The problems my first MyBook plate were as follows:
- When I joined to the computer, it took forever to get them recognized me and its contents were presented.
- The integrated on / off switch of the plate is completely without function.
- Windows bleated constantly that the file system is out of order, although everything worked smoothly and all data were available
- When premature removal of the disk from the notebook the panel refused after complete their service. She became more known by any other device - until I again joined to the notebook and there away cleanly in the second round. Then it all came back.
Bitchy precisely.
Meanwhile, I'm a little smarter and more relaxed when it comes to these issues. Since I had the bundled backup software is unused (and naturally also not installed), had me a little, to have escaped on the plate are in founding program that "WD Quick Formatter" is called and used to nothing less than the hard drive formatting. I had my MyBook then not formatted, but once it shoveled data - what worked well, was responsible for above Zickereien the plate but probably later. The small formatter I had later pulled from the WD website and the plate so freshly formatted. Since then, it runs completely fine.
And in this context we also why I initially called the MyBook as a "secret tip": In the hard disk controller is installed, the (whatever that exactly works) makes it possible in connection with the WD Quick Formatter software , the hard disk "Windows XP-compatible" format.
To this end, I should perhaps add something quickly: plates that are great over 2TB, from the least of all devices (! TV, Media Player, Fritz Box, etc.) are supported. They are not recognized by these devices simply, but work only under a 64-bit operating system such as Windows 7. In order to use the drive but in other devices, the content MBR partition must as so-called. Are created and formatted, so unfortunately only 2TB of disk are addressable. The rest is then not available. For Windows 7 and Co. can create the disk as a so-called GPT partition and format, bringing the full 3TB are available -. However, just only in Windows 7 etc.
Said controller in the MyBook plate makes now in connection with the WD Quick Formatter tool that you can format the disk "XP-compatible". I do not know exactly how it works, but the effect is that the plate is then recognized at their full 3TB storage (in a single partition) on all possible devices (for example, on my LG TV, on my Media Player and to my Fritz! Box, the previously all cooperation refused).
This gimmick I've found in any other manufacturer. And that is precisely the reason why I now already DETERMINED me the second MyBook plate. One USB port on my Fritz box is in fact still available - and the first plate is already bursting at the seams.
Oh, to return once again to my above-mentioned initial problems by reformatting the picture is as follows:
- When I joined to the computer, it took forever to get them recognized me and its contents were presented:
The hard disk will now be recognized immediately
- The integrated on / off switch of the plate is completely without function:
Is it still, but because the hard drive by itself aussschaltet once for a few minutes is not accessed on this point is completely negligible for me.
- Windows bleated constantly that the file system is out of order, although everything worked smoothly and all data were available:
No more problems, apparently the file system actually had a shot.
- When premature removal of the disk from the notebook the panel refused after complete their service. She became more known by any other device - until I again joined to the notebook and there away cleanly in the second round. Then it all came back:
I have not tried again. I'm surely not stupid! ; O)
Conclusion:
The MyBook Essential plates are fixed, quiet (!), See nice (you can not just simply lie down), have a pretty blue Lichtlein, turn off by itself, will barely warm (not even after 24 hours of Dauerkopiererei almost 3TB data via USB 2.0), have a fast USB 3.0 port (as opposed to my machine) - and are the only drives that are known to me, can be operated as a> 2TB in most devices - the correct formatting provided.
From me, therefore there's a full purchase recommendation.
