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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:40 pm 
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Hi,

Has anyone played with one of WD big boys? Best Buy, 1 tb single drive for ~$300 with a built in server.

Mike


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 5:31 pm 
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Hold onto the receipt... there are some clearance moves going on at BB... they have a 30-day price match. By me they were selling a 1tb external for $239. Might not be the same unit, but again it might be so check back before the 30 days are up, you may get some $$ back.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:43 pm 
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I know it's apples to oranges but have a 500GB WD Netcenter, been serving movies and music for better then 6 months without problems. Slower then .... but it works for .vobs and even HD streams transfered over and it's fanless, silent.


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:24 am 
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We have the 500gb WD mybookworld and it's dog slow :(


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:04 pm 
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Hi,

I found transfer of ~620 meg in about 4 minutes.. good / bad ?

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:28 pm 
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Hi,

A little update on the WD bookworld network drive.. We obtained one for work 1tb @ $300 wasn't bad and figured if it was turned into a brick it was still usable as a drive. You can also plug in a second usb tb drive.

There is a simple hack that allows some neat tricks because it opens ssh. The hacks work so well (few tricks learned along the way) however it worked out so well that I grabbed a 500 gig <$300 for myself.

Works great for long term storage of files and only draws ~20 watts. That is almost green.

I use rsync to send files to it and mount it for play out of my music, gallery & videos. 1gig-a-bit network card built in.

Have not done any speed tests but seems to not cause any issues with play back.

Mike


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