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WD My Book - What's the Difference?
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<blockquote data-quote="johnodd4" data-source="post: 1645764" data-attributes="member: 331386"><p>Wrong again.</p><p></p><p>Let me explain the differrence.</p><p></p><p>Mybook: Windows/mac Use a standard drive controller board if the drive controller board fails basically the usb to sata board inside the my book fails you can transfer the drive out of the my book case into another third party case and recover your data.</p><p></p><p>Mybook: Mac only The difference here is that the drive controller board on this drive will only accept the drive it is currently connected to as well the drive controller board encrypt's the drives data so you cannot transfer the drive to another case to recover the data you have to pay Western digital to do this for you because you need the encryption key which was on the board controller interface.</p><p></p><p>This is why i recommend the windows/mac editions not the mac only editions to my customers and i have had no complaints.</p><p></p><p>I did however recently came across a hard drive a older my book i had sold to a customer that the drive controller had failed and we where grateful that we where able to recover the customers data because the drive was windows and mac compatible.</p><p></p><p>I highly recommend a nice solution though i use the my book cloud i am in fact currently looking to buy 3 more for major storage for all of my machines mac and windows. they are very fast and send data nicely and even work nicely with mac and windows.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="johnodd4, post: 1645764, member: 331386"] Wrong again. Let me explain the differrence. Mybook: Windows/mac Use a standard drive controller board if the drive controller board fails basically the usb to sata board inside the my book fails you can transfer the drive out of the my book case into another third party case and recover your data. Mybook: Mac only The difference here is that the drive controller board on this drive will only accept the drive it is currently connected to as well the drive controller board encrypt's the drives data so you cannot transfer the drive to another case to recover the data you have to pay Western digital to do this for you because you need the encryption key which was on the board controller interface. This is why i recommend the windows/mac editions not the mac only editions to my customers and i have had no complaints. I did however recently came across a hard drive a older my book i had sold to a customer that the drive controller had failed and we where grateful that we where able to recover the customers data because the drive was windows and mac compatible. I highly recommend a nice solution though i use the my book cloud i am in fact currently looking to buy 3 more for major storage for all of my machines mac and windows. they are very fast and send data nicely and even work nicely with mac and windows. [/QUOTE]
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