The digital life of users depends on data. Whether it is photos, private documents or backup copies of video projects, data has become an invaluable resource whose cost depends on the amount of information to be stored and the reliability of the medium that houses it. And Western Digital seems to have the ideal format to save a lifetime.
A 44TB external hard drive
Western Digital’s My Book Duo Desktop is no ordinary external drive. With a very elegant appearance with straight lines, the unit is presented as a cult object to which you should pay your respects daily. And it is that their 44TB of storage they could store all the memories of a lifetime, or simply the workload and backups of a multi-year project.
The default unit arrives with a RAID 0 configuration, or what is the same, two hard drives add their capacity to work as a single virtual unit. We are therefore facing a disk that has two 22 TB drives inside, which can also be configured as RAID 1that is, one disk stores the data and the other copies exactly the same to have a backup in case of fatal error.
There will also be the possibility of configuring a system JBOD and work with the two drives completely independently, so you’ll have plenty of options when it comes to making the most of this never-ending storage format.
fast as lightning
It’s no use having infinite capacity if at the time of passing the files the transfers become eternal. With the idea of offering the best performance, the unit has a USB-C 3.2 Gen 1 port with which to achieve really fast read and write times. In our tests we have reached 261 MB/s and 300 MB/s in writing and reading respectively, which is great for transferring large files.
Possibility of repair and expansion
One of the great benefits of the product design is that the drives are perfectly accessible by the user, so you can replace them to mount a higher capacity RAID later (if you have bought lower capacity versions) or change a damaged drive for a new one.
The top cover is simply removed with the help of a wedge that is included, and we will have access to the drives immediately, which are inserted through rails like any other hot swappable storage system.
Large in size… and in price
Being able to use the highest capacity hard drives on the market has a drawback. And it’s not exactly not being able to fill them completely. We are obviously talking about its price, and it is that the price of these units is quite high. For that reason, this 44TB version is probably not aimed at home users, but rather for small and medium-sized businesses that want a huge storage drive, with the ability to easily transport data from one place to another. . The official price of this 44TB My Book Duo is €1,703.99although it can currently be found on Amazon with a price of 1,310.24 euros.
