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DO NOT BUY
I am not given to reviewing products but this is the worst piece of kit I have ever bought. do not buy. I have been trying for a month to get this pile of junk workingand haqve only managed to get it working intermittently when wired directly to my pc. DO NOT BUY. The telephone support is worse than useless - condescendingly told me that it was a fault with my network (which works perfectly well with other devices)-happy to provide more detail on request
Western Digital WDBACG0020HCH Network Attached Storage review can be read at Amazon (UK) |
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28/04/2011
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My Book does what it says on the tin
Excellent piece of kit. Easy to install and provides good,fast access to files. It improved my server access times by at least x5 over my previous server.Works with WMP 12 too.
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21/04/2011
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Works perfectly with a Humax HDR-Fox T2
I bought this to stream media over a wireless n network to my Humax HDR-Fox T2. The setup of the My Book Live was straight forward, although it did take several hours to copy over about 500GB of media. The Humax recognised it straight away and had no trouble playing standard .avi files and HD .mkv's.Very happy with it's performance considering it price and storage capacity.
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21/04/2011
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Fantastic "plug and play" drive with a twist
This is without a doubt the most straightforward of divices to use. Plug it into the router and away you go, no mess no fuss, which is good because before I got this I cannot remember the last time my hard-drive capacity bar showed anything other than red.Delighted with this purchase and am considering a second one as I type.
Western Digital WDBACG0020HCH Network Attached Storage review can be read at Amazon (UK) |
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20/04/2011
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Seems good to me
As the reviews here are somewhat variable I thought I'd make it clear from the start that I've only had my iBook for a few days and therefore can't discuss the longevity of the product.I"ve been a MacBook user for many years now and due to reliability issues, I've relieved my PC from its duties and replaced it with an iMac. Something i've been wanting to utilise is Time Machine which takes varying levels of backups allowing you to restore either single files, or compete a bare metal resto...
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Happy with my purchase
Easy to setup and love the backup versioning which allows up to 25 versions of a file to be stored and recovered which is Ideal for my wifes report writing
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If this is easy, then I'd hate to see tricky!
Like so many computer products this promises to be easy setup and yet the "easy" install software doesn't work properly. I have tried with a new Mac and an older PC and it didn't work on either. I can access the files on the unit with the PC, but I still can't access the unit at all on the Mac.
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Good support, but flakey product
Never got this device to work with my computer. Running Win 7 64bit Pro. Several emails to WD, and a phone call to their friendly support services during which we tried pretty much every trick to map the drive but no luck, so a full factory restore was performed as a last ditch attempt. 24 hours later and the drive still could not be mapped. The install CD would also crash. A pity their friendly and knowledgeable support isn't matched by a reliable plug 'n' play product.
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Good unit, poor software
The hardware is good, works well and is easy to set up. However, the backup software that comes with this is hopeless if you want to be able to specify particular files or folders for backup.The software analyses the files on your disk and breaks them down into photos, music and documents. What type of file is a document isn't made clear. This is probably good if you're the sort of person who saves everything to 'My Documents' and has never created a directory structure for storing partic...
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Don't waste your money on this - You may also loose your data
This MyBookLIve rubbish is very unreliable. I have lost some fairly valuable data never to be recovered again. On first connection to the Ethernet port of my 4 port router, and after running the install software, the MyBookLive disk was immediately accessible on my network, all was fine and initially I was a happy chappy. So, I started to migrate data from other drives which I wanted to free up space on. I moved my files to the My Book Live 2TB disk. I should have kept a copy elsewhere (my fault...
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