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(More customer reviews)The My Book Premium Edition II is a very good external. I bought mine after doing quite a bit of research on the net trying to find out everything I could before I chose which 1TB external I wanted. There were too few reviews for me to be sure I was making the right purchase so I'm going to pass on what I've learned about this external.
(1) The noise level: I've seen quite a few reviews stating that the drives are extremely loud. This is completely wrong. The drives themselves are extremely quiet in fact, quieter than my older LaCie which I can hear across my room, unlike the WD. What is noisy is the fan, but it runs only very rarely. It runs for a few seconds when you first start it up and then it's a bit noisy but quickly silences itself. During normal running it barely comes on. To give you an idea how much running I do on my externals I have my music on there and I'm listening to it just about 24/7. During that time the fan never comes on. It came on a few times when I was transferring the 100+GB of music to it, but even then it was a short time before it lowered itself down to silence again.
(2) The power button: I've also heard complaints about the power button. I just want to clarify some peoples misunderstandings about it so no one else is worried. The power button works just as you would expect, just like my Mac in fact. Push the button to start it up and it starts instantly. When you want to shut it down, after ejecting it, you hold the power button for a few seconds and it shuts down. This is done so you don't accidentally push the big button on the front and shut it off during a big file transfer and damage the drive.
(3) RAID 0 or 1 only: This is a small thing for some people but for me it was a bit of a disappointment. You can only select from RAID O or RAID 1, no Linear support. This means you either have to choose having two 500 externals, one the mirror of the other or having your files split in half over both drives. The down side of splitting them like that, in Striped mode, is that if you lose one drive you lose all your files on both.
The transfer speed due to FireWire 800 and Striping is extremely fast and in that respect I'm very happy with the external. The only think keeping it from not being perfect is the lack of Linear Raid support.
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With a massive amount of storage and stunning performance, this 1TB external hard drive makes archiving effortless, or serves as a quick and simple backup
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