Product Description Centralise the scattered data from CDs, DVDs, and USB sticks to one location for the whole family to access from any computer. My Book Live - Centralise Your Media. Simplify Your Life Simplify your digital life by consolidating your movies, music, photos, and files in one location for everyone on your wired or wireless network to share. Back up all your PC and Mac computers to one safe place, access files securely over the internet, stream media to your entertainment centre, and show off all your photos with your iPhone. Simplify Your Digital Life Why have your media and important files scattered across multiple machines and storage mediums? Reduce the clutter of all those USB sticks, CDs, and DVDs by storing and backing up your entire family's movies, music, photos, and important files to one safe place. Backup the files on all your computers, access and share files inside and outside your home, and stream media. WD 2go: The Pathway to Your Personal Cloud What is a Personal Cloud? A personal cloud is your content secure at home and under your control. Unlike public clouds, a personal cloud allows you to keep all your content in one safe place on your home network. Share files, stream media, and access your content anywhere. No monthly fees. No mysterious location of your data. Keep your media and files safe at home and always with you. WD 2go web access provides fee-free remote access to your My Book Live personal cloud storage. Get to Your Content from Anywhere with WD 2go Web Access If you can access the Internet from a computer, you can securely access your media and files anywhere in the world. WD 2go web access provides fee-free remote access to your My Book Live personal cloud storage. Once you log in, WD 2go mounts My Book Live to your computer like a local drive and your remote folders are available on your Mac or PC. Seamlessly open, save as, and attach files to emails from this virtual drive. Free your photos from your computer, view them anywhere, for free. Show Off Your Photos with Your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, or Android Smartphone Get quick access to all the photos stored on your My Book Live, My Book World Edition, or WD ShareSpace network drive using your iPad, iPhone, iPhone, iPod touch, or Android smartphone. Your photos are private, safe and secure on your home network drive. No need to spend time and money on an online photo service. Your Smartphone Just Become Brilliant Show off your entire photo collection, up to 285,000 photos, without taking up tons of space on your smartphone. Download the free app from the Android Market or the Apple iTunes store and make your phone the centre of attention. WD Photos is compatible with leading Apple mobile devices and the most popular Android smartphones including, but not limited to, the DROID by Motorola, DROID Incredible by HTC, Nexus One, and the HTC EVO 4G. Photos are automatically optimised for perfect viewing on your mobile device. Turn Your iPad into the Ultimate Photo Album Show off every detail of your favourite memories without compromise. When viewing your photos with your iPad, you have access to the highest available resolution - 1024 x 768. WD Photos allows for a large cache size on your iPad, so you can access more of your viewed photos even when you're offline. Display your photos vertically or view them horizontally and turn your iPad into the ultimate photo album. Enjoy advanced search features & facebook photo posting. Click here to see a larger image. All Your Photos at Your Fingertips WD Photos offers a variety of features, including: Instantly post photos to Facebook Create a slideshow with transitions to create digital art Access previously viewed photos even when you are offline View your photos all at once or filter them by folder or album Search by file name, folder name, or date using the built-in search options E-mail a photo to friend, assign a photo to a contact, or add a photo to the Camera Roll Storage and Backup for all Your Computers in Your Network Share Your Media Collection on Your Network With the My Book Live you can share any of its files with any of the computers on your home network. Just plug the drive into your router, and any PC or Mac on your wired or wireless network can access the data. You don't need to be a network expet. The WD My Book Live is easy to set up and easy to find on your network. Easy to Set Up, Easy to Find on Your Network Set up is a snap. In just a few minutes, you're up and running. Mac, Windows 7, and Windows Vista® computers will automatically find your My Book Live drive in seconds. If you're running Windows XP, our simple discovery software makes it easy to set up the drive. Leading-Edge Performance Designed around the most recent advances in Ethernet chip technology, this product delivers read speeds up to 100 MBps. That's 4 times faster than most consumer network drives in this category today. Imagine what you could do with those speeds - stream music and movies to multiple PCs or compatible TVs, transfer large files in a flash. The possibilities are yours to explore. Automatic Backup with WD SmartWare for Windows Back up the data on all your home computers to a single, reliable place. Every time you save something, it's instantly backed up. You can even back up Windows computers wirelessly over your WiFi network. Restore lost, damaged or older files to their original location with a just a few clicks. It's so easy, everyone in the house will use it, whether they're on a Mac or PC. And set up is a breeze, too. Compatible with Apple Time Machine Mac computer users can utilise all the features of Apple Time Machine backup software to protect their data. Back up all your Macs wirelessly to one location over your WiFi network. Play Your Music on Any Computer in Your Home The drive includes iTunes server support so you can centralise your music collection and stream to a Mac or PC. Stream Digital Media Anywhere in Your Home Watch your daughter's birthday party video or show off your holiday slideshow on your TV. The built-in media server streams music, photos and movies to any DLNA-certified multimedia device such as WD TV Live HD media player, Blu-ray Disc player, Xbox 360, or PlayStation 3. DLNA 1.5 & UPnP certified. Ideal for Centralising your digital media collection on your wired or wireless network Sharing movies, music, and photos with all the computers on your network Backing up data from all the PC and Mac computers in your home Viewing your photo collection with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch Streaming media to your Blu-ray Disc players, game consoles, media players, or other DNLA/UPnP devices on your home network Backup Your Backup You can automatically make a second copy, or safepoint, of your My Book Live on another My Book Live or NAS drive on your home network. Now you've got double-safe protection for all your media and ultimate peace of mind. Box Contains Users ManualPower LeadDVI-D LeadVGA LeadUSB LeadDisplayPort Lead
A**I
RED LIGHT OF DEATH AND NO CUSTOMER SERVICE
I was using this product Until recently.Was valuable to me until the red light appeared.Turned to google for trouble shooting and was first shocked to find many people with the same problem and second absolutely nothing from the company in terms of a solution to this problem.Tonnes of backed up data maybe lost due to this failure. Not sure if its the hard drive or the board attached to the hd. So ill have to buy an external enclosure and power it up onto my laptop via a usb to see whether I can recover the family photos and videos. I will never buy Wd products again.Will even go to the extent of inquiring if any new laptops i buy have a wd made hard drive and stay well clear.
