Western Digital My Book World Edition Network Hard Drive - WDG1NC10000N - Easy File Sharing and Remote Access! - Refurbished
Western Digital 1TB My Book World Edition - Ethernet (10/100/1000) Network Storage

This product works great- I can sit in any room in my house and stream movies and music to my laptop without any errors or lagging. But uploading everything from my old external and my laptop, in order to free up much needed space, took forever (Trick : Hook the HD to your computer directly via the Ethernet port and then the transfer was faster). This said I figure I will only be transferring that large amount of data once and since I have only been transferring smaller amounts since then I have no issues what so ever and it seems to work flawlessly.
 
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Lots of storage for my home network. Using the load disc or the home network software did not matter with this drive. It came up on line and ready to use within 30 minutes of receiving the package I was up and running. No problems.
 
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I have used and liked Western Digital drives in the past, but that was before I wasted my money on this. This does not work at all with my new PC. Forget about using it over the internet it will not even work on my LAN. It will be a long time before WD gets any more of my money and as a MS Partner I will not use WD in any system I build. It comes close to fraud so save your money. What a waste of a good company.
 
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Didn't realize before purchasing that this external HD is ONLY accessible via network and NOT via USB nor firewire! Works pretty good at home, but only because my internet speed is great. Tried accessing at work, not worth my time (because of the heavy network traffic there). Wouldn't recommend it...
 
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Slowest drive I have ever seen, no mac compatibility. Not serving purpose of Network drive. Use if you want more storage and if you are free to solve issues. Poor Customer service. Mionet is not working with Mac, not even web interface. Worst product from Western Digital.
 
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Pros: Capacity, Looks, Network drive. You can mount drive anywhere in network. Using Mionet on Windows, you can access this drive anywhere in the world. Storage capacity is plus point, you can store huge amount of data. Good drive for windows users, it will work as simple network drive when we used it on Mac. Cons: Slowest drive I have ever seen. Mionet service is not running on Mac. If you want to use this drive with Mionet on Mac, then forget it. Mionet is works with Windows only, that’s what customer service of WD told me.
 
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While I love having 1TB to store my videos and pictures, the network speed is abysmal. MioNet, which may be valuable to someone, made usage in my home network cumbersome and difficult. The security features in the product requires MioNet to be installed on each computer that accesses the device. Documentation on how to work around using MioNet was well hidden on their web site. If I had it to do over, I'd buy a different product.
 
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I am a CEO of a software company, and if we ran our company like WD has managed this product, we would be out of business. Mionet is buggy and unreliable; the hardware has been increasingly unreliable with use; and, worst of all, contrary to the advertising and the promotion on the very box this product came in, one cannot access video and audio files (among others) remotely (they are now filtered). Complaints to the company have fallen on deaf ears. Then to make things worse, because it will not connect directly to my PC, it can't even be used in that mode. Pitiful.
 
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There are several things I'd like to comment on here. Mostly around how the manufacturer advertises this drive. First off. Although nothing says otherwise, the version of drive I received does NOT do RAID 1. In fact, both the packaging and directions tell me it can. It was not until I contacted support that I was told that the version I was shipped is incapable of doing RAID 1. Secondly, support was very slow to reply and really didn't help. Thirdly, the read/write speeds are not as good as they could be. Your best bet would be to do Gig E. All-in-all I'd say my experience with this drive was OK. Not bad, just OK. For the price you get a good storage drive for a home NAS. However, think twice if you want to centrally store media files or if you absolutely positively need to mirror.
 
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Slow device - promises gig interface. Max speed 3-5mb a sec.. pointless. Do not buy. Get a simple tech 500gb and save your money. I will not buy another WD Ethernet capable device. Its sad.
 
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Returned 1st drive. Couldn't get it to work. Second drive worked for 1 day then I got message that it was offline. WD support couldn't help me. I returned drive to supplier. Literature on box said drive could be accessed from any PC. They should also have said "except a Mac". Very disappointed, wasted much time trying to get this thing to work.
 
