Classic Editions Western Digital My Book

1 classic editions

1.1 essential edition
1.2 premium edition

1.2.1 premium es edition
1.2.2 premium edition ii


1.3 pro edition
1.4 studio edition
1.5 dvr expander
1.6 world edition

1.6.1 network speed
1.6.2 internals
1.6.3 extending capabilities


1.7 edition ii books

classic editions
essential edition

in addition book-like design, book essential edition drives have intelligent power management feature stops drive platters after ten minutes of inactivity, rather usual expedient of slowing them down. unit turns on , off computer attached to.

essential edition book drives entirely black, exception of single blue light, used indicate power , activity, or circular green light located on front of drive. older model has white light.

essential edition drives available in capacities of 320 gb, 400 gb, 500 gb, 640 gb, 750 gb, 1 tb, 1.5 tb, 2 tb, 3 tb, , 4 tb.

premium edition

premium edition drives similar essential edition model include firewire 400 ports, integrated visual capacity gauge , western digital backup software.

premium edition book drives have same black case essential edition drives, however, light surrounding power button blue. also, inside standard blue light blue ring light contains 8 individual segments indicate remaining space on drive. edition available storage capacities of 160 gb, 250 gb, 320 gb, 400 gb, , 750 gb.

premium es edition

my book premium es edition drives identical premium edition counterparts, difference being es line features single esata connection instead of dual firewire 400 ports present on premium edition, allowing computers available esata ports transfer data @ speeds of 3 gbit/s. edition available in 320 gb , 500 gb capacities.

premium edition ii

this edition black , available storage capacities of 500 gb, 1 tb, 1.5 tb, , 2 tb. largest physically.

pro edition

the pro edition books contain of features of premium edition ones, added firewire 800 connectivity fast data transfer. in addition, pro edition books replace western digital backup software found on premium editions emc retrospect express backup , recovery software.

pro edition book drives have same basic case design premium edition drives; however, case silver rather black. in addition, includes circular blue capacity gauge led divided 6 segments (representing 17% of usage per segment) , outer ring represents drive activity.

the pro edition mybook marketed raid solution can used backup device.

studio edition

my book studio

the mybook studio edition comes quad interface: usb 2.0 / firewire 400 / firewire 800 , esata. marketed use mac os x. edition available storage capacities of 1 tb, 1.5 tb , 2 tb.

the current edition (as of november 2010) has 2 firewire 800 ports , 1 usb 2.0 mini port. comes pre-formatted mac os x hfs+.

all current book studio lx drives include 5400rpm hitachi branded raptor hard drive.

the mybook studio edition ii contains 2 drives , designed used raid system increased performance. edition available storage capacities of 1 tb, 2 tb, 4 tb , 6 tb.

the 2 drives can replaced user.

the led gauge has design fault on these disks. several users reported of leds burning out after 3 4 months of normal usage.

my dvr expander

the book av dvr expander intended increase disk capacity of consumer dvrs or compatible camcorders. can used connected computer, if necessary. expander available storage capacity of 1 tb.

the dvr expander designed tivo series 3 , onwards and, @ time, connectivity esata port. recent versions come usb 2.0 connection, well, , compatible direct tv, dish tv, , pace, time warner , scientific atlanta brands of dvr.

world edition

the world edition books function network-attached storage (nas), way of ethernet interface. feature usb host port allow additional usb drive daisychained. data on first generation (blue rings) book world accessed cifs/smb shared folders. second generation (white lights) expands access choices include nfs, ftp, itunes server, , twonky media server.

in addition, world edition uses wd anywhere access gain remote access drive via internet.

it has same basic case design premium edition drives, including capacity gauge, except color of world edition white. has same morse code ventilation other editions.

network speed

although mybook ethernet-capable disks come gigabit ethernet interface, network speed slower. older blue rings models (200 mhz arm cpu , 32 mbyte ram), varies between 3–6 mbyte/s, average of 4.5 mbyte/s. newer white lights mybook world edition 1 tb , 2 tb storage capacity models, wdh1nc , wdh2nc (oxnas810, 380 mhz arm cpu , 128 mbyte ram), have drive speeds comparable usb, @ 10 mb/s write , 25 mb/s read.

the white lights wdh1nc jumbo frames capable , can achieve ~36 mbyte/s reading , ~18 mbyte/s writing speed on gigabit ethernet.

internals

controller board book world edition.

this drive runs busybox on linux on oxford semiconductor 0xe800 arm chip has arm926ej-s core. in addition uses via cicada simpliphy vt6122 gigabit ethernet chipset, , hynix 32 mbit ddr synchronous dram chip. webserver mini_http server, although older bluerings use lighttpd. drives of world edition xfs or ext3 formatted, means drive can mounted standard drive within linux if removed casing , installed in normal pc.

with both sets of commands utility such gparted can used determine paths relevant given setup.

extending capabilities

the device can unlocked , accessed via ssh terminal (newer versions of wdh1nc10000 not need unlocked : mbwe ssh access), meaning wd mionet java-based software can disabled device can run unrestricted linux os, @ cost of voiding warranty. unlocking makes possible install other software on mybook. example, user can run different web server or ftp server (such vsftpd) on it, use nfs mounting shared directories natively unix, or install bittorrent client such rtorrent.

edition ii books

in addition regular book drives, western digital has released special high-capacity edition ii versions of premium, pro, , world edition books. in addition features present in respective book edition, these drives feature 2 500 gb raid configured hard disks can selected end user raid 0 (data striping), or raid 1 (data mirroring), depending on personal preference. if selected raid 0, end user has 1 tb of available storage. either way, if 1 of internal drives of edition ii books fails, can removed , replaced user without voiding warranty. western digital uses feature advantage, claiming drives needn t returned costly service in case of drive failure.