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Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition 2TB USB 2.0 (WDH2U20000N) | 
| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $399.99
Buy New: $286.99
You Save: $113.00 (28%)
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 650
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Hard Drive Size: 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0.1
Warranty: 3 years warranty
MPN: WDH2U20000N
Model: WDH2U20000N
UPC: 718037728988
EAN: 0718037728988
ASIN: B001B8RSAK
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | The safest place for your data | | • | Automatic backup software | | • | Cooler, quieter, eco-friendlier | | • | Cooler, quieter, eco-friendlier | | • | Capacity Gauge |
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Product Description
The perfect backup system for your irreplaceable data, WD's My Book Mirror Edition II dual-drive storage system offers RAID-based continuous data protection and user-serviceability. This eco-friendly drive consumes 33% less power and also features a clever capacity gauge and remote access software. WD's My Book Mirror Edition II dual-drive external storage system with RAID mirroring combines USB 2.0 interface, user-serviceability, and automatic backup software. This system is designed to continuously duplicate your data for the ultimate in data protection. If one drive in this two-drive system ever fails, the system continues to run and your data is safe. Use the full capacity of this system to archive vast photo libraries or edit and exchange massive audio/video projects.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Worst computer accessory I've seen in 22 years. November 17, 2008
P. CaffallDavis (Hyder Alaska)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have never seen a computer accessory or piece of computer equipment as poor as this one in my 22 years of working with computers.
The connection points for the power and USB are so unstable that merely brushing against one of the wires will foul up your connection and cause failure of the drive. And installing it crashed my XP system. And even after I managed to get it working (sometimes) it still prevented my system from booting. I had to remove the USB connector in order to boot.
And the software was so buggy it over a three day period was unable to complete a single mirror back up. I set it to RAID 1 but it never worked property. And after many software stalls - lock ups - it would report it had more and more files to back up as time went on.
After two weeks of trying to get this software to automatically do backups as it should it would on most mornings report a failure the night before. I never did get the software working right.
As I said before, the connection points are so delicate that this is definately NOT a good product to rely on for your backups.
I down loaded new drivers and the latest versions of software and NEVER did I get this piece of c**p to work properly. I returned it and will never purchase another western digital My Book product.
Funny thing: I ordered a 500 Gig SATA WD hard drive at the same time and it works flawlessly.
I think WD just needs to work out the bugs on this USB mirror drive and software. But even if they do I'm not going to try one ever again. I invested enough of my time in this already.
I'm looking to some different back up hardware and software. Maybe a network back up drive would be better.
I was going to give it 0 stars, but 1 star is the lowest rating possible. FYI, The computer I tried to connect it to is a HP Pavilion desktop system running 3.06 Hz with 3 gigs of RAM, XP service pack 3. There were no other conflicts, issues or problems with this system at the time this WD MY Book mirror was tested.
I'm still waiting for my credit for the returned drive.
Hope this helps.
 Great drive, but defrag thoroughly and often October 6, 2008
Joe Skrote (Winchester, Va.)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I've owned this drive for about five months at this writing, and use it to store all my video and music files (both mp3 and wav). And I still have 400GB of free space!
Its USB 2.0 interface is fast enough for video playback in a RAID 0 configuration (since it's actually two 1TB drives it can also be set RAID 1 to automatically back up everything you put on it).
It's a fairly small and very attractive package that doesn't get overly warm; if it has cooling fans inside I haven't heard them running yet. I much prefer its keyhole-shaped fluorescent-looking indicator light to the blinking bull's eye I've seen on older MyBook drives. Its up-and-down motion is actually kind of soothing.
Opening the box to replace a drive, if necessary, doesn't look too difficult if you're so inclined. It's quiet but not totally silent -- there's a soft clattering sound when it's working but I don't find it annoying and it's totally masked by movie audio or music.
One bit of advice, do NOT assume that Microsoft Vista's automatic "Defrag Lite" will do a good job on a drive this huge. I started to experience playback problems with recorded video and discovered that the drive was severely fragmented, even with Vista set to defrag it once a week. There's no easy way to analyze the drive for fragmentation with Vista defrag's dumbed-down user interface. And it would be great if WD included a defrag utility in its Drive Manager or Diagnostics Tool -- it doesn't. But there's freeware out there (Auslogics or JKDefrag) that will do a thorough job and, even better, actually show you what it's doing. So defrag this drive thoroughly and often, especially if you copy, move, delete and convert a lot of large video files.
 3 year warranty only August 11, 2008
fatmav
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
Most important thing first: some may see this as a USB2-only version of the My Book Studio II edition (please see my review there). But in this light, this one only has a 3 year warranty whereas the latter is a 5 year.
Otherwise, I note that these physically appears to identical units except for the interfaces other than USB2. However, the numbers I've seen suggest that there is no significant speed advantage in SATA over USB2 in practice. So in the end, the decision should be based mostly on the warranty.
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