problems. In the time it takes for most people to complain about something, they could have fixed it themselves.
August 24th, 2007 06:21
MyBook World Edition II works just on Vissta Home Premium – as long as you don’t want to change it, or make shares, or anything else you are supposed to be able to do. I am running mine as a NAS and everybody in the house can see it. I don’t want to share the thing on the web, but I sure expected to be able to use the configuration management software. Since I can’t get past the install, I have no idea where that is. SP SP2 compatabbility? Forget it. The install starts, but does not complete.
Doug
August 22nd, 2007 15:03
As of 8/22/07 those of us using Vista are on day 4 of having NO access to our drives since access can only be had through the MioNet website.
Can’t believe I trusted Western Digital again…