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WD’s My Book Mirror Edition dual-drive storage system automatically mirrors your valuable data for extra protection. The USB 2.0 interface and a powerful combination of features make this system the storage solution of choice for photographers, home users, small offices, and anyone looking for extra assurance that their data is safe.Amazon.com Product Description
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Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition 2TB USB 2.0
December 12th, 2009 at 14:14
I purchased this device online from Amazon.
It died two days after it arrived.
I will be purchasing my next hard drive from
the local BestBuy, where I can deal with
someone face-to-face.
Rating: 1 / 5
December 12th, 2009 at 15:08
This Eternal Hard Drive has lots of room and can be set up to back it self up. Nice to have if you’re a pac rat like me.
Rating: 4 / 5
December 12th, 2009 at 16:49
honestly i bought this cuz i had a hard drive usb break on me that was a 2 tb in raid 0
i was all stoked with the easy access
so i thought once i got it just to put it in raid 0 and plop my old hard drive in and id be a happy lil soldier………wrong it recognized them in raid 1 and if i tried to put in raid 0 wanted me to erase them ………sadness
if any one would be so kind to help me out i would be soooooooooo f!@#en appreciative….
i recently ordered the same exact hard drive that broke on me hoping to swap out the drives hopefully im lucky enough for it to work
anywho back to this review so i put the new hard drives back in and put this beauty in raid 0 just to play with until i get my old ones back up
its fast reliable and is easy to clean whcih is important for me deployed here inn iraq the dust gets everywhere and anywhere …….. i cant really complain about anything it was priced nicely and works when i get home im going to network it ……
Rating: 5 / 5
December 12th, 2009 at 17:59
I have never seen a computer accessory or piece of computer equipment as poor as this one in my 22 years of working with computers.
The connection points for the power and USB are so unstable that merely brushing against one of the wires will foul up your connection and cause failure of the drive. And installing it crashed my XP system. And even after I managed to get it working (sometimes) it still prevented my system from booting. I had to remove the USB connector in order to boot.
And the software was so buggy it over a three day period was unable to complete a single mirror back up. I set it to RAID 1 but it never worked property. And after many software stalls – lock ups – it would report it had more and more files to back up as time went on.
After two weeks of trying to get this software to automatically do backups as it should it would on most mornings report a failure the night before. I never did get the software working right.
As I said before, the connection points are so delicate that this is definately NOT a good product to rely on for your backups.
I down loaded new drivers and the latest versions of software and NEVER did I get this piece of c**p to work properly. I returned it and will never purchase another western digital My Book product.
Funny thing: I ordered a 500 Gig SATA WD hard drive at the same time and it works flawlessly.
I think WD just needs to work out the bugs on this USB mirror drive and software. But even if they do I’m not going to try one ever again. I invested enough of my time in this already.
I’m looking to some different back up hardware and software. Maybe a network back up drive would be better.
I was going to give it 0 stars, but 1 star is the lowest rating possible. FYI, The computer I tried to connect it to is a HP Pavilion desktop system running 3.06 Hz with 3 gigs of RAM, XP service pack 3. There were no other conflicts, issues or problems with this system at the time this WD MY Book mirror was tested.
I’m still waiting for my credit for the returned drive.
Hope this helps.
Rating: 1 / 5
December 12th, 2009 at 18:04
pcaffalldavis, did you ever consider returning the drive for replacement?
Sometimes in our digital world, a lemon might get through and land on our desktops (not too often thank gawd). Sounds to me like yours is just such a case.
I’ve had a WD 500GB external My Book drive for over a year now, with almost 24/7/365 uptime, and have had very little trouble with it.
Sounds to me like a call to the retailer with a description of your problems would more than likely have resulted in an RMA# being issued, and a brand spanking new working 2TB mirror drive would’ve been sent along its merry way to your house, – unless the retailer you bought it from was rated with a 1/2 star or something, or was just plain scurrilous and unscrupulous…
Rating: 5 / 5