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Western Digital thinks big with 6TB external storage solution

by Navin Maini on 17 March 2011, 14:53

Tags: WD (NYSE:WDC)

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If you happen to be in the market for some serious external storage, and have a thrill for some HD content creation, Western Digital may have something right up your street.

The company's My Book Studio Edition II, already available in 2TB and 4TB capacities, has now taken a leap of faith into 6TB domain.

The My Book Studio Edition II is Mac ready and takes time travelling in its stride, with support for Apple Time Machine, but Western Digital is enthusing about its RAID-enabled solution being ideally placed to meet the rapidly increasing storage requirements of HD content. Brimming with connectivity support for eSATA, FireWire 800/400, plus USB 2.0, Western Digital aims to brush performance concerns aside and gushes that its 6TB Goliath should mitigate the requirement to compress or distil content quality, for the sake of space.

GreenPower technology makes an appearance here too, making the My Book Studio Edition II a gentle green giant and for those who like tinkering, user serviceability allows you to get under the hood and pet your drives.

Priced at just under $550 USD, a 5-year warranty completes the parcel and availability should be imminent.



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Seriously you have to be drunk and mad to buy this. 6TB over USB2 or FW. eSata is also far from perfect. Controller must support over 2TB volumes. The only way right now for home is USB3. And price… You can buy RAID boxes with 4-5 bays for less. And many of them (and more is coming) has only eSata and USB3.
ypsylon
6TB over USB2

i think they can safely discount the minority of people who are going to fill the drive up in one transfer… good enough for its intended purpose.
ypsylon
eSata is also far from perfect.

In what way? It's just SATA which requires power… just like internal SATA drives do.

It's just a big data drive, as stated it's perfect for lots of HD content or long-term incremental backups. It would be a tasty backup solution at work.
ypsylon
You can buy RAID boxes with 4-5 bays for less.
Perhaps, but then you need to buy the drives, and two 3TB drives will set you back about $200 each (the article only gives a US Dollar price, so I checked NewEgg for the price of a 3TB WD drive)