The model I bought is: and I wonder if I should have bought this for the extra $20: Is there some reason why the My Book Essential will NOT work as a NAS? Thanks for any further advice. It sounds like you'll likely be getting the Actiontec v1000h. There's a discussion of that router here. If you don't get that router, you'll be getting the D-Link DVA-G3810BN. There's a discussion of that router here. From what the tech's write on here, it sounds like the Actiontec is being used nearly exclusively for new installs.

I am not sure what people are expecting the My Book to do connecting wirelessly and with a 10/100 connection. It can only move the bits as fast as the wireless speed. Try connecting the My Book Live directly into your computer via the Ethernet port to test the speed. As long as you have Gigabit ethernet, you should see anywhere from 40MBs-90MBs (depending on the size and length of files you transfer. The larger the file size, the better performance you will get).

Hey There Fariba, We regret hearing about the concerns experienced with your data, and appreciate bringing this matter to our attention. Please know our devices offering hardware encryption can only be enabled through our WD Security software; as the My Book being recognized in Disk Management, and needing initializing is testament the drive was not encrypted. We’re glad, hearing the data was recovered, and would like the chance to follow up with you regarding this matter.

Here are what you can do to protect your Western Digital My Book external hard drive. • It is better to unplug Western Digital external hard drive with the computer off. • Hold the side of a WD hard drive to avoid touching the PCB connectors or assembly. • Do not shock your WD external hard disk such as dropping, jolting, or shaking the drive. • Don't put anything light or heavy on the top of your Western Digital My Book hard drive. Bad External Hard Drive Troubleshooting.

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Format the drive to Mac Extended (Journaled), you do not need the WD utilities and they should be avoided. A good precautionary measure I follow is that I will erase and format any drive I buy; that way I know there is nothing on it that I do not need.

The 2 drives are only plugged in when I make a new video or add new pictures. The videos and picture are in different folders ex.

Use Windows Explorer to do error checking of your drive (also known as check disk). Hope this helps. Best regards, Michael. Hi Ken, You certainly can.

Procedure to Recover Western Digital My Book Data: • Download Remo Recover software and install it on your system • Launch the software. Select Recover Drives option from the main screen • Choose Partition Recovery or Formatted/ Reformatted Recovery option based on your requirement • Select the drive representing WD My Book drive to restore data, and then click Next to initiate the scanning process • After scanning is done, preview the recovered files and select a location to save required files Hard drive brands supported: Remo Hard Drive Recovery tool supports data recovery from various HDD brands such LaCie, Seagate, Toshiba, Kingston, Buffalo, and so on. The application also recovers data erased or missing from other storage mediums such as flash memory cards, iPods, FireWire drives, etc. It also retrieves deleted, missing or formatted data from RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5 partitions. You can view the recovered data based on File Type View or Data View option.

Tried rebooting swapping different usb ports, different machines, different usb cables, rebooting. Running out of ideas besides dead harddrive and working usb controller. This device I've owned and used perfectly with no problems for 5 months.

These proprietary external enclosures are trash and should not be used for important data. Like I said, Horror story after horror story about these types of enclosures failing for no reason and for years too. One forum post was from 5 years ago, Same issues, So WD has known about this for years. If I didnt have success with regular WD drives in the past I'd never buy another WD product again because of this. This is incompetence.