Product Description
My Book Thunderbolt Duo dual-drive storage system featuring revolutionary Thunderbolt technology, sets new standards for data transfer speeds and workflow flexibility in high-capacity storage.
| List Price: | $699.99 |
| Price: | $638.00 |
| as of Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:01:57 GMT ***Remember, deals price on this item for sale just for limited time*** | |
Product Details
- Size: 6 TB
- Brand: Western Digital
- Model: WDBUPB0060JSL-NESN
- Format: CD-ROM
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.50" h x 3.90" w x 6.20" l, 4.98 pounds
- Hard Disk: 3072GB
Features
- Revolutionary Thunderbolt technology
- Two Thunderbolt ports for high-speed multi-tasking
- Dual-drive storage system with user-selectable RAID 0/1
- User serviceable
From the Manufacturer
My Book Thunderbolt Duo – Dual-drive storage system.
My Book Thunderbolt Duo dual-drive storage system delivers the optimum fusion of performance and capacity. This drive offers two Thunderbolt ports delivering the revolutionary data transfer speeds available only with Thunderbolt technology. Daisy chain multiple devices through My Book Thunderbolt Duo and enjoy nearly unlimited flexibility and performance in your creative life.
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.
Customize this dual-drive storage system to your needs – RAID 0 for speed, RAID 1 for data protection, JBOD to use the drives individually.
The revolutionary bi-directional Thunderbolt technology delivers unmatched speed for multi-tasking while video editing, 3D rendering and completing other graphics-intensive projects.
Move data at unprecedented speeds - 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. It offers the indisputably fastest way to get information to and from your external drive. Finally, a drive that can keep up with your creativity.
Dual drive RAID storage system - User-selectable RAID or JBOD modes. When set to RAID 0 (striping), My Book Thunderbolt Duo offers the performance you need when designing or editing graphics-intensive media files. When set to RAID1 (mirroring), this drive provides double safe data protection by automatically generating a duplicate copy of your data. Set 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.
Dual Thunderbolt ports enhance workflow efficiency - Daisy chain up to seven devices or peripherals using the two Thunderbolt ports to achieve maximum workflow efficiency and productivity.
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.
User-serviceable - Want to replace a drive? Simply open the case and exchange the existing drive – no tools needed. If you fill up a drive, you can simply remove it and replace it with a fresh drive and begin saving even more of your creative life.
WD Drive Utilities - Register your drive, run diagnostics, manage RAID or JBOD modes and more using WD Drive Utilities.
Thunderbolt Interface
Designed by Intel, Thunderbolt technology is the fastest, most flexible interface ever. Thunderbolt technology offers performance, simplicity and flexibility.
- Performance - Transfer a full-length HD movie in under 30 seconds. Thunderbolt technology delivers unprecedented data transfer rates with a connector that is capable of providing two bi-directional channels each with up to 10 Gb/s of bandwidth.
- Simplicity - Reduce the clutter while you increase your productivity. Thunderbolt technology supports daisy chaining multiple devices through a single Thunderbolt cable so you can multi-task at maximum speed without having to switch out devices.
- Flexibility - Connect Thunderbolt technology-enabled external hard drives, media players, HD displays, media capture and editing systems and more through a single cable and enjoy nearly unlimited flexibility and performance in your creative life.
Ideal for
- Moving data at the unprecedented speeds of Thunderbolt technology
- Daisy-chaining multiple devices like HD monitors, video and audio editors, media players and more through the dual Thunderbolt ports for nearly unlimited workflow efficiency and productivity
- Multi-tasking while video editing, 3D rendering and completing other graphics-intensive projects
- Enhancing system performance by setting to RAID 0 to boost speed
- Protecting your data with user-selectable RAID 1 that automatically generates a duplicate copy of your data
- Setting to JBOD to use the system as two individual drives
- Selecting ExFat to run Windows OS on a Mac
What's in the box
Dual-drive storage system with Thunderbolt connector, AC adapter, Quick Install Guide.
Thunderbolt cable included with 8 TB model only.
Compatibility
Formatted for Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion operating system
Note: 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.
Thunderbolt and the Thunderbolt logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
Features at a glance
- Revolutionary Thunderbolt technology
- User-selectable RAID 0/1
- High-speed multi-tasking
- Move data at unprecedented speeds
- Dual Thunderbolt ports enhance workflow efficiency
- User-serviceable
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 External Storage Comparison Chart | Storage with backup | Premium storage with backup | Storage with Thunderbolt technology | ||||
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| My Passport for Mac | My Book for Mac | My Passport Edge for Mac | My Passport Studio | My Book Studio | My Book Thunderbolt Duo | My Book VelociRaptor Duo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ultra-fast portable storage for Mac. | Fast. Reliable. Secure. | Ultra-slim. All metal. Mac-ready. | Precision metal. Professional power. | All metal. Fast and secure. | Peak performance for creative professionals. | Extreme speed and capacity. | |
| Interface | USB 3.0 | USB 3.0, USB 2.0 | USB 3.0, USB 2.0 | FireWire 800, USB 2.0 | USB 3.0 , USB 2.0 | Thunderbolt (x2) | Thunderbolt (x2) |
| Capacity range | 500 GB - 2 TB | 2 TB - 3 TB | 500 GB | 500 GB - 2 TB | 1 TB - 4 TB | 4 TB - 8 TB | 2 TB |
| All metal enclosure |  | | | ||||
| Compatible with Apple Time Machine | | | | | | | |
| Password protection and hardware encryption | | | | | | ||
| 10,000 RPM drives | | ||||||
| Portable form factor | | | | ||||
| RAID | 0/1 | 0/1 | |||||
| Mac ready | | | | | | | |
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
60 of 61 people found the following review helpful.
