This is made possible by the twin low-power 2TB or 3TB Western Digital Caviar Green drives inside. The Duo is passively cooled, allowing for near silent operation. The top has a spring loaded plastic tab, which with a soft press allows users to access both drives inside their My Book Thunderbolt Duo. This follows the design of the My Book Studio Edition II and My Book Live Duo, making it easy to get at each hard drive. From a design perspective, the highlight is certainly the fact that the drives are user accessible – without being visually distracting – via a lid that opens with moderate pressure on the front edge. The Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo has a minimalist rounded face with a small WD badge and pinhole-sized white status light. Western Digital includes a three year warranty with the product. Like most Thunderbolt solutions, cables are not included and are sold by Apple at $50 per. The WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo comes in 4TB or 6TB capacities with street pricing of $550 and $660 respectively.
Thunderbolt 2 external hard drive 7200rpm software#
To help keep the drive running smoothly, WD includes a suite of software tools to manage and report on drive health. The drive are user accessible as well, meaning upgrades or drive swaps are easy, which is rarely the case with external hard drive storage solutions. Western Digital ships the My Book Thunderbolt Duo in RAID0 for maximum Thunderbolt speed, though it can be configured for RAID1 should a user prefer redundancy of data to sheer performance. WD’s hoping to change our perspective on that with the My Book Thunderbolt Duo, a two-drive external which supports up to six Thunderbolt Duos daisy-chained together. But to this point we haven’t seen much in the way of direct attached storage where Thunderbolt has proven a worth investment for the mainstream user.
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From a Mac perspective, the current interface of choice for speed is Thunderbolt. Western Digital has long made excellent external hard drive solutions that appeal to creative types and others who want large capacity local drive access with the fastest interface available.
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