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My Book is a series of external hard drives produced by Western Digital . There are currently four series of My Book drives; Essential Edition drives, Premium Edition drives, Pro Edition drives and the World Edition drives. My Book drives are designed to look like a standard black hardback book, with the exception of the Pro series which are silver and the World series which are white. Other than the book-like appearance of the drive's case, My Book drives are notable because the vent holes spell out a message in Morse Code . ESSENTIAL EDITION Features In addition to the book-like design, My Book Essential drives have an Intelligent Power Management feature that ''stops'' the drive platters after ten minutes of inactivity, rather than the usual expedient of slowing them down. The unit also turns on and off with the computer it is attached to. Physical design Essential Edition My Book drives are almost entirely black, with the exception of a single green light, used to indicate power, that surrounds the power button on the front of the drive. If viewed as a book, where one would normally see the edges of each piece of paper, the drive case is perforated for ventilation using Morse Code. PREMIUM EDITION Features Premium Edition drives are similar to the Essential Edition model but also include Firewire 400 ports, an integrated visual capacity gauge and Western Digital backup software. Physical design Premium Edition My Book drives have the same black case as Essential Edition drives, however, the light surrounding the power button is blue. Also, inside the standard blue light is another blue ring light that contains 8 individual segments which indicate the remaining space on the drive. Premium ES Edition My Book Premium ES Edition My Books are nearly identical to their Premium Edition counterparts, the only difference being that the ES line features a single ESATA connection instead of the dual Firewire 400 ports present on the Premium Edition, allowing computers with available eSATA ports to transfer data at speeds of up to 3 GB/s. PRO EDITION Features The Pro Edition My Books contain all of the features of the Premium Edition ones, but with added Firewire 800 connectivity for fast data transfer. In addition, the Pro Edition My Books replace the Western Digital backup software found on the Premium Editions with EMC Retrospect Express backup and recovery software. Physical design Pro Edition My Book drives have the same basic case design as Premium Edition drives, however, the case is silver rather than black. In addition, it includes a circular blue capacity gauge LED divided into six segments (represents 17% of usage per segment) and an outer ring that represents drive activity. WORLD EDITION Features The World Edition My Books feature an ethernet interface, and an extra USB host port to add additional USB drives. It is accessed as a CIFS /SMB shared folder. In addition to the access as a CIFS /SMB shared folder, the World Edition uses WD Anywhere Access to gain remote access to your drive via the internet. Physical design It has the same basic case design as the Premium Edition drives, including the capacity gauge, except the color of the World Edition is white. It also has the same Morse code ventilation as the Essential Edition. Internals
EDITION II MY BOOKS In addition to the regular My Book drives, Western Digital has also released special high-capacity "Edition II" versions of the Premium My Book™ Premium Edition™ II , Pro My Book™ Pro Edition™ II , and World My Book™ World Edition™ II Edition My Books. In addition to the features present in the respective My Book edition, these drives feature two 500 GB RAID -configured hard disks which can be selected by the end user as RAID 0 ( Data Striping ), or RAID 1 ( Data Mirroring ), depending on personal preference. If selected as RAID 0, the end user has 1TB of available storage. Either way, if one of the internal drives of the Edition II My Books fails, it can be easily removed and replaced by the user without voiding the warranty. Western Digital uses this feature to their advantage, claiming that their drives needn't be returned for costly service in the case of a drive failure Western Digital Service and Support - How to dismantle a My Book Pro Edition II, My Book Premium Edition II, or My Book World Edition II to replace a hard drive. . MORSE CODE The Morse Code message written into the drive case is made up of a selection of the words 'personal', 'reliable', 'innovative', 'simple', and 'design'. The first occurrence of 'innovative' on the My Book Pro and My Book World Edition feature an error and reads 'innovateve' vnunet.com Review - Western Digital My Book Essential Edition - An article noting that Western Digital claims (with no source citation) that My Book drives actually have Morse Code written in the case. Refer to the official Western Digital My Book webpage for Flash demo with Morse Code explanation. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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