Purchasing Western Digital My Book

[Steve Eisen]

You can try Goggling!

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[Cory Mckechnie]

Yes clearly, so I now remember why there’s a preview post. It seems the Cow doesn’t like when you cut and paste a TM symbol in your post … here’s the rest of my clipped question:

Anyone know of anywhere I can pick up a Western Digital My Book Pro Edition II (WDG2TP20000) External Hard Drive in Canada? The places listed at Western Digital don’t ship to Canada (interestingly, not even at http://www.westerndigital.ca itself). I’ve exhausted all my usual sources.

If not, anyone have suggestions for a 2TB external hard drive? I’m not tied to the Western Digital (although it does look really good) but what are others using for an external Firewire/USB hard drive solution?

Thanks,
Cory

[Walter Biscardi]

[Cory McKechnie] ”
Anyone know of anywhere I can pick up a Western Digital My Book”

I’ve seen them in all the leading electronics stores. I purchased two at Costco.

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[Cory Mckechnie]

Thanks Walter, I’ve tried Costco but they only have the old 1TB solutions right now. I will keep looking there.

BTW, I hope you have a look at the rest of my post … geez you guys are quick 🙂

[Walter Biscardi]

LaCie has a really nice 2TB external FW unit that you can easily cut uncompressed SD and DVCPro HD / HDV with. Or use it as a backup device like we do.

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[Cory Mckechnie]

Thanks Walter. I’ll have a look at the Lacie’s, maybe it won’t be as difficult to get as the WD’s.

[Walter Biscardi]

https://www.directdial.com/WDG1C2500N.html

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[Cory Mckechnie]

Thanks Walter, I checked there but they don’t have the 2TB WDG2TP20000 model. I did find it at CDW.ca:

https://www.cdw.ca/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1304642

[Ben Holmes]

Cory

I know the price is good on the WD drives, but I beg you to consider a better drive if you can – data is always more valuable than the drive you put it on (unless you own an XRaid, ho ho ho). I have had to use DiskWarrior a couple of times recently to repair WD MyBooks after near-catastrophic data losses, in both cases the b-node tree on the drives was damaged.

You get what you pay for with drives, and in my experience (and others here if you search posts for these drives) these are not reliable. The cases are cheap, the connectors not great (athough I would level the same complaints at Lacie) and the drives not as reliable as others. Is your application critical? Putting 2Tb on one of these terrifies me.

Certainly, the Lacie is better, although I no longer use them after problems – one of mine died, the other suffered from failure of the FW connections, the ports only being secured by the solder attaching them to the board. If you need a mobile drive, I can recommend G-Raid. You can see prices at http://www.g-techology.com.

There are many many posts here about Lacie and Western digital arrays here – have a search and a read (the last few months should turn up a few) before you commit to this purchase.

Ben

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[Xiaolom]

[Ben Holmes] “I have had to use DiskWarrior a couple of times recently to repair WD MyBooks after near-catastrophic data losses, in both cases the b-node tree on the drives was damaged.
“

Interesting, I have this issue recently with my “MyBook”. So I wouldn