Western Digital 1 TB My Book Home Edition External Hard Drive Review

Dashken · 14th Jun 2008, 04:53 AM

With our important files bloating into gigabytes, traditional back-up media like CDs and DVDs are no longer practical. The future of back-up solutions lie with external hard disk drives that not only have large storage capacities but are also much easier to use and provide far better performance.

Now that hard drives are available in capacities of 1 TB, companies like Western Digital are using them to create external storage solutions of up to 2 terabytes in capacity.

Today, we are going to take a look at one of the new external hard drives - the 1 TB Western Digital My Book Home Edition external hard drive, and see what the fuss is all about.

Link : Western Digital 1 TB My Book Home Edition External Hard Drive Review

Mac Daddy · 14th Jun 2008, 06:05 AM

Nice review and hey it does what it is supposed to do provide storage externally. Interesting on the features of the different versions as well

peaz · 14th Jun 2008, 09:38 AM

Fuh. 1TB portable.

THe world edition with an ethernet interface looks interesting. SOunds like a NAS with a web server built in!

mikegas · 14th Jun 2008, 10:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by peaz

Fuh. 1TB portable.

THe world edition with an ethernet interface looks interesting. SOunds like a NAS with a web server built in!

Yeah, the world edition is really hardcore. It has embedded linux OS inside, is good enough to be a standalone webserver. Some hardcore hackers actually hack the mybook world implemented remote ssh terminal so that they can host websites .. HAHAHAHA.. I have yet to try this one cos my laziness overrule my inquisitive.

Quote:

We have to say that the placement of the power button at the back isn't a very good idea. It makes it difficult for us to turn the drive on or off without moving it around. It would have been better if the power button were located at the top of the drive.

Well, it is actually a Smart power. You don't really need to use the power button ever. It would power off itself once the usb/firewire/eSATA is unplug or the PC is off.

Also all MyBook series 500GB and above uses only Green Power drives

Adrian Wong · 15th Jun 2008, 06:37 AM

Haha.. Yeah, but people like me always want to power off the units manually. Don't know why. It's just a habit. I guess we don't trust things to turn off by themselves!

Lacus · 15th Jun 2008, 03:12 PM

heh, 1tb..I wonder how much will this cost at malaysia. Is this the portable HDD that has lights outside like Knight Rider(well the lights keeps moving

)?

g0tanks · 15th Jun 2008, 05:09 PM

I love the My Books, been using the 500GB one for a while now. They look very nice and are pretty fast too.

Adrian Wong · 15th Jun 2008, 09:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lacus

heh, 1tb..I wonder how much will this cost at malaysia. Is this the portable HDD that has lights outside like Knight Rider(well the lights keeps moving

)?

Yeah, that's the one!

Not sure what's the latest price over here, but in the US, the 1 TB version is going for around $220 (~RM 700).

Lacus · 15th Jun 2008, 10:12 PM

Nice, but i think i get another few 1tb desktop hdd

the current 1 is almost full

Max_87 · 15th Jun 2008, 10:35 PM

You can never have enough HDD!

14th Jun 2008, 04:53 AM	#1 (permalink)
Dashken Administrator! Join Date: 21 Apr 2003 Location: Penang Posts: 29,758 Reputation: 2162 Rep Power: 56	Western Digital 1 TB My Book Home Edition External Hard Drive Review With our important files bloating into gigabytes, traditional back-up media like CDs and DVDs are no longer practical. The future of back-up solutions lie with external hard disk drives that not only have large storage capacities but are also much easier to use and provide far better performance. Now that hard drives are available in capacities of 1 TB, companies like Western Digital are using them to create external storage solutions of up to 2 terabytes in capacity. Today, we are going to take a look at one of the new external hard drives - the 1 TB Western Digital My Book Home Edition external hard drive, and see what the fuss is all about. Link : Western Digital 1 TB My Book Home Edition External Hard Drive Review __________________ \| Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3.2Ghz \| ASUS P5B-E Plus \| G.SKILL 2x1GB DDR2 800 \| 6 HDDs (2TB+ only ) \| NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT \| Dell E248WFP 24" Widescreen \| Blog : Dashken's I-Blog Gallery : Dashken's I-Paintings

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Mac Daddy Pickin' Da Gitfiddle Join Date: 19 Nov 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 2,048 Reputation: 802 Rep Power: 12	Nice review and hey it does what it is supposed to do provide storage externally. Interesting on the features of the different versions as well __________________

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Lacus Super Active Join Date: 28 Mar 2008 Posts: 1,023 Reputation: 166 Rep Power: 3	heh, 1tb..I wonder how much will this cost at malaysia. Is this the portable HDD that has lights outside like Knight Rider(well the lights keeps moving )? __________________ GUNDAM 00[CPU=Intel Celeron Dual Core E1200 (3200Mhz)\| Mobo=Asus Rampage Maximus Formula (Rampage Bios Mod)\| GPU=Gigabyte HD4850 512MB GDDR3+T-Rad2 \| RAM=4x1gb DDR2 800Mhz Corsair XMS2 \| HDD=Western Digital WD6400AAKS 640GB \| Soundcard=Doom's Creative X-FI XtremeMusic \| Speakers=Creative Inspire P5800 \| PSU=Silverstone Strider ST56F \| Keyboard=Creative Prodikeys DM \| Mouse=Logitech MX518\| Casing=Lian Li PC-7YCF]

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g0tanks I'm a regular Join Date: 6 May 2008 Posts: 479 Reputation: 116 Rep Power: 2	I love the My Books, been using the 500GB one for a while now. They look very nice and are pretty fast too. __________________

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Lacus Super Active Join Date: 28 Mar 2008 Posts: 1,023 Reputation: 166 Rep Power: 3	Nice, but i think i get another few 1tb desktop hdd the current 1 is almost full __________________ GUNDAM 00[CPU=Intel Celeron Dual Core E1200 (3200Mhz)\| Mobo=Asus Rampage Maximus Formula (Rampage Bios Mod)\| GPU=Gigabyte HD4850 512MB GDDR3+T-Rad2 \| RAM=4x1gb DDR2 800Mhz Corsair XMS2 \| HDD=Western Digital WD6400AAKS 640GB \| Soundcard=Doom's Creative X-FI XtremeMusic \| Speakers=Creative Inspire P5800 \| PSU=Silverstone Strider ST56F \| Keyboard=Creative Prodikeys DM \| Mouse=Logitech MX518\| Casing=Lian Li PC-7YCF]

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