WD My Book Live, who uses/used ?

Question

Hard disks

I would like to hear feedback about WD My Book Live.
Is it worth buying? What problems did you face? Advantages and disadvantages?

I'm also interested in compatibility with Mac OS X.

Answer 1

I use www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=290 (My Book World Edition II)
Basically the same, only in an extended version.
Before buying, they tried to convince me that WD devices get very hot and start to slow down.
I've been using it for a year and no problems. Well, I overloaded it a couple of times in a year, most likely because of my own stupidity.
There are 2 MacBooks at home, they go to the Internet via Wi-Fi through a time capsule. WD is also plugged into the time capsule over the network. Everything is working. Chasing constantly. The child spends half a day watching cartoons on macbooks, which are stored on WD + in the World Edition, two disks work in a raid.
The only thing that infuriates is the web-admin panel. Terribly slow. It is very convenient to use the built-in torrent client, uploading to a disk without using a computer. Therefore, you often have to go to the admin panel. But I got used to this minus.

Answer 2

I've been using it for 4 months already as a mini-server, file-garbage and torrento-rocking chair - inside Linux. Completely copes with the tasks. It works quickly, does not make noise, does not heat up, it updates itself. MacOS stores the TimeMachine there.
The only thing I don't like. Installed programs fly off after the next update (it is solved by the bash script, which itself installs everything back).

Answer 3

I've been using it for two months, everything is fine. Inside Linux - softins are put with a bang. The admin panel is inexplicably slow, but I don’t use it (and if you need to manage torrents, then it’s better to set up your http server like rtorrent).
If you connect it to a router, the latter should only be of the “n” standard, and the laptop / computer too; otherwise get 1 megabyte per second as I got with my "g" dots :)
My maximum speed is 25 megabytes / sec for read-write when connected to a computer directly via ethernet; although before the purchase I met mentions of 40-50 megabytes.

Answer 4

I’ve been using it since winter, I’ve flooded the transmission - it’s very convenient, the content from it sucks the media player via LAN