![]() ![]() ![]() This provides two additional USB 3.0 ports at the rear, allowing you to use the My Book Duo as a basic docking station, or even to chain additional storage devices should you wish. That connection has plenty of bandwidth for the output of two conventional hard drives even if they’re configured in striped RAID 1, and any extra can be used by other devices connected via a USB 3.0 hub. WD notes that this is a USB 3.1 Gen 1 port, omitting to state that this is what USB 3.0 is called these days. It’s all very minimalist and rather slick if you admire that aesthetic, and don’t mind using a duster.Ĭonnection to your computer is via USB Type-C, and cables come for both this standard and to convert a conventional USB 3.0 port to the Type-C variety if you haven’t embraced that newish connector yet. When powered up the front of the unit has a pencil-thin line of white light that gently pulses away to indicate drive activity. Within minutes of the unveiling, all the dust in our office had headed on over to see what the fuss was about. ![]() Once you’ve removed the dust summoning plastic protection, the new My Book Duo is a monolithic black plastic slab of which the bottom half has a wavy texture, while the top portion has a mirror finish gloss. While it’s still a ‘My Book’ product, the new hardware looks much more like what it truly is a tiny desktop server. The new My Book Duo has diverged in one major way from the previous designs the rather lame ‘Book’ analogy has finally been terminated. The inherent advantage of a dual-drive solution is that you can either have double the capacity or twice the security, depending on how you choose to configure it.Īnd, by providing a solution where the drives are accessible, your storage solution can be repaired if a drive fails, or be upgraded to larger capacity storage when you need that. ![]()
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