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Originally Posted by fizgog
I've been thinking about buying something like the above so that several of my family can share music, video and documents.
I friend at work mentioned a Western Digital My Book World Edition.
Is it any good?
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amazon.com reviews slate it as slow with buggy backup software (though you don't have to use that), buggy firmware (which you are stuck with), noisy fan and poor support of long file names.
Also some funky thing about how you access it from offsite.
I gave up and am in the process of upgrading my linkstation. Pulling the 240Gb drive from it and putting a 500Gb in. This will be the second time I have pulled it apart (last time to oil the fan).
All I and friends need to do to get to my linkstation is type
ftp://xx.xx.xx.xx and they are there. As my CM is never switched off it is a rare day when my IP changes. I have told my router to forward all port 21 requests to the linkstation and it then directs them to the publicly available FTP folder on the drive set up with the web based interface.
I have a second firewire drive that the really important stuff is also on. I keep that in my work desk drawer (offsite) when I am not backing up. Gets updated once a month or so, but losing a month of financial records, photos etc is better than a lifetime. That drive will be getting the 240Gb out of the Linkstation when that upgrade is done and the 120 that is in there will be going to another home to become my dads backup drive.
Amazon.co.uk reviews
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digi...5545112&sr=8-1
Amazon.com reviews
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digita...5545263&sr=1-2
I have a 'my book' hooked into the USB port of the my linkstation so this is not me slating WD products. I have also just bought a WD HDD as the replacement 500Gb HDD.
The LaCie gets better feedback.
My Linkstation is pretty fast. I have my outlook PST files on there. I run an accounting application compiled in MS Access from there and it holds my iTunes library. I see about 25-35% througput on my 100Mb ethernet card via a v1.1 WRT54G
The only app I don't run off it is video editing but that is why I have a RAID0 in my desktop.