Western Digital WDG2TP10000N My Book Pro Edition II 1 TB USB/Firewire Triple Interface External Hard Drive

by Western Digital

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2.8 x 3.5 x 4.7 inches ; 4.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000J1HPJY
• Item model number: WDG2TP10000N
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (103 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

From the manufacturer

Get extraordinary capacity or extra data protection with this dual-drive, triple-interface RAID storage system from WD. A three year warranty and one-of-a-kind features make this the most powerful product in WD’s My Book family of external drives and the preeminent storage system in its class.

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 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.

Product Features

Extraordinary capacity: With one terabyte (1,000 GB) of storage in this elegant, small footprint design, you have plenty of room to store an entire digital photo library, 125 hours of HD movies, or over 75 hours of DV video.

Extra data protection: For extra data protection, dedicate half the capacity for mirroring and automatically and instantaneously back up data every time you save it.

Extra-fast performance: The lighting-fast combination of FireWire 400/800 and RAID striping yields 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: You’re up and running in a few simple steps. RAID configuration is easy with WD’s intuitive RAID Wizard software

User serviceable: Easy access allows you to open the case and replace a drive. No need to send the entire system in for service.

Triple interface: Provides flexibility and performance with connections for ultra-fast FireWire 800, as well as FireWire 400 and USB 2.0.

EMC Retrospect Express Backup and System Recovery Software: Powerful backup software that includes full system backup and recovery, easy scheduling, and encryption.

Capacity gauge: See at a glance how much space is available on your storage system.

Intelligent drive management features: Automatic power-up, Safe Shutdown, and LED activity lights make this storage system especially easy to use.

Quiet and cool: An efficient convection cooling system and a thermostatically controlled fan keep this unit reliably cool and remarkably quiet.

3-year warranty

Ideal For:

• Gain peace of mind with a mirrored back up of important documents and images
• Organize and archive vast photo and artwork libraries
• Edit and exchange massive audio and video projects

Product Description

Western Digitals My Book Pro Edition II dual-drive external storage system combines up to 1 TB of storage, versatile RAID capability, backup and system recovery software, triple-interface, user-serviceability and a 3-year warranty to make it the preeminent storage system in its class. Use it to archive vast photo libraries or edit and exchange massive audio/video projects. Edit multiple streams of video without dropping frames in RAID striped mode, or dedicate half the capacity for mirroring and automatically and instantaneously back up data every time you save it.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

117 of 126 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great idea, lousy description. This thing is insanely LOUD., October 22, 2006

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Jevaun "Web Designer" (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Western Digital WDG2TP10000N My Book Pro Edition II 1 TB USB/Firewire Triple Interface External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

I totally have to agree with the earlier reviewer who mentioned the noise level on this thing. The box, the site, the descriptions all take great pains to describe this as a whisper-quiet, fanless system. They are all wrong. The thing is like having a 747 start up in your office. it's deafeningly loud. It's great that you can get 1TB of storage to sit on your desktop, but at the expense of your peace and quiet? i dunno... it's becoming a hard trade-off. There doesn't appear to be any way around it either. Once the fan starts you're typically in for at least 20 minutes of full-blast, wind-tunnel action. If you can tolerate the noise, it's a near ideal storage solution.

111 of 120 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fan is so noisy its unusable, October 21, 2006

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Carol Fernandes - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Digital WDG2TP10000N My Book Pro Edition II 1 TB USB/Firewire Triple Interface External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

I bought one of these drives recently and was *shocked* at how loud the internal fan is. Within 5 minutes of turing the drive on and copying over files the fan kicked in and it was like I had a leaf blower in the office. It's totally unusable. Maybe other people are fine with high levels of fan noise or put them in already loud areas, but put this thing in a quiet office and it's brutal. I'm returning it asap. I have no idea if this is a one-off situation or they're all like this. It doesn't seem to be defective and there is nothing in the software to reduce fan speed or lower the noise level. Just thought I'd post this as a warning to people who are looking at these drives. Buyer beware.

66 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Second above. Loudest fan noise ever heard., October 22, 2006

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TopGun - See all my reviews

This review is from: Western Digital WDG2TP10000N My Book Pro Edition II 1 TB USB/Firewire Triple Interface External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

I bought the My Book Premium Edition II 1TB external drive. (1 year warranty, darker color, comes with backup software) I too have this really loud intermitent fan noise which is louder than 2 PVR, one Dish receiver, 3 outher external hard drives, a PC and an AV receiver combined times 3. I can hear it from the next room. Not tolerable unless it can be corrected.