A reboot eventually caused the little icon to change to Status:Good. But the front panel light was still blinking yellow. Navigating to the Internal Storage page shown in Figure 10 still showed Drive A as failed and there was no alert / event shown at the top of the page.īut after a few minutes of revisiting the drive storage and home pages, I returned to the Internal Storage page and found Status had changed to Good. The little icon in the lower left of the admin screen had a green halo, but showed Status:Bad. But there was confusing information presented in the user interface. When I logged in after boot was complete, I found my data intact. The iTunes server is still there, with the only controls being an Enable and Rescan button.įor recovery, as per instructions in the user manual, I first powered down the NAS, reinserted the drive, then powered back up. Perhaps someone with better skills can take a look and let me know. I can’t tell from the process list what exactly has taken TwonkyMedia’s place. But there are a few changes for the Duo.įigure 4: WD My Book Live Duo admin home pageįirst up is that PacketVideo’s TwonkyMedia server has been replaced by a DLNA Media Server (Figure 5). The Duo has the same AJAX-based sliding panel interface seen last year in the single-drive Live (Figure 4). WD Photos iOS photo viewer app (requires WD 2go service).Remote access to shares via WD2go cloud service.Email alerts (w/ built-in SMTP service for no-hassle setup).User level permissions (no groups, no quotas). SmartWare for Windows bundled client backup application, unlimited licenses.You won’t find printer sharing, Windows Domain / AD support, USB drive copy or jumbo frame controls. The My Book Live’s original feature set was trimmed down a bit to better suit its target consumer buyer. There is no fan, so the Duo runs very quietly. The Duo draws only 14 W when active and 5 W when drive spindown occurs after the Energy Save mode kicks in, which is programmable from 10 to 60 minutes in 10 minute increments. WD has switched from the Caviar Green drive in the Live to two WD AV-GP (WD20EURS) 2 TB drives in the 4 TB WDBACG0020HCH model sent for review. A single Broadcom BCM54610 provides the Gigabit Ethernet LAN port, which doesn’t support jumbo frames. RAM complement is the same at 256 MB and so is flash at 512 KB. the 1 GHz Applied Micro APM82181 I found on the Live. The only difference I can discern is that WD says that the Live Duo uses an 800 MHz processor vs. It turns out that the design is essentially the same as the Live, even though the board is different. So I was able to comb through the Linux dmesg log to figure out the key components. The cage’s fiendishly clever design (at least to me) resisted my attempts to get it apart, so I was only able to get the angled shot of the board shown in Figure 3.įortunately, the Support > System Report feature generates and saves a full set of logs right to your desktop. I was able to slip off the Duo’s plastic covers and get to its inner metal card cage where the processor board sits in the space between the two drives. Like its thinner cousin, the Duo’s front panel carries only a lone, tiny light that changes colors and blinks depending on what it is trying to tell you (Figure 1). The Duo looks like a double-wide version of its single-drive sibling that I reviewed back in fall 2010, coming clothed in the same subdued matte charcoal grey plastic shell. But a request to WD’s crack PR team brought one to the SNB lab, stat! I missed the announcement in January amid the flurry of other CES news. I have to thank a reader for suggesting I review WD’s dual-bay version of its top-selling (at least according to Amazon and Pricegrabber rankings) consumer NAS.
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