I've got a couple of the 500GB ones and quite happy with them, I only
bought them because they were on special and actually quite a bit
cheaper than buying disks and external case separately and building
them my self.
That said it looks like they are "throw away" cases as I can't see
how to open (or more to the point re-seal) the cases once the hard
drive dies so as to replace it.
Also with the 2 TB version assume that it is 2x1TB disks and again
I'd assume they are configured in RAID 0 configuration, unfortunately
while this allows the user to conveniently treat the 2 drives as a
single drive and increases access speed when using firewire 800
interface it also doubles the chance of drive failure over a single
disk unit and the failure of one disk will kill the data on both
drives.
While I'd consider buying one for offline storage I'd also want to
look at having enough single drives for actually backup duties.
also dare I ask where did you see them and how much were they ?
Hello WAMUG,
I have seen a Western Digital MY Book Premium Edition 11 2TB HD in a shop.
Do these HDs have a good reputation?
Cheers,
Bill
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