Western Digital MyBook Pro Edition II - 2TB Triple Interface External HDD

[yuprules]

I have the 1TB WE II, slowest NAS ever, very loud fan. Avoid at all cost.

I've read a few reviews that noted the fan, but most of the reviews were positive enough for "good price with good space".

Of course this NAS drive will be slow if you are not on gigabit, here's a clip from a review:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2106449,00.asp
The My Book connects to the network via gigabit Ethernet. We copied a gigabyte of data over our Gigabit Ethernet network, which took 4:46 (four minutes, 46 seconds.) That's fairly typical for this class of device, but once you've copied over all relevant data, most file access is reasonably quick.

However, if your network is fast Ethernet that maxes out at 100mbit speeds, then you'll see much slower performance. Any potential performance issue is network related; you'll never saturate the SATA interface on the hard drives in a typical home environment, even with several users accessing the device: the network will be the bottleneck.

I still think it is a good buy for a home network storage device even though it does not support media streaming to an Xbox 360. I am trying to have a Non-Quebec friend buy it for me from Ontario *shakes fist at Costco Quebec*.

[alanbrenton]

So for 10/100 ethernet cards, this product just sucks? Only my notebook computer has a gigabit ethernet card. My Linksys ethernet port is 10/100 as well.

Which My Book model should I be looking into for my outdated home network if this the World edition is no good ?