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User serviceable - Easy access allows you to open the case and replace a drive.

It's like having your files with you wherever you are.

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WD Anywhere Access - The files on this drive are always accessible when you need them, even when your local computer is turned off.ĭata OnHand - Use Windows Explorer on any PC to find, open, edit and save files. Hard Drive Performance Included HDD Capacity Learn more about the Western Digital WDG2NC10000N Model Brand

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Powerful Backup SoftwareThe bundled powerful backup software EMC Retrospect Express includes full system backup and recovery functions as well as easy scheduling and encryption.

Data ProtectionWith RAID 1 and its disk mirroring functionality, the Western Digital My Book World Edition II (model WDG2NC10000N) automatically saves your data on two hard disks for easy replacement should one fail.

USB 2.0 SupportThe Western Digital My Book World Edition II (model WDG2NC10000N) features a built-in USB 2.0 port for convenient storage capacity expansion with external storage devices.

Huge 1TB Storage CapacityThe Western Digital My Book World Edition II (model WDG2NC10000N) provides an amazing 1TB storage capacity, so you can save your movies, music, applications and documents for easy sharing and even back up your system.

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Then you will no longer have to stare at the dumb WD SmartWare icon on your linux desktop again! However, please note that this does not in fact rid the hard drive of the software, it just tells your computer to ignore it. So, put the above line into your /etc/fstab file, and it will basically tell Linux that any time a device pops up and wants to inhabit the /dev/sr1 partition then it shouldn't be mounted at all. The Virtual CD always shows up as /dev/sr1, and I don't think there's any danger of other devices taking up that partition label.

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As Mac OSX is a relative of Linux, his comment was easily adaptable as a solution for my Ubuntu system too! Following is the line that I put in my /etc/fstab file and I can vouch that I now no longer see an icon for the WD Smartware Virtual CD on my desktop:

User 'yakkoj' suggests in his comment to make an entry in the /etc/fstab file on your mac that basically tells Mac OSX to ignore the Virtual CD so that it doesn't load and show up on your desktop. I found a helpful comment on a blog maintained by a mac admin. Well the problem has been well documented on the internet, with many people complaining about it. The big question I had was: how do I get rid of it? Of course the software is not linux compatible and wouldn't be something I would want to use anyway. Although it doesn't as yet display the same problems that my Simpletech hard drive was having, it does come with an annoying Virtual CD installed, literally in the unit's firmware, that contains Western Digital's SmartWare backup software.

As I mentioned in my last post, I recently picked up a Western Digital My Book Essential 1 TB external hard drive.