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Western Digital today introduced its new My Book Studio desktop external drives with a customisable e-label that is always visible, even when unplugged, so it’s easy to know the contents of the drive. Designed for Mac users, the new My Book Studio drives are equipped with a FireWire® 800 interface to give users the speed they need for demanding tasks like photo and video editing and graphic design. The new My Book Studio drives are TimeMachine compatible, offer automatic, continuous backup with WD SmartWare software, and include 256-bit hardware-based encryption to provide a high level of security. Available now at select retailers and the WD online store, the new My Book Studio drives are formatted for Mac and offered in capacities of 500 GB, 1 TB, 1.5 TB and 2 TB. MSRP ranges from $149.99 to $299.99 USD depending on model.
WD Press Release
WD(R) Introduces High-Performance My Book(R) Studio(TM) External Hard Drives With Innovative E-Label Display
Creative Professionals Now Have a Better Way to Tell Their Drives Apart
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/—WD® (NYSE: WDC), the world’s leader in external storage solutions, today introduced its new high-performance My Book® Studio(TM) desktop external drives with a customizable e-label that is always visible, even when unplugged, so it’s easy to know the contents of the drive. Designed for Mac® users and creative professionals, the new My Book Studio drives are equipped with a FireWire® 800 interface to give users the speed they need for demanding tasks like photo and video editing and graphic design.
The new My Book Studio drives are TimeMachine® compatible, offer automatic, continuous backup with WD SmartWare(TM) software, and include 256-bit hardware-based encryption to provide a high level of security. Available now at select retailers and the WD online store (shopwd.com), the new My Book Studio drives are formatted for Mac and offered in capacities of 500 GB, 1 TB, 1.5 TB and 2 TB.
Creative professionals generate, store and back up massive amounts of digital content. During in-home and in-studio interviews with consumers, WD team members observed that many were taping notes or other hand-made labels on their many drives to tell them apart. For these customers, WD developed the e-label high-contrast smart display which reads like ink on paper, and lets the user create a customized label to describe the drive’s contents.
Utilizing e-paper technology similar to that found on the Amazon Kindle(TM), the information on the display remains clearly visible even when the drive is unplugged, and can be changed easily and as often as desired. The e-label also shows available storage capacity and drive security status.
“Storing and backing up is a huge part of my workflow as a professional photographer,” said Bruce Dorn. “I have been using WD hard drives for quite a while now and my experience has been exceptional with reliability and ease-of-use, and I love the design. The new e-label smart display will help me organize my projects while password protection and encryption will keep it more secure. The new drives deliver backup not only for professionals, but for anyone who is taking pictures, collecting music or who needs to back up their digital life.”
My Book Studio drives also feature user-selected password protection combined with 256-bit hardware-based encryption, which scrambles files before they are stored. Typically found only on much more expensive drive systems, the encryption acts as a virtual padlock to keep users’ data safe.
The new My Book Studio drives come equipped with WD SmartWare software, an integrated application which provides automatic and continuous backup, as well as control of the e-label display, password and other settings. When the My Book Studio drive is plugged in for the first time, the simple and intuitive first backup process launches automatically. The real-time visual interface of WD SmartWare software gives users a reassuring view of their backup as it happens. After the first backup, users’ files are backed up automatically every time they change or add a file.
WD SmartWare software is compatible with the Apple® TimeMachine. Users with older versions of Mac OS (not equipped with TimeMachine) or those who wish to use the drive for both backup and extra storage have the option to use WD SmartWare software backup capability.
“Photographers, videographers and other Mac computer enthusiasts require fast performance for their complex projects,” said Dale Pistilli, vice president of marketing for WD’s branded products group. “They also have a very large number of projects and files which they need to keep organized across multiple hard drives. With a FireWire 800 interface and customizable e-label, the new My Book Studio drives offer an elegant, high-speed solution for these creative professionals to interact with, organize and securely archive their media.”
Price and Availability
The new My Book Studio drives are offered in capacities of 500 GB, 1 TB, 1.5 TB and 2 TB and have a 3-year limited warranty. My Book Studio drives are available now at select retailers and online at shopwd.com. MSRP ranges from $149.99 to $299.99 USD depending on model.