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I don't have a gigabit router, so I first configured it to manual IP by setting it up to my router (drive uses DHCP by default), then just ran an ethernet cord directly from my computer's PCI gigabit ethernet card to the drive for testing. Maps as a lettered drive very easily and without installing the software. Very quiet--only sounds are the hard drive's few light clicks when in use. Not as fast as I hoped--windows task manager says writing to the drive only uses 4% of the gigabit ethernet connection; reading from the drive only uses 8% of the gigabit connection. Since I use a PCI gigabit ethernet card, I checked my processor during both, and it's way less than 50% usage. So I'm starting to blame the bottleneck of both transfers on the drive. I have not tried the USB 2.0 connection yet because it did not come with a male to male USB cable. I have not reformatted it yet since it appears to need the included software installed to do so.
 
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Works great on my home network for music and videos. I almost didn't buy because of the noise comments but this hasn't been a issue for me at all. MioNet dogged down my systems pretty bad in both booting and running. I don't want external access so I turned off the service and just use mapped drives. Couldn't be happier for what I use it for.
 
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Why would a company make an external harddrive that cannot connect directly to a PC?? Good question, there is no answer, but this WD cannot connect directly to a PC... redonkulous
 
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The product is good, There prievios product however was better. Ive lost data and been unable to access this drive because they bundled with this lousy product called Mionet instead of using standard SMB(windows file sharing for the layperson). I regularly cant access my MyBook because Mionent is down. Reliabablilty is key when it comes to mass storage and while I'll wax poetic about most WD products until they ditch this Mionet I can in good faith recommend the MyBook to anyone.
 
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I have had a few network attached drives in the past. Most recently, a Buffalo unit that I have had reliability problems with and was VERY slow as compared to this drive. To get this WD drive on the network and functional took all of 5 minutes. It's much faster than my last one and works great for automated backups of our 5 Macintosh computers throughout the house.
 
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This product has done everything that I needed. We have backed up all 4 of our laptops on it. It is wonderful.
 
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This drive worked for a while, then started dropping off the network and freezing up. If you want something say, reliable, stick to Buffalo. I have a Link Station that has never caused a single problem. The World has almost never worked.Sent a note to WD customer service a few days ago and no response. Bad product, bad customer service, bad, bad, bad.....
 
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I own it but i am not sure i'd buy another one. Harsh? Let’s see… THE GOOD: Performs as promised. MioNet is decent, but not fast. i like the 1000 interface speed. moves tons of data quickly. Price point (at the time of purchase) was/is excellent. I'd consider the 1.5TB for certain purposes. I bought it for internet access of files and it works like it said it would. I think the security is top drawer for a consumer product..... THE BAD: I think it's noisy. I have the Maxtor OneTouch that is quiet as a mouse. The WD is not. Certain file types are limited so it's not a media server to be sure. i think the user interface could use some help. you have to be at least a bit of a tech head to get it to work IMHO. if you don't know what IMHO means, then don't buy this product ;)... THE REST: i am the only person i know who has one –what’s *that* tell you?! i set it up so family and clients can only visit their area, look at their files. They like it and use it. It does not require a computer to be on to access. It self-(re)boots {after a power failure}. If you want a media server, look elsewhere. If you want a NAS that you really can access over the internet, that you can set up like a file server with “user account” functionality, I think you’ll like it as much as I do.
 
