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Western digital external HD model # ?

I am attempting to help a friend of mine ( 90 yrs old) to install his WD external hard drive from 3000 miles away..in Hawaii.. no local people found other than $100 a hour and he isn't being sucessful.. I need to find exactly what model he has..
this is what he has supplied me:
Western Digital External Hard Drive Model:
1. Nothing identified as a Model Number or
2. the number RN B6C or
3. the number 0209C or
4. the number WD 5000 H1U00.

Take your pick. Install instructions make no mention of software or
installing software.

Computer is a Dell Dimensions 3000 using Windows XP - Home Version.

No help from WD, sat on hold for 45 minutes.

can anyone figure out what unit he has from that info? Then maybe I can find a manual and attempt to help him out..

Tnx,, Mike

Western Digital Router Question?

you can connect to your router through Wired lan and enter your router IP address( usually 192.168.1.1) it is written on back of your router. and the username and password must be "admin" "admin" if you haven't changed it. And then depend on your router model you should go to something like "basic wifi( or wireless) setting" and under security section you can find the password. but if you have changed the password and you dont know what was that, you should reset your router.

and be careful, do not set WEP password for your router. it is not safe. use WPA2 or at least WPA.
good luck

Is the Western Digital My Book Live a silent hard drive?

As far as I can see, the WD My Book Live is a NAS server. There is no USB plug, but a network cable slot. This means you can keep the WD box where you keep you router/hub, and if this is in a different room than where you usually stay; you will not hear too much from it. But, as John Frederico says; it has moving parts and it does make noise. These external storage devices are getting less and less noisy (typically the fans make less noise, the disk makes the same noises this kind of disks always have made), but they do make sounds.Solid State Drives (SSD) does not make sounds. They are more similar to a typical USB memory stick than a traditional hard drive when it comes to noise.

What is the Western Digital My Cloud NAS?

A MyCloud NAS is a tiny Linux computer with one or more attached disk drives acting as a powerful file server on a network, hence the name Network Attached Storage (NAS). You attach the NAS unit to your home or business network. Home based file servers are not a new thing. Many home wireless routers have a USB port where you can attach a disk drive and “mount” that drive from computers on a home (Local Area) network.The problem with a home NAS comes from the fact that there is no easy way to reach it from the Internet. On a Local Area Network (LAN), devices sharing the network send out “broadcast” messages to discover devices like file servers. You can’t “broadcast” to the entire Internet! You need to somehow be able to locate the device. If you are a power nerd, you can set up Universal Plug and Play on your router, get a domain name, set the address of your device to that domain name, and build up a set of services to help people on the Internet find the device on your home network. Collectively, you might describe this set of services as “discovery” or “directory” services.Western Digital solves this problem by running these “directory” servers for you. Built into the price of the MyCloud NAS is an implicit lifetime subscription to Western Digital’s directory service that manages the ability to find your device from the Internet and build a connection from the outside Internet through your home router.So “MyCloud” means that you own a server (The WD MyCloud NAS) that acts like a “cloud” (Internet) based file service such as Google Drive or Dropbox, without the monthly fees. Western Digital provides the directory service to help people find your home NAS from the Internet.You’re not the only one confused about what “cloud” means. Industry professionals argue about the precise meaning of the term as well. Simon Wardley has an amusing talk on the topic from a 2009 conference.For most normal people, “Cloud” just means “Internet,” or “some computer out there, someplace.”You will also see this sticker on a lot of IT professional notebooks:

How to give internet access to a private net?

If you must install 125 computers for a new business that wants to run TCP/IP and have access to the Internet. The ISP in town will assign you only four public IP addresses, so you decide to assign the computers addresses in the range 172.16.1.1/16 through 172.16.1.125/16. What else must you do to allow these computers to access the Internet?

thxs,

How do I connect my external harddisk to a wireless router?

I have a Western Digital 500 GB My Book hard-disk. There are two ports available for USB2.0 cables and one for Firewire.

I have a D-Link 802.11g wireless router in my house to access internet wirelessly.

Is it possible to hook up my harddisk to the wireless router and access the contents of my harddisk from my laptop wirelessly?

