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US $13,900.00
Western Digital 6 TB My Book Studio Edition II Hard Drives
Your WD 6 TB My Book Studio Edition II offers precisely the same style and design as the previous model; it looks just like a closed book. The foot of the product is actually one side of your "book" and the top will be the doorway for the 2 hard drive bays. The door can be pushed to open and the disk drives can then be removed to get substituted easily, without any specific tools.
On the top, this hard drive features a large vertical white light that shows the status on the product. On the back, this hard drive carries with it an variety of peripheral ports including USB 2.0, FireWire 800, as well as eSATA. It has all wires for the above connection types, with the exception of the eSATA. It is a little disappointing it doesn't support USB 3.0. This is easy to understand, on the other hand, because the WD My Book Studio Edition II is made largely Mac external hard drive which in turn don't at this time support USB 3.0 on the unit.
Also on the back, you can find a power key which turns the drive on or off. All of us remarked that the actual hard drive appeared to go into sleep, or low-power, setting after being idle for around ten mins or so, and it would take a couple of minutes in order to waken. There's no solution to avoid it from repeating this, regrettably. Whilst in sleep setting, the drive would occasionally unmount itself, and this turned out to be bothersome in case you sporadically require fast access into it. Your drive would furthermore take a couple of minutes to be recognized by the operating-system, which is really a long time weighed against other external hard drives.
Though the hard drives are quickly changeable, as outlined above your WD My Book just works with Green Power SATA hard drives manufactured by Western Digital, and arrives installed using a couple of these. This review unit we received had two at 3 TB each, set up in RAID 0, offering a total storage amount of 6TB.
Though preformatted together with HFS + file setup for Macs, the Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II can be reformatted for PCs easily, utilizing the incorporated WD Drive Manager software program. It arrives with a software CD that features a guide book in PDF formatting, Western Digital Anywhere Back up application, and the WD Drive Manager utility. The particular tool enables you to customize the RAID configuration from RAID 0 into RAID 1 and vice versa. This makes the drive one of your top 6TB external hard drives you will get.
Within our trial, the provided edition of WD Drive Manager didn't function as envisioned, so we were required to obtain a new version from Western Digital's Site before we could handle the drives RAID setup. Please note that with the limits of the legacy standard, this hard drive, particularly in the actual 4 TB and 6 TB variants, works just with Windows 7, as well as Mac Os 10.5 or later.
I need to change to another hard drive, how do i do that?
Hi all
I currently have 3 drives, the one that has my operating system is a WD green hard drive. I bought that nearly 4 years ago and its getting slower and slower.
I just order a new WD black drive which runs at 10000RPM. But how do i move my operating system from the green drive to black drive? I think copy and paste wont work, right?
And the operating system is vista home basic 32-bit. It came with the hard drive when i bought so i dont think i have any disks.
Thanks!
You are in luck WD offers FREE Acronis True Image. it works great. Just go to their website and download it. Install it and connect your new HDD to the comp and open Acronis and follow the instructions/prompts. It will clone your new HDD with the old HDD data and it will be just like you had the new drive all the time.
I use it all of the time for the exact thing you are wanting to do.
http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119&wdc_lang=en
Have fun.
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