Western Digital Mybook HDDs not compatible with Western Digital media players

Media-junkies will likely have rejoiced at Western Digitals recently announced Mybook Essential 3TB drives, which, along with Seagates equivalent offerings, have finally pushed 3.5" disk capacity past 2TB.

That is unless of course they are also owners of Western Digital's own WDTV HD media players. As we previously reported, Western Digital unceremoniously dumped their original WDTV after just one year on the market, no longer offering firmware updates and in fact have all but removed any trace of it from their website. Customers who played no small part in establishing Western Digital as a key player in the media-box market have been left with an unsupported, buggy device.

Now the icing on the cake comes in the form of an admission from WD rep Guy_K that the newly launched Mybook 3TB drives would not be compatible with the WDTV gen 1. Thats right - a Western Digital branded hard-drive will not work with Western Digitals' own media player. Considering that media-junkies and WDTV owners would make up a large proportion of the buyers for such high-capacity drives, this admission is a major embarassment for Western Digital.

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