Mybooklive vs mybookworld

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
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Guys, can you please hel me deciding which product to buy? mybookworld edition 2TB or mybooklive edition 2TB Which one is a later version and which one is better please. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Deepak

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My Book Live is the latest from WD.

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Any idea why when a video is played off this drive on the net work there are hick-ups?

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That is a pretty open ended question. You have to look at your network first. Will it support High definition streaming - Wired and Wireless. If you can answer yes to that, then you have the Player you want to use. Will that support High definition streaming - in the format you want. If you can answer yes to that, then the My Book Live is good for you.

If you are on a 10/100 network, connected wirelessly and expect to play high definition movies, you are going to be limited by your network… not the My Book Live.

Tony

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Thanks for your response. Sorry may be if tell you what i have here may answer to your questions. I have bell Fibe-16 internet with their router called 2wire gateway. This mybooklive is connected to this Bell router. What I want is to store movies off my sony camcorder HD-SR12 and then play them using VLC media player. So far i did not have great luck. Initially i installed mybook world. On that one i was tryng to copy files as big as 30gb. the copying process was stoping by it self giving me an error ayin “can not find network drive” Then I brought now mybooklive . in this one copy in process is slightly better. The playback however has hickups. It at times even asks if I want to repair the file.  I also do have a 10/100 network, connected wirelessly and some computers are connected through the hub.   I do not know what is going on…

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@DeepakGandhi   : I have both. Here is my quick thoughts:

MyBook World (white light) - 200MHz CPU , 128MB RAM runs ARM Linux.

Max Gbit wired LAN speed around 30megabytes/sec NAS to PC and ~13megabytes/sec → PC to NAS,

  • good looking/quite nice feature stuffed Web Interface runs on httpd_mini which takes very little of system resources

  • no problem to use optware for custom software installs

  • very fast going out of stand-by (spindown) mode (less than 10secs).

  • does have power button

  • does have usb port

  • very problematic to compile something that’s not on optware directly. You can try to cross-compile on other box, but that requires additional knowledge.

  • no way to manually disable/change hdd head parking value which by default is every 8sec.

My Book Live - 800MHz cpu, 256MB RAM runs Debian Lenny.

Max Gbit wired LAN speed ~45megabytes/sec to/from NAS.

  • very easy to install custom stuff with apt-get (some ppl also says optware works (not tested myself)

  • hdd (2TB model which i have) runs very quietly… (specially after setting acoustic management value to 128)

  • love asketic single LED! Green means it is it in active mode. Greed flash - data transfer, blue = stand-by mode

  • very basic WebInterface,/limited config options,   runs on Apache… quite ram hungry application.

  • hdd runs quite hot (but of course its cools down in stand-by mode)

  • no way to manually disable/change hdd head parking value

  • no power button

  • no usb port

I would say go for WD MY BOOK LIVE.

Is it more new than World.

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