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Pros:
- 2 TB of storage!!
- Network-attached so all of my computers can access the same data
- Low power (I measured it at 12W standby, 17W active, 18W active w/fan)
- Well-behaved on the LAN. Not once have *any* of the shares become unavailable, even with *many* computers banging away simultaneously.
- Web interface is easy to understand and use.
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- Fan is not overly quiet (I wouldn't call it loud), though this is not a big issue since ...
[Western Digital WDG2NC20000N 2TB My Book World II Ethernet review can be read at Amazon.com]
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03/11/2008
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Not worth half its' expensive price
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: 2TB disk space
Cons: Aside from it's space, almost everything. For starters the drive is SLOW. I’m talking about 3-4Mb/s transfers (the controller inside the box cannot transfer faster). I had to uninstall the MioNet application, it's worthless, very slow, unresponsive at times, at one point it didn't accept my c...
[Western Digital WDG2NC20000N 2TB My Book World II Ethernet review by theguyver can be read at Newegg.com]
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11/14/2007
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(23 of 23) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Loud and slow
Good:
- great bang for the buck
- huge 2 TB disks space
- nice design, looks good
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- Transfer rate is extremely low. On my 100Mb ethernet, I maxed out at only 11Mb/s which turned out to be only 1.4 MB/s
- Mionet software is horrible, very unpolished and buggy. Also only 30 day subscription, otherwise, you need to pay monthly subscription fee.
- Difficult to setup on the network - only for technically advanced computer users
- Documentation is ve...
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02/25/2008
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Needs More Work To Be Market Ready
I purchased this product because I thought it matched my requirements exactly. However, I am very disappointed with it.
I have used it for over one month. The major problem is that the drive crashes frequently. It goes offline for unknown reason and cannot be restored remotely from the network. You have physically to turn it off then on, to restore it. It does not have a control panel or user accessible logs. The Drive CPU does not seem to have enough resources to keep it running. So ...
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12/01/2007
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(19 of 20) Users Found This Review Helpful
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My Book Pro II/Premium II family great; problems with Vista.
This review covers the family of My Book Pro II/Premium II drives from Western Digital, since the primary differences between the 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0Tb dual-drive models involve the size of the drive pair only, as far as I can tell. I own the My Book Pro II 1.5Tb drive and have only configured it for the factory-default Raid 0 mode, since I wanted as much non-redundant storage as possible.
Anyone not familiar with external USB or Firewire drives may be surprised at the significantly slo...
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12/21/2007
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(11 of 13) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Super Slow NAS
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
Pros: It works
Cons: Although it has a gigabit connection, don't assume this has fast transfer speeds. I spoke with WD tech support because I was getting transfer speeds well below even what USB 2.0 transfers. I expected much better since they advertise the gigabit connection. I was told (which is true) that the gigabit is only the interface, and the maximum sustained transfer rate ...
[Western Digital WDG2NC20000N 2TB My Book World II Ethernet review by N/A can be read at Newegg.com]
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11/26/2007
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Good idea, poor execution
I liked the idea of this drive. I have a small home network (two computers, a desktop and a laptop), and this seemed a better solution for file-sharing than the USB thumb drive I had been using.
Alas, I don't think this product is quite ready for prime time. I installed it as directed in the Quick Start guide...and nothing happened. The drive was not detected. It just gave me a "failed mount" error message. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling. I tried installing it on my o...
[Western Digital WDG2NC20000N 2TB My Book World II Ethernet review can be read at Amazon.com]
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10/27/2007
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Not ready for sale
Runs slow, disconnects on its own (very frequently during each day of use), runs very hot, is hard to restart once it has shut itself down,is unreliable as a network drive---even within the same house---don't even think about using it for remote access!
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02/07/2008
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68%
(11 of 16) Users Found This Review Helpful
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pure garbage
slow transfers, it has built in drm for your non drm files, slow transfers
disgusting, mionet is garbage and just turning it on or off is retarded. loud. it just pisses me off because i got it as a gift and i can't exchange it for something else.i got files i can't delete because they were created using the mionet software and the software when reinstalling it on another computer sees the files as created by someone else so i dont have permission to delete or move, just read only access to ...
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03/04/2008
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(7 of 7) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Way too slow - Very Microsoft centric
I bought this drive from Fry's this past weekend and I'm in the process of returning it.
I have a home network connected via Gigabit switch with two Macs (10.5.2) and two PCs (XP Home and XP Pro). I was able to setup the drive using my Mac using the web interface with no problems. Before I used the drive, I took the firmware update. Afterwards I setup the folders I wanted to use and proceeded to start copying files to it. Here are the reasons I am returning the drive:
1) It...
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04/30/2008
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100%
(6 of 6) Users Found This Review Helpful
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