Customer Reviews for WD® 6 TB My Book® Live™ Duo Network Drive

WD® 6 TB My Book® Live™ Duo Network Drive

WD’s My Book® Live™ Duo personal cloud storage provides dual-drive shared storage on your wireless home network. Share data with all your computers, stream media to your entertainment center, and get to your files from anywhere with remote access and mobile apps. And with RAID 1 technology, you have double-safe backup for your data. Features: Storage and backup for all the PC and Mac® computers on your network   View photos and files with apps for your iOS™, Android™, and BlackBerry® smartphones and tablets   Securely access media and files remotely over the Internet   Stream videos, music, and photos to your entertainment center   Built-in 800 MHz CPU for maximum performance and speed   Ideal for: Storing your digital media collection on your wired or wireless network   Double-safe data protection with RAID 1 mirroring and dual drives   Sharing videos, music, and photos with all the computers on your network   Backing up data from all the PCs and Mac® computers in your home   Viewing photos and files with your iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch®, BlackBerry™, Android™ smartphone, or tablet   Streaming media to your Blu-ray Disc™ players, game consoles, media players, or other DNLA/UPnP™ devices on your home network   Secure remote access from any computer with an Internet connection Kit Contents:   Network drive   Ethernet cable for network connection   AC power adapter   Installation and software CD   Quick Install Guide Compatibility: Windows® XP (SP 3), Windows Vista®, Windows® 7   Mac OS® X Leopard®, Snow Leopard®, or Lion™   DLNA/UPnP enabled devices   Internet connection for remote access Supported Browsers: Internet Explorer® 7.0 or higher   Safari® 4.0 or higher   Firefox® 3.6 or higher   Google® Chrome™ 14.0 and later on supported Windows and Mac OS platforms Model: WDBVHT0060JCH-NESN
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1 of 2(50%)customers would recommend this product to a friend.
Customer Reviews for WD® 6 TB My Book® Live™ Duo Network Drive
Review 1 for WD® 6 TB My Book® Live™ Duo Network Drive
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Speed70
Location:Montreal, Qc
Date:February 14, 2013

Sever read performance issues

Pros: simple setup
Cons: very poor read performance support is not provide
"I purchased this WD Duo to store my photos and some films for streaming on Dec 20 2012. The Media server is basis but it does the job. I didn't want someting too sophisticated.
First day, I write my photos to the Media Server. Everything is running well as expected. Once the copy is completed problems start. The read performance is BAD. It takes nearly 15 sec to read a 3MB photo. No way to improve it.
In fact the unit write 2-3 times faster than it reads. First red flag.
Now when I tried to stream films from my TV problems got really bad. The movie hangs and hangs. When I stream a 720i movie from my Nexus 7 to my TV through the internet it runs 10/10. So my network is working.
In the logs there are Samba issues reported regarding connectiviy. The WD media server resets on regular basis when I write and read at the same time from two devices (PC and TV or Nexus7 and PC or Nexus7 and TV). In addition the Kernel log is full of read errors."Could not read all data on attempt #1" or "invalide raid superblock magic on sda3".
Clearly there is something wrong.
I called the WD support. The guy didn't speak good english and was even unable to read the procedure to diagnose the issue. The support didn't even ask for the log files ! So I gave up.
WD return to Costco tomorrow :("
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.
Review 2 for WD® 6 TB My Book® Live™ Duo Network Drive
Rating
5 out of 5
5 out of 5
SgtII
Location:Ladysmith, BC
Date:July 25, 2012

Pretty neat piece of equipment

"Work with ios and windows without flaw. Using folder redirect for windows and shared storage for Mac and pc. No issues to date using Raid 1 configuration. Easily access media remotely via the iOS apps. Able to stream movies, pictures, files remotely or locally and use AirPlay on the iOS devices without flaw. With the recent update to the iOS app, we are now able to save back from the iPad to the storage device. Love this storage device, it allows us full access to our data wherever we are."
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.