External Hard Drives
Peak performance for creative professionals.
- Highlights
Revolutionary Thunderbolt™ technology.
Finally, a drive that can keep pace with your creativity. The leading-edge speed of Thunderbolt technology lets creative pros design, edit, render and produce graphics, movies, music and more in record time.
User-configurable for speed or double-safe data protection.
Customize this dual-drive storage system to your needs – RAID 0 for speed, RAID 1 for data protection, JBOD to use the drives individually.
High-speed
multi-tasking.The revolutionary bi-directional Thunderbolt technology delivers unmatched speed for multi-tasking while video editing, 3D rendering and completing other graphics-intensive projects.
- Overview
Move data at unprecedented speeds
Finally, a drive that can keep up with your creativity. Video editors and other digital media professionals can do more work in less time with the ground-breaking data transfer speed of the Thunderbolt™ ports on My Book Thunderbolt Duo drive. It offers the indisputably fastest way to get information to and from your external drive.
High-capacity storage
My Book Thunderbolt Duo, dual-drive storage system featuring revolutionary Thunderbolt technology, sets new standards for data transfer speeds and workflow flexibility in an affordable, high-capacity storage system.
User-configurable RAID for speed or double-safe data protection
You can select the RAID mode that's right for you. Choose RAID 0 (striping) for the performance you need when designing or editing graphic-intensive media files. When the drive is set to RAID 1 (mirroring) it provides double-safe data protection by automatically generating a duplicate copy of your data. Set the drive to JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) to use as two individual drives and select between HFS+J or ExFAT per disk. Ideal for running Windows® OS on a Mac®.
Daisy chain several drives together for even faster speed
The intelligent Thunderbolt connector provides two channels of up to 10Gb/s transfer rate in both directions. This means data can travel both ways without compromising bandwidth. Add to that the power of multiple drives processing data and you get amazing speed.
User-serviceable
Want to upgrade a drive? Simply open the case and replace the existing drive – no screwdriver needed.High-speed multi-tasking
Revolutionary bi-directional Thunderbolt technology delivers unmatched speed for multi-tasking while video editing, 3D rendering and completing other graphics-intensive projects.
WD Drive Utilities
Register your drive, run diagnostics, manage RAID or JBOD modes and more using WD Drive Utilities.Thunderbolt and the Thunderbolt logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.- Reviews
- Specifications
Product Specifications Interface Thunderbolt Physical Specifications Capacity 8 TB Physical Dimensions English Height 6.50 Inches Depth 6.20 Inches Width 3.90 Inches Weight 4.98 Pounds Metric Height 165 mm Depth 157 mm Width 99.00 mm Weight 2.26 kg Environmental Specifications Temperature (English) Operating 41° F to 95° F Non-operating -4° F to 149° F Temperature (Metric) Operating 5° C to 35° C Non-operating -20° C to 65° C Electrical Specifications Current Requirements Power Dissipation AC Input Voltage100-240 VAC AC Input Frequency47-63 Hz Compatibility
Formatted for Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Lion or Mountain Lion operating systems. Compatibility may vary depending on user’s hardware configuration and operating system.System Requirements- Computer with Thunderbolt connector
- Mac OS X 10.6.8 or higher
- Thunderbolt cable (must be purchased separately)
Configuration
Configurable for maximum speed (RAID 0), data protection/mirror mode (RAID 1) or use the drives individually in JBOD mode.
Package Includes- Dual-drive storage system with Thunderbolt connector
- AC adapter
- Quick install guide
- (Thunderbolt cable must be purchased separately.)
