Western Digital Reveals 4TB NAS
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Creating an emphasis towards using a NAS at home, Western Digital recently announced their 4TB MyBook World Edition II that’s compatible with the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
The MyBook World Edition II uses RAID 1 mirrored drives in order to protect data, and it also ships with backup software that allows for continual backups of each computer on your network. The storage capacity is 4TB, but should you use it in the RAID 1 setup, only two of these will be usable. It will work with Macs, PCs, as well as consoles such as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
“Families have more and more digital media like movies, photos and music to store, share and protect. Having two drives inside the My Book World Edition II network storage system, instantaneously and automatically duplicating data, offers consumers the peace of mind of double safe, real-time protection of their valuable content,” stated Dale Pistilli, vice president of marketing for Western Digital's branded products group. “Families can relax knowing their valuable media is backed up while enjoying the ability to stream their content to a plethora of different devices from PCs and Macs to PS3s, Xbox 360s and the latest connected TVs.”
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Elucidate
June 27, 2009 at 9:35am
Right on WD!
My first thought was this is pretty cool, but if a drive fails you need to send in the unit. Not true. I just skimmed through their manual, you can replace a drive yourself. See: http://www.wdc.com/WDProducts/Library/UM/ENG/4779-705013.pdf
Again I'm not completely sold on the Green drive thing...saves energy, but there is spin up time, slower reads...oh yeah this unit requires WD green drives.
If I may make one wish list comment. Anything that will be accessed by multiple sources, really should have dual ethernet ports. As data, video streaming, etc, become more and more prominent, 1G network speeds will become a bottle neck. Already is in some situations. ganging them to 2G is a cheap viable solution-- as long as you have enough ports on the router/switch.
If you liked the Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, you'll love the Endless Universe- Beyond the big bang theory by Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok.
legacy_gtr
June 27, 2009 at 6:52pm
Intel and EMC have made a product that's better. It's been out for awhile. Holds up to 4 drives (any 4 you want) supports RAID 1, 5, 10. Has software to automatically backup your PCs, can stream to PS3, Xbox, Mac, PC, Linux. You can plug in additional USB or eSATA drives (or digital camera, thumb drives, printers) for shareing. You can even upload files to it via bluetooth. It supports NFS file shares and can be setup for FTP and SMTP, or e-mail alerts. It will spin down the drives after an adjustable period of inactivity. And its fast.......
http://www.intel.com/products/server/storage-systems/ss4200-e/ss4200-e-overview.htm
Elucidate
June 27, 2009 at 11:11pm
Thanks Legacy_gtr, I tried 3 different clicks from your url. I could not easily find any pricing. When I hear EMC mentioned, I think expensive. In the past when we've bought EMC it's in the range of 6-digits costs (e.g. $100,000) for the hardware. Not really for home use.
legacy_gtr
June 28, 2009 at 10:52am
Looks like Intel changed that "How to Buy" link. It used to be very helpful. I bought mine from Insight. (www.insight.com) when it was on sale for ~$240. Also seen it on PC Connection and PC Mall for ~$350. It doesn't come with any drives, so those are extra....
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