Western Digital My Book Live 3TB Personal Cloud Storage - $179.99 w/ Promo Code & Free Shipping

Quote from mikedaley : ...Your only defense at this point in time is to encrypt your files and not use cloud services. Also make sure you go thru a proxy server so your IP address won't be tied to you personally. Otherwise you are being tracked 24/7 thru your IP protocols. FYI.

Agree that probably being tracked by IP but isn't that dispersed amongst several entities (with their cookies/scripts?), unless your broadband provider sends that data direct to a government server first before it goes to elsewhere?

If broadband provider is doing so, and you have a static IP, doesn't that render a proxy server useless? You'd need a "tunnel" direct from your PC that the broadband provider cannot see inside of.

I'm not familiar with the technology, so maybe I'm wrong on all this.

Another question...is it possible for one to emulate the same "cloud" features that this device offers with a NAS device?

i use this to stream movies to my boxee, works great for that and backing up all my other files as well.

I'm trying to hold out for a good synology deal.

Quote from dealalert00 : Agree that probably being tracked by IP but isn't that dispersed amongst several entities (with their cookies/scripts?), unless your broadband provider sends that data direct to a government server first before it goes to elsewhere? If broadband provider is doing so, and you have a static IP, doesn't that render a proxy server useless? You'd need a "tunnel" direct from your PC that the broadband provider cannot see inside of. I'm not familiar with the technology, so maybe I'm wrong on all this. Another question...is it possible for one to emulate the same "cloud" features that this device offers with a NAS device?

Yes, this device runs a lightweight Linux build. Some of the software is WD specific, but there are alternatives out there that do the same.

Quote from dealalert00 : Agree that probably being tracked by IP but isn't that dispersed amongst several entities (with their cookies/scripts?), unless your broadband provider sends that data direct to a government server first before it goes to elsewhere? If broadband provider is doing so, and you have a static IP, doesn't that render a proxy server useless? You'd need a "tunnel" direct from your PC that the broadband provider cannot see inside of. I'm not familiar with the technology, so maybe I'm wrong on all this. Another question...is it possible for one to emulate the same "cloud" features that this device offers with a NAS device?

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2TB version has worked well for me. Haven't heard anything to indicate the 3 wouldn't work well, too.

Quote from Hawk600 : You got it Cheesaw! I can also stream movies from my PC to my Tab or android phone using only ES file explorer (as long as all devices are in the same wireless network.) I was trying to do so when I am away from home.

If you're feeling ambitious and are a little network savvy you can set up an ssh tunnel to the ssh server running on it. That way it will appear almost as though you are on your home network.
Full disclosure - I've done this on a Linux box with Samba like the MyBook, but not on the MyBook itself. I don't have one.

1. open ssh port forwarding on your router and make ssh requests (port 22) from the internet go to the MyBook's IP address (it must have a static IP on your local network like: 192.168.1.101). Your router's manual will explain how to do this.

2. Install Putty for Windows on your internet-connected laptop and set up a connection to the public IP for your router - the one assigned by your internet service provider. Enable ip tunneling in Putty. This will allow you to forward port 139 (windows file sharing) from your local machine to your router, which will forward it to the MyBook.
But this won't work because you're already using port 139 to share your laptop's files. You can disable local sharing with this command line:
NET STOP SERVER
Or... you can try some other hack [samba.org] to make it work both ways, but why would you want to share your laptop's files?

3. Now that you have your laptop's port 139 forwarded over the ssh tunnel, you can map a drive to your mybook.
NET USE M: \\localhost\movies

Good luck!

i have an older version of this. the MyBook World Edition. It was way too slow. The bottle neck was in the processor. Gigibit connection was fine. Internal drives were sata2. If transferring large files or large quantities of files, the transfer starts fine but eventually slows to a crawl. I transfered 35GB worth of files, and it took over 2 days.

I wonder if it was still the case with these drives.

Quote from acerunner : i have an older version of this. the MyBook World Edition. It was way too slow. The bottle neck was in the processor. Gigibit connection was fine. Internal drives were sata2. If transferring large files or large quantities of files, the transfer starts fine but eventually slows to a crawl. I transfered 35GB worth of files, and it took over 2 days. I wonder if it was still the case with these drives.

Based on your post I decided to watch top while copying a file from the drive.
Transfer speed around 50-55MB/s transfer steadily on gbps network. I did not notice any falloff when loading the drive with a TB of data initially.
smbd is using 80-90+% cpu with less than 5% idle cpu overall, so it still appears to be a bottleneck, although nowhere near what you describe with the older model. 35GB should take a few minutes on this version on a gbps network.
I'm using the 2GB version