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Western Digital WDG2TP20000N My Book Pro Edition II 2 TB USB2.0/Firewire RAID Triple Interface External Hard Drive | 
| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
This item is no longer available
Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 6642
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Hard Drive Size: 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.7
Dimensions (in): 11.5 x 9 x 9
Warranty: 3 years warranty
MPN: WDG2TP20000N
Model: WDG2TP20000N
UPC: 718037122656
EAN: 0718037122656
ASIN: B000UF0EII
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| Features:
| • | Up to 2 TB of storage in a small design lets you store an entire digital photo library, your HD movie collection and hours and hours of DV video | | • | For extra data protection, dedicate half the capacity for mirroring and automatically and instantaneously back up data every time you save it | | • | FireWire 400/800 and RAID striping gives the speed you need for fast, smooth video editing, an extra-responsive Photoshop scratch disk, rendering complex 3D objects or special effects, and saving huge blocks of data in record time | | • | Easy to set up, easy to use. RAID configuration is easy with WD's intuitive RAID Wizard software | | • | Easy access allows you to open the case and replace a drive. No need to send the entire system in for service |
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Product Description
WD's My Book Pro Edition II dual-drive storage system offers RAID mirroring for extra data protection or RAID striping for extraordinary capacity and performance. A three-year limited warranty, triple-interface and a powerful combination of features and performance make this system the storage solution of choice for creative professionals, workgroups, small offices and anyone looking for extra assurance that their data is safe.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Amazing fast Hard drive August 4, 2008
Todorovic (Indiana, USA)
After reading of few review's here I made a purchase of this product and was really suprised with this products. All the best, and I recommend it!
My Book 2TV May 31, 2008
Merrill M. Hessel (Gaithersburg, MD USA)
This is an excellent product. In addition to the 2TB drive I have two 1TB Book drives that I also use. I put them all in a raid configuration. I take the advice of a sage "A hard drive is a mechanical device and it will fail". I do a lot of Broadcast video and need failure recoverable drives. One of my 1TB turned from healthy to unhealthy (one of the two 500GB drives failed) and Western Digital sent me a replacement drive immediately under warranty. I popped it in to my the drive and since it was in the raid configuration the other drive quickly mirrored itself and put it back into full service. I only have good words to say about this drive. I have used it in both the USB and Firewire 400 configuration.
Great drive for capturing and storing video May 25, 2008
T. Kraft (Boston, MA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this 2 terabit drive for video capture using the fast Firewire 800 interface, a must for large files and video digitizing. It has custom software that make the drive run more efficiently. Cosmetically the drive looks great next to my silver mac and I like the blue glowing button. Have had no problems with the drive.
Nice hard drive so far May 2, 2008
Lynn Schroeder
I've only been using this hard drive for a month, but so far, so good. It's quiet and isn't much larger than other drives I own that have less than half the storage capacity. I'd recommend this product and the seller.
 Beware - requires dedicated Firewire port April 1, 2008
GWS (Chapel Hill, NC USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
When I installed this drive on my PowerPC G5 tower it would not work for transfers of more than a few Mbytes at a time. On Mac OS X 10.5 I got a Finder error (error code -36) indicating a write failure. Got a similar failure from Time Machine. After some investigation I discovered that the drive worked OK only when it was the only thing on the port (either FW400 or FW800) but failed if it was on a FW400 hub or FW800 daisychain with other devices (even just an iSight). I discussed this with WD Tech Support and received the following reply:
If the drive works connected directly to a port then the device is working. We do no support daisy chaining, even though it may work. We also do not test the drives with third-party products, and as such cannot support using them with the drive.
Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.
Sincerely,
Nicole R.
Western Digital Service and Support
Added 8 April 2008:
It turned out that the drive actually does work correctly daisy-chained on the FW800 port and the cause of my problem was elsewhere all along, just misdiagnosed. (The iSight on the FW4000 hub apparently was underpowered and causing delay and confusion on the whole Firewire subsystem. Moving the iSight to a dedicated port cleared things up.) I did buy a PCI Firewire 800 card in the interim and am running the drive off a dedicated port as WD requires, but that turned out not to be necessary. Time Machine is ticking away and all is happy now and I'd adjust the stars up to 4 if I could, but I have spent a great deal more time on this than I had budgeted and clearly Western Digital's official position was... unhelpful.
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