Performance
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: westerndigital, mybook, worldedition | Themes: Digital Entertainment
8. Performance
Full Disclosure: We elected not to conduct wired Ethernet tests of the World Edition NAS device. Even though the device functions with gigabit Ethernet, we figured that nearly every home user would be using this device with wirelessly networked computers, rather than wired Ethernet, and thus would have data transfer rates bottlenecked by 802.11 b/g. The World Edition’s practical, functional speed seems more relevant than Ethernet-connected speeds, since this device is targeted clearly at home users.
So, we ran a Wi-Fi test. We sent a 2.92 gigabyte folder of mixed file types (our standard read/write speed test folder), to the World Edition from a notebook. Two programs were running during the test: Firefox, and Skype. The standard Time Warner Cable home wireless network was also being shared by two other computers, two phones, and two Squeezeboxes. To me, that seems like the average strain a home wireless network might face in any modern techie home.
The file took 33 minutes to write to the World Edition. That comes to just about one megabyte per second. In other words, while an entire computer backup might take more than a full day to write to the drive, and nearly 3 gigabytes takes half an hour, a vacation’s worth of photos might take 10 minutes—and, unless you are in a rush—it will happen in the background while you are busy doing other things.
The only time I can see the wireless write speeds getting very annoying would be when you bring new media to the drive and want to watch that media on your TV right that minute. If that’s the case, you might have to wait a little while. Or, if you also had something like the WD HD TV, you could copy your media to USB 2.0 (faster than Wi-Fi), then bring that to the WD HD TV, and watch right away. So far, we haven’t come across a method for plugging your camcorder or camera directly into the TV without messing around with audio/video cables (which often requires moving furniture to get to the proper ports).
You can expect read speeds—from the NAS downloading or copying to your PC—to be slightly faster.
Since some of you are likely curious about just how fast this NAS can perform via a wired gigabit Ethernet connection, we’re including Western Digital’s own test charts below. In a nut shell, over gigabit Ethernet, you could expect this NAS to write at speeds between 15 and 50 megabytes per second, depending upon the file size and number of files being written at once. For read speeds, expect between 25 and 40 megabytes per second.
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I have an original MBWE and the interface and mionet are just terrible. I don't know if WD still restrict that file types you can share over the net (no media files etc.) but I was much happier after I had zapped the WD stuff and used the built-in linux--http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/start
I have an original MBWE and the interface and mionet are just terrible. I don't know if WD still restrict that file types you can share over the net (no media files etc.) but I was much happier after I had zapped the WD stuff and used the built-in linux--http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/start
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Streaming filetypes was a big problem on the old version of the World Edition, but from my tests, the only limiting factor when it came to file types was what your Xbox 360/PS3/PC/etc could handle.
Rachel Rosmarin
Editor of Tom's Guide
Don't judge the new MBWE by the old one. The file system has been completely re-written, from scratch. It is much, much faster, especially on a LAN. -- Steve Morgan
It would have been nice to see some independent tests performed on the ethernet speed of this device (read:not WDC's propaganda tests). As is witnessed from the customer reviews on newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822136138
the "gigabit" ethernet speeds of the first version weren't anywhere close to even 100 megabit. So a verification of this problem being fixed would have been nice.
Also, I don't get the assumption that the average "home" user would use it via wireless. Being a NAS device, it doesn't matter where you put this device in your home and for most people it's even easier to plop it down next to your router and plug it in than to put it else where and have to configure the wireless encryption on it.
To me, the whole point of a 2TB NAS would be to store all of my media files and transferring a 4GB or 8GB movie file over 54Mb wireless would render having this thing pointless. And while we're on this subject, why was wireless N not included as an option??? That would have been a lot more useful than the older and much slower b/g.
What a crappy review! The new MBWE beats all other NAS boxes for the capacity ($/GB) and performance ($/MBit/s) but they don't mention that!
Why review a product that does not have native wireless support via a wireless connection? With no comparisons?
Ok,
To make this the perfect hub in my house I would also be able to connect my printer to the device and utilize it from any PC. My printer works great and I really don't want to replace it just to get a network-ready one. Anyone working on that?
Did you actually test this with a PS3 or just an XBOX360? I ask because I cannot see any files on my PS3.
Why review a product that does not have native wireless support via a wireless connection?
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if anyone knows how to get the mbwe working with the wd tv...please share...i'm cracking my head open trying to figure it out
Hi , i agree with a1exh,
The price review is comparing storage prices from Nas devices and direct attached storage but does not compare the price of this NAS with other NAS !
The Mybook World WhiteLight is one of the cheapest NAS, can stream media over dlna, have correct performance when wired. ( it will probably go thru CPL instead of wifi when streaming to your console...)
Additionnally, you can even add more features to your Mybook if you want to apply some modifications (voiding your warranty) described on some sites.