Comments on: Western Digital MyBook World Edition II 2TB Ethernet External Hard Drive http://www.bohannontech.com/blog/2009/01/25/western-digital-mybook-world-edition-ii-2tb-ethernet-external-hard-drive/ Tech Reviews & Commentary Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:40:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: admin http://www.bohannontech.com/blog/2009/01/25/western-digital-mybook-world-edition-ii-2tb-ethernet-external-hard-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-26 admin Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:35:36 +0000 http://bohannontech.com/blog2/?p=505#comment-26 Hi Ged, for the time being I have been using the Buffalo DriveStation USB 2.0 1TB external. Its cheap and much faster than the current WD solutions. Its unfortunate, but for the time being its actually cheaper re-purpose an old desktop machine, install a 1GB Ethernet adapter, a 1TB SATA2 HDD and stick it on your network as a file server. If your old desktop has built in RAID, put 2 or more hard drives and create a mirror or better. If your old machine doesn't have hardware RAID, install server 2003 or Windows 7, and use Dynamic Disks to create a software RAID, its slower, but your 1GB Ethernet would be capping your SATA 2 HDD speed anyways. Hi Ged,

for the time being I have been using the Buffalo DriveStation USB 2.0 1TB external. Its cheap and much faster than the current WD solutions. Its unfortunate, but for the time being its actually cheaper re-purpose an old desktop machine, install a 1GB Ethernet adapter, a 1TB SATA2 HDD and stick it on your network as a file server. If your old desktop has built in RAID, put 2 or more hard drives and create a mirror or better. If your old machine doesn’t have hardware RAID, install server 2003 or Windows 7, and use Dynamic Disks to create a software RAID, its slower, but your 1GB Ethernet would be capping your SATA 2 HDD speed anyways.

]]> By: Ged http://www.bohannontech.com/blog/2009/01/25/western-digital-mybook-world-edition-ii-2tb-ethernet-external-hard-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Ged Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:56:12 +0000 http://bohannontech.com/blog2/?p=505#comment-23 Have you found anything yet you would recommend as I was jst about to buy the WD - so am pleased I found your post. Also heard of another who was very disappointed with speed. Love some advice on what you think is more suitable. Have you found anything yet you would recommend as I was jst about to buy the WD – so am pleased I found your post. Also heard of another who was very disappointed with speed.
Love some advice on what you think is more suitable.

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