Product Description

Get extraordinary capacity and extra data protection with this dual-drive, triple-interface RAID storage system from WD. 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 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. With one terabyte 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. 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. Data Transfer Rate on FireWire - Up to 800 Mb/sec Works with Mac OS X 10.3 or later and Windows 2000, XP

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7886 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: White
• Brand: Western Digital
• Model: WDG2TP10000N
• Dimensions: 8.90" h x 6.80" w x 11.60" l, 10.00 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

WDC warranty is a scam
I own two Western Digital My Book drives, one 500GB drive, and this 1TB drive.

I'm mostly happy with the product itself. The fan is loud, but I have a laptop that's even louder, so that's not really a problem for me.

My products have a total number of 3 hard drives in them; one 500GB HD on the 500GB version, and two 500GB ones in this one. I know hard drives aren't forever, but I do expect them to last longer than 12 months, which is exactly the time it took for two of the three hard drives to get bad. That was annoying, but not really a disaster, nor would it have made me avoid WDC products in the future.

However, what did make me avoid all and every WDC product from now on was the warranty scam by WDC. You see, these products supposedly come with a three-year warranty. You're supposed to be able to replace broken products with new products within 36 months of purchase. It doesn't really work that way.

When I called WDC about my broken hard drives, they claimed they were out of warranty because they weren't sold in the US. They were bought online with a US a BIG (not Amazon) retailer, paid by a credit card issued by a US bank and shipped to my home in US. I called them about half a dozen times before finally telling myself this simply isn't worth it.

I will never buy another WDC product again. Thankfully there are plenty of competing products these days.

Great`
Yes the fan is loud for about 5 seconds when it first starts up then it quiets down. Its fast and it works great.

Very Good Product But WARNING!
Product is great. The reviews here are very accurate. Does tend to overheat easily, is noisy, and the software is not great, but they make a VERY reliable drive (probably one of the best) so it's worth it. The plus side is the price and the outstanding disk array hardware in the enclosure. However, be warned that many purchases I have made from Amazon direct (not their affiliates) has come with very little inner box padding or packing material. They shipped my scanner bouncing around inside a big box with no padding. It bounced around so much it tore 70% of the packing tape off the back of the outer box. Even if there is no visible damage to the scanner box (except the skuffs and small corner compressions) there is a very big danger of the scanner failing at any time due to the damage it may have sustained. Everytime I order an expensive or large item it arrives bouncing around inside a packing box with a ludicrous amount of padding that's 5% of what should be used. I am EXTREMELY disappointed at the fact that this continues to happen regardless of how many times I tell Amazon. This is the 3rd time. What is it going to take to insure that my purchases are packaged properly? I want the idiot(s) in shipping to get written up for this. Sorry, but what was supposed to be a very happy day getting my toy turned out to be another Amazon disappointment... I am going to cut/paste this into a review for every product I purchased that was improperly packaged.