today we're going to be unboxing the my book World Edition so this is a network
hard drive or NAS network attached storage this is a 2 terabyte drive so
it's a single 3 and 1/2 in 2 tbte Drive in there you can do backup and storage
for all your computers and it connects to a network router it's 30% more
efficient than standard systems so claims WD and let's see what else they
have to say for themselves okay that's just showing the unit itself we're going
to check that out when we actually open the box all right so you've got
automatic backup automatic and continuous backup never mind automatic
backup share so you can add centralized storage for everyone to save and share
music photos videos and files on your home network okay it's a Nas so that's
what it does access so you can retrieve files from anywhere anytime even when
your computer is off okay that pretty much goes along with it being a NZ and
hey this is good you can play movies and music on your TV through your Xbox 360
Playstation 3 or digital media adapter so here they have a little uh chart of
how your network will look when you have one of these so you got your router here
you got your computer here you got your wireless computers here including PC and
Mac there is your my book World Edition
and then here's a game console with a television and you can use the USB port
to add more storage so you can plug in like another Western Digital external
hard drive just directly into the my book World Edition and increase the
storage automatically cool all right so
a 2 tab gives you up to 880 hours of DVD
quality movie 500,000 MP3s or
571 th000 jpegs and those would be big jpegs too I
mean if you're storing small jpegs I mean that would be more like on the
order of millions all right here we go so oh easy
setup three simple steps plug the drive into your router insert the CD into your
computer use Easy Discovery tools to recognize the drive on your computers
okay well that's easy though let's open this thing up and have a look at
it it's
white you know what they say White's the New
Black actually Apple's moved on to aluminum so maybe white isn't cool
anymore okay so here's a little manual about your WD product system view
connecting it okay how to use it with
leopard and tiger all right there is a
software installation CD you might want to actually use
that all right here's uh support
numbers and next we have uh did you know
you can update the firmware over the L great that's good to know all right
let's open this thing up so this is quite thig this could probably hold two
drives inside actually I might have been mistaken saying it was one 2 terab drive
it might be two 1 tab drives here's a power adapter all right fairly standard
thing next we have a an Ethernet cable
presumably is at least cat 5e so it'll run at gigabit speeds so throw those
back in there and let's have a look at the my book World Edition which is oh it's sealed yay I
get to break another seal I like that it really does add to the unboxing
experience the more unpackaging and unboxing you can do the better all right
well there's a very very shiny WD logo on the side right there is shiny shiny
white at the front you've got a little
uh not sure if that's a window or just a gray gray bar and then on the other side
you have another shiny WD logo on the bottom you've got four little rubberized
feet so it's meant to sit like this that's my keys okay so it's meant to sit
just like that it's not going to slip CU it has rubberized feet and on the back
very simply you've got a power switch a USB port and a gigabit Ethernet port
there's a little card reset as well as your power in okay now I'm going to try
something here and I don't know if this is going to
work so I'm not going to televise it so
to speak hold on going to try and get it open cuz
someone told me how to do it but I don't know if I'm doing it right here or
not I'm not doing it right okay forget it so inside we see one heart drive and
then lots of room for ventilation and other electronics so I don't know I
don't know how well you can see this but the drive is right here there's lots of
electronics which are powering the back plane here at the I/O and then uh yep
all of these are just straight through vents where you can completely see the
hard drive so it is passively cooled that means that if it sits a little bit
up off the table which it will because of these feet you're going to have air
just naturally uh flowing down from the bottom and then up through the top and
in from the back because of the heat generated by the components inside so
thank you for checking out my unboxing of the My Book World Edition 2 terabyte
Network hard drive from Western Digital