Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition 2TB USB 2.0 (WDH2U20000N) by Western Digital
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Digital camera reviews of Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition 2TB USB 2.0 (WDH2U20000N)
Digital camera Review: 64 bit is not supported
Summary: 3 Stars
Costco is selling these for $150.00 and it may be because 64 bit is not supported.
When I go to the WD web site and go to
Downloads My Book Mirror Edition
then to Available software for this product
then to My Book Mirror Edition Firmware Update - PC
then I read the following; Supported Operating Systems, Windows 2000, XP (32-bit), or Vista (32-bit)
I do not see that 64 bit is supported????
Digital camera Review: @ pcaffalldavis
Summary: 5 Stars
pcaffalldavis, did you ever consider returning the drive for replacement?
Sometimes in our digital world, a lemon might get through and land on our desktops (not too often thank gawd). Sounds to me like yours is just such a case.
I've had a WD 500GB external My Book drive for over a year now, with almost 24/7/365 uptime, and have had very little trouble with it.
Sounds to me like a call to the retailer with a description of your problems would more than likely have resulted in an RMA# being issued, and a brand spanking new working 2TB mirror drive would've been sent along its merry way to your house, - unless the retailer you bought it from was rated with a 1/2 star or something, or was just plain scurrilous and unscrupulous...
Digital camera Review: After 2yrs, I SMASHED it FLAT with a Sledge!
Summary: 1 Stars
This has got to one of THE worst computer purchases I have ever made. I got this device to use as an external backup unit for my boot drive and for storing media files. It was reasonably priced, seemed very nicely industrially designed, had apparently great software, had power saving features and could just Plug-n-play into a USB2.0 Port. What could go wrong?
Short answer: Everything!
1. The software they ship with the unit was only tested on Vista and then primarily 32-bit only.
2. Both the power connector and the USB connector on the back are undersized and tend to come loose.
3. The "power saving" green features kick in and the drive will vanish, until you reboot your PC again.
4. The 4 part vertical blue bar on the front of my drive was simply annoying and did nothing useful imo.
5. The case has no active cooling and gets quite hot, so hot that I worry about hard-drive failure from it.
6. The USB connector appears to draw a LOT of power, quite possibly more than the maximum 500ms per USB port.
7. The unit would OFTEN malfuction from a cold boot and the drive usually not appear once the desktop was showing.
8. No amount of messing about with unplugging the drive box from USB, powering it down/up, etc. would fix this.
9. Other devices on the same or related USB ports would also malfunction when the drive was misbehaving.
10. Even moving it from a motherboard attached USB port to a POWERED USB hub was not enough to make it happy.
11. When it did actually come up and work, at best it would provide 30MB/second read/write (1/3 of a IDE drive perf)
12. Both Western Digital _and_ Microsoft are aware that there are Win7 problems with this device and no one is fixing it.
13. I grew to HATE this device so much that I bought a expensive ESATA attached RAIDON 3630 and two Samsung F4 2TB drives to replace it.
14. The "easy to replace" drives are anything but, you have to FORCEFULLY press down on the front top edge to open it.
15. Extracting the two drives from their bays with the attached plastic pull-tabs was VERY HARD and broke both plastic tabs.
16. The best thing about this unit is the actual 1TB hard disks, but by now they are much bigger, faster and cheaper.
ONCE I GOT ALL THE DATA OFF OF IT, I REMOVED BOTH DRIVES, TOOK THE UNIT DOWNSTAIRS AND FOUND THE BIGGEST SLEDGE HAMMER I HAD.
WHAM-WHAM-WHAM-WHAM-WHAM! Plastic and smashed flat metal cage were all that was left. OMG, that felt good...
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Do yourself an immense favor and DO NOT BUY THIS HORRIBLE UNIT. If you have it, move your data off of it -- dont suffer for 2 years like I did.
Digital camera Review: CAREFUL! 64 bit OS's not supported!
Summary: 2 Stars
I recently upgraded my laptop to a Dell XPS M1530 - running Vista64. I bought a 500gb WD Passport which would work perfectly on my 32bit XP and 32bit Vista boxes, but not my new Dell. So I went to get this drive. I figured the Raid-1 option would end up being safer anyway.
Ho boy! Nope. Freeze after freeze. Took me quite a while to find on WD's site (it's in the Downloads, not FAQ's, not KnowledgeBase) that no 64 bit os is supported. In this day of 4gb+ boxes and the needed 64bit OS's, that's unacceptable.
Too bad. I have 3 others of this model hooked to my network (via NSLU2) and it's a great drive setup. As long as you never connect it to a 64bit box!
Digital camera Review: Dead in less than two years
Summary: 2 Stars
The title says it all.
Purchased 04/30/2009
Dead 02/24/2011
I expect five (5) years from drives. Two years two stars.