| Reviews : Western Digital My Book Pro Edition II 1.5 TB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/800 Desktop External Hard Drive WDG2TP15000N |
Western Digital My Book Pro Edition II 1.5 TB USB 2.0/FireWire 400/800 Desktop External Hard Drive WDG2TP15000N Product By Western Digital Available From 8 Sellers |
Technical Details
- 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.
- Extra-fast performance - The lighting-fast combination of FireWire 400/800 and RAID striping yields the speed you need for fast, smooth video editing, an extra-responsive Photoshop scratch disk, and rendering complex 3D objects or special effects.
- 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.
- Triple interface - Provides flexibility and performance with connections for ultra-fast FireWire 800, as well as FireWire 400 and USB 2.0.
Product Description
WD's My Book Pro Edition II dual-drive storage system offers RAID mirroring for extra data protection or RAID striping for extraordinary capacity and performance. A three-year limited warranty, triple-interface and a powerful combination of features and performance 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.Similar Products
Customer Reviews
By Harold S. Cooper (Platte City, MO USA)
I've owned this drive for about a year now, and I'm about to throw it in the trash, where it belongs.
I'm using it with Windows Vista with SP1. About once a day, the drive goes into overdrive mode. The fan spins up to full speed for about 15 minutes, then the drive shuts down (presumably from overheating).
The strange thing is that the "overdrive" mode starts even when the drive isn't being accessed particularly. It just decides it needs to cool down, and the noisy fan fights a losing fight to cool the dumb thing off.
I updated the firmware. That didn't help.
Steer clear. There are plenty of other low-cost RAID solutions that work.
By Nicolas Guevara Passot (Costa Rica)
I ordered this drive because it was so cheap, and I couldn't find any other external RAID 1 solution with similar prices. When I first got it, it worked flawlessly as I formatted it and loaded over 500GB of data on it.
However, when I came to use it, I found out it likes to go into hibernation mode very quickly. It goes offline and cannot be accessed through my laptop PC in any way. This has crashed the software I was using to work on the drive (such as DJ software, audio production suites, etc). The only way to get my software to see the files on it is to "violently" disconnect it from its power supply and plug it back in.
At this point, it goes into "overdrive" mode. The fan starts spinning at high speed and it becomes very noisy. It's recognized by the Operating System just fine, but never goes back to normal: after about 8-10 minutes of being plugged back in, it overheats and shuts off, with the light indicator blinking (which means overheat/malfunction according to the manual). I immediately lose all my work and have to give it a good 20 minutes to cool down, restart my computer and start using it again.
If I don't allow it to go into hibernation by accessing the drive every 10 minutes, everything works fine.
WD Tech Support suggested I flash the firmware to a newer version, which didn't improve ANYTHING at all. At this point I'm looking at having to ship my drive from Costa Rica to the USA and pay over $200 for a replacement - and all the reviews I've read that mention an RMA procedure indicate that the problem is never fixed.
I will NEVER purchase anything from Western Digital in my life again. Not only a previous 320GB SATA drive I ordered 3 years ago died without any previous signs of distress, but now I face having to deal with this problem forever.
I feel like ripping the 750GB drives out of the unit and shoving them into my desktop computer, but that would defeat the purpose of buying an EXTERNAL drive for my laptop.
By A. Datta
This device constantly goes offline and can take many frustrating power cycles to bring it back to life. WD support has been responsive, but my issue is still not fully resoloved after 1 RMA and many many emails.
When it works, its beautiful, but for primary storage to be not reliable is not something I am willing to take. Finally got a firewire 800 card for it 1 day ago, and it has been stable since then. If you google "WD My Pro II sucks", you will see many others have had similar issues. Great concept, if it works for you fantastic, but if it doesn't, well, be prepared for some frustration.
By D. Caswell
I ordered this drive a few months ago when it was on sale for well under 300 dollars. There's a firmware update that's available if its noise bothers you. So far it's provided reliable service using both USB and firewire.
By the starfish (Gunnison, Colorado)
After searching for quite some time for a hard drive, this is what I found. Every low priced hard drive will have reviews stating "this is the best hard drive in the world," and, "this POS crashed 30 seconds after I loaded my irreplaceable data on it."
THIS hard drive, set up in a RAID configuration, pretty much eliminates your worries about losing your precious data. I am a professional photographer, and cannot afford to lose my images. It is highly unlikely that BOTH hardrives will crash at the same time, and one drive is set up to mirror the other. The drives are also USER replaceable.
This drive runs nice and quite (unless I'm working it really hard), and is plenty fast for processing images. Set up of the unit was a breeze. The back up utility software works well, but it's terminology is a bit moronic, and when you want to close that utility you have to tell it to close 3 times ("are you sure you want to close?" yes, "really, you want to close?" yes, I'm sure..."ok, this is your last chance..." CLOSE damn you!). For better cooling, I raised mine up ~1/4 inch with some thin strips of wood, as the air vents on the bottom have very little air flow when sitting on you desk.
For the money ($295), you'd be hard pressed to find a better, less expensive, more reliable drive for the memory size (750GB x2). It also came with a THREE year warranty, many others only have 1 year, or 90 days.
IMHO, this drive is WELL worth the money i spent...maybe should have bought two! ;~)
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