Our office recently was in much need of a large storage drive to relief the burgeoning drives on our small server. The requirements, it has to be network capable and should be about 1TB large. Not wanting to wait, we settled on a Western Digital MyBook that was in stock at a local store.
It’s been about a month now. The verdict, it works, but could use with some improvement. The drive works. It was super easy to set up. But the problem began when the drive would sometimes out of the blue register offline when it wasn’t.
The drive came with a limited version of MioNet which was very easy to use. With it, you can share specific folders and files with people outside your local network. So for example, if you were traveling our outside of the office you could put the work files into a folder, share it with yourself by sending out an invite to your own email. You click on this link they give you to view/get the files in this shared folder.
I would have preferred not using MioNet to access the drive which you can but needs some configuration. I didn’t like that I have to create an account with MioNet. Also, not all file formats are sharable. Probably out of fear of piracy. It is also somewhat slow. However, I am not too much bothered by that because I let it do its work on the server without intervention.
I’m happy enough to live with it, but not happy enough to do a repeat purchase. I’ll try a Buffalo next time.
