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  • High-speed performance with up to 290 MBps file transfers
  • Dual-drive enclosure with up to 12 TB capacity
  • Features 256-bit AES hardware encrypted RAID
  • Multiple data management options: RAID 0,1; JBOD
  • Shipped pre-formatted for Windows in RAID 0 mode
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Speed 7200 RPM 5900 RPM 7200 RPM 5400 RPM
Hard Drive Size 8 TB 5 TB 8 TB 5 TB
Dimensions 9.9 cm x 16.5 cm x 15.7 cm 3.7 cm x 17.6 cm x 12 cm 9.9 cm x 16.5 cm x 15.7 cm 16.6 cm x 4.8 cm x 13.5 cm
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Size: 8 TB | Style Name: 2-Bay
Technical Details
BrandWestern Digital
Item Weight2.2 Kg
Product Dimensions16.5 x 15.7 x 9.9 cm
Item model numberWDBLWE0080JCH-EESN
SeriesWDBLWE0080JCH-EESN
ColorSilver
Processor Count1
Computer Memory TypeDDR3 SDRAM
Hard Drive Size8 TB
Lithium Battery Weight5 Grams
  
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ASINB00L90DX04
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Best Sellers Rank 10,085 in Computers (See top 100)
Shipping Weight3 Kg
Date First Available29 Jun. 2014
  
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Size Name:8 TB  |  Style Name:2-Bay

Product Description

My Book Duo Premium RAID Storage

Quickly Transfer, Save and Protect Your Media Collection

Transfer, save and protect your photos, videos, music and other massive files to free up valuable space on your computers. Featuring blazing-fast transfer speeds, local, cloud and system-level back-up options, hardware RAID and password protection, My Book Duo is the ultimate storage solution offering the capacity and security you need.

Performance and Reliability
Dual-drive performance offering up to 290 MB/s* transfer speeds, massive capacity and integrated WD Red NAS drives makes this the ideal storage solution for all your digital libraries.

WD My Book Duo

Complete Data Protection
Protect your digital collections and important files with local, cloud and system-level back-up options, featuring hardware encryption and password protection for optimum security.

WD My Book Duo

Speed and Security
My Book Duo ships pre-configured in RAID 0 for maximum performance and capacity with the options of choosing RAID 1 for ultimate data protection or JBOD to use the drives individually.

WD My Book Duo
My Book Duo

Dual-drive Performance with up to 290 MB/s Data Transfers -- Transfer a full HD movie in less than 20 seconds. With ultra-fast transfer speeds, get the performance you need to transfer your entire media collection.*

*Read speeds (MB/s) for HD video. Performance based on a 4 GB DVD movie files. Performance testing by WD resulted in actual transfer rates of 290 MB/s on 4 - 8 TB systems. Performance may vary based on operating system and hardware configuration.

Massive Capacity to Hold All Your Large Media Files -- My Book Duo is your storage vault. With up to 8 TB of capacity, you can organise and save your entire photo, video and music collection, and other important documents in one safe place.

Complete Back-up Solutions to Secure Your Data from Loss -- My Book Duo provides multiple back-up options to help protect your media collection and important files with local, cloud and system-level back-up.

Multiple Data Management Options -- Pre-configured in RAID 0 for maximum performance and capacity out-of-the-box, or choose RAID 1 for ultimate data protection or JBOD to use the drives individually. True hardware RAID provides an independent CPU to manage RAID volumes and maximise bandwidth for reduced bottlenecks and improved data throughput.

Fast and Reliable Hardware Encryption Engine with Password Protection -- My Book Duo provides 256-bit AES hardware encryption. My Book Duo also provides password protection to ensure your entire media collection and important files are protected from unauthorised access.

Expand Capacity and Organise Your Workspace with Two High-speed USB 3.0 Ports -- My Book Duo features two additional USB expansion ports, allowing you to connect additional devices, such as another external drive to increase your storage, or simultaneously charge your smartphones, tablets or other USB devices.

Configure, Manage and Diagnose Your Drive with WD Drive Utilities -- You're in complete control. With this software you can run drive diagnostics, manage RAID configurations, erase and format your drive, register your drive and more.

Easy to Set-up and Easy to Use -- My Book Duo is pre-formatted NTFS and is ready to use right out-of-the-box for Windows OS users. The drive can also be easily reformatted for Mac OS X.

Ultra-reliable with WD Red NAS Drives -- My Book Duo ships with integrated WD Red NAS hard drives, designed and tested for reliability and optimal performance in small RAID environments.

User Serviceable Enclosure -- Ready to upgrade your drives to expand storage capacity? With the simple push of a button, pop open the enclosure and insert drives with ease. No tools required.

At a Glance
  • High-speed file transfers, up to 290 MB/s
  • Massive capacity, up to 8 TB
  • 256-bit AES hardware encrypted RAID
  • Multiple data management options: RAID 0,1; JBOD and hardware RAID
  • Shipped pre-formatted for Windows in RAID 0 mode
  • Local back-up: WD SmartWare Pro automatic back-up software
  • Cloud back-up: Dropbox integration
  • System-level back-up: Acronis True Image WD Edition software
  • Password protection and hardware encryption
  • Two USB 3.0 expansion ports
  • Features WD Red NAS drives
  • User serviceable
My Book Duo
Ideal For
  • High-capacity external storage and back-up
  • Ultra-fast, optimised data transfer speeds
  • Backing up files locally or to the cloud using your Dropbox account
  • Securing your files from unauthorised access with password protection and hardware encryption
  • Enhancing system performance by setting to RAID 0 to boost speed
  • Protecting your data with user-selectable RAID 1 to automatically generate a duplicate copy of your data
  • Setting to JBOD to use the system as two individual drives
System Requirements

Formatted NTFS for Windows 8 or higher, Windows 7 or Windows Vista operating system. Requires reformatting for Mac OS X.

