Western Digital My Book World Edition II 4TB NAS
by Sze | Filed under Storage
Western Digital (WD) boostes its My Book World Edition II network storage to 4TB capacity. Like the 2TB version, the 4TB My Book World Edition II has a 10/100/1000 Mb/s Ethernet port and a USB 2.0 utility port for connecting external USB storage devices.
The 4TB network storage is DLNA 1.5 and UPnP certified and ifeatures RADI 1 support, iTunes server support, and media streaming. The My Book World Edition II 4TB version is priced at $699.99 and the 2TB model costs $499.99.
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Unfortunate Outcome:
Mac’s won’t mount after (1st few days) the WD MyBook II World Edition 4TB NAS
Well – I did not receive any responses via the forum, I realize these take some time, so I called Western Digital Support Directly today and though they had to accellerate me to 3 different support levels over 60minutes – they were very helpful.
The Senior Technician in Calif. stated that the WD MyBook II has a problem with APPLE AIRPORT EXTREME wireless basestations (router).
Still seems weird that Everything worked flawlessly for 3 days – but then after that, NO Mac would mount the drive, the only way was to connect via smb:\\ IP which is not what you want to see as you loose all of your ‘mac’ like look and feel and every file now looks like a unix file (like MS word doc without the .doc)
Unfortunately – the Sr. Tech stated that they have nor will be working on a solution for this – which is a Sad statement as the drive showed great potential at first, I had been surprised that it was so cross-platform compatible initially.
Luckily – I purchased it from BUYDIG and they have a wonderful return policy – so I’m sending it back! I think I’ll just bit the bullet and go with the more expensive QNAP product. Sometimes saving money and buying the ‘deal’ is just not the ticket.
Oh well – best wishes to everyone, but being a dual platform user (Mac and Win) I need a NAS solution that’s solid.
Thanks to Western Digital – you’re about 90% there but you really need to go the next step as if this had worked you would have had a Great Home Media Server Solution.
See you in the QNAP forums…