Western Digital WDG2TP10000N My Book Pro Edition II 1 TB USB/Firewire Triple Interface External Hard Drive
Get extraordinary capacity and extra data protection with this dual-drive, triple-interface RAID storage system from WD. One-of-a-kind features make this the most powerful product in WD's My Book family of external drives and the preeminent storage system in its class. WD's My Book Pro Edition II dual-drive storage system offers RAID mirroring for extra data protection or RAID striping for extraordinary capacity and performance. A 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. With one terabyte 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. 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. Data Transfer Rate on FireWire - Up to 800 Mb/sec Works with Mac OS X 10.3 or later and Windows 2000, XP
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Western Digital WDG2TP10000N My Book Pro Edition II 1 TB USB/Firewire Triple Interface External Hard Drive Reviews
I own two Western Digital My Book drives, one 500GB drive, and this 1TB drive. I will never buy another WDC product again. You see, these products supposedly come with a three-year warranty. Thankfully there are plenty of competing products these days. You're supposed to be able to replace broken products with new products within 36 months of purchase. However, what did make me avoid all and every WDC product from now on was the warranty scam by WDC. That was annoying, but not really a disaster, nor would it have made me avoid WDC products in the future. I'm mostly happy with the product itself.
When I called WDC about my broken hard drives, they claimed they were out of warranty because they weren't sold in the US. They were bought online with a US a BIG (not Amazon) retailer, paid by a credit card issued by a US bank and shipped to my home in US. The fan is loud, but I have a laptop that's even louder, so that's not really a problem for me. I know hard drives aren't forever, but I do expect them to last longer than 12 months, which is exactly the time it took for two of the three hard drives to get bad. It doesn't really work that way. My products have a total number of 3 hard drives in them; one 500GB HD on the 500GB version, and two 500GB ones in this one. I called them about half a dozen times before finally telling myself this simply isn't worth it.
Yes the fan is loud for about 5 seconds when it first starts up then it quiets down. Its fast and it works great.
I am EXTREMELY disappointed at the fact that this continues to happen regardless of how many times I tell Amazon. This is the 3rd time. However, be warned that many purchases I have made from Amazon direct (not their affiliates) has come with very little inner box padding or packing material. They shipped my scanner bouncing around inside a big box with no padding. I am going to cut/paste this into a review for every product I purchased that was improperly packaged. The reviews here are very accurate. What is it going to take to insure that my purchases are packaged properly. Even if there is no visible damage to the scanner box (except the skuffs and small corner compressions) there is a very big danger of the scanner failing at any time due to the damage it may have sustained.
The plus side is the price and the outstanding disk array hardware in the enclosure. Sorry, but what was supposed to be a very happy day getting my toy turned out to be another Amazon disappointment. Does tend to overheat easily, is noisy, and the software is not great, but they make a VERY reliable drive (probably one of the best) so it's worth it. Product is great. Everytime I order an expensive or large item it arrives bouncing around inside a packing box with a ludicrous amount of padding that's 5% of what should be used. I want the idiot(s) in shipping to get written up for this. It bounced around so much it tore 70% of the packing tape off the back of the outer box.
I have a number of these and so far I had found them reliable and solid. If truth be told, the Pro edition of these WESTERN DIGITAL external HardDrives is the best one: not only does it come with a triple interface (USB and two types of FW400 & FW800) but it also offers a RAID protection for one's data (halving its capacity though).
Good for corporate back up. I planned to keep everyday backups on this one but there is no way I could stand the fan noise on a daily basis.
"How loud can it be." I thought. Too loud for home applications.
I decided to ignore the negative reviews warning about the noise levels of this and when I found it on a great sale I picked one up. Luckily I do not keep them constantly ON but use them as cold storage.
Well, PRETTY LOUD - and unfortunately the sale was final.
Should there ever be a failure of one drive, you have a backup on the other. Easy to install, shows up as one 500gb drive on the desktop. I was really worried about losing my photo images as I make a living off of them. I had pretty much filled my 250gb drive when I found the 1 TB. This drive allows for either 1 TB of storage or 2 - 500gb of mirrored storage meaning, there are 2 - 500gb drives inside the box and what you save to one, you save to the other.
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