Pricing and Competition
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: westerndigital, mybook, worldedition | Themes: Digital Entertainment
9. Pricing and Competition
The 1TB MyBook World Edition costs $229, but if history is any indication, its price will soon drop—at least on Amazon.com. If you price out the 1TB, it comes to 23 cents per gigabyte—a slightly pricey rate for pure storage (the going rate for external storage is about 10 cents a gigabyte for 1TB drives). But as I hope I’ve made clear in this review, you’re getting quite a bit more than pure storage.
Other 1 TB NAS devices on the market right now include Netgear’s ReadyNAS Duo (which is enormous and priced at $570), Cisco Linksys’ Media Hub (which features an LCD and costs $430), and LaCie’s 2big (which is a 2-disk RAID configuration and priced at $270).
The only one of these products that could beat out the World Edition (in terms of features, not pricing) is the Cisco Linksys Media Hub. But we haven’t fully tested this unit because, even though we included it in our Valentine’s Day Gift Guide, Cisco Linksys hasn’t sent us an office review unit—only a dummy model for photography purposes. We’re still waiting to put these two head-to-head, but it seems to me that the two products aren’t in exactly the same category. Cisco’s product offers lots of ports and card reader slots, a reliable Web Interface (yeah, Mionet is sluggish, to say the least) not to mention server-on-a-chip architecture. That thing looks like it has the smarts to sort out our media files from the rest of our junk and serve it up right to the TV. Of course, it also costs twice that of the World Edition.
When WD does finally come out with a product (perhaps they’ll call it the third coming of MyBook World Edition) with gargantuan network-attached storage combined with media adapting/extending/sorting intelligence, its price will likely be a bit higher than $229 to start. But we’re looking forward to it, anyway.
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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
hpp,
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.