iBood Deal of the Day: Western Digital My Book World Edition 750GB NAS Hard Disc (aut

[ColinP]

Normal price: £ 199,95
iBOOD's price: £ 84,95
More information:
Our computers and hardware are now becoming smaller while programs and data files are becoming larger! What should we do?Don’t worry too much, a new adorable innovation have been invented! Western Digital My Book World Edition Ethernet Network Storage System 750 BGB is the one! 750 GB means that you can fill them with 187.000 MP3s, 57 hours of digital video, 330 hours of DVD quality video or 90 hours HD video off! The hard case makes your files extra secured and protected. This easy-to-use hard disk can be your personal media server at home! You can securely store you photos, music and videos and share them with your family and friends. What should be more tempting than this? An easy access to any information or data from your work or anywhere in the world, even if the local PC is off! Play movies on your television, listen to your favorite music and share multimedia files through a compatible game console. The hard disk comes with EMC Retrospect Express for the back-ups and also a USB 2.0 port for the additional back-up. Very complete and unique, isn’t it? Last but not least, the minimalistic but elegant design with a mirror polished white look suits perfect in every home or office. Today’s offer is a really must!


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[APJ]

After the Archos fiasco, are we sure iBood won't increase the price by £100?!! Their utter disregard for contract law has lost them my custom.

[Tweety]

Are we sure this is the correct price. I would hate to buy it and then be told that it was a misprice.

[driver8]

well, this time the EU sites have it at at 99 euros, so that would seem about right.

expect this one to come off.

[DVD924]

Terrible customer service. I e-mailed them 6 different times in 2 months with some questions and they never replied even once. An item they sent me was faulty and no reply too so a waste of money for me. I wouldn't touch them!

[yaffle]

Can this be used as NAS storage just using the ethernet connector to a wireless router then? No need for USB?

[my-planet]

Can this be used as NAS storage just using the ethernet connector to a wireless router then? No need for USB?

Yes. NAS = NETWORK Attached Storage

[simonmac]

I think the only reason the USB is there is to speed up transfer of files to the device.

[jester]

TBH thats really whats its worth.

[nineteen]

I think the only reason the USB is there is to speed up transfer of files to the device.

I have one of these (500GB).
The USB allows daisy chaining of other USB drives as further network storage.

You can't connect the USB to a PC directly
The box has a small cpu running linux - which is hackable

see http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/

You may hear bad things about this drive but mine has been running well virtually non stop for nearly 2 years now.

I had fast response (12 hours) to an email query from their support people about a month ago.

[driver8]

TBH thats really whats its worth.is there anywhere else you've seen that is this cheap, for a NAS drive ?

[ic]

Does anybody know if this supports running a USB printer? It looks like there's a picture of a printer there, but I can't find mention of this feature anywhere else.

Edit, found my own answer - no :( (http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1519&p_created=1172517706&p_sid=XVxcdNqj&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=1522&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MiwyJnBfcHJvZHM9MjQ3LDI0OCZwX2NhdHM9MCZwX3B2PTIuMjQ4JnBfY3Y9JnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9YW5zd2Vycy5zZWFyY2hfbmwmcF9wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1wcmludGVy&p_li=&p_topview=1)

[nineteen]

Does anybody know if this supports running a USB printer? It looks like there's a picture of a printer there, but I can't find mention of this feature anywhere else.

It is possible with a hack (see my earlier link and http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/print-server ) but otherwise no.

Other tricks are possible too - mine successfully manages my torrent downloads - a lot cheaper than having a PC on all the time

[JCTurner]

Ive gone for one of these anyway - could do with the space and having it NA makes it a whole lot easier.

Cheers Colin

J

[Danatthepub]

edit: whoops wrong thread!