Short version: Western Digital’s refreshed My Book Essential external hard drive provides a simple, unobtrusive, and relatively inexpensive home backup solution. With an enormous 2TB capacity, ...

It must be external hard drive season. Coming after Buffalo’s DriveStation Duo release yesterday comes Western Digital’s launch of the 1TB MyBook Pro Edition II. Like the Buffalo, this MyBook is ...

The old adage, "looks can be deceiving," applies very well to the Western Digital My Book World Edition network-attached storage (NAS) device. With its small and simplistic physical design, housed in ...

The guys at Wired and BoingBoing stirred up a hornet’s nest this morning by alleging that Western Digital’s 1TB MyBook World Edition external hard drives “won’t share media files over network ...

A quick question. I have an old WD MyBook Pro Edition which has an Oxford chipset in it (IIRC 912). I know for certain the drive is SATA. I need to access a 2TB drive and I'm willing to replace the ...

I remember spec’ing out an Apple XRAID a few years ago which I filled with 14 400GB hard drives. At the time, it was the biggest and fastest volume I’d ever built. After putting those drives in RAID 5 ...