Network Media Player With Storage

Simplified set up and best-in-class performance make My Book World Edition Home Network Storage the easy choice for centralizing data and backing up your home computers. Connect the drive to your network router and you¿re up and running in minutes. Use the included back up software to protect your family¿s PCs with automatic and continuous backup plans. Store all your digital media in one central location so everyone in the family can have access to it. Compatible with both Mac and Windows files.

Size: 2 TB Color: White Brand: Western Digital Model: WDH1NC20000N Platform: Windows Format: CD-ROM Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 6.81" h x 2.28" w x 5.78" l, 2.41 pounds Hard Disk: 2000GB Automatic and continuous backup for all the computers on your network Cutting-edge technologies to deliver high performance read and write speeds ideal for the most demanding users Built-in media server for streaming music, photos and movies to any DLNA certified multimedia device Centralize your music collection and stream to a Mac or Windows PC using iTunes software System Compatibility: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7Mac OS X Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard

Centralized storage for everyone to share. WD's My Book World Edition home network drive to makes it easy to store all your digital media in one central location so everyone in the family can have access to it. Simply connect the drive to your network router and you're up and running in just a few minutes. Store and share your media collection, back up data from any Mac or PC on your network, and stream media to your entertainment center. You can even view your stored photos with your iPhone. Relax.Centralized storage and backup for all the computers on your network. Enjoy.Stream movies, music, and photos to your entertainment center. Escape. Access your data anytime, anywhere. Show off your photos with your iPhone. Features at a glance Store and backup photos, music, and video on your network Protect your files wirelessly with automatic, continuous backup Works seamlessly with both Windows® and Mac® computers Stream your digital media to your entertainment center View photos stored on the drive with your iPhone® or iPod® touch 3-year limited warranty Simplified set up and best-in-class performance make the My Book World Edition home network drive the perfect choice for centralizing and backing up data on all the computers in your home. Automatic and continuous backup for all the computers on your network - Now you can easily back up data from all your home computers with the included continuous backup software. Set it and forget it; every time you save something it's instantly and automatically backed up. Simple file recovery - Restore lost, damaged or older files back to their original location with a couple of clicks. Backup files are stored in the same file structure that you originally saved them, so it's easy and intuitive to find files. Centralize all your family's digital content - Store or backup all your digital files and media in one central location so everyone can access and enjoy your collection from any computer in the home. Stream digital media anywhere in your home - Built-in media server for streaming music, photos and movies to any DLNA certified multimedia device such as Playstation® 3, Xbox 360®, wireless digital picture frames, and connected audio receivers. DLNA 1.5 & UPnP certified. View your photo collection with your iPhone - Use your iPhone or iPod touch to get quick access to all the photos stored on your My Book World Edition home network drive. Download the free WD Photos photo viewer app and show off your entire photo collection without taking up tons of space on your iPhone or iPod touch. iTunes® server support - Centralize your music collection and stream to a Mac® or Windows® PC using iTunes software. Remote access - Access your files anywhere, anytime using MioNet remote access technology from WD. Works seamlessly with both Windows and Mac computers - Access and save files seamlessly from both your Mac and your Windows computers. Best-in-class performance - My Book World Edition uses cutting-edge technologies to deliver high performance read and write speeds ideal for the most demanding users. Easy to set up, easy to find on your network - Set up is a snap; in just a few minutes you're up and running. Mac and Windows Vista computers will automatically find your My Book drive in seconds. Our simple discovery software makes it easy to find the drive with Windows XP systems. Share your personal content - MioNet remote access technology makes it easy for you to securely share photos and documents with friends and family. USB 2.0 utility port - Turn any USB drive into an instant network drive or extra capacity for your World Edition. Cooler, quieter, eco-friendlier - Equipped with WD drives using WD GreenPower Technology, this system consumes significantly less power and delivers performance on par with power hungry network storage devices using 7200 RPM hard drives. Capacity gauge - See at a glance how much space is available on your drive. High-speed data transfer with Gigabit Ethernet - Gigabit networking and transfer rates are five to six times faster than other standard 10/100 Ethernet network storage systems. This performance is comparable to USB 2.0 direct-attached storage. Ideal for Centralizing your photos, movies and music for everyone on the network to share Automatically backing up data from all the computers on your network to one location Seamlessly backing up and storing data from both Windows and Mac computers Streaming media to your entertainment center Retrieving files stored on the drive while at the office or traveling Accessing photos stored on the drive with your iPhone or iPod touch What's in the box Home network drive, ethernet cable, AC adapter, software CD, Quick Install Guide. Compatibility Windows XP/Vista, Mac OS® X Tiger®, Leopard®, Snow Leopard™. Note: Compatibility may vary depending on user’s hardware configuration and operating system.

