Western Digital My Book

Although My Book Ethernet-capable disks come with a Gigabit Ethernet interface, the network speed is significantly slower.

Especially for older "blue rings" models (200 MHz ARM CPU and 32 MiB RAM), where it varies between 3–6 MB/s,[7] with an average of 4.5 MB/s.

[10] The "white lights" WDH1NC is jumbo frames capable and can achieve ~36 MB/s reading and ~18 MB/s writing speed over Gigabit Ethernet.

[citation needed] This drive runs BusyBox on Linux on an Oxford Semiconductor 0XE800 ARM chip which has the ARM926EJ-S core.

In addition it uses a VIA Cicada Simpliphy vt6122 Gigabit Ethernet chipset, and a Hynix 32 Mbit DDR Synchronous DRAM chip.

The device can be 'unlocked' and accessed via SSH terminal (newer versions of WDH1NC10000 do not need to be "unlocked": MBWE SSH Access), meaning that the WD MioNet Java-based software can be disabled so the device can be run with an unrestricted Linux OS,[11] at the cost of voiding the warranty.

The My Book Studio Edition II contains two drives and is designed to be used as a RAID system for increased performance.

My Book Live uses Applied Micro APM82181 processor working at 800 MHz and has 256 MiB of RAM.

It sports a similar design to the previous My Book Live, but unlike that one this product has a top cover that allows for easy servicing and replacement of the drives.

It also has one Gigabit Ethernet and one USB connection.The My Book AV DVR Expander is intended to increase the disk capacity of consumer DVRs or compatible camcorders.

The DVR Expander was originally designed specifically for the TiVo series 3 and onwards and, at that time, the only connectivity was an eSATA port.

[24][25] The Morse code message written into the drive case is made up of a selection of the words "personal", "reliable", "innovative", "simple", and "design".