Product Description

Designed for home users, creative professionals, workgroups, small offices and anyone looking for shared storage, the My Book World Edition offers a surprisingly simple and secure way to access and share data, photos and music anywhere in the world. Wherever you are, My Book World Edition is accessible just like a local drive using Windows Explorer. From any PC, remotely open, edit, and save files as if they are right there with you. My Book World Edition combines 500 GB of networked storage, backup software and remote access software to make it the most versatile and powerful product in its class.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4692 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Western Digital
• Model: WDG1NC5000N
• Dimensions: 5.00" h x 8.20" w x 11.50" l, 7.00 pounds
• Hard Disk: 750GB

Features

• Manufacturer - Western Digital
• Manufacturer Part - WDG1NC5000N
• Enclosure Type - External
• Total Storage Capacity - 500 GB
• Capacity - 2 Modules

From the Manufacturer
Designed for home users, creative professionals, workgroups, and anyone looking for shared storage, the Western Digital WDG1NC5000N My Book World Edition 500 GB Ethernet Network Storage System offers a surprisingly simple and secure way to access and share your data, presentations, and photos at home, in the office, and anywhere in the world--even when your local computer is turned off. Wherever you are, My Book World Edition is accessible just like a local drive using Windows Explorer. From any PC, you can remotely open, edit, and save files as if they are right there with you. My Book World Edition combines up to 500 GB of networked storage, backup software, and remote access software to make it the most versatile and powerful product in its class.

The My Book World Edition offers several outstanding features that will give you peace of mind because you know that your data is not only a click away no matter where you are in the world, but also that it's safe and secure. My Book World Edition features WD Anywhere Access, which ensures that your storage system and all the files on it are always accessible when you need them, even when your local computer is turned off. Use Data OnHand to securely browse your folders and to open, edit, and save files from any PC. EMC Retrospect Express is the easy-to-use system software you use to schedule your file backups or to create backup files on demand.

Ideal for home users who want professional capabilities, My Book World Edition is easy to set up, thanks to its unique, powerful remote access software. It includes a 1000/100/10-compatible Ethernet connection for fast performance, and its efficient convection cooling system keeps the unit running cool and remarkably quiet.

My Book World Edition is ideal for users who want to:

• Easily access and edit files from any computer.
• Get files from home while at the office.
• Listen to their music while on vacation.
• Securely share photos with friends anywhere in the world without uploading them to the web.
• Back up laptop data to their home computer while they're traveling.
• Offer clients an easy way to access business documents, designs, and artwork. (Eliminates the need for a separate FTP server.)
• Back up critical files to a remote drive for the ultimate protection from loss.
• Simplify their home network and access data from any computer or external hard drive in the house.
• Automatically back up all PCs to one central location.
• Gain peace of mind with a mirrored backup of important documents and images.

The My Book World Edition is backed by a 3-year limited warranty.

What's in the Box
WDG1NC5000N network external hard drive, Ethernet cable, AC adapter, installation and software CD, and quick install guide.

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Customer Reviews

Great NAS device for File Sharing within Network, Skip Mionet
I recently decided to do away with my Desktop computer in favor of an older laptop that I had previously had not been using. I ran into the issue of not having enough space on the Laptop's hard drive to store all of my music, videos, and pictures. I purchased the My Book World edition a few weeks ago, and thus far everything has been going exactly to plan.

I have iTunes installed on my primary computer, but instead of keeping the files locally on my drive, I now keep them on the My Book. The original transfer took some time, with speeds of approximately 2 megabytes per second, you can do the math on the time it would take to transfer a full library of movies and music, but that wasn't a problem at all. iTunes functions absolutely perfectly, the only noticeable difference is the first time that I synced my iPod, it took a few hours to copy everything over, again, because of the data rate over the network. Each subsequent sync, though, has been speedy, as I don't change more than a few songs, podcasts, or movies, at a time.

The drive is really doing everything that I've wanted it to. It allows me to access the drive from any computer on my network, without issue.

The reason that this review did not get 5 stars is because of Mionet. As you have likely read in other reviews, the software is relatively easy to setup, but it very much hinders the use of the files on your network. First of all, when you transfer files onto the drive using Mionet, you CANNOT modify the files without going through Mionet, again. This causes a big problem when iTunes tries to update tags in songs, or movies, and cannot write to the files. This crippled my use, and made me investigate other options.

The Western Digital site does give instructions to login to the device directly, and I highly recommend using that option. It is just as easy as logging into your router from your PC. You launch a browser, type in the default IP address, (something along the lines of 192.168.1.x), and you can do all of the configuration from there.

I have Windows XP automatically mount the drive, once again, a snap, and it appears under My Computer just like the C, and D drives.

Don't bother installing Mionet, I went against this advice, and that means having to copy my entire library twice, again, sort of time consuming when working with 80 - 100gb of information.

Great drive for sharing files on a network, and a great option if you are running out of hard drive space, but don't want to have an external hard drive on your desk at all times. Skip Mionet, but all else has been wonderful.

What a piece of garbage!
After a year and 10 days of using it, the the thing just failed to boot up one day. Since I've used it for over a year it is out of the waranty. All my backups, business backups, family pictures, tons of software gone. I put up with everything others say here, but never expected anything like this. Went to the store to buy a new one and it didnt even boot up out of the box. I am taking it back today. WHAT A PIECE OF CR..!

No 64bit drivers, misleading speed, incomplete setup instructions
At 3-5 MB/sec, this drive's speed is embarassingly slow and more appropriate for a USB 1.1. device rather than a 1 Gb device. The package includes no 64 bit version of the software and WD does not intend to release a 64 bit version. While it is possible to connect to the drive through the SMB protocol, the manual fails to mention the device's default name. I was finally able to connect by checking my router's DHCP entries.