Western Digital My Book Duo Offers 'Colossal' 20TB of Storage

Need a way to shop and dorsum up tons of personal or modest business organisation files in one place? Western Digital has a new option.

The visitor on Tuesday introduced its highest capacity external desktop storage arrangement yet, the My Book Duo. Available in capacities up to 20TB, My Volume Duo "has the adequacy to back up colossal amounts of photos, videos, music and important documents in 1 place while too providing users with complete control of their content," Western Digital says.

It comes with RAID-optimized WD Scarlet hard drives inside to offer "super-fast performance with up to 360MB/due south sequential read speeds," Western Digital says. Featuring a USB-C port and ii additional USB-A ports, it can serve equally a "quasi-docking station" and adjust accessories like drones, activeness cameras, carte readers, keyboards, mice, and USB drives. To keep your files secure, it tin be password protected and comes with 256-scrap AES hardware encryption.

"Both at dwelling and in the part, people are creating and amassing huge volumes of data, and need high capacity, loftier speed solutions to easily and confidently motility and store that data in a unmarried location," Western Digital's VP of Product Marketing for client solutions, Sven Rathjen, said in a statement. "Nosotros see it inside new content creation segments such every bit the drone market and with enthusiasts, besides equally professionals, producing and editing massive, high-quality photo and video files. There has never been more of a need for a simple-to-apply, massive capacity desktop storage solution such as My Volume Duo for these content creators to keep pace with their growing storage demands."

The My Book Duo comes in 4TB, 6TB, 8TB, 12TB, 16TB, and 20TB capacities ranging from $259.99 to $799.99. It's formatted for compatibility with Windows 10, Windows 8.i/viii.0, and Windows seven and will need to be reformatted for other operating systems.

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Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's adept on fitness and smart home products. Teaching yoga for almost 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, force training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela also tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to proper noun a few.