Product Features

Ignite your creativity

My Book Thunderbolt Duo brings performance to a whole new level. In the deadline-driven world of HD video editors and other creative professionals, this drive keeps your creativity moving with its amazing data transfer rates of up to 300 MB/s.* Finally, a drive that can keep up with your creativity.

*300 MB/s is achievable through a single system. Daisy chain two or more systems to achieve > 600 MB/s transfer rates. Data transfer rates represented are in RAID 0 mode and for the 8TB model.

Where creativity meets performance

Daisy chain up to six drives or devices to create, edit, render and save your creative endeavors without hesitation. Multi-task at unmatched speeds. Enjoy workflow efficiency and productivity with the speed and flexibility of dual Thunderbolt ports.

High-speed multi-tasking The revolutionary bidirectional Thunderbolt technology delivers unmatched speed for multi-tasking while HD video editing, 3D rendering and completing other graphics- intensive projects.

User-selectable RAID or JBOD modes

RAID 0 (striping) offers the performance you need when designing or editing time-sensitive graphic-intensive media files.

RAID 1 (mirroring) provides double safe data protection by automatically generating a duplicate copy of your data.

JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks)

allows you to use this dual-drive storage system as two individual drives and select between HFS+J or ExFAT per disk. Ideal for running Windows® OS

on a Mac®.

User-serviceable

Designed with two removable drives that can be replaced when the existing drives are full. Simply open the case and exchange the existing drive and begin saving even more of your creative life. There are no tools needed.

WD Drive Utilities™

Register your drive, run diagnostics, manage drive formatting in RAID or JBOD modes and more using WD Drive Utilities.

Fast, seamless Time Machine backup

This drive works with your Mac right out of the box and works seamlessly with Apple Time Machine for quick and easy backups.