Monday, June 13, 2011

Western Digital My Book Live: Hard Drive with NAS (Network-Attached Storage)

Western Digital My Book Live
Western Digital My Book Live is the latest series of My Book published by Western Digital. This hard drive device have a large physical size that can be used to store various data such as videos, photos and music.

This hard drive connection is using Gigabit Ethernet ports that can work faster than USB 2.0 port. WD reveals that the reading speed of this device can reach up to 100 MB/s. Hard drives that use the concept of NAS (Network-attached storage) presents a file sharing feature that is claimed to be better than the previous series. The amount of hard drive capacity offered is set at 1, 2 and 3 terabyte.

Easy Installation Process

 

The installation process of Western Digital My Book Live not too difficult even tend to be easy. SmartWare software is already integrated to directly detect the drive and then will immediately install the Quick View Utility and its SmartWare software.
Western Digital My Book Live

Software and Applications

 

This device is capable of playing videos to Windows Media Player 11 with very good at 1080p resolution. The DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) certification on this device is also able to play movies on the device to your TV. It is similar with digital media player functions. In addition, this device presents a program called WD Photos. WD Photos is an application that is used specifically for iPhone, and iPad iPad Touch users. This application is used to view and enjoy the photos (only supports JPEG format) that has been stored in the WD My Book Live. However, to use this service, we must first subscribe to a web-based data on MioNet WD. This service is free only for users of Western Digital My Book Live, while other devices users will likely be charged to use this service.

The Other Things

One thing that becomes a weakness of the hard drive that there is no USB port availability as an alternative connection. So that we can not connect the printer, or other devices using a USB connection. In addition, this device can only be used for file sharing only, it can not be used to backup another data.


Where To Buy

 

You can buy Western Digital My Book Live at Amazon.com. The price is between $ 120-$ 200. Just click This link.

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