Western Digital announces an upgrade to its WD® My Book™ desktop storage line. To help consumers preserve their ever-changing digital world, the company, building on a heritage of technological innovation, offers the highest capacity ever in a desktop hard drive, the 22TB* My Book™ , to give users more flexibility to store all their valuable data.
The 22TB* My Book gives users the ability to back up and preserve thousands of documents, photos, videos and other files from a variety of storage devices, such as portable SSDs and HDDs , memory cards and USB sticks, storing them in an organized and easy-to-access location. For those looking for even more robust storage capabilities, the My Book Duo is also now available in 44TB* capacity, equipped with RAID-optimized Western Digital® drives, ready to run at maximum speed and capacity right from the start. out of the box. The My Book Duo can be reconfigured to RAID-1 for redundancy (data mirroring) or used as two independent drives (JBOD) with included software.
These new high-capacity solutions have significant space to help users safeguard their personal data, and perhaps even that of their household. Whether it’s priceless photos and videos or backing up their most important business files and/or applications, the WD brand wants to provide solutions that anticipate changing data storage needs.
– Price and availability
The My Book 22TB* is sold at a price of €690.99 including VAT and the My Book Duo 44TB* is sold at a price of €1,699.99 including VAT. Both products are available now at select Western Digital resellers and the Western Digital store.
* 1TB = 1 trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment and RAID/JBOD configuration.
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