Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo Product Overview - Page 2

My Book Thunderbolt Duo High-Speed RAID Storage Product Features Ignite your creativity My Book Thunderbolt Duo brings performance to a whole new level. In the deadline-driven world of HD video editors and other creative professionals, this drive keeps your creativity moving with its amazing data transfer rates of up to 300 MB/s.* Finally, a drive that can keep up with your creativity. *300 MB/s is achievable through a single system. Daisy chain two or more systems to achieve > 600 MB/s transfer rates. Data transfer rates represented are in RAID 0 mode and for the 8TB model. Where creativity meets performance Daisy chain up to six drives or devices to create, edit, render and save your creative endeavors without hesitation. Multi-task at unmatched speeds. Enjoy workflow efficiency and productivity with the speed and flexibility of dual Thunderbolt ports. High-speed multi-tasking The revolutionary bidirectional Thunderbolt technology delivers unmatched speed for multi-tasking while HD video editing, 3D rendering and completing other graphicsintensive projects. User-selectable RAID or JBOD modes RAID 0 (striping) offers the performance you need when designing or editing time-sensitive graphic-intensive media files. RAID 1 (mirroring) provides double safe data protection by automatically generating a duplicate copy of your data. JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) allows you to use this dual-drive storage system as two individual drives and select between HFS+J or ExFAT per disk. Ideal for running Windows® OS on a Mac®. User-serviceable Designed with two removable drives that can be replaced when the existing drives are full. Simply open the case and exchange the existing drive and begin saving even more of your creative life. There are no tools needed. WD Drive Utilities™ Register your drive, run diagnostics, manage drive formatting in RAID or JBOD modes and more using WD Drive Utilities. Fast, seamless Time Machine backup This drive works with your Mac right out of the box and works seamlessly with Apple Time Machine for quick and easy backups. USB 3.0 FireWire® 800 USB 2.0 800 Mb/s 480 Mb/s 5 Gb/s 10 Gb/s Stated transfer rates for Thunderbolt, FireWire, and USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 are based on published specifications from Intel®, Apple® and USB.org. Actual transfer rates will differ significantly based on system configuration. Performance testing by WD resulted in an average actual transfer rate for Thunderbolt of >250 MB/s on 6 TB systems and >225 MB/s on 4 TB systems. Product Specifications INTERFACE Thunderbolt (x2) DIMENSIONS Height: 6.5 in (165 mm) Depth: 6.2 in (157 mm) Width: 3.9 in (99 mm) Weight: 4 TB 4.73 lb (2.15 kg) 6 TB 4.98 lb (2.26 kg) 8 TB 5.07 lb (2.30 kg) PACKAGE CONTENTS Dual-drive storage system with two Thunderbolt ports Thunderbolt cable AC adapter WD Drive Utilities software Quick install guide LIMITED WARRANTY 3 years Worldwide SYSTEM COMPATIBILITY Mac OS® X 10.6.8 or higher CAPACITIES AND MODELS 8 TB WDBUTV0080JSL 6 TB WDBUTV0060JSL 4 TB WDBUTV0040JSL OPERATING SPECS Data transfer rate1: Thunderbolt 10 Gb/s (maximum) Operating temperature: 5°C to 35°C Non-op. temperature: -20°C to 65°C 1 A Thunderbolt host and Thunderbolt certified cable are required to obtain maximum Thunderbolt transfer rates. Western Digital, WD, the WD logo and My Book are registered trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. My Book Thunderbolt and WD Drive Utilites are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Thunderbolt and the Thunderbolt logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to other companies. Pictures shown may vary from actual products. Not all products may be available in all regions of the world. All product and packaging specifications subject to change without notice. The term of your limited warranty depends on the country in which your product was purchased. Please visit our website at http:support.wdc.com/warranty for the detailed terms and conditions of our limited warranty and for a list of the specific countries in these regions. © 2013 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. As used for storage capacity, one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second. 4178-705323-A05 Oct 2013