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| Western Digital WDG2T10000N My Book Premium Edition II 1 TB USB 2.0/Firewire RAID System |
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List Price: $399.99
Our Price: $229.99
You Save: $ 170.00 (43%)
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Manufacturer: Western Digital
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Western Digital
EAN: 0718037118406
Feature: Extraordinary capacity - With one terabyte (1,000 GB) of storage in this elegant, small footprint design, you have plenty of room to store an entire digital photo library, 125 hours of HD movies, or over 75 hours of DV video
Hard Disk Size: 1000
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Western Digital
Manufacturer: Western Digital
Model: WDG2T10000N
Publisher: Western Digital
Special Features: 1 Year Factory Direct Warranty
Studio: Western Digital
System Memory Size: 0
Warranty: 1 year warranty
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Extraordinary capacity - With one terabyte (1,000 GB) of storage in this elegant, small footprint design, you have plenty of room to store an entire digital photo library, 125 hours of HD movies, or over 75 hours of DV video
Extra data protection - For extra data protection, dedicate half the capacity for mirroring and automatically and instantaneously back up data every time you save it.
Extra-fast performance - The lighting-fast combination of FireWire 400/800 and RAID striping yields the speed you need for fast, smooth video editing, an extra-responsive Photoshop scratch disk, rendering complex 3D objects or special effects, and saving huge blocks of data in record time.
Easy to set up, easy to use - You're up and running in a few simple steps. RAID configuration is easy with WD's intuitive RAID Wizard software
User serviceable - Easy access allows you to open the case and replace a drive. No need to send the entire system in for service
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Editorial Reviews:
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WD's My Book Premium Edition II dual-drive storage system offers RAID mirroring for extra data protection or RAID striping for extraordinary capacity and performance. Triple-interface and a powerful combination of features and performance make this system the storage solution of choice for creative professionals, workgroups, small offices and anyone looking for extra assurance that their data is safe.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: WD 1TB MyBook: 2.8 stars,
Comment: Every time I need to restart my computer, my WD MyBook 1TB model starts up with its loud noisy fan.
For about 5-10 minutes, it's blasting really loud for no apparent reason. It doesn't take that long to scan the contents of a hard drive or does it?
So after about 5-10 min. of loudness, it suddenly just "crashes" so to speak. I can hear the actuator arm slide back and I get the blinking blue light of "doom" (lol, yeah I know).
In XP, after you hear the drive completely shut off and crash, you will get a "read/write fail" error message. In Vista, you don't get that exact message. The drive just disappears completely from My Computer.
Some days, I will restart my computer and it will quietly work like it's supposed to. However, most of the time, it will just spin up and then crash.
I really like this product when it's working. If you leave it alone for long periods of time, it will eventually stay quiet without interruption. But if you restart your computer or turn it off and restart the drive itself, it will go berserk. Sadly, I need to leave it on at all times for it to work properly.
I'm literally about ready to throw this in the garbage. Too many times have I lost sleep at night because of its loud fan when Vista was patching and restarting itself.
And just today, I was so P.O.'d that I was looking for a replacement MyBook. Also, I'd like to point out that my other MyBooks are great, not hating on Western Digital, but this particular model simply sucks. I really like the new line of 1TB MyBooks that WD has put out recently. *Those* drives are actually quiet and simply work. Below is a link to the product I am speaking of:
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Just thought I'd vent this out. Hope this little review helps anyone else out there! =)
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Summary: one year warranty
Comment: There is a fan inside the case and you have a one-year warranty... I would get the Studio II instead (five year as of this writing).
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Summary: Western Digital Does NOT Stand Behind Their Products
Comment: I purchased this unit March 18th of 2007 and the unit began to fail after the first six months of use. One or both of the drives started going bad. I called WD and they RMA'd the unit.
Six months after that, the one or more of the drives are failing again. The unit is only 30 days past the WD 1 year warranty and they will not replace the unit even though it failed for the exact same reasons. They don't consider the Warranty from the time of replacement, just the original purchase.
To add insult to injury, their only suggestion was to use one of WD's preferred data recovery vendors to get the data back. I don't want the data back because it was the backup, not the primary drive. What a joke..
This has turned into a $300 mistake meaning that this is the LAST business WD gets from me. My company has bought probably $4k worth of their product over the past 5 years. So, any external unit I buy from now on will NOT have WD on the housing, controller, drive, etc.
Good luck WD! You just lost another customer....
Eric Caldwell
Web-JIVE.com
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Summary: Vista 64 bit not supported
Comment: I didn't discover until after purchasing the drive that WD has not certified any of their drives for 64 bit operating systems. I could not get the drivers to install and the drive wasn't recognized in My Computer. Since I bought this to run a mirror backup for photo editing I'll be sending it back and going another route.
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Summary: Vista users--read this
Comment: Overall---good device. Main problem - WD tech support - hard to understand when talking to them - called twice, had to wait about 20 min before talking to someone overseas. Instructions shows it works with Vista - which it does -- as long as you don't want to use the RAID software that allows you to split the drive in half and back up all data on the other drive. Tech said you must hook up device to a machine with XP and then set up in RAID 1 format - then rehook up to Vista machine. If you only hook to Vista - you will only be able to use it in full 1 TB mode. I recommend the device - just not their tech support. Also, couldn't get firewire 400 to work with Vista - had to use USB. The loud fan noise others mention only comes on when it first powers up ..and then it's on for only about 5 seconds. I paid 200 via the popular auction site.
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