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This drive 'allows' you to connect to it from across the web, BUT it filters on what file types you can access. You can't access your Video (MOV, AVI, WMV, etc.), Audio (MP3, WMA, MP4, etc.), word documents, etc. So, why would you need to access the 1 TB of data from the web if you aren't allowed to retrieve the files you want
 
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The WD My Book will NOT allow you access to all of your media files. Avoid this product in favor of others which do not limit your usage by data type. From the WD website: Due to unverifiable media license authentication, the most common audio and video file types cannot be shared with different users using WD Anywhere Access. A list of the non shareable file types: If these file types are on a share on the WD My Book World Edition system and another user accesses the share, these file will not be displayed for sharing. Any other file types can be shared using WD Anywhere Access. File Extension File Description AAC Advanced Audio Coding AIF Audio Interchange File AIFC Audio Interchange File AIFF Audio Interchange File Format AMF DSMIA/Asylum Module File ASF Advanced Streaming Format ASX Advanced Stream Redirector AVI Audio Video Interleave CDA CD Audio DVI DivX AVI DIVX DivX AVI FAR Farandoyle Tracker Music Module IT Impulse Tracker ITZ Impulse Tracker KAR Karaoke MIDI MDZ Cubic Player/Cross-View Music Module Description MOV QuickTime Video MP1 MPEG Layer 1 (Audio) MP2 MPEG Layer 2 (Audio) MP3 MPEG Layer 3 (Audio) MP4 MPEG Layer 4 (Video) MPA MPEG Audio Stream, Layer I, II or III MPE MPEG Video MPEG MPEG Video MPG MPEG Video MPGA MPEG Layer 3 (Audio Stream) MPV2 MPEG Audio Stream, Layer II OGG OGG Bitstream OKT Oktalyzer Tracker Module PTM PTM - Poly Tracker Module (Audio) QT QuickTime Video QT1 QuickTime Video VOB Video Object (DVD Video) VOC Creative Labs Sound WM Windows Media Audio or Video WMA Windows Media Audio WMV Windows Media Video The following types of files are not supported by WD Anywhere Access (cannot be moved to a share): File Extension File Description TMP Windows temporary files
 
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The unit has very slow write times: http://reviews.cnet.com/external-hard-drives/western-digital-mybook-world/4505-3190_7-32401221.html?tag=prod.txt.1 Be aware that there is a LONG list of file types (.mp3, .mov, .wmv, etc) which are NOT SHAREABLE!: http://www.senvid.net/unsupported/unsupported.jsp Just want to make sure buyers are aware of limitations of the Western Digital "My Book World Edition" drives!
 
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Isn't this the unit just reviewed on the Security Now podcast that gets the dumbest idea award for having a built-in feature that prevents the sharing of a number of media files. Such can not be altered by the owner.
 
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The network card lights never came on and USB never worked. I should have returned the HD right then but I thought I would give it a try anyways. After several troubleshooting steps I did get the software on two of my computers to see the WD HD. It took two days to get my files to transfer onto the drive. This drive is SO amazingly slow!!! Then the drive just stopped showing up on the network for several days even with all the resets and restarts. Finally after several days it showed back up thank God!! I was then able to transfer all my files back off the drive and send it back in. Unfortunately the return policy states that if the box is open I have to get a replacement and not a refund!
 
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The software filters out too many file types for sharing, making this pretty much worthless for music, video and DVD storage. Has a 1gb limit on file size transfers also. It's embedded software is Samba and the shares are controlled by MioNet. Build your own storage and leave this unit alone.
 
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Having tried a few USB drives for storage solutions for my business and failed (drives would be often not recognized) I had almost give up on an affordable solution until I bought the Western Digital 1 TB Network drive. It was recognized on the network immediately and I formated it to 2 partitions (yes, you can have RAID with this) using a web-browser interface. And in a few hours I had my drive ready! Not only I use it to reliably backup my computers (2 of them) (using a 3rd party software) but I also regularly rip my own DVD collection to store the .AVI file on the Drive so that I can watch movies from anywhere within the wireless home network (instead of shuffling DVDs). The drive is always recognized after a power outage and the DVD ripping as well as the backup functionality is working flawlessly. The drive is pretty quite. The DVD (actually, AVI file) playback even wirelessly is just fine. And, oh, my drive came with MioNet (which has since been acquired by Western Digital) free version but I upgraded the version to a paid one so that I can access files/computers from anywhere--even behind firewalls. Go get the paid plan: At about $7/month it is a steal to control 5 computers!
 
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