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Expanded Back-up
This review is from: Western Digital My Book Studio II - 2 TB (2 x 1 TB) USB 2.0/FireWire 800/400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive (Electronics) With the ever increasing size of my digital photo library I needed to increase the size of my back-up drive. I use this unit with a Mac and set to a RAID 1 configuration for mirrored storage. RAID 1 knocks down the usable area to 931 MB. It seems to work with Apple's Time Machine back-up program and OS 10.5. I did reformat from my Mac ...
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No Snow Leopard Support / Mac SATA Issues
While this drive works correctly with USB 2 and Firewire, there are issues with Snow Leopard...Software which manages the drive's display (e.g. shows how much free space is left on the drive), as well as permits changing the drive's RAID mode has never been updated for Snow Leopard. The version which is still distributed by Western Digital on their web site throws errors at a rate of 10 per second with Snow Leopard. While Western Digital has had more than enough time to resolve this ...
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Logic board fried within 60 days
I bought my Western Digital My Book Studio II - 4TB (2 x 2 TB) USB 2.0/FireWire 400/800/eSATA Desktop External Hard WDH2Q40000N with great expectations. Upon arrival I immediately reconfigured it to be RAID 1 mirrored (2TB the raw usable) for the added storage safety. Things went swell for about 58 days with it hooked up to my new iMac 27" i7 computer. I used it to put my /User directory onto to store my roughly 1.3 TB of files, music, videos, etc.Suddenly about 60 days into usage...
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Some technical tips on this great drive for Windows Vista or Windows 7, very big and reliable and inexpensive
[Updated this review on 28-Jun-2011]I have purchased 4 of these Western Digital Studio II external hard drives over the past 18 months (three of them are 4TB, one of them is 6TB), and they are great. The first 3 of these I bought have been chugging along with constant use for more than a year, with nary a hiccup. I just purchased the 6TB model about a week ago, and it looks identical to the 4TB models -- I have high hopes for it as well.For some context: In the past, I ...
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Not best for Intel Macs
This review is from: Western Digital My Book Studio II - 2 TB (2 x 1 TB) USB 2.0/FireWire 800/400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive (Personal Computers) I purchased this drive to go along with my intel mac. I was previously a happy lacie owner, but since WD came in at such a great price and was listed as great with macs, I went for it. What a mistake. For the first month, it worked well... a bit slower than my lacie, but still worked. Then, all of the sudden, it bega...
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Worth It!!
What's great about it: size and speed What's not so great: initial setup The Good - Compared to the hard drive's I've purchased in the past, I would highly recommend this one. Besides the amount of additional space it provides, it expeditiously serves its purpose. The Bad - If you're tech saavy, the initial setup is a piece of cake. DO NOT LOSE THE INSTALLATION DISK!!! Unlike my Seagate drives (simple plug and play) if you hot swap between computers, you'll need the disk to install the drivers...
Western Digital WDH2Q20000 My Book Studio Edition II 2 TB Quad Interface Silver review by PresidentSpry can be read at Best Buy |
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11/18/2009
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So far so good, except runs HOT
This review is from: Western Digital My Book Studio II - 1 TB (2 x 500 GB) USB 2.0/FireWire 800/400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive (Electronics) I thought this drive would finally release me from my worry that my backups will melt away before my eyes. The Greenpower concept seems well and good but I don't know about the long term viability of putting two of these drives in the same tiny enclosure with no active cooling.After about 20 minutes of transfers I opened...
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My New Number One Choice
What's great about it: It does exactly what it is supposed to do... and well. What's not so great: Absolutely no problems with this devise. I have a rather large bank of Backup drives [professional photographer] including three Western Digital drives. I was pretty happy with my older 1 TB My Book Pro Edition II, except for the "jet engine" cooling fan that kept me and my neighbors awake at night. I decided to give this new 2 TB Studio Edition II with its cooler and quieter "Gree...
Western Digital WDH2Q20000 My Book Studio Edition II 2 TB Quad Interface Silver review by surfnwally can be read at Best Buy |
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03/30/2009
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WD admits there is a firewire "technical limitation."
This review is from: Western Digital My Book Studio II - 2 TB (2 x 1 TB) USB 2.0/FireWire 800/400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive (Personal Computers) I have been using the WD Studio II 2TB on my 2008 iMac OSX 10.5.6 for two weeks. Connection: firewire 800. Today, it did not mount when I booted the computer.Checked the WD Website Knowledge Base.Discovered two things:1. Knowledge Base Answer 1697: "This issue is caused by the external hard drive's ...
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high performance, 5 year warranty, self-rebuilding raid mirror
This review is from: Western Digital My Book Studio II - 2 TB (2 x 1 TB) USB 2.0/FireWire 800/400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive (Electronics) If you want the best performance, you would want to use it as eSATA. This would mean a cardbus or expresscard eSATA adaptor on a laptop, for example. But here is the one star that I have taken off: at this price, it still does not come with an eSATA cable! It has cables for USB and the 1394, but no eSATA. I have not had the chance to t...
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