You just pop the lid, unscrew a bracket, and slide the drive out vertically. If one of the drive assemblies in the enclosure goes bad, an LED light on the front panel will let you know by blinking red. The My Book Duo is also available in a 4TB capacity ($279.99), 6TB capacity ($349.99), and 12TB capacity ($649.99).
#WD MY BOOK REVIEW 2014 WINDOWS#
The hub will help you use the drive with Windows laptops that have only one or two USB ports. You can connect an additional drive for more storage, plug in a mouse or keyboard, or even charge your phone or tablet using the ports. The dual USB 3.0 ports are unique among external desktop drives. The back panel has a jack for the AC adapter, a USB 3.0 micro-b port for the included USB cable, and two upstream USB 3.0 ports for additional storage and charging your devices like a smartphone or tablet. The silver-gray chassis has a charcoal-gray inset, where you'll find the drive's power light and RAID status lights. It measures about 6.5 by 4 by 6.25 (HWD) and about 5 pounds, so it's definitely a drive that will stay at your desk, rather than travel with you. The chassis is looks similar to the Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo and the Western Digital My Book Studio ($527.59 at Amazon), aside from the two status LEDs for the dual hard drives.
#WD MY BOOK REVIEW 2014 DRIVER#
This is a little disappointing, because Seagate drives come with a NTFS driver for the Mac that lets you use them with both Macs and Windows PCs without reformatting (for example, if you need to quickly transfer data between systems in a mixed office). The drive will work with Macs, so long as you reformat the drive to HFS+. The default RAID 0 setting gives the best performance, so that's how we tested the drive. That way if one fails, you still have the second copy to work with. In a RAID 1 configuration, the My Book Duo makes two copies of each file: one on each physical drive assembly. Simply put, RAID 0 gives you one 8TB logical drive, JBOD gives you two individual 4TB drives, and RAID 1 gives you one 4TB drive that protects your data in case one physical drive assembly fails. You can use the included WD utility to reconfigure the drive for RAID 1 mirroring (4 terabytes), or setup as JBOD (just a bunch of disks).
The My Book Duo comes formatted for NTFS, with two 4TB drives striped in a RAID 0 array (8 terabytes total space). Music, photo, and video collectors, as well as other digital pack rats, should put this on their short list.ĭesign and Features This is one of the most spacious backup drives on the market. Most external drives max out at 4TB or 6TB, but the My Book Duo ( at Amazon) gives you a roomy 8TB of local storage.
If you're on the hunt for a basic desktop-class external hard drive with lots of space, then the Western Digital My Book Duo ($449.99) is worth a long look.
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