WD My Book World Edition 500 GB - Test

Introduction

Access your data anywhere in the world? That is exactly what Western Digital promises their My Book World Edition drives will enable. It sounds too good to be true, so we couldn't wait to get to work on the 500 GB edition of this product.

Storage, one never has enough. But what use is all that dis space if you are abroad and cannot access it? Of course you can lug around and external harddisk, but that doesn't exactly provides NAS utility where others can prepare files for you - or access the storage at all. The need for such a service is hardly a new discovery, as illustrated by existing products that enable you to share files through a web interface or FTP. However, Western Digital have a their very own approach to the problem.