Western Digital makes Mac My Book

ThePete: OS X doesn't support writing to NTFS disks, so having a My Book formatted as NTFS would be a bad idea... :)

@ 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.

I 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.

The 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.

I 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.

I'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.

Scott, "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. :-)

Thanks for the replies