Compatibility may vary depending on user's hardware configuration and operating system.

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Product Details

My Cloud Mirror
Ideal for Transferring, saving and double protecting your entire media collection Centralising all your media and accessing it from anywhere on your mobile devices
Colour Charcoal White
Connection USB 3.0 Network Gigabit Ethernet
Capacity range 4 TB - 12 TB 2 TB - 8 TB
High-capacity for all your photos, music and videos
Automatic back-up with WD SmartWare Pro
Cloud back-up with Dropbox
System-level back-up with Acronis True Image
Multi computer back-up
Compatible with Apple Time Machine
Password protection
256 bit hardware encryption
RAID 0/1
Secure access to your content from anywhere
Free mobile apps
Mac and PC ready (no formatting)
Secure file sharing
DLNA certified for media streaming

Box Contains

External storage
WD SmartWare Pro
WD Drive Utilities and WD Security software
USB cable
AC adapter
Quick install guide


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Style Name: 2-BaySize: 4 TB Verified Purchase
I bought this intending to use it in RAID 1 mode to get extra protection against a disk failure. It should be obvious to Western Digital that the provision of RAID 1 would mean that it would be bought by users wanting to make loss of data due to failure of a single disk less likely. (And yes, I know RAID 1 doesn't guarantee safety and that a further backup is advisable. That's not the point - the point is that anyone buying it to use in RAID 1 mode would clearly be expecting significantly more safety than would be provided by a standard external hard drive from some other manufacture without RAID 1. However, due to action taken by Western Digital, this is not the case, and it would be impossible for Western Digital not to know this.

The drives are hardware encrypted. You cannot turn this encryption off. There is a password option, but even if you do not use this, the drives are still always encrypted. The electronics that do the encryption are built into the enclosure. The encryption/decryption key is built into a chip in the enclosure. The user has no access to this key.

Suppose the enclosure fails, and you cannot get it repaired easily. You may think that you can simply remove one of the drives and put it (for example) in a docking bay. However, the information on the drive is unreadable without the decryption key - the decryption key that is built into the enclosure: the drives are not readable outside the enclosure. It does not matter that the drives themselves may be fine: without the enclosure they are useless.

And that means that the "protection" provided by RAID 1 is useless: the redundancy of two drives is worthless, or at least has much less value is a failure of a single microchip can render the drives unreadable.
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Style Name: 2-BaySize: 6 TB Verified Purchase
Neat, and easy to set up to use with an Apple Mac Mini.

HOWEVER the inclusion of hardware encryption, which cannot be switched out, means that the apparent safety net provided by the second drive is an illusion.

Fundamentally ill-conceived, the encryption renders this device for most users a liability.
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Style Name: 2-BaySize: 6 TB Verified Purchase
One of the downsides of creating videos for websites (part of my day job) is the sheer amount of footage accumulated. For me, a project can call on between 100GB and 700GB of video assets. When the job's done, it would be nice to junk all of that theoretically unwanted footage, cut when creating just a 2-minute short. But you can't. It's precious. So precious, in fact, that you wouldn't trust it to one drive alone. Enter this drive. This is a nice, quiet external drive that can be configured asa x2 3TB RAID array, with one drive mirroring the other. Drop the files onto the drive and you have two backups. Brilliant. Performance is excellent, as I say it's quiet and it's pretty well built - though not as solid as LaCie's metal chassis. On the Mac, you have to use the WD software to change the RAID configuration and format the drive (for some reason Disk Utility wouldn't) but this is simple to do and takes minutes. An excellent drive.
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Style Name: 1-BaySize: 2 TB Verified Purchase
Good price; does the job. Quiet & fast.
For Mac users: I use Carbon Copy Cloner for backup because of the serious bug with Time Machine, that Apple have been unable to fix in the last three OS releases. CCC is better than Time Machine in a number of ways (not least that it doesn't have that bug, so it doesn't stop backing up part of your system without telling you): for instance access to the backed up files being more straight-forward (so restoring a previous version is easier) - the CCC external drive simply shows as a device with all your files listed identically to your internal drive (plus earlier versions in an archive).
But best of all: it allows the Mac to boot from the external hard drive used for CCC, so if your internal hard drive fails, just boot from the external drive and you are up & running with all your applications, files etc. If the Mac is so broken that it won't boot from an external drive, just connect it to any other Mac and boot from it. A superb feature.
The problem is that some external hard drives do not allow booting from them, including early WD drives. Western Digital themselves will not confirm which drives support booting, but I can confirm that this drive definitely does. So if you are a Mac user, go for it.
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Style Name: 1-BaySize: 8 TB Verified Purchase
Like others I got a few of 8TB version for the Helium "red" drives inside. I was not lucky enough (June 2016) to get Enterprise HGST/Hitachi drives but WD80EZZX which are 5,400rpm but still good.

Before opening them up I tested them through the enclosure (Windows' cipher writing 0 then 1 then random) which took 36 or so hours (as 3 passes) thus performance starts at about 200MB/s tailing to about 100MB/s which is not too bad.

TLER is disabled but can be enabled for RAID mode through SmartCtl utilities which for Windows means installing CygWin.

Note that they do run quite hot in the USB enclosure: I monitored them over the test and they reached about 54-55C and required a fan blowing onto the USB enclosure. So ventilation is pretty bad. Do bear this in mind if you intend to use them as USB as they are.

The price on AZ is good but WD's own shop sometimes has discounts/vouchers which can reduce the cost appreciably.
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