Most helpful customer reviews 29 of 29 people found the following review helpful. Budget NAS, but I'm happy with it after a couple of tweaks By G. Farnsworth I bought the 2TB version of this (but not the version that has two physical drives). I'm not really all that interested in having the redundancy of RAID, weird programs backing up my computer when I'm not around, or software that allows me to connect to it remotely. I just want to throw my data on there from any one of the computers on my network and be able to get it off reasonably quickly, and I want it to go to sleep when I'm not using it. This drive does those things well. I was looking for a drive that: 1. allows me to ssh in and tweak things by hand if I want 2. goes to sleep when not in use and wakes up without a problem 3. is cheap, quiet, and looks good 4. is fast enough for my needs 5. doesn't have any gotchas that impair its use significantly In these respects this drive performs well. The first thing I did when I got it was enable ssh, which you can do through the web menu. Then I logged in and disabled the mionet script. Mionet is the software that allows you to log in remotely, but it's apparently the buggiest and most wasteful program ever. You can supposedly disable this through the menu but it comes back on when you are not looking, so you actually need to physically go in and disable the startup script. I'm a linux guy so this was no problem. There are some howto's on the web that will tell you how to do this. I played around with twonky, which is the software for playing media through UPnP. I think it's a cool idea, but the truth is that I have no need for it. I don't need/want to stream to anything but computers, and in that case it's easier to just map this drive and play the movie or song from that computer using my normal software. So I disabled twonky as well. It seemed to have a bunch of spawned processes, so this was probably a good thing. This also needs to be done through ssh. I didn't install any of the software that comes on the CD's or anything. Apparently that software is crap anyway. I'm not sure what I would want it for. This drive works once you stick it on the network...no configuration necessary. I can get to the drive either by referencing its IP address or the hostname I gave it through the web interface. The drive is silent and unobtrusive. The led white bar on the front slowly flashes on and off if it's sleeping and moves up and down if it's not. You can disable these leds through the web interface so it's even less obtrusive. I was worried that the sleep feature wouldn't work correctly but it works perfectly, which is one big plus about this drive. You don't notice it go to sleep because it's so quiet anyway, but it does after 15 minutes or something of not being used. Then when you try and read from it again it starts up quickly and there's no fuss. No need to turn it off or mess with it in any way, ever. Nice. Performance is...pretty ok considering the type of device it is. According to the reviews I read, this drive is fast compared with others in its class. If you want something real fast, you have to pay up. Anyway, I have a gigabit network and I do realize you can't ever actually get the theoretical optimal speed. For reference (indicator of how good my network is or isn't), when I copy from one computer to another (both pretty fast computers) using SMB I get about 19.5 MB per second. When I use SMB to copy something onto this NAS I get about 10.8 MB per second. It's not as fast as copying to a computer, but I knew that going in. This is a powersaving and inexpensive device and both of those say it won't match performance of a fast computer with a PCI express gigabit connection. Anyway, when I read from it I get more like 16 MB per second or a little more. That's nearly as fast as a computer-to-computer copy. So I'm satisfied. I can certainly watch movies off of this drive directly without any skipping or anything. If you