Me it just annoyed that you're constantly on the search data. Where was the music yet? On the Smartphone? On the USB stick? And on what Digicam were the images? Or are already on the external hard drive? That's why I have long toyed with the idea to me to create a home network where all Advertisers and other documents that are required from time to time again and accessed by multiple users may. Video streaming would of course not bad, since my DNLA-enabled Panasonic BluRay player is able yes access via network on video data. All of these options provides the WD MyBook Live system. With 2 TB disk has enough space for all of our image files that, on the need to be accessed together MP3 collections, video and any other documents. Creating and setting up your home network succeeds without any problems with the provided software. The drive is also recognized without the software of Windows 7 on the network. However, the software facilitates the creation of users and permissions immensely. The integration into the home media center manages about DLNA also by itself. My BluRay player to recognize the drive immediately and I was able to play all the data on my TV or my hifi. A special treat is the option of creating a so-called Personal Cloud, in which I can access via the web browser to all data of the drive from anywhere. The performance depends in this case, of course, on the speed of your Internet connection. Otherwise, the data throughput within the network thanks to Gigabit Ethernet is quite comfortable with approximately 40MB / s write speed. The wd2go App and wdphoto App I can access my Adroid smartphone also from anywhere in the data. Unfortunately, there are no further options external devices, such as to connect another hard drive or a flash drive via USB to the network drive, making an expandability of the storage location is excluded except for the network and the power connector. Also a power switch are nowhere, but is turned on and I have a switchable power strip, at the dranhängt also the router. All in all, my WD MyBook Live network drive everything I hoped for it personally. It has enough memory, is quickly and quietly, granted remote access and has an excellent price-performance ratio. From me a clear recommendation for those who want to build a small home network.