Can I have an external hard drive hooked up to 2 computers at once to send files by using a splitter?

I do not think that method is possible for a normal USB external drive to work that way. However, if you have a router that supports USB storage, you might be able to plug the HDD into that and have the drive shared via the network. Naturally both PCs must be connected to the same network as well.There is another solution for you and it’s called a NAS - Networked Attached Storage.As the name imply, a NAS is a storage medium that is hooked up to your network, plug it into your router and after a few clicks it should be up and running.There are off-the-shelf solutions that is simple to set up and there are also higher-tier NAS that can let users set-up every rule. With a bit of research, you can find one that is suitable for you. Heck

Does a CCTV system work without a hard disk?

Nice doubt, to make you understand everything I have included an article in detail here. Find some time to check it out.When installing the hard drive for DVR / NVR , some clients can use a normal desktop hard drive for their DVR / NVR monitoring needs. But this is totally wrong.The traditional desktop hard drives are made to work only for 8 hours a day and 6 days a week. Therefore, the total workload will be a maximum of 10% -20% and its performance will be low to moderate. Therefore, they usually show a low mean time between failures.While a surveillance hard drive is an essential component for digital video surveillance storage. It can be used in a Video Management System DVR, NVR, video server or in order to work 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. These hard drives need to be always active, in order to keep the live video tests.In general, the use of a surveillance hard disk will be moderate to high and any type of interruption in the hard disk will affect several users.Therefore, manufacturers of hard drives offer this type of units often offered with high mean time capacity between failures.Some Seagate hard drive manufacturers will also offer a firmware, such as a rescue service plan to recover data from the hard drive caused by hard failure due to mechanical failure or accidental damage.For Hard Disk Surveillance Units, you can choose Seagate or Western Digital brand.Before choosing a hard drive, it is also necessary to consider the following aspects that will determine the storage capacity of your recorder: 1. The number of cameras you are using will affect the appropriate DVR or NVR hard disk size.2. The resolution of these cameras (low, medium or megapixels), the higher the resolution of the camera, the better the quality of the video, and this will increase the storage requirements.3. The frames per second rate that you select for each camera (7.5, 15, 20 or 30 fps), for the highest rate of images you need the largest storage capacity.4. The length of time you want the DVR to record (one, two, three weeks or more). Once you have evaluated the number of cameras, the resolution and frame rate, determined how much time can be recorded before the oldest of the days is deleted, you will be able to decide which size of the hard drive is best for your needs video surveillance.

How do professional photographers backup their photos while traveling?

A2A. Ideally I will try to have 3 copies while traveling.For the second copy, one particular method which works for my gear (DSLR with two card slots) and that I’ve recently started using is to use one large card on the second slot and go through smaller ones on the first. The camera automatically makes a second copy on the go. The smaller cards will then be kept with me at all times, on my jacket pocket or similar.The third copy is done by copying the cards onto a hard drive, which is safely stored in my backpack (or in the hotel safe if it feels safe to do so). There are plenty of ways to accomplish this. In my case I do one of two:Using a portable battery pack to copy files from cards to an external USB drive that also works as a wireless router (as well as card and USB drive reader), which is operated remotely by a phone app.Using a Surface 3 Pro which I do take with me on most of my travels and make those copies at the end of the day.There are even more streamlined ways to do this, with portable hard drives that have card readers built in (like this one: Amazon US UK) or card duplicators.

What is the cheapest way to share an external usb harddrive through my network?

If your hard-disk only has USB and / or firewire connections you cannot really share it over a network because you'll need something with network possibilities between the disk and he conencting computers.

In your case that may mean you will have to leave the computer in which you plug the disk switched on, and share it from there.

The only device I am aware of that can allow you to share a disk is a hawkingtech printerport. But this will only allow one conecting PC at the same time and is almost as expensive as buying a better new drive. :-). The link is below. Under features it mentions "share USB-drives, thumb-drives"

The best option may be to buy an external disk that has networking-software bult in. I have a Western Digital MyBookWorld that does exactly that. And it actually has a USB-port through which you can share other drives as well. They must be formatted with FAT32, though and if you do not use the drive it does not power down.

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