M**S
Been reliable for over two years, but so slow to use.
I've had the drive now for over two years, though the drive still functions as it should - it is really not at all quick and even logging into the user interface is a slow process. Its ok for backing up photos etc but don't expect it to be a quick job of putting them all on there to begin with.The cloud idea is good but bear in mind that it is limited to your upload speed from out of the home - in my case it is around 0.8 Mbps upload so if I want to remotely access any larger document/video/picture etc then it is slow going.I have personally found though that it does what I want and has been reliable. I would not buy another because of the slow speed, the slow and basic user interface and the cloud storage is just too much of a pain from the office to be of any decent use (not when compared to dropbox, onedrive and google drive which are all a load quicker to access).Sorry WD, its two stars from me.
B**L
Very good at the basics
As always, Prime delivery was superb. Ordered 6pm Fri arrived 8am Sat.The drive is neat, quiet, not littered with flashing lights. Perfect for connecting to network and forgetting.The drive was immediatley recognised by my Win7 64-bit machines, PS3, TV etc, and ready to receive data. True plug and play.The setup was pretty simple, not much to do. Web UI is a bit slow.Copying data was as expected for non-direct attached drives, and I got about 11Kb/s though my ageing O2 10/100 router over lan. Once populated, it was immediatley clear that read performance was stellar compared to PC-PC sharing and WMP media sharing.My problem came when I decided to change the IP to static and I suspect the O2 router, which's software is terrible, is partly to blame. At first I just told the router to always give the same IP. But now the NAS was not accesible. Drive was booted, flashing green, I could ping the device name and IP, but you could not open the folder shares in Explorer, access the Web UI or even detect with WD Discovery. WD tray icon showed the drive but had n/a for usage or temp. Countless reboots of the drive (disconnect lan, wait for inactivity, power cycle). Tried using the rest button on the back, but that only resets password and IP to DHCP. Still not stable.Eventually I discovered that after reboot, it was available for about 10min, then would return to thd ignoring me state. So I downloaded the firmware, and did a re-flash after a reboot. Now the drive is stable and working fine. I really have no idea why the drive was able to send me status emails and answers ping, but was unavailable to Windows, HTTP and discovery software.But this is the crux. It is easy to setup, works well (fast reads for media and files), and is a good amount of always available storage for a good price. BUT the lack of direct connect and limited control beyond the basic Web UI leaves me concerned that this is not a good data vault, just a really good media server. And I can only assume it uses proprietry file system, so you could not just pull the drive out and connect to PC to recover data (or populate the drive).Overall I am pleased, but this really is just a soho cloud, and stick to direct USB or proper NAS devices for safekeeping.
M**S
Great home storage device
Great device, works brilliantly! Streams to my TV, and the WD App meant that on a recently holiday, I used my iPhone whilst in Italy to upload my photo's (over a cafe's WiFi) to my NAS box at home!!Quite user friendly, although I work in IT, I would say that a beginner may struggle a little bit, but it's relatively easy to use and there's always google and instructions to use!Only downside is that sometimes when streaming, it disconnects and many device's DLNA does not support a seek function, meaning that you can only play or stop - no forward or rewind functions work!! Very fustrating, but could be the home network (but only happens on streaming via TV)All in all, a great box. Lacking a USB3 port which could have been very very handy to use, rather than the limiting speed of you network to upload!!
R**N
So far so good
I read about fifty reviews of this product before buying it. The reviews are very touch and go and it felt like a gamble, but in the end I risked it because nothing else on the market (a NAS) had this capacity and this price. I use it as an offsite backup for my main NAS. I noted the near-universal disdain for the enclosed software bundle and decided not to bother with it. After all, your computer has an operating system doesn't it? So drag and drop if you need to people! That said I went one further and used the backup firmware in my main NAS (Netger ReadyNAS Duo - can't speak too highly of it!!) and set up some backup jobs on there. This in effect tells my main NAS to backup selected folders to this WD NAS (or 'Livebook' to use it's marketing name).I have to say it seems to do a workman-like job. It's not noisey, and it's reasonably fast (remember I don't use the bundled 'backup' software). My backup is mediated by my home hub which transmits much more slowly than if I connected the two NAS' via an ethernet switch and even so I find it fine. I left it on overnight the first time it backed up over a terrabyte, and thereafter I just backup the changes which can be done in an hour or so at most. I haven't had to do a restore yet (thank God) but I am assuming that since the write is ok the read will be ok too.
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