New 3TB media server from WD

Anyone use external hard rives or media servers (apart from their PS3 Consoles)?  If so you maybe interested in the latest announcement from WD regarding the increased capacity of its My Book Live Home Network Drive. 


For those of you who don't know about the WD My Book Live it's a media center that enables you to consolidate all your movies, music and photo's onto one device which can be accessed by other wireless devices for sharing and playing content.


Today's press release informs us of a new 3TB My Book (to complement the 1TB and 2TB already available) 


Here's the full press release:

Live network drive enables users to easily and securely centralise, share,
and stream digital content at home, as well as access any file on the drive
from anywhere in the world using an Internet-enabled PC or Mac.

My Book Live 3 TB home network drive incorporates the latest processor
technology to deliver transfer speeds up to 100 MBps, roughly triple the
speed of traditional USB 2.0 drives and double the speeds of other network
drives in its class.

Its built-in media server allows users to stream content stored on any
computer on the home (or office) network to their big screen TV using any
DLNA®-certified multimedia device such as WD TV Live Hub media center,
Blu-ray Disc(tm) player, and Xbox 360® and PlayStation® 3 game consoles.
Users can also play music and videos stored on their drive in iTunes®, as
well as view their digital photos on their iPhone®, iPod touch®, iPad(tm),
and Android smartphones with the swipe of a finger through the included WD
Photos(tm) application.

My Book Live home network drives offer a 2-year limited warranty and are now
available at select retailers and online at www.shopwd.co.uk 

MSRP for My Book Live home network drive is £ 229.99 incl. VAT.