My Book Studio
The new WD My Book Studio drives feature:
* Smart display with a customizable e-label that reminds users of what is stored on the drive, available capacity and security status at-a-glance, even when the drive is unplugged; * High-performance FireWire 800 interface to access data at top speeds and USB 2.0 interface; * Plug-and-play ready for Mac users and compatible with Apple TimeMachine; * WD SmartWare software that visually presents consumers’ data in a software control center, providing them peace of mind that their precious photos, videos and files are securely protected; * 256-bit hardware-based encryption and password protection for peace of mind knowing that data is protected from unauthorized access; * Smaller, sleeker, more streamlined design and elegant book-like shape that takes up minimal space and allows two or more My Book drives to nestle together neatly like volumes on a shelf; * WD GreenPower Technology(TM) lowers internal drive power consumption by up to 30 percent, a sleep mode reduces power during idle times, and a power-saving feature turns the drive on and off with your computer; * Planet-friendly packaging derived from recycled materials to minimize waste; * HFS + Journaled(1) formatting and are compatible with Mac OS X Tiger®, Leopard® and Snow Leopard(TM); * 3-year limited warranty.
WD SmartWare Software
WD SmartWare software features:
* Visual backup displays that show content in categories and shows the progress of backup; * Automatic, continuous data backup will instantly make a second copy whenever you add or change a file; * Retrieve valuable data to its original location whether it’s lost data or the file has been overwritten; and, * Customizable data backup that allows users to set drive security, run diagnostics, manage the power settings, and more from the WD SmartWare control center.
About WD
WD, one of the storage industry’s pioneers and long-time leaders, provides products and services for people and organizations that collect, manage and use digital information. The company designs and produces reliable, high-performance hard drives and solid state drives that keep users’ data accessible and secure from loss. Its advanced technologies are configured into applications for client and enterprise computing, embedded systems and consumer electronics, as well as its own consumer storage and media products.
WD was founded in 1970. The company’s storage products are marketed to leading OEMs, systems manufacturers, selected resellers and retailers under the Western Digital® and WD brand names. Visit the Investor section of the company’s Web site (www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.
Western Digital, WD, My Book and the WD logo are registered trademarks; My Book Studio, WD GreenPower Technology and WD SmartWare are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to other companies. All other brand and product names mentioned herein are the property of their respective companies. As used for storage capacity, one gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes. One terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.
(1) My Book Studio drives can be reformatted NTFS to work with Windows® Vista and Windows 7.
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In this previous article I describe how to backup your computer using Apple’s Time Machine and an external hard drive. Here’s how to do it using a network hard drive:
Step 1. Throw out your My Book Live.
Step 2. Go and buy an Apple Time Capsule
Step 3. Turn on Time-Machine.
I kid you not! I am sorry if anyone followed these instructions below. The My Book Live has been more trouble than it’s worth.
1. The drive stopped working in under 1 year.
2. After many calls to Western Digital they still havn’t provided a warranty replacement.
3. They use some weird custom drive format that can’t be read by OSX or Ubuntu or Windows, so you cna’t get the data off your backup if it crashes.
I’ll leave this article below for your information, but DON’T TO IT!!!
It’s worth paying more and using Apple’s time capsule for peace of mind and better support should something go wrong, plus it’s easier to set up.
Time Machine is a piece of Apple software, but you need to have some hardware for it to back up onto. One option is external firewire or USB hard drive – a good option if you only have one computer. A second option is to run it on a networked external storage device. That means that it plugs into your network, via an ethernet cable, and any Macintosh on your network can backup to it. This is how Apple’s ‘ Time Capsule’ works. It’s a great option if you have more than one Macintosh in your house. There are non-Apple solutions available – this article explains how to set up Apple’s Time Machine on a Western Digital My Book Live.
1. Buy a My Book Live. I picked up a 2 Tetrabyte one up for $221 from amazon.com*, shipped to Australia for $317 – compare that to Apple’s Time Capsule at $649, there’s quite a difference. Apple sell the Western Digital MyBook on their website, but not the networked MyBook Live.
2. Assuming you already have a network – some kind of a router connected to the Internet and connected to your home computers – plug the ethernet cable from the My Book Life into your router, then plug the power adapter in. At this stage the My-book live that I had needed firmware updates and this took a bit of fiddling. I won’t explain it here, but basically I needed to login and tell it to upgrade it’s firmware automatically from the web. The manual firmware upgrade did not work.
