Western digital ups my book studio harddrive capacity to. Western digital my book studio ii 2tb dualdrive external. The new my book studio edition ii doubles that by placing two 1tb drives into a small external enclosure. Western digital releases my book studio edition ii, a new generation of dualdrive external storage systems that offers up to 4tb of storage space and.
My book studio ii user manual raid troubleshooting wd raid manager monitors the activity of the drives in the raid system so you can view the status of each drive and take the appropriate action. Since the drive is in a raid setup it will only show one partition. The mybook studio edition ii contains two drives and is designed to be used as a raid system for increased performance. In march, western digital announced an extension to their my book studio edition ii dualdrive storage system. My book studio lx drives include a 5400rpm hitachi branded raptor hard drive. Can i change the raid setting via usbfirewire and then connected with esata.
Tried swapping in 3tb drives on my studio ii and it didnt work i know this is a dormant thread, but i thought id update it for anyone wanting to know if you can successfully upgrade the 4tb 2x2tb wd drives in the western digital wd my studio ii external drive. I want to use the my book studio edition ii with 2 tb and raid 0 connected via esata. Our test unit came with two 500gb wd green power drives. Western digital my book studio edition ii macworld. We spent a little time with the western digital my book studio edition ii, a dual drive in a single box. Wd western digital my book studio ii external hard drive 2tb, usb 2. My book studio edition ii raid external drives for. Buy western digital my book studio ii 2tb dualdrive external storage system with raid with fast shipping and toprated customer service. Wd my book studio mac externe festplatte 2tb 8,9 cm 3,5 zoll, usb 3. Wd 4tb my book duo desktop raid external hard drive usb 3. I want to buy 2x wd caviar green 4tb, so i will have 8tb together.
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Right out of the box the my book studio edition ii is configured as a raid 0 device preformatted for the mac. Hi, i have a my book studio ii 2tb in raid 0 under mac os x snow leopard and connected with firewire 400 to a mac mini for some years now. Western digital my book studio edition ii hard drive 6tb. Western digital my book studio edition ii 2tb external. Western digital 1tb my book external drive raid 0 vs. The 8tb version of the western digital my book is a deep well of affordable storage for your photos, music, videos, and more. I am looking at the wd mybook studio edition ii 2 tb and have some questions i need answered before getting it. The original studio edition was available in capacities of up to 1tb. Lightningfast firewire 800 or esata interfaces combined with raid 0 striping yields the speed you need for fast, smooth video and audio editing, rendering complex 3d objects or special effects, and. I think, maybe the mainboard for my book studio ii is.
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