And the aggressive pricing of $500 for the 1TB World Edition II and $279 for the 500GB World Edition should make them real winners. The Memo AutoBackup application is nice, but the drive letter access over the Internet is a killer app and it kills the Free Agent drives. If you want to do it on your own, first you have first to find a way to connect to. It let you find your Network and connect to the specific device. To me, this blows away not only older generation NAS boxes like the Buffalo Terastation but also the brand new Seagate Free Agent drives. MIONET is not a program per-se it is a service. It turns out that Mionet is written in Java, so porting it to run on Linux, which the My Book undoubtedly uses, was likely straightforward. MioNet is a product of Senvid, a Palo Alto startup, that runs on Windows 2000, 2003, and XP, along with OS X, that allows you to access your storage through a secure connection through their servers, similar to Mirra.
#MIONET WD MANUAL#
The online user manual instructs you to remove MioNet from your PC if it is already installed. The differentiators what WD calls WD Anywhere Access and Data OnHand, which allow you to access your files securely over the Internet as if they were a local drive, i.e., with drive letter access! No FTP access, no navigating through screen after screen and accessing files one at a time over the Mirra… your My Book looks like a local drive no matter where you are, easily browsed with Windows Explorer. The new WD My Book World Edition II is a two drive NAS box, but with key differences! Nice, but not exceptional features, are an attractive industrial design, either 1TB capacity or 500GB with RAID-1 mirroring, Gb Ethernet connection, and EMC (Dantz) Retrospect backup software. This blog seems to be changing into a storage blog, but recently there are a lot of storage products that catch my eye.