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Western Digital’s My Passport drives are now available in sizes up to 2TB. These drives support the USB 3.0 interface and are bus-powered for portability.
The line of My Passport drives range in size from 500GB to 2TB and retail between $130 and $250. Check availability at B&H Photo, Amazon and WD’s website.
We’ve been waiting a long time for this one folks – an actual, shipping Thunderbolt external hard drive for mere mortals.
Western Digital has announced pricing and that it is now shipping 4TB and 6TB versions of its My Book Thunderbolt Duo external hard drives. I first looked at these at CES 2012, while they were still getting them ready for final production.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyt6jwohQ_M&w=640&h=360]The dual-drive system is configurable as a RAID 0, RAID 1 or JBOD. As a RAID 0 drive, the Thunderbolt connection puts a single unit in the 280MB/s transfer range. Additionally, a daisy-chained series of 6 drives configured in RAID 0 will deliver transfer speeds up to 780MB/s.
The 4TB model is priced at $600, while the 6TB model is priced at $700. WD says it is now shipping the drives. Check B&H Photo, Amazon and WD’s online store for availability. I should have my hands on one soon and will report back as soon as I get a first look at its performance.
More info in the full press release below. [Read more…]
I caught up with Western Digital at CES 2012 for a look at the new My Book Live Duo and My Book Thunderbolt RAID drives. [Read more…]
I caught up with Matt Bennion at PhotoPlus 2011 and talked to him about some of the recent products from Western Digital.
I’m very excited about the My Book Live, which I talked about when the WD 2go App was announced a couple months ago. The update through the WD 2go App for the MyBook Live drives gives us so much power to freely share large files without the need of some middleman charging us for another storage or transfer service. [Read more…]
Western Digital has just unveiled its WD 2go App for iOS and Android devices. The app gives your iPhone, iPad or Android device access to all of the files stored on your WD My Book Live hard drives – even when you’re far from home.
I was an early adopter to USB 3.0 on my PC and I’ve been using Western Digital USB 3.0 drives since shortly after they became available. I’ve been more than happy with with performance, price and durability of these drives over the past year or so. [Read more…]
Western Digital has launched the new Nomad case for its MyPassport portable hard drives. [Read more…]