I’m in the process of replacing the faulty Western Digital MyBook World Edition II. It was slow from the beginning, and it doesn’t start up from time to time now since it has a faulty disk. Yesterday I bought a MyDitto (by Dane-Elec) and installed a 1GB Seagate Barracuda (7200.12) in it.
The MyDitto is much faster. Probably because it has a gigabyte LAN-port. Copying to it while viewing pictures on it with F-Spot is a no-brainer, just like the viewing is the only thing being done. Pretty impressive for a (for now) 1 disk setup.
One thing that I would like to share. I’m copying my backup DVD’s of pictures to the MyDitto now. I found that a lot of DVD’s have unreadable files on them. No faulty disk, since the access to it is no problem, the files are just empty. So gotta review my backup strategy. Backup AND VERIFY! Or backup twice. Not sure yet.
UPDATE: it seems that my BluRay drive is the problem. I am now copying the DVD’s from my laptop (normal DVD-rewriter) without errors.