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Product Information
| Brand | Western Digital |
| Item Weight | 2.2 Kg |
| Product Dimensions | 15.7 x 9.9 x 16.5 cm |
| Item model number | WDBVHT0040JCH-EESN |
| Hard Drive Size | 4000 GB |
| ASIN | B006TADRD2 |
| Best Sellers Rank | 4,564 in Computers & Accessories (See top 100) |
| Shipping Weight | 5 Kg |
| Date First Available | 15 Jan 2012 |
Product Description
Product Description
WD's My Book Live Duo personal cloud storage provides dual-drive shared storage on your wireless home network. Share data with all your computers, stream media to your entertainment centre, and get to your files from anywhere with remote access and mobile apps. And with RAID 1 technology, you have double-safe backup for your data.
Double-safe backup with RAID 1 technology
Set this system to data protection mode (also known as mirrored mode or RAID 1) and the capacity is divided in half. Half of the capacity is used to store your data and half is used for a second copy. In the unlikely event that one drive fails, your data is protected because it's duplicated on the other drive.
Maximum storage capacity with drive spanning
Out of the box, this two-drive system combines both drives into one big volume so they act like one drive for maximum capacity.
Complete out-of-the-box solution
WD's My Book Live Duo comes complete with two desktop hard drives offering high-capacity, low power consumption, and cool, quiet operation. The drives are factory tested within the enclosure for optimised performance and WD quality you can count on.
Shared storage for all your computers
The perfect dual-drive solution for centralising and sharing data on your wired or wireless network. Connect the My Book Live Duo to your wireless router to share and access files with any PC or Mac computer on your network.
Speed without compromise
Built with an 800 MHz CPU for maximum performance to power all your applications from streaming to remote access. Designed around the most recent advances in Ethernet chip technology, this product delivers best-in-class read speeds faster than traditional USB 2.0 drives.
Now streaming to your HDTV
Watch your daughter's birthday party video or show off your vacation slideshow on your TV. The built-in media server streams music, photos and movies to any DLNA-certified multimedia device such as a WD TV Live network media player, Blu-ray Disc player, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and connected TV. DLNA 1.5 and UPnP certified.
Automatic, wireless backup for all your computers
Protect your precious memories and wirelessly back up all the PC and Mac computers on your network to one reliable location. Windows users can use the included WD SmartWare software and every time you save something, it's instantly backed up. Mac users can utilise all the features of Apple Time Machine backup software to protect their data.
Serve up your music with iTunes
The drive includes iTunes server support so you can centralise your music and stream it any Mac or PC with iTunes.
Easy to set up, easy to find on your network
Set up is a snap. In just a few minutes, you're up and running. Mac, Windows 7, and Windows Vista computers will automatically find your My Book Live drive in seconds. If you're running Windows XP, our simple discovery software makes it easy to set up the drive.
User serviceable
Want to upgrade a drive? Simply open the case and replace the existing drive – no screwdriver needed. *Drives must be equal in size to utilise the full capacity (e.g., Two 2 TB drives or two 3 TB drives).
Add an extra layer of protection for your files
You can automatically make a second copy, or safepoint, of your My Book Live Duo on another My Book Live Duo or NAS drive on your home network. Now you've got extra safe protection for all your media and ultimate peace of mind.
USB expansion port
Turn any USB 2.0 drive into an instant network drive for extra capacity on your My Book Live Duo. Just connect the drive to the USB port and it will automatically be shared on your network.
WD 2go: The Pathway to Your Personal Cloud
What is a Personal Cloud?
A personal cloud is your content secure at home and under your control. Unlike public clouds, a personal cloud allows you to keep all your content in one safe place on your home network. Share files, stream media, and access your content anywhere. No monthly fees. No mysterious location of your data. Keep your media and files safe at home and always with you.
Get to Your Content from Anywhere with WD 2go Web Access
If you can access the Internet from a computer, you can securely access your media and files anywhere in the world. WD 2go web access provides fee-free remote access to your My Book Live personal cloud storage. Once you log in, WD 2go mounts My Book Live to your computer like a local drive and your remote folders are available on your Mac or PC. Seamlessly open, save as, and attach files to emails from this virtual drive.
Show Off Your Photos with Your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, or Android Smartphone
Get quick access to all the photos stored on your My Book Live, My Book World Edition, or WD ShareSpace network drive using your iPad, iPhone, iPhone, iPod touch, or Android smartphone. Your photos are private, safe and secure on your home network drive. No need to spend time and money on an online photo service.
Your Smartphone Just Become Brilliant
Show off your entire photo collection, up to 285,000 photos, without taking up tons of space on your smartphone. Download the free app from the Android Market or the Apple iTunes store and make your phone the centre of attention.
WD Photos is compatible with leading Apple mobile devices and the most popular Android smartphones including, but not limited to, the DROID by Motorola, DROID Incredible by HTC, Nexus One, and the HTC EVO 4G. Photos are automatically optimised for perfect viewing on your mobile device.
Turn Your iPad into the Ultimate Photo Album
Show off every detail of your favourite memories without compromise. When viewing your photos with your iPad, you have access to the highest available resolution - 1024 x 768. WD Photos allows for a large cache size on your iPad, so you can access more of your viewed photos even when you're offline. Display your photos vertically or view them horizontally and turn your iPad into the ultimate photo album.
