Product Description

Western Digital My Book Pro Edition II dual-drive storage system offers RAID mirroring for extra peace of mind or RAID striping for extraordinary capacity and performance. Triple-interface and a powerful combination of features and performance make this system the storage solution of choice for creative professionals, workgroups, small offices and anyone looking for extra assurance that their data is safe.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23019 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: White
• Brand: Western Digital
• Model: WDG2TP10000N
• Platform: Windows
• Format: CD
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 4.72" h x 3.54" w x 2.76" l, 16.75 pounds
• Hard Disk: 1000GB

Features

• FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and USB 2.0 triple interface
• Dual drives offer a massive 1 TB (1000 GB) storage capacity from dual
• Powerful backup software that includes full system backup and recovery, easy scheduling, and encryption
• 7200 RPM spindle
• Offers RAID mirroring for extra data protection or RAID striping for extraordinary capacity and performance

From the manufacturer
Get extraordinary capacity or extra data protection with this dual-drive, triple-interface RAID storage system from WD. A three year warranty and one-of-a-kind features make this the most powerful product in WD’s My Book family of external drives and the preeminent storage system in its class.

WD’s My Book Pro Edition II dual-drive storage system offers RAID mirroring for extra data protection or RAID striping for extraordinary capacity and performance. A three-year warranty, triple-interface and a powerful combination of features and performance make this system the storage solution of choice for creative professionals, workgroups, small offices and anyone looking for extra assurance that their data is safe.

Product Features

Extraordinary capacity: With one terabyte (1,000 GB) of storage in this elegant, small footprint design, you have plenty of room to store an entire digital photo library, 125 hours of HD movies, or over 75 hours of DV video.

Extra data protection: For extra data protection, dedicate half the capacity for mirroring and automatically and instantaneously back up data every time you save it.

Extra-fast performance: The lighting-fast combination of FireWire 400/800 and RAID striping yields the speed you need for fast, smooth video editing, an extra-responsive Photoshop scratch disk, rendering complex 3D objects or special effects, and saving huge blocks of data in record time.

Easy to set up, easy to use: You’re up and running in a few simple steps. RAID configuration is easy with WD’s intuitive RAID Wizard software

User serviceable: Easy access allows you to open the case and replace a drive. No need to send the entire system in for service.

Triple interface: Provides flexibility and performance with connections for ultra-fast FireWire 800, as well as FireWire 400 and USB 2.0.

EMC Retrospect Express Backup and System Recovery Software: Powerful backup software that includes full system backup and recovery, easy scheduling, and encryption.

Capacity gauge: See at a glance how much space is available on your storage system.

Intelligent drive management features: Automatic power-up, Safe Shutdown, and LED activity lights make this storage system especially easy to use.

Quiet and cool: An efficient convection cooling system and a thermostatically controlled fan keep this unit reliably cool and remarkably quiet.

3-year warranty

Ideal For:

• Gain peace of mind with a mirrored back up of important documents and images
• Organize and archive vast photo and artwork libraries
• Edit and exchange massive audio and video projects

Customer Reviews

Great idea, lousy description. This thing is insanely LOUD.
I totally have to agree with the earlier reviewer who mentioned the noise level on this thing. The box, the site, the descriptions all take great pains to describe this as a whisper-quiet, fanless system. They are all wrong. The thing is like having a 747 start up in your office. it's deafeningly loud. It's great that you can get 1TB of storage to sit on your desktop, but at the expense of your peace and quiet? i dunno... it's becoming a hard trade-off. There doesn't appear to be any way around it either. Once the fan starts you're typically in for at least 20 minutes of full-blast, wind-tunnel action. If you can tolerate the noise, it's a near ideal storage solution.

Fan is so noisy its unusable
I bought one of these drives recently and was *shocked* at how loud the internal fan is. Within 5 minutes of turing the drive on and copying over files the fan kicked in and it was like I had a leaf blower in the office. It's totally unusable. Maybe other people are fine with high levels of fan noise or put them in already loud areas, but put this thing in a quiet office and it's brutal. I'm returning it asap. I have no idea if this is a one-off situation or they're all like this. It doesn't seem to be defective and there is nothing in the software to reduce fan speed or lower the noise level. Just thought I'd post this as a warning to people who are looking at these drives. Buyer beware.

Second above. Loudest fan noise ever heard.
I bought the My Book Premium Edition II 1TB external drive. (1 year warranty, darker color, comes with backup software) I too have this really loud intermitent fan noise which is louder than 2 PVR, one Dish receiver, 3 outher external hard drives, a PC and an AV receiver combined times 3. I can hear it from the next room. Not tolerable unless it can be corrected.