Western Digital MyBook World Edition: A Review
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.
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Lynette,
would it not have been easier to upgrade the server?
I know, all the external HDs (USB&LAN) are promoted all over the place and getting cheaper every day, but in many cases they increase the workload by additional administration.
Also additional external drives consume additional power and probably get not switched off completly when other systems are ahut down. Engergy that we could save and use for our electric lights on the cristmas tree 🙂
Lynette,
would it not have been easier to upgrade the server?
I know, all the external HDs (USB&LAN) are promoted all over the place and getting cheaper every day, but in many cases they increase the workload by additional administration.
Also additional external drives consume additional power and probably get not switched off completly when other systems are ahut down. Engergy that we could save and use for our electric lights on the cristmas tree 🙂
LOL Hey Santa. Oh yes we could definitely use the energy. I suppose the biggest reason is that I wanted a network attached storage system. Accessible to everyone on the network and sometimes from outside our network when traveling and I didn’t want to mess with remote access software like VNC or pay for a monthly remote access software where it’ll only be used at most 3 times a year.
Incidentally, saving energy was one of the reasons why I opted to have NAS instead of keeping the computer running all the time. That’s what our home server is. A retired desktop.
There are many ways to set this up. I could have just upgraded the home yes, just in this case I figured network attached storage was more suitable.
I normally don’t buy branded external drives. We have several external drives we built ourselves. Those are much easier to run IMHO. Why external? Because I wanted a off system backup 🙂
LOL Hey Santa. Oh yes we could definitely use the energy. I suppose the biggest reason is that I wanted a network attached storage system. Accessible to everyone on the network and sometimes from outside our network when traveling and I didn’t want to mess with remote access software like VNC or pay for a monthly remote access software where it’ll only be used at most 3 times a year.
Incidentally, saving energy was one of the reasons why I opted to have NAS instead of keeping the computer running all the time. That’s what our home server is. A retired desktop.
There are many ways to set this up. I could have just upgraded the home yes, just in this case I figured network attached storage was more suitable.
I normally don’t buy branded external drives. We have several external drives we built ourselves. Those are much easier to run IMHO. Why external? Because I wanted a off system backup 🙂