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When i use one old and one new hd in the box, box boots up, in the configration menu old hd 1tb new one 2tb shows and as usual raid 1 capacity is 1tb. The dualdrive model my book world edition ii is preconfigured for maximum capacity as a large single spanned volume. My book world edition ii storage pdf manual download. I have the wd my book world edition ii, however it doesnt seem to want to play with windows 10. Simply connect the drive to your network router and youre up and running in just a few minutes. Do not install myonet, its rubbish, makes transfer slows and gives annoying security everywhere. My book is a series of external hard drives produced by western digital. Theres virtually no setup, its remotely accessible and works flawlessly on both. We delete comments that violate our policy, which we. When i tried to download the software it says that it is incompatible with windows 10. Jun 15, 2014 i had a failing wd mybook external hard drive, but instead of just throwing away the whole thing, i simply replaced the hard drive that resides inside the case.
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