 Western Digital My Book Pro Edition II |
| Review Date: April 22, 2008 |
| Reviewer: John, Des Moines, IA |
Western Digital WDG2TP20000N My Book Pro Edition II 2 TB USB2.0/Firewire RAID Triple Interface External Hard Drive
This provides tons of storage for a reasonable price. It was easy to set-up on a Mac using Leopard OS. RAID alternatives were easy to understand and select. |
this hard drive rules
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| Review Date: May 2, 2008 |
| Reviewer: the starfish, Gunnison, Colorado |
After searching for quite some time for a hard drive, this is what I found. Every low priced hard drive will have reviews stating "this is the best hard drive in the world," and, "this POS crashed 30 seconds after I loaded my irreplaceable data on it."
THIS hard drive, set up in a RAID configuration, pretty much eliminates your worries about losing your precious data. I am a professional photographer, and cannot afford to lose my images. It is highly unlikely that BOTH hardrives will crash at the same time, and one drive is set up to mirror the other. The drives are also USER replaceable.
This drive runs nice and quite (unless I'm working it really hard), and is plenty fast for processing images. Set up of the unit was a breeze. The back up utility software works well, but it's terminology is a bit moronic, and when you want to close that utility you have to tell it to close 3 times ("are you sure you want to close?" yes, "really, you want to close?" yes, I'm sure..."ok, this is your last chance..." CLOSE damn you!). For better cooling, I raised mine up ~1/4 inch with some thin strips of wood, as the air vents on the bottom have very little air flow when sitting on you desk.
For the money ($295), you'd be hard pressed to find a better, less expensive, more reliable drive for the memory size (750GB x2). It also came with a THREE year warranty, many others only have 1 year, or 90 days.
IMHO, this drive is WELL worth the money i spent...maybe should have bought two! ;~) |
Best external hard drive i have ever had
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| Review Date: March 6, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Daniel F. Cabrera, |
As a huge movie collector, i wanted to store all my movies(900gb) in one place. This summer i bought a Seagate 1.5tb 7200rpm and after a month it got incredibly slow when searching through folders and eventually the video started to skip.
I have had this WD for a couple months now and there not one problem. In terms of the sound it makes, i have not heard a thing and that is without downloading the update to make the fan not a loud. I firmly believe that WD is the only way to go and this is one of their best hard drives. |
Extremely fast and reliable drive
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| Review Date: May 9, 2008 |
| Reviewer: D. Caswell, |
| I ordered this drive a few months ago when it was on sale for well under 300 dollars. There's a firmware update that's available if its noise bothers you. So far it's provided reliable service using both USB and firewire. |
Loudest. Fan. Ever.
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| Review Date: April 23, 2008 |
| Reviewer: CM, New York |
| While the storage capacity and connection options are great, the fan noise makes this unit unusable in any working environment except perhaps on an airport runway where the jet-engine-like sound would go unnoticed. Sadly, this is no exaggeration. The unit is that loud. I would only recommend using this in a cooled and sound-proofed media closet. After less than three weeks, I am ready to move on to something else. Does anyone have a recommendation for a quieter alternative? |
Unreliable and unresponsive
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| Review Date: June 24, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Nicolas Guevara Passot, Costa Rica |
I ordered this drive because it was so cheap, and I couldn't find any other external RAID 1 solution with similar prices. When I first got it, it worked flawlessly as I formatted it and loaded over 500GB of data on it.
However, when I came to use it, I found out it likes to go into hibernation mode very quickly. It goes offline and cannot be accessed through my laptop PC in any way. This has crashed the software I was using to work on the drive (such as DJ software, audio production suites, etc). The only way to get my software to see the files on it is to "violently" disconnect it from its power supply and plug it back in.
At this point, it goes into "overdrive" mode. The fan starts spinning at high speed and it becomes very noisy. It's recognized by the Operating System just fine, but never goes back to normal: after about 8-10 minutes of being plugged back in, it overheats and shuts off, with the light indicator blinking (which means overheat/malfunction according to the manual). I immediately lose all my work and have to give it a good 20 minutes to cool down, restart my computer and start using it again.
If I don't allow it to go into hibernation by accessing the drive every 10 minutes, everything works fine.
WD Tech Support suggested I flash the firmware to a newer version, which didn't improve ANYTHING at all. At this point I'm looking at having to ship my drive from Costa Rica to the USA and pay over $200 for a replacement - and all the reviews I've read that mention an RMA procedure indicate that the problem is never fixed.
I will NEVER purchase anything from Western Digital in my life again. Not only a previous 320GB SATA drive I ordered 3 years ago died without any previous signs of distress, but now I face having to deal with this problem forever.
I feel like ripping the 750GB drives out of the unit and shoving them into my desktop computer, but that would defeat the purpose of buying an EXTERNAL drive for my laptop. |
Very flaky performance under USB 2.0 in Windows XP
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| Review Date: May 16, 2008 |
| Reviewer: A. Datta, |
This device constantly goes offline and can take many frustrating power cycles to bring it back to life. WD support has been responsive, but my issue is still not fully resoloved after 1 RMA and many many emails.
When it works, its beautiful, but for primary storage to be not reliable is not something I am willing to take. Finally got a firewire 800 card for it 1 day ago, and it has been stable since then. If you google "WD My Pro II sucks", you will see many others have had similar issues. Great concept, if it works for you fantastic, but if it doesn't, well, be prepared for some frustration.
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Worthless, absolutely worthless drive
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| Review Date: June 28, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Harold S. Cooper, Platte City, MO USA |
I've owned this drive for about a year now, and I'm about to throw it in the trash, where it belongs.
I'm using it with Windows Vista with SP1. About once a day, the drive goes into overdrive mode. The fan spins up to full speed for about 15 minutes, then the drive shuts down (presumably from overheating).
The strange thing is that the "overdrive" mode starts even when the drive isn't being accessed particularly. It just decides it needs to cool down, and the noisy fan fights a losing fight to cool the dumb thing off.
I updated the firmware. That didn't help.
Steer clear. There are plenty of other low-cost RAID solutions that work.
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