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| Western Digital 500GB My Book World Edition Review |
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Conclusion:
Western Digital have come up with a drive that has a sleek minimalist design and coupled it together with quite reasonable performance, an easy to use web interface and acceptable levels of security. However I think the MioNet software that is included and the system it uses to give you access to the drive has definite room for improvement, especially in regards to being more user friendly. Using the drive through standard Windows/MAC networking is a piece of cake and you can still keep your data nice and secure, if I bought one, I wouldn’t be using the included software if I could avoid it.
The drive can be directly connected to your PC (without going through a switch) if the need arises, but it takes a bit of mucking around with network settings, a standard USB or Firewire connection would have been a handy inclusion, and considering the price of this drive, I don’t think it’s too much to ask.
OzHardware Rating – 7/10 – Good, but could be a lot better.
This product can be purchased online at www.techbuy.com.au (Direct Link)
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|122.49.173.xxx |2008-02-03 21:45:47 Mark - Don't Buy 500GB My Book World Edition!Not a good piece of gear! The device has a definite propensity to overheat in temperatures less that 27C. This happened several times in slightly warm environments. You could not have confidence in leaving it switched on over summer and expect reliable remote access. Also had incredible difficulty in deleting some back up files. Kept on getting the message that the files didn't exist. Appeared to be an intermittent problem. Also lost communication between the drive and mionet software on several occasions. A review of web help files shows there are many know problems. I am taking it back!
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|128.61.97.xxx |2008-05-24 01:24:05 Rob - Absolutely Do Not BuyI purchased the 500GB model online for 80 dollars, I thought it was a great deal. 7 months later, my book was dead and I was never able to direct connect. Using a crossover cable, a static IP and the mionet software, the drive was unable to be used. It's a complete POS with even worse software that you have to use with it
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|202.12.233.xxx |2008-06-04 14:20:07 Chris - MrAbsolutely brilliant drive, has the ability to load own firmware and with ssh & cron daemons just to name a few available services.
Very handy as a NAS drive accepting secure connections (scp, ssh, sftp) over the web.
I am very happy with this drive.
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|155.35.248.xxx |2008-06-25 12:51:35 Justin McDonald - Principal Software EngineerThis product did not work for me out of the box. After copying large files to it over the network the disk would become read only which required a reboot of the box.
The only way to address this issue is to do a 4 year computer science degree and void the box's warranty.
You see..the issue stems from the disk partition shipped by default with the box which is used to store your files on. For some reason the disk chucks a fit and remounts itself as read-only.
I am now happy with the device but had to
hack firmware (voids waranty) to run ssh, reformat the partition.
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|85.228.250.xxx |2008-08-08 07:55:26 Christian - Home userI seem to have the same problem... Bought it yesterday, and it works for a while, then becomes read-only. Talk about disappointment!
