- #WD MY BOOK 3TB STUCK BACKUP HOW TO#
- #WD MY BOOK 3TB STUCK BACKUP INSTALL#
- #WD MY BOOK 3TB STUCK BACKUP SOFTWARE#
#WD MY BOOK 3TB STUCK BACKUP SOFTWARE#
The software WDAnywhere restricts certain types of files from being shared. In addition to not supporting Linux access, WD also makes sure that it’s not there in case you’d want to use it.ģ. It appears that they don’t want users to be using this NAS with NFS.
#WD MY BOOK 3TB STUCK BACKUP INSTALL#
I had to install NFS files manually to get it up and running. However, I learned that they removed this in versions v2.00.15 and later. All you need to do to use it was enable it. I tested NFS write speed on a 100Mb/sec network and I can only get a maximum of 5 MB/sec. Therefore, even with a Gigabit ethernet and 7200 RPM drives, I doubt you can get it any faster than 7MB/s if the bottleneck is the CPU or IO. I suspected that this is due to the CPU or IO of the machine. I use the Unix command dd to measure write speed.ĭd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/x bs=1024 count=10240ġ0485760 bytes (10 MB) copied, 1.6501 seconds, 6.4 MB/s Note that this is through local access on the machine itself and not even across the network. However, I can only get a maximum of 7MB/sec of write speed. I don’t understand what went wrong here because this NAS has a Gigabit ethernet and according to the specs, the drive speed is 7200RPM. There are plenty of people already hacking this NAS. You don’t want to be alone hacking this device. It uses a small and low-power CPU (ARM926EJ). With two 750GB disks and a Linux machine in itself, I thought this was relatively more quiet than running your own Samba/NFS server on a desktop PC. Some reviews out there claim that this device is noisy. Therefore, in addition to disk storage, you can use it as a Linux machine with all the goodies like ssh, lighttpd, Perl, etc. It’s a small computer in itself and one of the compelling reasons I bought this was that it uses Linux.
#WD MY BOOK 3TB STUCK BACKUP HOW TO#
See my other post for details on how to set this up. I had to install some nfs files manually (exportfs, rpc.*) to get this running. However, this is no longer available by default in the new firmware, 2.0.15+. If you’re going to use this with Unix, you would definitely want to have NFS access to this device. I actually disabled this hoping it would help speed up the machine. It also has this proprietary type of file access called MioNet (WDAnywhere), but I didn’t bother using it since I was only interested in using Samba and NFS. By default, it can do Windows-sharing type of access (CIFS/SMB). Setting it up was as easy as setting up a wireless router. It uses a web interface for setup and administration. It was the cheapest Linux-based NAS I could find out there. At this time, a standalone 500GB hard drive costs around $99. Unfortunately, there are some bad things too. There are many good things about this product.
Thanks to my friend, Don, for telling me about this. It’s called – Western Digital 1.5 TB My Book World Edition II Hard Drive.
It’s a 1.5TB external hard drive from Western Digital. Available in various editions from Essential, to Premium to World Edition.I recently purchased a personal network attached storage (NAS). Apparently the power button on the MyBook enclosure can get stuck, and since holding the power button on many devices is a way to reset them or otherwise send custom commands to the firmware, this could cause the MyBook to power up but then stop communicating properly with the computer.Ī line of external hard drives by Western Digital, styled after hardbound books. While hard drives can fail at times for odd reasons, in this instance it turned out to be a problem with the drive's enclosure. This problem started happening after the system had been using the drive successfully for a while, and had performed numerous Time Machine backups to it. The drive would appear to start mounting or otherwise be recognized by the system, but then seem to hang and not be recognized. Recently we received an e-mail from a MacFixIt reader who wrote in with a fix he found for his Western Digital MyBook external hard drive that had stopped working. In reality we do not recommend you "smack" your hard drive or other system components, but sometimes a little love tap or two can fix odd problems. Western Digital's "MyBook" drives are very convenient and popular storage options, but if the drive stops working then you might have success by giving it a quick love tap. Everywhere Threads This forum This thread. Search Everywhere Threads This forum This thread.
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