Western Digital WDG2T15000N MyBook Premium II 1.5 TB Hard Drive | 
 enlarge | Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $599.99
Buy New: $428.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 37372
Media: Electronics
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Hard Drive Size: 1500
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: WDG2T15000N
Model: WDG2T15000N
UPC: 718037120423
EAN: 0718037120423
ASIN: B000RY3D3U
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| Features:
| • | Extraordinary capacity - With up to 1.5 TB of storage in an elegant, small footprint design, you have plenty of space to store an entire digital photo library, your HD movie collection and hours and hours of DV video. | | • | Extra data protection - For extra data protection, dedicate half the capacity for mirroring and automatically and instantaneously back up data every time you save it. | | • | Easy to set up, easy to use - You’re up and running in a few simple steps. RAID configuration is easy with WD’s intuitive RAID Wizard software | | • | User serviceable - Easy access allows you to open the case and replace a drive. No need to send the entire system in for service. | | • | Triple interface - Provides flexibility and performance with connections for ultra-fast FireWire 800, as well as FireWire 400 and USB 2.0. |
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Product Description
Formatted for Windows, the WDG2T15000N MyBook Premium Edition II triple interface dual-drive storage system offers RAID mirroring for extra data protection or RAID striping for extraordinary capacity and performance. Triple-interface and a powerful combination of features make this system the storage solution of choice for creative professionals, workgroups, small offices and anyone looking for extra assurance that their data is safe. With up to 1.5 TB of storage you have plenty of space to store an entire digital photo library, your HD movie collection and hours of DV video. The FireWire 400/800 and RAID striping yields the speed you need for fast, smooth video editing, an extra-responsive Photoshop scratch disk, rendering complex 3D objects or special effects, and saving huge blocks of data in record time. Edit and exchange massive audio and video projects System Requirements - Available USB Port, Mac OS X 10.3 or later, Windows 2000, XP and Vista Dimensions - Height 6.870 x Length 6.270 x Width 4.09 inch Weight - 4.25 Pounds
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| Customer Reviews:
My Book Pro II/Premium II family great; problems with Vista. December 22, 2007
Dave (East Aurora, NY)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This review covers the family of My Book Pro II/Premium II drives from Western Digital, since the primary differences between the 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0Tb dual-drive models involve the size of the drive pair only, as far as I can tell. I own the My Book Pro II 1.5Tb drive and have only configured it for the factory-default Raid 0 mode, since I wanted as much non-redundant storage as possible.
Anyone not familiar with external USB or Firewire drives may be surprised at the significantly slower data transfer; the USB or Firewire interface is the bottleneck, not the drive itself. For bulk storage at still-reasonable transfer rates and for the purchase price per byte, these large capacity drives can't be beat - as long as they are reliable and the user observes all the rules about making sure the drives are safe to physically disconnect from the computer (I won't cover the rules here; the operating system has its own Help section that can assist the user who is unsure of how to physically disconnect their drive without turning off the computer itself).
OK, back to the Western Digital My Book II drive... when the drive is received, the Raid Manager software package should be installed before plugging in the drive. After I did this and plugged in the drive, I had one problem after another with the drive disappearing in Windows, the fan going very loud when there was no heat issue to make it do so, then the drive would act like it over-heated and shut down. Twice I received replacement drives and both replacement drives acted the same way.
I figured the problem wasn't the drive, so I tried the second replacement on a second PC running Vista; same problems. I next moved the drive to a PC running Windows XP; no problem - the drive ran quietly and reliably.
It turns out there is currently (12/22/07) a problem with Windows Vista and the way it stores driver information. The fix is found in their technical bulletin 1708 (go to www.wdc.com, support, frequently asked questions and enter "1708" in the "Search by Keyword" field. This has solved all my problems with my drive and I can now recommend this drive without reservations, however Vista is due for its first significant "patch", SP1, in the first half of 2008 and these sorts of patches have sometimes provoked new problems. I do think the solution presented in technical bulletin 1708 would still be helpful if the SP1 patch caused further problems, however.
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