Western Digital Introduces My Book World Edition Network Storage Drive
February 18th, 2009 by Jeffrey L. Wilson 
Today, Western Digital unveiled its redesigned My Book World Edition network storage drive, which allows an entire household to wirelessly back up their precious photos, music, video, and other files no matter if they’re Mac or PC. How simple is it to use the drive? Any changes that are made to a file are automatically updated for no-brainer backup.
But the My Book World Edition can be used for more than just safeguarding data; users can securely access and share their centralized file from any location, using the the drive’s remote access software. In addition, multimedia content can be streamed directly from the My Book World Edition to any Mac, PC, or DLNA media player such as a Microsoft Xbox 360 or Sony PlayStation 3.
Intrigued? The Western Digital My Book World Edition is available now in 1TB ($229) and 2TB ($449) capacities.
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November 21st, 2009 at 2:25 am
I have the WD Worldbook 1TB drive for over a year. It is worthless! Here are the reasons:
- The MioNet software is full of problems. I spent more time reinstalling, rebooting, trouble shooting random errors than actually using the drive. Currently I can’t even access the drive for an unknown reason. I was scared to death that I lost the data. Fortunately, for some unknown reasons, I can access the drive using another computer.
- It is very, very, very slow. If you think buying this large capacity drive to put lots of files on it, you are dead wrong. Yes, you can write tons and tons of data on the drive. The problem is that it takes a very long time to do that – to the point that it is not usable. WD told me that the transfer rate for these drives is 3 to 5 megabits per second. That means you can only transfer about 37kb per minute to the drive. Base on that fact, it would take 47+ years to fill a 1TB drive. Now, that was what WD support told me. My experience is that I can transfer at a significantly higher rate than 3 to 5 mbps; however, it still took me over two hours to transfer 2.3 GB of data on 16,000 files to the drive.
- Availability is a big issue. As you may have already know, you need MioNet central server to verify who you are before you can access the drive. The problem is that MioNet seems to not be available during the late night hours; perhaps they shut down to do maintenance. That also happen to be the time that I can spare to do this sloooowww, looooong back up to the Wordbook drive. With this lack of availability at night, my back up would fail in the late hours. Now I have a situation where I can’t reliability back up at night. I can’t back up during the day because I need the laptop to do work.
- Getting your data from the drive is a probelm also. If you were successful putting a ton of data on the drive, you will have a heck of a time access to that back up data. You will have that same slow transfer rate and low / intermittent accessibility to the drive.
- A constant fear of the backed up data can disappear. While trouble shooting the problem with a WD support person, he concluded that the drive is bad and I should reformatt or replace it. This was a horror scenarior for me – loosing the only back up of my data. Fortunately I did not take the advice – and through hours and hours of tinkering, I was able to determine that my data is still intact – because, by accident, I was able to access the drive and the data using another laptop. Now I am paranoid about this drive and started looking for alternative solution.
How is that for great engineering and great reliability! Look somewhere else for a solution. Don’t look at western digital worldbook and you will save yourself a lot of frustration, a lot of time, not mentioning saving the money from buying something that has a high chance of becoming nothing more than an expensive paper weight.