All Your Photos at Your Fingertips
WD Photos offers a variety of features, including:
- Instantly post photos to Facebook
- Create a slideshow with transitions to create digital art
- Access previously viewed photos even when you are offline
- View your photos all at once or filter them by folder or album
- Search by file name, folder name, or date using the built-in search options
- E-mail a photo to friend, assign a photo to a contact, or add a photo to the Camera Roll
Product Description
Technical Specifications: DLNA function: DLNA-Server · Dimensions: (W x H x D) 99 x 165 x 157 mm · Interfaces (type-maintain without number): 1x USB 2.0, LAN (10/100/1000MBit/s)
Description: Wd mybook live duo 4TB wdbvht0040jch
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Customer Reviews
1. Setup is a breeze. I connected it directly to the gigabit port on the back of my Belkin Play Max router and it immediately became visible on my network (consisting of Alienware laptop with Windows 7, a Sony S390 Blu Ray, three WD TV Live boxes, an iPad, a Galaxy S2 and a Wii). You don't even need to use the installation CD and can access it's admin page directly from the web interface. Other than renaming the four default shared folders and creating two more (and changing it from a Raid 0 to a Raid 1 config), no other changes were required. The admin interface itself is simple and straightforward but gets the job done.
2. Read and write speeds were also very good. I have a large amount of content I wanted to move to this drive from my PC (1.4TB) whereby I have slowly but surely converting all of my CD / DVD & Blu Ray material to digital format for almost a year now. Write throughput is consistently between 40 and 50 Mbits (5MB to 6MB / sec) so file transfer is a breeze. I haven't qualified read times but as I have three WD TV Live boxes in my house I have set all three streaming HD content from the box without any delays or issues.
3. Finally looking at the Cloud services, again these are very straight-forward and perform as advertised. I have the WD 2go app on my Galaxy S2 and can access my box from anywhere at any time. Similarly using the Web WD2go service, I can also access my box remotely from any PC that has an internet connection and chose to map it as a permanent drive on that PC (which I have done on my work PC in the office). No advanced configuration is required on the network side (such as opening ports etc.). Once it is available on your home network, you can get into it remotely via WD 2go with a simply username and password.
This drive is both quiet and small (I knew the dimensions but was still surprised when it arrived) and you have an option to change the period of time before it goes into sleep mode. Even then, when a device tries to access it, the spin up time is so quick there are no connection issues.
The only minor complaint I have (and I know I am being unfair here) is in relation to streaming to my iPad or Samsung when either device is not connected directly to my own home wireless network. Although the cloud services allow you to connect extremely fast to the box remotely, other than browsing through your shared files, streaming isn't really an option. To be fair though this is not a limitation of the box but the infrastructure between your device and your home network. As the upload speed offered by ISP's is only a fraction of your download speed, I can see my files but even moving from file to file is laborious, not to mind actually opening them. I'm sure as our national fiber networks improve and offer greater upload speeds, this will only get better. If anything the My Book Live Duo is ahead of its time.
I'm only sorry now I did not get the 6 TB drive as when you have a lot of space, you tend to fill it faster!!
Note: I did allocate this box a static IP from within my router for convenience when I first connected it to my network which may (or may not) impact some of the above..
After downloading the files referenced on that web page, I managed to complete the setup successfully. Really not a good start from Western Digital, who I have always had good experience of in the past (over many years). Having to restart my PC as part of the install did not give me a good feeling either - having developed many installers myself, I am always dubious when somebody else's installer requires a restart, as it's the minority of cases where it is truly required.
I was not impressed by the Quick Install Guide either - any device that encourages the user to store all his/her data on it should make it abundantly clear how to set up security sensibly. It's not difficult to do, but I would expect the printed install guide to explain that.
Once setup, the initial backup process is very slow. That's not altogether surprising, although quite how slow it was did surprise me. The analysis of the nature of your files is slow and of dubious value - I'm not convinced that it's necessary before the backup starts - more something that should be done on the fly whilst the user is doing other things.
In later use, the backup and streaming processes are pretty good. I have the device set up to backup the entire household's data in encrypted form onto secure shares, with a public share for things that do not need to be secured, including any music, and public photos or video for streaming to our Smart TV or to our smartphones (using the WD Photos and WD 2go applications). Again, it's worth thinking about security when choosing what can be streamed, particularly by remote devices. It's also worth remembering the value of an off-site backup, in case you have a fire or flood. I use external hard-drives that I store at another location for that purpose.
When streaming to our Smart TV, there can be an initial delay, but after that performance is good.
All in all, after the initial setup problems, I'm very pleased with this device. It's a bit of an experiment for me, seeing how much value we get from linking together the various bits of technology we have. So far, it's been a novelty, but also reasonably useful. If this "My Book Live Duo" network drive were to fail, would we replace it? I'm not sure yet. Will have to see how much active use it gets...
Recommended, but with caveats - I had installation problems, and a number of other reviewers report hitting other issues.
Seems to show activity sometimes when I wasn't accessing it ???
Everything else just fine
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