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BrandWestern Digital
Item Height
13 centimetres
Item Width25 centimetres
Hard Drive
Hard Drive Size6 TB
Technical Details
- FireWire 800 interface delivers super fast speed for graphics-intensive applications
- Formatted for Mac and compatible with Apple Time Machine
- Supports both RAID 0 (striping) and RAID 1 (mirroring)
- Easy to upgrade by simply opening the case and replacing the existing drive
- See at a glance how much space is available with the handy capacity gauge
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Product Description
WD’s My Book® Studio Edition™ II dual-drive, quad-interface external storage system for Mac offers optimum performance for creative professionals. Lightning-fast FireWire 800 or eSATA interfaces combined with RAID 0 (striping) yields the speed you need for fast, smooth video and audio editing, rendering complex 3D objects or special effects, and saving huge blocks of data in record time. Set the system to RAID 1 (mirroring) for the peace of mind in knowing that if one drive in this two-drive system ever fails, the system continues to run and your data is safe. Includes automatic data backup software, user-serviceability, a 5-year limited warranty, and is compatible with Apple® Time Machine®.
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USB/FW400,800/eSAA
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
I was looking for something to take my iPhoto and iMovie libraries as my iMac's 1TB Drive was full. I decidedto go for the 6TB WD My Book because it supports firewire 800 and has 2 x 3tb drives installed, which means that i can set up for one drive to mirror to the other, so that if one drive goes up in smoke, I don't lose all my pics / music / movies.
What attracted me to this unit was the ability to replace one of the drives if it does fail - without having to replace the whole unit or lose my data. Hopefully that day is a long way away, but at least I know I'm covered.
The drive is ready formatted out of the box for the Mac and all I did was install the WD Drive manager software, connect the drive and set it to Raid 1 to mirror one drive to the other.
Initial transfer of files took a while, however allo done without fuss and using it to watch movies via iTunes streaming to my Apple TV is all fine.
Size wise it's not too bulky or big and doesn't look out of place next to my iMac.
Overall it seems fine and is working withoutt much heat being generated and is quiet compared to previous drives that I have. Pleased with it and happy to recommend.
What attracted me to this unit was the ability to replace one of the drives if it does fail - without having to replace the whole unit or lose my data. Hopefully that day is a long way away, but at least I know I'm covered.
The drive is ready formatted out of the box for the Mac and all I did was install the WD Drive manager software, connect the drive and set it to Raid 1 to mirror one drive to the other.
Initial transfer of files took a while, however allo done without fuss and using it to watch movies via iTunes streaming to my Apple TV is all fine.
Size wise it's not too bulky or big and doesn't look out of place next to my iMac.
Overall it seems fine and is working withoutt much heat being generated and is quiet compared to previous drives that I have. Pleased with it and happy to recommend.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Does what it says. You might need to mount it if using for backups on time machine as my iMac did drop the connection from time to time to the partitioned segment. I run it on RAID so in effect 3TB capacity with 1 TB for Time Machine and 2 for storage. It is relatively quiet although it does make a slight bumping sound when working.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
This is a good purchase only if you need a high capacity drive, wether it's RAID 0 'striped' to get it's maximum 6TB capacity or using the peace of mind RAID 1 'mirror' for security albeit at half the capacity but then again 3TB is a lot for RAID 1 mirror.
Unfortunately, speed performance in terms of transfer rates are poor. This capacious capacity drive is NOT going to give you decent transfer rates so be aware of this before you buy. To my surprise even when trying out RAID 1 stripped using the Firewire 800 connection, the speed of transfer rates were appalling in my opinion (worse than expected).
I did have a good idea of this before I purchased having read some reviews on the internet, so admittedly I knew what I would be getting in terms of speed performance however my main requirement was to get an external hard drive that had 1. largest possible capacity for RAID 1 mirror use with, 2. lowest price with, 3. smallest desktop footprint and finally with, 4. reliability (having had two single drives fail on me in the past)... Here the WD MyBook Studio II 6TB ticks all the right boxes, it's just a shame that the transfer rates aren't the best especially if using in RAID 0 striped with Firewire 800, because in theory the stripped mode with Firewire 800 interface should in reality give decent transfer rates.
Oh, it would have been nice if the casing had been a metal construction and not plastic, shame.
In short then:
The Good:-
Massive storage capacity
Relatively small for its configuration and capacity size
Easy to use
Good price if you look around properly
Looks the good, very Mac-like
Last of the WD drives with the nice LED Status light (WD have took this away from their other models - stupid)
Quiet and relatively cool in use
The Bad:-
Poor speed performance
Plastic construction not metal, which is a shame. I previously had a MyBook Studio 1 and a couple of scratches revealed a horrible normal white/grey plastic beneath taking away the metal look
Restricted to ONLY using Western Digital Caviar Green drives - NOT a universal 3.5" drive RAID unit
You really have to push down hard in the right place on the top lid to open it in order to access the drives - so much so that one feels as though they're about to break it, BE CAREFUL!
Unfortunately, speed performance in terms of transfer rates are poor. This capacious capacity drive is NOT going to give you decent transfer rates so be aware of this before you buy. To my surprise even when trying out RAID 1 stripped using the Firewire 800 connection, the speed of transfer rates were appalling in my opinion (worse than expected).
I did have a good idea of this before I purchased having read some reviews on the internet, so admittedly I knew what I would be getting in terms of speed performance however my main requirement was to get an external hard drive that had 1. largest possible capacity for RAID 1 mirror use with, 2. lowest price with, 3. smallest desktop footprint and finally with, 4. reliability (having had two single drives fail on me in the past)... Here the WD MyBook Studio II 6TB ticks all the right boxes, it's just a shame that the transfer rates aren't the best especially if using in RAID 0 striped with Firewire 800, because in theory the stripped mode with Firewire 800 interface should in reality give decent transfer rates.
Oh, it would have been nice if the casing had been a metal construction and not plastic, shame.
In short then:
The Good:-
Massive storage capacity
Relatively small for its configuration and capacity size
Easy to use
Good price if you look around properly
Looks the good, very Mac-like
Last of the WD drives with the nice LED Status light (WD have took this away from their other models - stupid)
Quiet and relatively cool in use
The Bad:-
Poor speed performance
Plastic construction not metal, which is a shame. I previously had a MyBook Studio 1 and a couple of scratches revealed a horrible normal white/grey plastic beneath taking away the metal look
Restricted to ONLY using Western Digital Caviar Green drives - NOT a universal 3.5" drive RAID unit
You really have to push down hard in the right place on the top lid to open it in order to access the drives - so much so that one feels as though they're about to break it, BE CAREFUL!
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