

Wd drive utilities review download#
You can download the WD Drive Utilities (the. iMac 3TB Fusion Drive Disk Speed Test MacBook Air 256GB SSD Disk Speed Test My Book Thunderbolt Duo RAID 0 Disk Speed Test My Book Thunderbolt Duo RAID 1 Disk Speed Test My Book Thunderbolt Duo on RAID 0 gets about 231MB/s on write and 227MB/s on read, and on RAID 1, it gets halved to 123MB/s on both read and write. My 13″ MacBook Air (Mid 2011) on a 256GB SSD gets about 247MB/s on both read and write. My 27″ iMac (Late 2012) is on a 3TB fusion drive and it gets about 249MB/s on write and 276MB/s on read. Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo – Hitachi HDD I know that Western Digital owns Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, but I am still wondering why they do not use their own HDD, like WD Black or WD Blue in the My Book Thunderbolt Duo. User Replaceable Hard Drives – Step 1: Push To Open The Cover User Replaceable Hard Drives – Step 2: Unscrew The Ring Screw User Replaceable Hard Drives – Step 3: Pull Out The Black Flap User Replaceable Hard Drives – Step 4: Remove The HDD Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo – HDD Removed
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You do not even need a screwdriver to remove the hard drives as shown in the series of pictures below. One of the nice features that I like about the My Book Thunderbolt Duo is that the hard drives are user-replaceable. Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo – Font View Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo – Back View Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo – Besides My iMac (Late 2012) One Thunderbolt cable is included with the package. Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo – Box Front Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo – Box Back Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo – Box Contents It measures 165mm x 157mm x 99mm (Height X Depth x Width) and weighs 2.3kg. The one I gotten for this review is the 8TB model. The My Book Thunderbolt Duo comes in 3 sizes, 4TB (S$749), 6TB (S$899) and 8TB (S$1,199).

Thunderbolt offers a theoretical speed of 10Gbps as compared to 5Gbps on the USB 3.0. It comes with dual Thunderbolt ports that allows you to daisy-chain up to six My Book Thunderbolt Duo drives (48 TB using six Thunderbolt Duo 8 TB drives) or other devices such as monitors, media players, and video / audio editors. The Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo (8TB) is retailing for S$1,199 which is pretty expensive for a external hard drive.