3. Go to System Preferences/ Time Machine, or use the menu Go/Applications/Time Machine
Click ‘Select Disk…’
4. There should be a disc that automatically appears that says on “MyBookLive – backup” – select this disc and click ‘Use for Backup’.
When it asks you for a password, select the ‘Guest’ option.
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5. Make sure the time machine slider is set to ‘On’ and Time Machine will automatically backup your machine every hour, every day and every week.
6. Go to System Preferences, Spotlight, and click on the ‘Privacy’ tab. Click the plus button and select The My Book Live is a great solution because it comes ready to work with Time Machine out of the box. All you have to do is plug it into your ethernet router and your computer will find it as easily as an external hard drive.
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Why do you select the MyBookLive drive in Spotlight, for what reason please?
Replyadminsays:May 29, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Selecting MyBookLive in the Spotlight Privacy Tab tells Spotlight to NOT to include your Backup in its search results otherwise you will see two of everything in every search – the original and the backup. OS X should do this automatically – not include Time Machine results in Spotlight searches – but there have been reports of Time Machine results appearing in Spotlight searches so this is just a precaution to make sure it doesn’t happen.
Replydrstevensays:June 29, 2011 at 11:04 am
I have this same set up and tried to restore from it yesterday and received a you do not have permission message (i am the administrator, owner and only user). I called Apple and was told that time machine would not now work with a non apple network drive and had to use either a USB or Firewire drive. I called Western Digital and they did not dispute the question, but offered to replace my new My Book Live with a My Book Studio LX. I do not understand why it would not work as i can easily see the drive and the contents of both the public folder and the backup that were taken. Any ideas?
Replytomsays:
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February 27, 2012 at 7:27 am
how did this end for you? I have purchased a mybook live to use with my imac but will try tot get a refund if it will not work with timemachine
Replyjohnsonsays:July 30, 2015 at 9:22 am
you can try to get the refund but do your research very well
AdBumpsays:July 23, 2011 at 8:15 pm
I have the same set up problem too – trying to run Time Machine on MyBook Live and not working at all. I’m also backing up another laptop (PC) onto the NAS and it seems to work ok. Just seems that TM isn’t working properly. Would love to hear ideas on this too!
Replyhanssays:July 27, 2011 at 4:12 pm
I got the same problem. Trying to fix it for hours…
Replyhanssays:July 27, 2011 at 4:20 pm
… http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/search/1/a_id/7081/c/130/p/247,335 … The Problem is caused by Lion.
ReplyJesper Sørensensays:November 24, 2011 at 10:37 am
It´s not just Lion. I have Snow Leopard and it doesn´t work. Time Machine starts up but it never finishes. I´ve tried several times but never succeed to make a working Time Machine copy on the My Book Live
ReplyAlannasays:January 5, 2013 at 9:48 pm
This is exactly what happens for me. Did you ever get it to work? It keeps saying “backup delayed, waiting to backup” after it has been backing up GBs for several minutes/an hour.
ReplyJay Ksays:November 28, 2011 at 6:23 am
I am also having the same problem, backing up my new imac (1 month old) with lion on to a WD mybooklive that I previously used to successfully back up 2 windows PCs running Vista (no probs). I was initially planning to reset the WD drive to factory settings and then try the time machie back up- my reasoning being that mac and windows back ups on same drive causes the problem. I then thought I might just call the mac support people! :-)
Replywindowersays:January 2, 2012 at 6:14 pm
thank you for info. you give me that i search all day
ReplyWaynesays:February 27, 2012 at 8:44 pm
Time machine DOES work with non apple network drives, at least it works with MyBook Live. Make sure you have the latest software update on the MyBook Live – see the link in the comments above.
ReplyRGsays:April 17, 2012 at 8:08 am
How long does the first back up take? I have about 80GB to back up and the indication is that it will take weeks to complete the first backup. I have simply connected the myBookLive to the router via ethernet and the macbook pro to the router via ethernet.
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ReplyWaynesays:April 18, 2012 at 5:28 am
Mine took a day or so.
ReplyRabihsays:September 1, 2013 at 12:34 pm
Hello,
any idea how to backup specific folders on Mac on the mybook live duo? i could back up full pc on timemachine or so however i can not access my files as photos and music and documents like i used to do when backing up a windows laptop.
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i need to choose specific folder and back it up automatically as in when i add files to it it can automatically back them up to my book live duo and i can access them from there.