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But then it offers an impressive capacity for a single-drive until - it's one big file bucket. Given that both have the same feature set, the premium for that extra 1TB of storage seems high. The 2TB version's more than twice the price, £370, and won't go on sale until later this month. The 1TB My Book World Edition is available now for around £169. And it was always ready to begin copying files immediately. Add in the TC's drive spin-up time, an the My Book's lead is enhanced. The Time Capsule's firmware spins down the HDD after a period of inactivity, partly to conserve power, but mostly to help keep the heat down. We should point out that we made sure the Time Capsule's drive was spinning before timing the copy actions. The My Book's drive is nominally rated at 7200rpm, but you can see from the chart that we got better file copy performance from the WD than from the Apple unit.

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That said, the Apple unit is more tightly sealed, so there was little to choose between them when it came to noise, with not much of it.įirst, we copied an 8GB file from MacBook Pro to the two drives, between the drives and then back to the laptop. That's half the capacity of the drive in the My Book, but it pumped out consistently more heat during testing - though it's worth bearing in mind that the TC's AC adaptor is built in the My Book's is separate. The Time Capsule contains a 500GB 7200rpm Enterprise-class Seagate drive.

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Installing the software on the CD completes the process and, once done, you're ready to share files and back up multiple machines. Anyone can plug it in by looking at the picture on the box.

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You can install the software on five machines.įreshly purchased, then, the My Book World Edition arguably meets WD's goal of being an easy-as-pie network storage resource.

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WD also bundles automatic back-up tools for both Windows and Mac OS X - the My Book isn't compatible with the latter OS' own auto-backup system, Time Machine. To access the shared folders from a Windows machine, you need to know either the IP address or use tool WD bundles with the My Book to sniff out the shares and map them to drive letters for you.īut there's no bundled Mac UPnP client, so you can't easily get through to either the Twonky or My Book admin tools without knowing the IP address first. The CD doesn't come with a UPnP client for the Mac, so you're left in the odd situation where, out of the box, the My Book's shares can be immediately accessed by a Mac but not a PC, but the admin consoles can be accessed immediately by a PC and not a Mac. There's an on-board iTunes-oriented music server too. What is new is the power button, taken off the front of the drive and placed at the back.Ĭonnect to the box using a Windows XP or Vista machine, and you'll see a pair of entries among the list of network devices: one that takes you to the admin console, and another that connects through to the management console for the My Book's built-in Twonky UPnP media server for feeding Xbox 360s, phones and the like. There's the same portage on the back: a USB port for additional storage or backing up the My Book, a power socket, a Kensington lock slot and a Gigabit Ethernet port. The new World Edition offers 2TB using a single disk - WD's GreenPower 2TB unit - so it's essentially the same size as the old, single-width World Edition product. The old My Book World Edition II was a fat box packed with a pair of 1TB drives in RAID configuration. Likewise, there's no mention of the R word: RAID. And that, it hopes, will mean consumers aren't scared off as it fears they might have been with past World Edition drives. No, the drive maker claims to have simplified the process that links Windows PCs and Macs to the network-attached storage to the extent that it's hoping to avoid using the abbreviation 'NAS' altogether. The brand's not new: WD's had World Edition drives out for some time.

WD is hoping for better luck with its new, revamped My Book World Edition, launched today. WD's My Book World Edition: more beefy than before

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