Do you have the latest Vista drivers from Western Digital for you world
book?
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>I have a home network workgroup consisting of three PCs running Windows XP
>Pro SP3 32-bit, 1 PC running Vista Enterprise 32-bit, and one running Vista
>Home Premium 64-bit. I also have a Western Digital MyBook World Edition NAS
>drive on the network. Mionet is installed on one of the XP PCs.
>
> Before I added the Vista 64 PC, the WD drive worked just fine and was very
> stable. Once I added the Vista 64 PC and finally got it to even see the
> WD, it worked for a few hours than the WD left the network. None of the
> PCs could connect to it. The power button on the WD didn't respond. I had
> to unplug the WD to regain control of it. WD tech supports response was
> "We haven't tested any of our NAS drives with any 64-bit OS." That's all
> their help. (As an aside, the WD WB seems to have the slowest data
> transfer speeds around. It's rated for GB networks, but on a GB network it
> seems to max out at about 1/4 the speed of a USB2 external drive.)
>
> I've given up on the WD. Does anyone know of a NAS drive around 1 TB in
> capacity that can handle RAID 1 and/or 5 that works with Vista Home
> Premium 64-bit and the other OS's that I have? Even better would be one
> that has a good data transfer speed on a GB network.
>
> Thank you
> Brian Bygland
>
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