Behold! Two 500GB WesternDigital 'MyBook' external hard-drives and one 1000GB WesternDigital 'MyBook' hard-drive. Is it just me or is there a touch of O RLY about this? Watch the 'winky-blinky' video.
Of course, technically not 2TB but that's just the way hard-drives are standardised.
Hmmm, I've only heard bad things about the MyBook series. I know two (!) people who bought MyBooks that later died on them, and teh intarwebz are full of horror stories.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it was a firmware issue that they fixed in a later revision, but this christmas, I deliberately chose a Lacie, even if that gave me a higher €/GB.
Lacie? As in the company that re-badge WesternDigital hard-drives in overly expensive enclosures? Whatever makes you feel better I guess ^_^
ReplyDeleteSome facts, I've had the two 500GB drives for 2 years without a single problem (of course if I have now, its entirely your fault you understand ;) ) They have traveled literally thousands of miles with me. I've seen people complaining about MyBook's on Komplett... I've seen them complain about all drive manufacturers though... shit happens. Personally speaking, I had a friend who's 750GB MyBook stopped working on him... he had dropped it on the floor twice, and it was only after the second time it decided to act up. I have another terabyte of memory with internal drives... all are WD and again no problems. I have one Seagate drive and it's a piece of shit. And speaking of snobbery, no one likes Maxtor drives. Yet my 1GB Maxtor drive from 12 years ago still runs today.
Honestly though, I would never trust an external harddrive for anything important, no matter who made it, it's far too easy to knock it about. My external drives are for my child-porn collection only, and if I woke up one morning to find that the drives had stopped working, it's probably for the best anyway :)
In the absence of anything better to say... O LAWD, IS DAT SUM...?
ReplyDeleteWill someone please think of the childrenz!! Oh I just noticed, vimeo put a mouth on my video
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