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    WD's Ever-Smaller External Hard Drives Bring Better Security and Incremental Backups

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    Image of Odin Odin
    09/10/09

    In reply to WD's Ever-Smaller External Hard Drives Bring Better Security and Incremental Backups
    I have an old 320GB My Passport and 250GB My Book. While the My Book is nothing special (Lacie drives just feel more sturdy to me for the same size category) the My Passport is a brilliant little drive. It solves the biggest hassle I had with my old externals, while the drive itself wasn't overly massive they were still bulky and in addition you had to carry a cable and brick with it (adding the problem of finding a free socket wherever you wanted to set up).

    The Passport however fits comfortably in a coat pocket and all you need is a mini-USB and you're set. My only gripe with it (though this may have been resolved in the new passports) is that WD provide you with a very short USB cable for it and the drive is very fussy about using other mini-USB/USB extension cables. To date I've found one extension cable that works with it. So yeah minor issue otherwise they're actually pretty damn good.
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    Image of drsmith drsmith
    06/26/09

    In reply to My Book World Edition II (4TB) Lightning Review
    "Still, transferring a 700MB file took 1:32. Transferring 8.2GB in files took 18:49. (In other words, you won't actually be copying files at 1000Mbps, but the installed system has no trouble streaming HD media over Wi-Fi.)"


    That's really slow! Try doing the same file copy with xcopy (not the dreaded Windows exploder which spends more time drawing an animation than actually copying data). Over a true gigabit network, your 700MB file should have taken less than 10 seconds. I can further back up that number with real world experience transferring a 1GB file between a server and a SAN over iSCSI. Something is wrong with your configuration, imho.

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    Image of Mark Wilson Mark Wilson
    06/26/09

    @drsmith: Yeah, not speedy. It was in OS X.
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    Image of MrBlahBlah MrBlahBlah
    06/26/09

    In reply to My Book World Edition II (4TB) Lightning Review
    Can you run time machine off this?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    06/26/09

    In reply to My Book World Edition II (4TB) Lightning Review
    I have a WD 320 "world edition" w/firewire and USB. It burned through one hard drive despite being actively cooled by a fan blowing on it through a hole in my desk. While that might not have caused the failure, I started getting delayed write failures, and eventually the drive got a "click of death" whenever powered on. I swapped it out for another WD HDD in the same enclosure. It worked for a little while, then the same problem cropped up after a month or so with the delayed write failures, then BSOD's. I have since put the drive in a $9.00 enclosure I got from a dealzmodo, and in over a month, not a problem.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/26/09

    In reply to My Book World Edition II (4TB) Lightning Review
    so they bribed you with orange creme soda, eh. i never thought i would see the day were a Giz write settled for anything less than purple drank. first we lose michael and now this? how can i go on.
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    Image of Diddle my Skittles Diddle my Skittles
    06/26/09

    @Nick: I heard Michael Jackson had a few of these. You know, to store all the child porn he had. Cause, you know, he had lots of it.
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    06/26/09

    @WWJD to keep Michael Jackson off the boy angels: i would hate to see who shows up for his estate sale and the bidding war over his computer.
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    Image of SkaHimself SkaHimself
    06/26/09

    In reply to My Book World Edition II (4TB) Lightning Review
    Question -


    Am in the process of upgrading my home office/home entertainment set up.


    I want to get either a NAS drive (like this) or a WMC Server to store all my movies, music, photos, as well as work files.


    I have one laptop (running win 7), one netbook (running XP), one 360 Elite that I use for gaming on the basement TV (42" LCD), and am going to pick up another 360 for the living room TV (52" LCD).


    Which is the best route to go - NAS drive like this or a WMC based-server? Or am I doing it all wrong to begin with?


    You guys tend to know your shit and I was wondering if you could help.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    06/26/09

    @SkaHimself: FreeNAS is an awesome NAS software/OS, and is VERY easy to set up. I have a nearly two TB system running on an AMD 800mhz machine that is serving my entire office.
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    Image of Fryee Fryee
    06/26/09

    In reply to My Book World Edition II (4TB) Lightning Review
    I have a question about torrent websites. Obviously if you have a drive this big, you are most likley going to be downloading movies and things like that. I saw in a previous post about piratebay getting in some trouble... What is a good site to get torrents from so we can use our huge drives to store our stuff on? I like to download TV shows, I figure that it is a little safer then downloading a movie.


    Any suggestions?

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    06/26/09

    @Fryee: Encrypt the drive w/TrueCrypt w/plausible deniablity and use proxies. [lifehacker.com]
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    Image of B1663R B1663R
    06/26/09

    @Fryee: VerTor. its a good site, basically it previews the torrent for you so you can review the quality before you download.


    an example: audio - 5 track samples of around 30 seconds each


    Movies - snapshot of frames every 10 minutes into teh movie to review quality and sound sample


    very good site!

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    Image of UnicornMaster UnicornMaster
    06/26/09

    In reply to My Book World Edition II (4TB) Lightning Review
    Meh, I'd still want a Drobo for upgradeability and scalability.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/26/09

    @UnicornMaster: They actually kind of suck... Not only that, but they're slow too.
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    Image of JonThomasDesigns JonThomasDesigns
    06/26/09

    In reply to My Book World Edition II (4TB) Lightning Review
    Seriously i am scared of MyBook's i have a 1 TB version and it overheats randomly (in a open air area, nothing blocking it) hooked to my HP WHS server .. i have to unplug it for a few hours for it to work again
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    Image of Mark Wilson Mark Wilson
    06/26/09

    @jonthomasdesigns: Interesting. I've been testing this one in a room without air conditioning and everything has been fine so far.
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    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    06/26/09

    @Mark Wilson: But Mark. You're in New York. Summer there makes it to like 45 degrees, right?
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    Image of closhedbb closhedbb
    06/26/09

    @32ndnote: Are you talking C? Then 45 is pretty damn hot. If you're talking F, then that's just silly.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/26/09

    @closhedbb: The only city I've been in that has more miserable heat/humidity than DC on the east coast (Not counting Florida) is NYC. It gets not only hot, but humid as hell.


    I've owned multiple MyBooks, none have had heat related issues after being left on for 6 months at a stretch.


    Maybe you should clean the cat hair out of yours?

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    Image of JonThomasDesigns JonThomasDesigns
    06/26/09

    In reply to My Book World Edition II (4TB) Lightning Review
    I love me some Whole Foods Orange cream Soda !!
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/26/09

    @jonthomasdesigns: Tell me about it. I could go for some right now. Glad I work like 4 blocks away from one :D
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