By J. White
I tested the drive on a 2011 iMac and 2011 MacBook Air and performance was excellent. What I like the most about this drive is that it is currently the quietest Thunderbolt drive on the market today. The unit uses two Western Digital Green drives and this results in lower power consumption and the ability to cool without need of a noisy fan. I compared the unit to a 6TB Lacie 2Big Thunderbolt system and the difference in noise level was enormous. The Lacie unit uses a Fan and when resuming from sleep makes a fairly loud groaning sound. The WD drive by comparison is almost silent.
The quiet operation comes at a cost however . Speed of reading and writing data is significantly slower than the Lacie 2Big unit. The My Book Thunderbolt operating in RAID 0 read data at a rate of about 220 MB/sec while the Lacie 2Big provided about 310 Mb/sec performance. This can be accounted for by the Green drives used in the My Book being only 5900 RPM drives versus the noisier 7200 RPM drives in the Lacie. Now is the user ever going to be able to tell the difference? Probably not because in most cases one will be transferring data from a much slower internal hard drive that provides maybe 120-130 Mb/s. For almost any application I can think of the speed of the My Book will be adequate. This unit is just plain easier to live with than the noisy competition.
I observed only one problem with the drive and that is that it refused to sleep automatically when connected to a 2011 iMac. It would sleep if I commanded it however. I did some research and it seems that for Thunderbolt drives it is left entirely up to Apple to provide firmware and OS compatibility updates for the Mac used. Western Digital it seems does not provide firmware updates for its Thunderbolt drives. When connected to the MacBook Air the drive slept normally. I tested both 10.7.3 and 10.7.4. The Lacie 2Big drive sleeps normally on the same iMac.
One really bad thing about this and every other competing Thunderbolt product is that the user must purchase a 49 dollar cable to connect it with.
As a last note prior to connecting this or any Thunderbolt Drive to your Mac make sure that for your Office 2011 you have SP2 installed. Otherwise Office 2011 will want to be reactivated every time you connect or disconnect the drive from the computer.
Update: Further investigation of the sleep problem on the iMac revealed it was caused by the Wd Drive utility software. I had not installed it on the Air and thus sleep worked normally. I removed wddrivehelper from login items and sleep then worked normally.
50 of 56 people found the following review helpful.
By Oliver Werther
The drive itself is really quiet. The setup is simple and fast. I use this drive as a backup drive with my MacBook Pro using TimeMachine. I therefore configured the drive for RAID 1 mode, mirroring of data (disks). The goal is obvious, if one drive fails you still have access to your data on the mirrored drive. If a drive fails you can rebuild the other drive...This is what happened just 1 day after I purchased the drive. Drive A failed and the software shows the drive as "degraded" and starts the rebuild process.
The problem with this drive is
a) rebuild of a drive takes more than 2 days (two!, not a typo)
b) your MacBook needs to stay connected during the entire rebuild process (> 2 days)!
c) during the rebuild process you can not reboot your MAC...rebuild will start all over again.
Not being able to take my MacBook Laptop with me for 2 days or not being able to take it even into another room is a show stopper for me.
So, I called technical support. They claim it will take 2 days to rebuild a drive. In my initial test rebuilding 6% of the drive took 8 hours...you can do the math....
The G-Drive disk I used before had a hardware RAID controller build in, rebuild just takes ~ 4 hours for 1 TB without! the requirement to be connected to the MacBook.
Update: July 20, 2012
20% Rebuild of the drive took 27h
27% 37hours
thus complete rebuild will take 5days and 15 hours.
29 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
By Daniel Putkowski
The double Thunderbolt is now connected and I've been using it for video. (Previously I was using the Passport, which got full and with my updated video software is now only serving as an archive.) Once again, I'm editing video projects using the latest version of Final Cut Pro X. The thunderbolt has not missed a beat, throwing video files back and forth as well as enabling faster import times into FCP-X. Import times are critical because you can wait long enough to drink a pot of coffee if your drive is not fast enough. The thunderbolt interface is a lightning rail into the Mac, sending data at incredible rates, enabling my video files to be available for use in reasonably short periods of time. Once the video is available and I'm editing, there is NO stutter as the drive moves from clip to clip. My projects are now approaching fifteen minutes of runtime, which means a large, fast drive, is critical and this thunderbolt is doing well. Surprisingly, this drive makes virtually no noise. I expected something to hum or growl, but only get a very very quiet whirr. The only downside is this drive is not easy to tote with you. Keep it on the desk or in the rack. I'm anxious to see how quickly I fill this one with my projects.
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