WD My Book Studio
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- imnotadesigner
Im at the apple store picking up an external drive... Ive got the WD My Book Studio 1TB and the WD My Book Studio Edition II 2TB in front of me.
I cant decide wether it makes more sense getting two 1TB external drives or the one 2TB drive.
both set ups a roughly the same price.
- BuddhaHat0
Depends on how much you love your data. It's no faster, but a RAID1 mirror of 2 x 1TB drives will give you 1TB of space, and a warm fuzzy feeling that you'll never (well, almost never) lose your data.
- and I cant do that with two single 1TB's linked up with each other?imnotadesigner
- 2 x qtb drives in a single enclosure is better than software RAID imo, the WD's can do it I think.BuddhaHat
- sorry, that was '2 x 1tb drives in a single enclosure'BuddhaHat
- meok0
2 x 1TB
Cut your losses in case of a crash.
- imnotadesigner0
I need a tiebreaker
- BuddhaHat0
My Book Studio Edition II
Dual-drive Storage System with RAID
2 TB, Quad InterfaceFast, Green and Mac® Ready
Quad interface, RAID-enabled, about 30% less power consumption, formatted for Mac. The My Book Studio Edition II treads lightly on the earth and carries big performance for creative professionals.
- Use the built-in interface/software to configure RAID1 and off you go. no ethernet sucks, but mehBuddhaHat
- inkpink0
go to bestbuy... they're like half the price
- Yeah I went there, but all their HD's only come USB 2.0....imnotadesigner
- BuddhaHat0
I'd personally go Qnap or Synology, something like this:
TS-210 Turbo NAS
http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_f…CPU Marvell 6281 800MHz
DRAM 256MB DDRII RAM
Flash Memory 16MB
HDD2 x 3.5" SATA I/II
NOTE:1. The system is shipped without HDD.
2. For the HDD compatibility list, please visit http://www.qnap.com/pro_compatib…LAN Port 1 x Gigabit RJ-45 Ethernet port
LED Indicators: USB, Status, HDD1, HDD2, LAN ,Power
USB: 3 x USB 2.0 port (front: 1; back: 2)
Support USB printer, pen drive, USB hub, and USB UPS etc.
- inkpink0
i've stopped investing anything over $200 on externals. they're disposable.
2x 1TB... if a power supply fails your not fcked.
- imnotadesigner0
we with the 1TB's.... Im going to probably need to upgrade to a raid next spring so I'll till then to spend any real money
- ********0
$300? 1Tb Are you nuts?
Talk about a waste of money/
Make your own for $150 unless you just love wasting money on over priced chineese junk. Nothing wrong with buy that stuff as long as you get a really good price
- ETM0
I just bought a 1TB Seagate FreeAgent external for $119 CDN. I would shop around.
- inkpink0
@ETM
Western Digital My Book Home Edition 1 TB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Di…
- ********0
Anyone using a WD My Book with WD Discovery?
I guess I will not need it as I'm not using my WD in a Network.- I worked on ads last year for that shit saying how great it is, though i never used it, funny thing advertising is.GuyFawkes
- hahahaha! that's one of the reasons why i don't work in advertising.********
- jaylarson1
I mostly stay away form WD. I always check Backblazes data for reliability. Very helpful!
- cannonball19780
WD is garbage. I bought one and it barely stays mounted.
- VectorMasked0
^ WD has been the only brand that has given me 3+ years of life each time — on both desktop and portable drives.
Lacie, Seagate, Toshiba have all failed within 6 months.