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Western Digital My Passport Edge USB 3.0 Review

December 3, 2012 By Eric Reagan

WD My Passport Edge Mac

WD My Passport Edge Mac

The Western Digital My Passport Edge is one of the latest bus-powered USB 3.0 hard drives out there. There are both pre-formatted versions for the Mac and PC out there, currently priced at $99 and $89, respectively. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: My Passport, My Passport Edge, WD, Western Digital

 

WD Unveils My Book Studio with USB 3.0 and 4TB Capacity

November 13, 2012 By Eric Reagan

WD USB 3 My Book Studio

Western Digital is adding to its My Book Studio line with a new 4TB drive that features a USB 3 interface.  The new unit retains the single drive form factor in 1TB, 2TB, 3TB and 4TB flavors.

The new USB 3 drives are Mac formatted out of the box for compatibility with the newest Macs that now offer USB 3 (of course, they are also backward compatible with USB 2.0).  Accordingly, the new drives are compatible with Apple Time Machine and they offer 256-bit hardware-based encryption for added security against unauthorized access to the drive and its contents.

Pricewise, the My Book Studio 1TB is $159.99; the 2TB is $189.99; the 3TB is $239.99; and the 4TB is $299.99.  The new drives are already available on Western Digital’s website and I expect them to show up soon at B&H Photo.

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: apple, hard drive, mac, My Book Studio, storage, Time Machine, USB 3, WD, Western Digital

WD My Passport Studio 2TB Portable Hard Drive Review

May 24, 2012 By Eric Reagan

WD My Passport Studio 2TB

The latest bus-powered compact drives are available in capacities up to 2TB.  If there’s one thing that photo and video shooters can’t get enough of, it’s storage space for the growing file sizes we’re dealing with.

The new Western Digital My Passport Studio drives for Mac users sleek and compact (particularly when you consider we’re getting 2TB of storage).  WD recently sent me a pair of the new drives to try out.  The drive’s external shell is mix of silver and black aluminum, which goes along nicely with the current MacBook motif.

As with with recent iterations of Western Digital’s FireWire 800 drives, the new My Passport Studio drives sport dual FW800 ports, allowing you to daisy chain multiple devices and only use a single port on your computer. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: 2tb, bus powered, hard drive, My Passport Studio, portable, storage, WD, Western Digital

WD Thunderbolt Duo is Here and Smokin’ Fast

April 5, 2012 By Eric Reagan

WD Thunderbolt Duo

WD Thunderbolt Duo

Just a quick note on the WD Thunderbolt Duo that I’m putting through the paces over the next few weeks.  I just took it out of the box a little while ago and ran a speed test on it with the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: My Book Duo, Thunderbolt, WD, Western Digital

Western Digital Portable Drives Grow to 2TB

March 20, 2012 By Eric Reagan

Western Digital My Passport Group

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.

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: hard drive, My Passport, storage, USB 3, WD, Western Digital

Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo Drives Now Shipping (Finally!)

March 15, 2012 By Eric Reagan

WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo

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.

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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…]

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: external hard drives, My Book, My Book Thunderbolt Duo, Thunderbolt, WD, Western Digital

Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo and My Book Live Duo Hard Drives

January 14, 2012 By Eric Reagan

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…]

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: CES 2012, hard drive, Thunderbolt, WD, Western Digital

Western Digital Storage Products at PhotoPlus 2011

November 8, 2011 By Eric Reagan

WD Gear

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…]

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: hard drive, My Book Live, My Passport Studio, Nomad Rugged, photoplus, PhotoPlus 2011, Photos, storage, video, WD, Western Digital

Western Digital NYC Photo Walk with Bruce Dorn

October 9, 2011 By Eric Reagan

WD NYC Photo Walk

Western Digital will host a NYC Photo Walk with WD Creative Master and Canon Explorer of Light, Bruce Dorn, on Wednesday, October 26, the day before PhotoPlus Expo, which opens on Thursday, October 27. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: bruce dorn, Canon Explorer of Light, contest, nyc, photo contest, photo walk, photoplus, WD Creative Master, Western Digital

WD 2go App Offers Mobile Access to All Your Files

September 14, 2011 By Eric Reagan

WD 2go iPad App

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.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: android, app, apple, cloud storage, hard drive, iOS, My Book Live, NAS, personal cloud, WD, WD 2go, Western Digital

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