WD please upgrade your firmware on your Network Drives to include the FREE ! Upgrade offered by Twonky for version 5 users to use version 6 for FREE !

Other NAS suppliers such as QNAP did this a couple of years ago (see link)

http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=213&t=38026

This seems to be a Hot topic for allot of WD NAS owners and we are not getting any reasonable answers out of WD.

I notice the WD team put this Twonky upgrade idea straight to Unplanned status so no one can add further comments or give Kudos.

WD need to provide a full explanation on why we can't have the free Twonky upgrade when other NAS suppliers can supply it?

WDTony please don't change this to unplanned and please provide us with a real answer on where the Media Server software is headed for the current WD NAS products.

Thanks for listening. 

Dear Sharespace-team,

after reading through this forum, it seems as if the Sharespace RAID-5 is really touchy and not very reliable. So I would like you to create a thorough help page on data recovery from crashed RAID-5 array.

I assume there must be a software tool that can be used to recover the data of a crashed sharespace raid-5 array, right?

Many users have access to a "regular" PC and could hook up the 4 drives to it, boot it from a DVD and operate a data recovery tool.

So please provide the software tools (may be the image of a self-bootable DVD with linux and the preconfigured software tool) as well as detailed instructions.

This would enable your users to help themselves so they don't have to contact your support which - in return - would lower your support cost. So providing this software and information would be a win-win.

Thank you

Sincerely

Matt

I know that twonky media has been updated to 6.0 was hoping to get a firmware update for the mybook world to incorporate this as twonky are saying the upgrade is free for 5.x users?

Thanks!

In the WD Quick View the shut down of the My Book Live is really easy and I use this a lot for energy saving reasons when I not using the NAS. But it is not possible to start the NAS so easily. To start the My Book Live you have to reconnect the power connector, because the My Book Live does not support WOL. 

So please support WOL to boot the device when it is needed and if possible implement it also into the WD Quick View

You can also going further by doing a automatic shutdown when all Computer with WD Quick View are powered off and do a automatic startup when the first computer with the WD Quick View is starting. This will by a major step in the energy saving of your device.

Because nobody need a NAS when all Computer are power off especially in the private sector for what the My Book Live is designed.

The TwonkyMedia sever (v.5.1) built in to the My Book World Edition NAS drive is not allowing media streaming with a number of DNLA enabled devices. The server software sees the devices are renderers, but the devices cannot see files on the NAS drive.  This is a 'feature' of v.5.1 of the server software,  which is fixed in later releases of the server software (checked by downloading trial versions of the server software on my PC, and using it to share the NAS files).  Without an urgent update (current version is 6.0), the ability of the My Book to act as an effective DNLA media streaming device is impaired for a number of users (though it will work with some equipment).

It is obvious that the next firmware must contain the new version of Twonky Server 'cause the current version (5.1.9 i think) has lots of bugs.

My example is the very old and well-known issue with a "UPnP timeout messages" which leads to Twonky stop after 30 minutes of video streaming making simply impossible to use the device as media server. I've contacted Twonky Media support and they say it is the new version which can resolve my (and not only my) problem but there is no way to easily install it on the NAS.

My Book Live is positioning as "DLNA compliant" device, so it will be the very good idea to update the program which makes MyBook dlna compliant. Maybe the solution is to open for conventional users (not linux-professionals) the possibility to install Twonky Server from the MyBook web-interface (If it's to hard to WD to support it).

I tryed to get any info about this question, but wasn`t successful(

If anyone knows something! please share!

I would love to see a 32 Bay NAS from WD. This would finally allow me to store my entire home video collection on a single drive (at least once 4+ TB drives come out) and would be an amazing thing to have. Right now the largest bay from other hard drive manufactuers (who shall not be named) only go up to 8 and 16 bays and are still too small for my needs- as I am sure they are too small for many other peoples as well.

On MyBook Live the default share "Public" has unrestricted R/W and can't be disabled.

I would like to have the option of  turning off the default share "Public".

Version 5.1.7 is very old revision of Twonky Mediaserver and it does't support *.mkv file.

Please update Twonky or write instructions how I can update it in WD Sharespace 4Tb

Hi there,

Subject explains it all.

CTorrent is simply too slow, clumsy, complicated, communicates slowly...

My idea is to take Transmission and integrate it into the next firmware version of WD My Book World Edition II.

I am sure a lot of people would appreciate this...

jborko

Of the two major brands selling wireless audio equipment only Philips Streamium is fully compatible with UPnP/DLNA and works 'out of the box' with the MyBook World.  Logitech requires squeezebox server to be installed, which entails either having a PC running permanently or voiding the MyBook warranty and messing about at the command line. 

AFAIK Logitech has no plans to make their devices compatible with Twonky.

Would it not be a fairly small tweak to include the Squeezebox server software in a future firmware update ?

In current state when viewing video library via Media Server with Twonky on WDTV, all files and folders appear as default blank rectangles.

In network shares mode, all video file and folder shows the JPG icon attached (assumed having the same filename or folder.jpg).

I suggest that you make twonky show the JPG files for folders and video/audio files.

I miss the feature that I my WD My Book World Edition can say. The hard disk should, for example, every day, switch off automatically at midnight and then turn on again on 5 clock automatically or only every Monday and Friday / Schedule.

That will be a super feature for me.

Thanks

my suggestion would be to integrate a newsreader and downloader, such as sabnzbd to the firmware for the mybook devices.

Please consider including support for the WebDAV protocol. FTP support is great, but Web Folders are much easier to use when it comes to plain computer users.

Best Regards,

John

Dear WD Sharespace team,

For the next firmware release of the WD Sharespace NAS, I would like to urgently request that you improve the built in backup feature by letting users choose MULTIPLE shared folders to be backed up (instead of limiting them to just one).

Being limited to only one folder makes this function almost entirely useless.

In my opinion, a fairly good backup system would have the following features:

a) it allows the user to choose MULTIPLE shares that should be backed up

b) If an external hard drive is attached and the button is pressed, these folders should be transferred to that external drive by some reliable software like RSYNC

c) After the backup, the backup system should perform a BITWISE COMPARE

d) After the entire procedure has been completed, the user should be able to access a sufficiently detailed log of the last backup run in the web gui.

As a business user, I MUST back up some of my data.

But my data is located in several shared folders - not just one.

However, a simple "copy" function is not enough. I need to be able to fully trust a backup - so a bitwise file compare is absolutely essential!

The above mentioned features would keep backups simple (plug in external drive + press button) but would make them reliable so one could trust a backup created by sharespace.

What do you think?

Who else would like an improvement of the backup feature?

Thanks

matt