Western Digital makes Mac My Book
It was only a few days ago that our very own Mat Lu was talking up Western Digital's line of My Book external drives, and today Mac users have even more reason to check 'em out. The My Book Studio edition is aimed squarely at Mac users. The enclosure was designed to compliment Apple's hardware, and the drive is HFS+ Journaled formated. It also sports a quadruple interface (USB 2.0, FireWire 400/800 and eSATA) and backup software.Available in 320 GB to 1 TB capacities and priced from $199.99 USD to $399.99 the My Book Studio edition is worth checking out.
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It was only a few days ago that our very own Mat Lu was talking up Western Digital's line of My Book external drives, and today Mac users...
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ThePete: OS X doesn't support writing to NTFS disks, so having a My Book formatted as NTFS would be a bad idea... :)
September 26 2007 at 8:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply@ ThePete
I'm not surprised it took an NTFS drive a while to mount, barring FUSE, you sir have a very special machine.
As for losing cell reception around the drive, you were right to return it, that's an odd thing to happen to say the least.
Just FYI, the 1GB Studio only runs at 5400rpm :( the 500GB is 7200.
September 26 2007 at 1:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI bought a 500GB MyBook a few months back and ended up returning it. It didn't play well with my MacBook at all. It took very long to mount (even though it was NTFS) and sometimes wouldn't. I also noticed that when the MyBook was powered up, I'd get no cell phone signal at my desk. When I'd turn it off, my SLVR and SK3 would get bars. Go fig.
September 26 2007 at 12:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe drive looks like a good idea, I'll wait to see what users think. I plan to get an Airport and hook a drive up to it, but what I'd like to know is whether USB 2.0 is quick enough for the data transfers or if it's a bottleneck. You have GigE speeds, sending data to it from a connected Mac, will it be noticeably slow? Or even sending it wireless, does it "feel" slow? I'm curious... if not, it seems like a good solution. In fact, I hope not since that's my plan next month.
September 26 2007 at 9:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI can't seem to understand what the big fuss is about. When I bought my 1TB WD MyBook and plugged it into my Mac, I didn't have to do anything - It automatically became HFS+ Journaled.
September 26 2007 at 2:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI'm just sick of third parties who make Apple versions of their hardware that's nothing more than a paint job, and they charge MORE for these items.
For example, Kensington has a history of making Mac keyboards that are just white versions of their PC USB keyboards, and pricing these keyboards $20 to $30 more than the technically-identical PC version.
This is the same thing. Ooh. It's formatted for Mac... As if I couldn't do that in 3 minutes with Disk Utility. Yet the price of this version of the MyBook seems to cost more than their standard version, which is still just a USB/Firewire external drive that will work with any modern Mac.
Stop trying to gank Apple users, please. If you want to offer an Apple-friendly version of your product, then do us the courtesy of charging us the same thing you charge the PC users. You insult us otherwise.
Anyone considering one of these should read the comments in the earlier blog post (the "talking up" link). Western Digital drives are held in contempt by many who have tried them. Seagate drives, with a 5-year warranty, seem like the better bet.
September 25 2007 at 10:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyScott, "designed to compliment Apple's hardware" this new line of drives may well be, because imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. It also happens to nicely *complement* our beloved hardware. :-)
September 25 2007 at 9:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThanks for the replies
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