WD Releases My Book with Utmost Speed Specs

Western Digital introduces, — according to the claimed specifications, — the fastest and most reliable two-disk data storage system, codenamed My Book VelociRaptor Duo. The new product combines two advanced technologies and supports Mac OS platform. The release might gladden Mac users who long for utmost performance and utmost convenience of utilization. All people involved in photography, design and video editing will have a wonderful opportunity to feel all the benefits of this data storage device.

The customers are able to activate a few voluminous assignments in background mode (display rendering or video editing operations), and, at the same time, work with some other data. The implemented technological approach makes WD My Book VelociRaptor Duo the fastest storage in the market, providing for instant array copying, data transfer and HD-video rewriting.

One of the peculiarities of WD storage device is the compatibility with Mac OS Time Machine and HFS+Journaled format. In addition, My Book is ready to support multi-threading tasks set by the customer.

As for the My Book VelociRaptor Duo integration, it's equipped with a couple of HDD WD VelociRaptor; spindle rotational speed achieves ten thousand rpm. Each drive goes with 1 TB volume capacity and two Thunderbolt ports. The availability of Thunderbolt ports promotes for the consecutive connection of several My Book VelociRaptor Duo systems and other peripheral devices, preserving the data transfer speed which approximates 400 MB/sec. In this respect, this storage can rival certain SSD drives performance.

Additionally, the customers are capable to choose between the two available operational modes (RAID0 and RAID1). There is also a feasibility to substitute the installed HDDs by the other drives.