Western Digital's My Book World Edition II series is a networked external storage device that tries to make all your data centrally accessible and safe too. It sports a cool vanilla-colored casing that bears two 1 TB WD hard disks packed side-by-side. The casing is probably not the toughest when it comes to external desktop drives. On the positive side, the hard disks are easily swappable. It connects to a router via the Ethernet port. Along with the Ethernet port, a USB port is provided for expansion, as well as making any USB-based memory device accessible to the network. While the network connectivity is a great thing to have, it is somewhat disappointing that the drive can't be directly connected to a PC via USB.

The Dual hard-disks support RAID 0 (Mirroring) and RAID 1 (Stripe) that makes the two hard-drives behave like one large HB drive. It includes automatic backup software and a service that lets you access the drive from the internet. It can also be used as a media and iTunes server. AIl the settings can be tweaked using an easy-to-use web interface; although we wish it was not as laggy. With respect to performance, we can say that it is on par with other network drives. The performance is almost a third of an USB external drive.


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