The Gadget: My Book World Edition II, a 4TB Raid NAS—a small networked hard drive with a ton of storage. More »
Rather than bore you with some tedious statistics about the number of people who lose all their precious memories because they don’t back up their hard drive, I’m just going to tell you that if you don’t enter this competition, you’re an idiot.
Why? Because it’s free, it’s easy, and you can walk away with a 640GB external hard drive (which is Mac-ready, Apple fans) which you can use to save all those special videos and images you keep on your PC’s hard drive, should it decide to commit suicide. You know, the ones that give you a warm, fuzzy feeling? Yeah, that’s them.
To enter, just hit the link and follow the steps. If the criteria seems too hard to enter, just think about how hard it would be to replace that rare collection of photos from Scandinavia. That’s what I thought!
Get cracking – entries close September 30, 2008.
Western Digital’s been churning out these My Book external hard drives in all sorts of configurations, but this 1 and 2TB Studio Edition IIs seem to be the most feature rich yet. It’s got FireWire 400/800, eSATA, USB 2.0, RAID 0 or 1, and Mac support (you can also reformat it for PCs). Looking at Western Digital’s Editions page, these come equipped with all the features except for remote sharing and networking, because there’s no network port.
A scant five months since the My Book external hard drives hit 1TB, Western Digital upped their game and doubled the storage to 2TB. The My Book World Edition 2 has remote access, UPnP support, Gigabit Ethernet support and RAID 1 capabilities. There’s actually no mention at all of USB 2.0 support, so this is an Ethernet-only NAS affair. Keep this in mind as you slam down $799 for one of these. [Western Digital via Crunchgear] More »
