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Jj24 · May 11, 2008, 06:13 PM

Hi guys,

just bought World Edition 2... just like to correct some things that were said on the forum :

first the noise is totally absent. I'm writing full speed on it since 1 hour now and I swear I can't hear it at all, unless I stick my ear right on the drive, so this was false, I'm totally satisfied with the noise and maybe you got unlucky or have a bad fan I don't know...

For the speed, I just transfered 7 gigs in 20 minutes, so that's not completely crazy but I'm personaly Ok with that speed, considering I'm passing through a 100 mbps router, I don't know if it could get faster with a faster router...

For the write errors, I just transfered 7 gigs with the //mybook/ nomenclature and it works fine; did not need to map by an IP address. CRC of this whole 7 gigs is OK. however I didn't test as much as some of you; maybe it will get hotter and start making errors, I'll see that later...

There's 1 thing that really frustrated me : the software suite is not vista 64-bits compatible. Now I learned that just when trying to install them. I was lucky I found a way to include the drive as a network drive using vista itself, however if the software is important for you, keep in mind that it is not compatible with vista 64. Now I tried the software on my wife's XP 32-bits and it's just ridiculous so in the end It's a good thing it was not compatible. The guys that made this little software had in mind the idea to give you access to your drive anywhere in the world, and they use a central identification server for this; they basically reinvented FTP and when I see this kind of software I'm not happy... why not use the old protocols that are pretty good already, why absolutely cover all this file transfer this with java environnements and things you need to install etc.... So in the end I don't care about the software, but I'm still totally frustrated against WD to not take care of its clients with vista 64 bits I mean any serious company should consider from now on to offer all its products compatible with vista...

Despite that I'm totally satisfied with the drive itself, sorry gotta go fill this monster!

Jj24

May 11, 2008, 06:13 PM	#10
Jj24 Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Just got World Edition II Hi guys, just bought World Edition 2... just like to correct some things that were said on the forum : first the noise is totally absent. I'm writing full speed on it since 1 hour now and I swear I can't hear it at all, unless I stick my ear right on the drive, so this was false, I'm totally satisfied with the noise and maybe you got unlucky or have a bad fan I don't know... For the speed, I just transfered 7 gigs in 20 minutes, so that's not completely crazy but I'm personaly Ok with that speed, considering I'm passing through a 100 mbps router, I don't know if it could get faster with a faster router... For the write errors, I just transfered 7 gigs with the //mybook/ nomenclature and it works fine; did not need to map by an IP address. CRC of this whole 7 gigs is OK. however I didn't test as much as some of you; maybe it will get hotter and start making errors, I'll see that later... There's 1 thing that really frustrated me : the software suite is not vista 64-bits compatible. Now I learned that just when trying to install them. I was lucky I found a way to include the drive as a network drive using vista itself, however if the software is important for you, keep in mind that it is not compatible with vista 64. Now I tried the software on my wife's XP 32-bits and it's just ridiculous so in the end It's a good thing it was not compatible. The guys that made this little software had in mind the idea to give you access to your drive anywhere in the world, and they use a central identification server for this; they basically reinvented FTP and when I see this kind of software I'm not happy... why not use the old protocols that are pretty good already, why absolutely cover all this file transfer this with java environnements and things you need to install etc.... So in the end I don't care about the software, but I'm still totally frustrated against WD to not take care of its clients with vista 64 bits I mean any serious company should consider from now on to offer all its products compatible with vista... Despite that I'm totally satisfied with the drive itself, sorry gotta go fill this monster! Jj24