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Product Information
| Brand | Western Digital |
| Item Weight | 1.5 Kg |
| Product Dimensions | 30.4 x 22.7 x 37.2 cm |
| Item model number | WDBACG0020HCH-EESN |
| Hard Drive Size | 2000 GB |
| Wattage | 18 watts |
| ASIN | B00499DMRQ |
| Best Sellers Rank | 390 in Computers & Accessories (See top 100) |
| Shipping Weight | 1.5 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.
Product Description
Technical Specifications: DLNA function: Ja · Dimensions: (W x H x D) 50 x 167 x 139 mm · Interfaces (type-maintain without number): LAN (10/100/1000MBit/s)
Description: LIVE 2TB WD MYBOOK WDBACG0020HCH
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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.... Read more ›
What the average user wants is something that is easy to set up. This needs to sit near your router, or at least an ethernet socket, as it is directly wired into your network, and supports megabit ethernet. My network is only 100Mbps and I have used Homeplug/Powerline to connect it to the router.
The device runs Linux, like all other such devices. By default, it has a publicly accessible share on your network. By creating users, you can allow those users their own private storage for backup, etc. This is all done easily via a straightforward web interface, one of the clearest I have ever seen.
The media server is TwonkyMedia. If you enable this, you can stream video and audio files to any network-enabled TVs, vlu-ray players, HDRs, PCs, etc, in your house, or even to your iPod or Android devices. Your whole collection of pictures, music and video is then available anywhere in the house.
You can backup your PC manually, using network sharing or a program like Allway Sync, or backup the WD My Book Live to other media.
One curious feature of the device is that there is no power toggle. As you need to shut down a NAS before powering it off, this could cause problems with incompletely written files.
Overall, at this price, though, this drive is a bargain. You get a large drive that can be used on your network and shared by all users, at home or in the office. Recommended.
WARNING! If you have one of these, DO NOT install the enclosed software!... Read more ›
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.
Once loaded, streaming movies to the WIFI enabled Samsung TV downstairs was a bit hit and miss - MKV files would not stream at all and other items would sometimes drop out.
Digging on the WD forums revealed how to log on the device's embedded Twonky media server. On here I could see my TV registered as a generic device, and this seemed to be impossible to change.
This embedded Twonky media server was an old bundled version, and other people had had good results by upgrading the version of Twonky to a newer version. The catch here was that the newer version of Twonky was not free :(
While pondering what to do, fortunately WD issued a software update for the box. Once applied, you could then download and install a replacement WD-branded Media Server as a .deb file (Remember the WD My Book Live is basically a linux machine underneath). I applied the update, then installed the WD Media Server in place of the old Twonky Media Server.
What a difference! I can stream anything to the TV now, including decent 720p HD MKV files. The box can also stream an HD movie to the downstairs TV, and another one at the same time to the PS3 upstairs. There is also pause and time based searching through streaming movies - another bonus feature.
I'm now very happy with this device. (Obviously your streaming results may be different depending on your home network - my WD Mybook is connected by Ethernet to a 200Mbps mains homeplug, the downstairs TV is Wireless N and the upstairs PS3 is Wireless G.)
It looked so enticing, live backups for all the PCs on my network, internet access to my very own personal cloud - was it... Read more
Firstly it's a nice looking device and is so so easy to set up. Read more
after putting all my music, movies, photos on it it was working fine till feb 2013 when the controller decided to fail. Read more
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