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Overview
Bought one of these guys a couple days ago and 48 hours in am very happy with it.
Had a 250gb USB drive finally die on me a couple weeks ago and needed a replacement so I headed down to Best Buy to pick up a big USB drive. 2tb seemed about the right size for me and at $119 the price was right. But for $30 more I could get the MyBook Live instead that connects via ethernet, and that’s what I did. That way it’s always online and not dependent on a specific computer being on.
Pros
It’s big. 1.8tb according to the computer, but that’s normal between the 1,000 or 1,024 methods of calculating terabytes.
Dead easy to set up. I plugged it into a switch and it worked. All of the computers on network find it as a network device and have no problem getting to it.
Apple TimeMachine support. Didn’t know this when I bought it, but the MyBook Live acts as a TimeMachine backup device. So I was able to point my MacBook to the drive and it’ll run it’s backups silently every hour.
Acts as a personal cloud. Haven’t gotten this working yet, but you’re supposed to be able to access the drive from over the internet and from smart phones.
And you can manage it through a web browser.Very cool not needing to install more software.
Cons
The instructions don’t say anything about being able to manage through a web browser, but only mention installing software. I did on one machine, but plan on uninstalling it since it seems unnecessary.
And really, that’s the only negative I’ve come across so far. The drive is happily sitting under my desk asleep waiting to be used.
Versions
The version I bought was 2tb, but there’s also a 1tb and 3tb version. The difference in price between the 1tb and 2tb wasn’t enough to warrant the smaller drive. And Best Buy didn’t have any of the 3tb in stock, although the $149 was about as much as I wanted to spend at the time.
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