Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo
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Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo Reviews
Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo 4TB review
The My Book Thunderbolt Duo is Western Digital's first desktop drive to use an ultra-fast Thunderbolt interface. In fact, it has two such ports, so the drive and an external display can be connected to a Mac with just one by daisy-chaining the display from the drive. There are two disks inside, and WD has improved the marking and releasing of the mechanism that lets you in, should a disk need replacing. They're configured as a striped array by default, for the full capacity of 4TB in a single volume, with the risk that everything is lost if one disk expires. However, it has tremendous speed benefits. With files of 2MB and larger, it averaged 298.4MB/second when reading, and 266.1MB/second when writing, but with large variation in write speeds, between 353.1MB/second down to a low of 217.2MB/second. Fortunately, the supplied software enables you to easily reconfigure the hard disks as a mirrored array, halving the usable capacity and slowing transfer rates, but with the insurance of having two copies of your data. In this mode, read speeds averaged 189.1MB/second, and 126.4MB when writing. We found less variation in write speed in this mode. It peaked at 176.8MB/second, and hit a low of 111.7MB/second with a 100MB file.
WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo
The WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo is basically the Thunderbolt version of the My Book Studio Edtion II. The drive offers up to 6TB of storage space (in RAID 0) and very good performance for an external hard drive. Compared with other Thunderbolt storage devices on the market, however, it's one of the slowest. To make up for this, the drive starts at a low $600 for 4TB and $700 for 6TB; that's about $100 cheaper than the similarly configured LaCie 2big Thunderbolt . Like with Thunderbolt storage devices, you'll have to spend another $50 for a Thunderbolt cable. This lower pricing and the fact that users can replace the internal hard drives by themselves make the WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo a very good choice for people who want to enjoy Thunderbolt-grade performance without having to spend too much. The WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo shares the same design as the My Book Studio Edition II; it looks like a closed book that's standing up. The only differences are the new tiny power/status light on the front (the previous model has a large vertical one) and the two Thunderbolt ports on the back (instead of USB, FireWire, and eSATA connection options). The My Book Thunderbolt doesn't have a power switch since it shares the power status of the computer it's connected to.
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WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo 4TB External Dual Hard Drive Storage with RAID | $445 | See it |
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WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo 4TB External Dual-Drive Storage with RAID | $449.99 | See it |
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WD - My Book Thunderbolt Duo DAS Array - 2 x HDD Installed - 4 TB Installed HDD Capacity - Silver | $449.99 | See it |
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WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo 4TB External Dual Hard Drive Storage with RAID | $499.99 | See it |
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WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo WDBUSK0040JSL DAS Array - 4 TB Installed HDD Capacity - RAID Supported - 2 x Total Bays - Thunderbolt External | $511.99 | See it |
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WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo 6TB External Dual Hard Drive Storage with RAID | $529.99 | See it |
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WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo WDBUSK0040JSL DAS Array - 4 TB Installed HDD Capacity - RAID Supported - 2 x Total Bays - Thunderbolt External | $537.72 | See it |
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Western Digital 4TB My Book Thunderbolt Duo Dual-Drive Storage System with RAID | $549 | See it |
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Western Digital 4TB My Book Thunderbolt Duo Dual-Drive Storage System | $549 | See it |
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WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo 4TB External Dual-Drive Storage with RAID | $549.99 | See it |
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Wd My Book Thunderbolt Duo 4tb External Dual-drive Storage With Raid | $549.99 | See it |
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WD MyBook Thunderbolt Duo 4TB External Hard Drive - Silver (WDBUPB0040JSL-NESN) | $549.99 | See it |
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Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo 4TB Dual-Drive Storage with RAID | $591.99 | See it |
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WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo 6TB External Dual-Drive Storage with RAID | $625.88 | See it |
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WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo 6TB External Dual Hard Drive Storage with RAID | $629.44 | See it |
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WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo WDBUSK0060JSL DAS Array - 6 TB Installed HDD Capacity - RAID Supported - 2 x Total Bays - Thunderbolt External | $629.98 | See it |
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WESTERN DIGITAL WDBUPB0040JSL 4tb Thunderbolt External Storage | $630 | See it |
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Western Digital 6TB My Book Thunderbolt Duo Dual-Drive Storage System with RAID | $649 | See it |
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Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo 6TB Dual-Drive Storage with RAID | $649 | See it |
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My Book Thunderbolt Duo 6TB External Dual-Drive Storage with RAID | $649.99 | See it |
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Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo 6tb External Hard Drive | $649.99 | See it |
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WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo 6TB External Dual-Drive Storage with RAID | $649.99 | See it |
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WD MyBook Thunderbolt Duo 6TB External Hard Drive - Silver (WDBUPB0060JSL-NESN) | $649.99 | See it |
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Wd My Book Thunderbolt Duo 6tb Hard Drive | $656.13 | See it |
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WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo 6TB Dual-Drive - Dual Thunderbolt ports, Built-in Raid 0,1 - WDBUPB0060JSL-NESN | $656.13 | See it |
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Western Digital 8TB My Book Thunderbolt Duo Dual-Drive Storage System | $799 | See it |
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WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo 8TB External Dual-Drive Storage with RAID | $799 | See it |
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Western Digital 8TB My Book Thunderbolt Duo Dual-Drive Storage System with RAID | $799 | See it |
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WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo 8TB External Dual-Drive Storage with RAID | $799.99 | See it |
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Wd My Book Thunderbolt Duo 8tb External Dual-drive Storage With Raid | $799.99 | See it |
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Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo 8TB HDD | $875.59 | See it |
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WESTERN DIGITAL WDBUSK0080JSL 8tb Thunderbolt External Storage | $950 | See it |
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Western Digital 3423572 8tb Wd My Book Thunderbolt Duo Storage System | $1069.62 | See it |
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Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo : (6.5/10)
2 expert reviews
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