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today we're going to be unboxing the my book world edition so this is a network hard drive or an ass network attached storage this is a tube terabyte drive so it's a single three and a half inch two terabyte drive in there you can do backup and storage for all your computers and it connects to a network router it's thirty percent more efficient than standard systems so claims WD and let's see what else they have to say for themselves okay that's just showing the unit itself we're going to check that out when we actually open the box alright so you've got automatic backup automatic and continuous back I've never mind automatic backup share so you can add centralized storage for everyone to save and share music photos videos and files on your home network okay it's an ass so that's what it does access so you can retrieve files from anywhere anytime even when your computer is off okay that pretty much goes along with it being an ass and hey this is good you can play movies and music on your TV through your xbox 360 playstation 3 or digital media adapter so here they have a little chart of how your network will look when you have one of these so you got your router here you got your computer here you got your wireless computers here including pc and mac there is your my book world edition and then here's a game console with a television and you can use the USB port to add more storage so you can plug in like another western digital external hard drive just directly into the my book world edition and increase the storage automatic them cool alright so two terabyte gives you up to eight hundred and eighty hours of DVD quality movie 500,000 mp3s or 571 thousand JPEGs and those would be big JPEGs too i mean if you're storing small.jpg I mean that would be more like on the order of millions all right here we go so easy set up three simple steps plug the drive into your router insert the CD into your computer use easy discovery tools to recognize the drive on your computer's okay well Nazis ago let's open this thing up and have a look at it it's white you know what they say rights the new black actually apples moved onto aluminum so maybe white isn't cool anymore okay so here's a little manual about your WD product systemvue making it any how to use it with leopard and tiger all right there is a software installation CD and I'm going to actually use that all right here's a support numbers and next we have did you know you can update the firmware over the Len right that's good to know all right let's open this thing up this is quite yeah this could probably hold two drives inside actually I might have been mistaken saying it was one two terabyte drive I'll make you one terabyte drive here is a power adapter right fairly standard faith next we have an ethernet cable presumably is at least cat 5e so it'll run a gigabit speed goes back in there let's have a look that's in my book world edition which is sealed yeah I get to break another seal all right got it really does add to the unboxing experience the more unpackaging and unboxing you can do the better all right well there's a very very shiny WD logo on the side right there is shiny shiny white at the front you've got a little not sure if that's a window or just a grey grey bar and then on the other side you have another shiny WD logo on the bottom you've got four little rubberized feet so it's meant to sit like this my keys ok so it's meant to sit just like that it's not going to slip because it has rubberized feet and on the back very simply you've got a power switch at USB port and a Gigabit Ethernet port there's a little hard reset as well as your power in ok now i'm going to try something here i don't know if this is going to work so i'm not going to televise it so to speak hold on and try and get it open because someone told me how to do it but I don't know if I'm doing it right here or not I'm not doing it right okay forget it so inside we see one hard drive and then lots of room for our ventilation and other electronics so you I don't know I don't know how you can see this but the drive is right here there's lots of electronics which are powering the backplane here add the i/o and then yep all of these are just straight through vents where you can completely see the hard drive so it is passively cooled that means that if it's it's a little bit up off the table which it will because of these feet you're going to have air just naturally flowing down from the bottom and then up through the top and then from the back because of the heat generated by the components inside so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the my book world edition two terabyte network hard drive from western digital