Backup in style
Western Digital has updated its MyBook Studio range, giving it a new design aimed to match the latest range of Aluminium-glad Macs, and with pricing that will give Apple's Time Capsule range a run for its money.
The MyBook Studio uses WD Caviar Green drives, with GreenPower technology, helping keep power consumption down. The system is bundled with user-configurable backup software (although both Windows and OS X can take care of that themselves) and the systems offer password protection, in addition to hardware encryption of stored data.
The MyBook Studio is available in 1TB, 2TB and 3TB varieties, and can be connected to a computer (either Mac or Windows) via either USB 2.0, or FireWire (both 400 and 800). That's a notable step down from Apple's backup solution, which offers both Wi-Fi and Ethernet connectivity, enabling multiple computers to be connected to a single backup device at once.
However for single-system homes, or customers happy to plug their backup drive into different computers as needed, the pricing of the MyBook Studio will prove a much more attractive than Apple's. For a 1TB, 2TB and 3TB MyBook Studio, Western Digital wants £120, £153 and £205 respectively - that makes the most capacious model about half the price of an equivalent Time Capsule.
