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Product Information
| Brand | Western Digital |
| Item Weight | 1.1 Kg |
| Product Dimensions | 13.9 x 5 x 16.7 cm |
| Item model number | WDBACG0010HCH-EESN |
| Hard Drive Size | 1000 GB |
| Wattage | 18 watts |
| ASIN | B00499DMR6 |
| Best Sellers Rank | 5,106 in Computers & Accessories (See top 100) |
| Shipping Weight | 1.3 Kg |
| Date First Available | 12 Jan 2010 |
Product Description
Product Description
My Book Live - Centralise Your Media. Simplify Your Life
Simplify your digital life by consolidating your movies, music, photos, and files in one location for everyone on your wired or wireless network to share. Back up all your PC and Mac computers to one safe place, access files securely over the internet, stream media to your entertainment centre, and show off all your photos with your iPhone.
Simplify Your Digital Life
Why have your media and important files scattered across multiple machines and storage mediums? Reduce the clutter of all those USB sticks, CDs, and DVDs by storing and backing up your entire family's movies, music, photos, and important files to one safe place.
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
Storage and Backup for all Your Computers in Your Network
Share Your Media Collection on Your Network
With the My Book Live you can share any of its files with any of the computers on your home network. Just plug the drive into your router, and any PC or Mac on your wired or wireless network can access the data.
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.
Leading-Edge Performance
Designed around the most recent advances in Ethernet chip technology, this product delivers read speeds up to 100 MBps. That's 4 times faster than most consumer network drives in this category today. Imagine what you could do with those speeds - stream music and movies to multiple PCs or compatible TVs, transfer large files in a flash. The possibilities are yours to explore.
Automatic Backup with WD SmartWare for Windows
Back up the data on all your home computers to a single, reliable place. Every time you save something, it's instantly backed up. You can even back up Windows computers wirelessly over your WiFi network. Restore lost, damaged or older files to their original location with a just a few clicks.
Compatible with Apple Time Machine
Mac computer users can utilise all the features of Apple Time Machine backup software to protect their data. Back up all your Macs wirelessly to one location over your WiFi network.
Play Your Music on Any Computer in Your Home
The drive includes iTunes server support so you can centralise your music collection and stream to a Mac or PC.
Stream Digital Media Anywhere in Your Home
Watch your daughter's birthday party video or show off your holiday slideshow on your TV. The built-in media server streams music, photos and movies to any DLNA-certified multimedia device such as WD TV Live HD media player, Blu-ray Disc player, Xbox 360, or PlayStation 3. DLNA 1.5 & UPnP certified.
Ideal for
- Centralising your digital media collection on your wired or wireless network
- Sharing movies, music, and photos with all the computers on your network
- Backing up data from all the PC and Mac computers in your home
- Viewing your photo collection with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
- Streaming media to your Blu-ray Disc players, game consoles, media players, or other DNLA/UPnP devices on your home network
Backup Your Backup
You can automatically make a second copy, or safepoint, of your My Book Live on another My Book Live or NAS drive on your home network. Now you've got double-safe protection for all your media and ultimate peace of mind.
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Customer Reviews
But this product really is great. Basically it's a 2000 Gigabyte hard drive, but instead of plugging it into your computer, you plug it into your router. Then every computer on your home network can use it. It can be a place to store your music, films, photos - or absolutely anything you want to access from multiple PCs.
Since a couple of my home PCs are quite elderly with not-so-large hard drives, this has freed up a lot of their space and given them a new lease of life.
When I opened the box, I was slightly concerned by the lack of detailed instructions - just one flimsy sheet of paper, showing how to plug things in - which was already perfectly obvious. I foresaw difficulties, since I have so many PCs on my network. There were bound to be conflicts of some sort...
But not a bit of it! I plugged it in to my only windows machine, since the accompanying CD is Windows/Mac only (all my other computers run Linux). Before I even ran the setup software I decided (without much hope) to see if my Linux computers could see and use the drive. And they could. I was able to start transferring files right away.
Likewise, the Windows computer could start using the drive immediately.
So why the software? Well, it adds all sorts of other bells and whistles, most of which are actually useful! You can adjust the settings (if you know what you're doing and want to set up a static IP address, you can do that, for instance). You can create users and shares with different levels of access permission. You can automate backups of your computer data. You can set it up to stream media to various other sources. Etc.
So, to sum up, you just take it out of the box, plug it into your router, and it starts working. Totally painless.
I'm totally delighted with this, and regard it as my best computer accessory in years!
I plugged it into the back of my router using the supplied Ethernet cable and it appeared instantly on my iMac. I moved some iTunes m4v files over to the drive then started up my xBox. The drive shows up on the xBox under the media tab as Twonky media server, select Movies and away you go.
For backups start Time Machine select mybooklive and go.
No more to say really as the title says it just works, really easy to configure and use. I would recommend this to anyone on a budget, if you need more security or redundancy then you probably need a far more expensive raid device but for an inexpensive and easy to use NAS or media server its perfect.
I had been thinking of getting one of these for some time and I'm glad that I do finally have one. It's made such a difference now that I can have my media files in one place and I'm using them a lot more. For example I already had an internet radio unit which can also play stored music files but without network storage I never used it before; now I use it most days.
The only downside I can identify with it is the lack of a USB connection, which means that all data must be sent through the network. Transfer of 100GB of music took around 10 hours as it was done wirelessly, so most subsequent transfers have been done by wired transfer which is faster, though still not a quick as a good USB connection. If you intend to get anywhere near the maximum storage capacity of this drive then be prepared to have it take a long time filling it up! After more than six weeks using it I can say that I'm very impressed with this drive. It is my first WD product and I have to say that I would certainly try more of their products in the future.
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Update May 2013: I've now been using this unit as my main storage device for over 2 years without issues. There are occasional firmware updates from WD which have been easily installed and gone without a hitch, and I've also upgraded my home network over that time but this little box still forms a very important element of the whole setup. It works quietly and quickly over a wired connection (I currently use a Cat6 patch lead) and is set up to 'power down' when not being used to save wear etc, but powers up again quickly when access is needed. I remain incredibly impressed with it and recommend it wholeheartedly.
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