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Product Description
Western Digital Digital My Book Studio Edition II WDH2Q20000N Hard Drive Array WDH2Q20000N Hard Drive Arrays
- Box Contents - Dual-drive storage system, FireWire 800 cable, FireWire 800 to 400 cable, USB cable, AC adapter, Software CD, Quick Install Guide
- Lightning-fast FireWire 800 combined with RAID 0 yields the speed you need for smooth video editing, rendering complex 3D objects or special effects
- WD's GreenPower drives, this system uses about 30% less energy than standard systems and runs quietly because it doesn't need a fan
- 2TB = 2000GB Hard Drive Capacity
- Pre-configured to RAID 0 (Striped)
Western Digital My Book Studio II - 2 TB (2 x 1 TB) USB 2.0/FireWire 800/400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive Reviews
| 336 of 365 people found the following review helpful:  WD admits there is a firewire "technical limitation.", This review is from: Western Digital My Book Studio II - 2 TB (2 x 1 TB) USB 2.0/FireWire 800/400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive (Personal Computers) I have been using the WD Studio II 2TB on my 2008 iMac OSX 10.5.6 for two weeks. Connection: firewire 800. Today, it did not mount when I booted the computer. Checked the WD Website Knowledge Base. Discovered two things: 1. Knowledge Base Answer 1697: "This issue is caused by the external hard drive's built in auto on/off functionality not correctly receiving a command from the computer system to wake from a power saver mode." Why does the auto on/off functionality not correctly receive the command from the computer system? WD goes on to suggest installing their WD Drive Manager. Well, WD Drive Manager is already installed, how else could a user have arrived at this impasse to begin with? And then they suggest to dismount the drive. How do you dismount an unmounted drive? 2. Knowledge Base Answer 1680: "This is an technical limitation between the FireWire interfaces on the Macintosh computer and the external hard... Read more 66 of 69 people found the following review helpful:  Not best for Intel Macs, By jenny "happy vegan" (baltimore, md) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Western Digital My Book Studio II - 2 TB (2 x 1 TB) USB 2.0/FireWire 800/400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive (Personal Computers) I purchased this drive to go along with my intel mac. I was previously a happy lacie owner, but since WD came in at such a great price and was listed as great with macs, I went for it. What a mistake. For the first month, it worked well... a bit slower than my lacie, but still worked. Then, all of the sudden, it began to dismount itself from my computer. I am currently using Lightroom to edit my work, and when the drive would fail, Lightroom would loose the catalog. When you have 500+ images to edit and the drive dismounts every 45 minutes, this can become a huge issue. So, I did some further research and found out that several other intel mac users are having the same issue with this product. This is very frustrating as it is advertised 'for your mac'. Most of the other posters mentioned that the drive worked well for about a month and then started having issues. I called WD, and their customer service department was actually very helpful... Read more 133 of 147 people found the following review helpful:  high performance, 5 year warranty, self-rebuilding raid mirror, By This review is from: Western Digital My Book Studio II - 2 TB (2 x 1 TB) USB 2.0/FireWire 800/400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive (Personal Computers) If you want the best performance, you would want to use it as eSATA. This would mean a cardbus or expresscard eSATA adaptor on a laptop, for example. But here is the one star that I have taken off: at this price, it still does not come with an eSATA cable! It has cables for USB and the 1394, but no eSATA. I have not had the chance to test it in eSATA because of the cable. The USB2 speed is good enough for my archival application. I've also read around and eSATA is not faster than USB2 by much in real life (maybe 25MB/s vs 30MB/s). The 5 year warranty is industry standard and is reassuring. And by the time it's up, you will want a larger storage anyway. :P But you must keep in mind that that if the controller in the enclosure dies, your whole array dies. Hopefully the controller didn't write bogus information into your harddrives and then hopefully WD will be able to ship you a new enclosure and you can recover that way. (This is the one weakness of having RAID 1 as the... Read more |
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