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Product Dimensions: 13.9 x 5 x 16.7 cm ; 1.1 Kg
Boxed-product Weight: 1.5 Kg
Item model number: WDBACG0020HCH-EESN
ASIN: B00499DMRQ
Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 12 Jan 2010

Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (89 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 491 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
- #15 in Computers & Accessories > External Devices & Data Storage > External Hard Drives

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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.

Backup the files on all your computers, access and share files inside and outside your home, and stream media.

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.

WD 2go web access provides fee-free remote access to your My Book Live personal cloud storage.

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.

Free your photos from your computer, view them anywhere, for free.

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.

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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.

You don't need to be a network expet. The WD My Book Live is easy to set up and easy to find on your network.

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.

It's so easy, everyone in the house will use it, whether they're on a Mac or PC. And set up is a breeze, too.

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

Western Digital Western Digital My Book Live 2TB External Desktop NAS Single Drive Gigabit Ethernet WDBACG0020HCHEESN Storage Network Storage and NAS

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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful

My first WD product, but not my last 13 Mar 2011

By cbrynr TOP 500 REVIEWER

Size Name:2TB|Amazon Vine™ Review (What's this?)

This Western Digital network drive connects to your home network with a simple cable from the back of the unit into your router. The main idea is that you can store any files you want to such as photographs, videos or music on this drive and then share access to them with any other computers in your network.
Installation was a doddle on my Windows 7 laptop and it was working in minutes. My Windows XP desktop was an entirely different matter and took a lot more effort to get running, though to be fair the problem lay with XP's networking issues rather than the WD drive. The drive is very quiet in use too, and you can hardly hear it working.
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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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful

Central Wired or Wireless Backup for Multiple PCs 2 Sep 2011

By Neville Merritt

Size Name:2TB

Like it says on the review title, we wanted a way of simplifying backups for our four PCs in the home, one of which is a Mac. Two of us were backing up onto local external drives but the other two "never got round to it". We had to find a solution. This is it. For not much more money than a low cost local external drive, the WD MyBook Live is a brilliantly simple solution. You simply connect it with the ethernet cable supplied to your router, and power it up. Then you go to a PC on the network and load the CD supplied, and follow the instructions to create Users and register the device. That's it. No more. You now have a device accessible from any PC on the network, at any time. There are some useful extras were weren't expecting, like the ability to access photos on the MyBook over the web from our phones or iPads from anywhere in the world - saves uploading to PhotoBucket or similar. Now each PC has a timed backup set from its Control Panel (Time Machine on the Mac) so provided the PC is switched on, the backups get done. The device itself looks just like a black book, the size of an average hardback, but well made and discrete. The only visible activity is a tiny LED on the front. Highly recommended and a bargain at the price.

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41 of 42 people found the following review helpful

It Just Works 3 Feb 2011

By Mr. A. W. Robson

Size Name:2TB

I purchased this drive to store all my media, it was delivered from Amazon UK within a couple of days.

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.

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