Western Digital My Book Duo Gen2 - Reviews
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23.4.2019
Having read dozens of reviews of these WD MyBook Duo drives, the conclusion I had come to was that they are very loud, but otherwise ok. I found a 'used' one on the Amazon Warehouse at a vastly reduced price, so I was happy to give it a go for myself. I was chiefly interested in using it in RAID 1 (mirrored mode) as an expansion for my QNAP T451 NAS although I decided to also try it directly connected via USB to my Macbook.Dealing with the 'noise' issue first, I'm not sure if I've been exceptionally lucky, but other that when it first switches on (you get a brief flurry from the fan, just to prove it works) it is basically silent (other than a little bit of clicking of the HDD heads getting in the right position).
15.7.2019
Like most, I was purchasing these for the drives inside, rather than for use as an external unit, typically proving to be the cheaper way of buying larger drives when they're on offer.The WD 6TB My Book Desktop contains a WD60EZRZ drive - a Western Digital Blue, 3.5" SATA III drive - 6Gb/s, 5400 RPM disk with 64MB Cache. In open air, spin and seek noise seems to be better than a now-neighbouring Seagate drive, appearing to be very similar to some of my older WD Green drives (which I think these newer Blue drives have largely replaced in the last few years). For use as a video-hosting server drive, it's pretty much ideal - low power on idle, 5A peak during full use,
20.12.2019
I purchased two 24TB versions of these drives on Black Friday 2019 for £397.99 each. They come with WD Reds inside, and a plastic tool is supplied to remove the lid. Thus, it is easy to remove both drives and does not void your warranty. Each DUO in my case contained two 12TB WD Reds (for a total of 24TB of storage), which is also stated correctly in Amazon's product description. When plugged in to my computer a single drive of less than 24TB is display. This is due to the actual versus advertised capacity using different multiples to calculate the total size (1000 vs 1024). I will not be using the enclosure and do not have much to comment about it,
11.9.2017
Thus far it's been a great drive. I'm using it for secondary backup duties. It's large and fast and does what I need it to do at a reasonable price point. It is however a noisy thing. If you're used to very quiet hard drives smoothly whirring away on your desk unnoticed until the light flickers you'll be very surprised at how much noise this one makes. I certainly was, I thought it was toast at first but it's definitely not the sound a failing drive makes. And it's completely normal apparently. WD use a different drive technology for this one and that makes it noisier. You can use a search engine to find out the details from WD themselves. So if you can stand the additional noise then I recommend this drive heartily.
23.11.2019
Bought this as it is on a deal for the 6TB version and received next day, it is going to replace a 2TB Toshiba external drive I bought back in 2014 which is almost full now.So far it seems to be doing what it says, it worked right out of the box and came with a AC adapter, USB 3.0 cable and software on it pre installed.Used CrystalDiskMark v7 to test the drive and got slow speed but then I realised I was plugging through the USB 2.0 port (see Pic). I then used the USB 3.0 port on my laptop and it significantly improved (see 1st Pic). I've uploaded the pics incase anyone can find them useful.Is it better than my last external drive? Well time will tell but so far it seems so.
30.11.2019
I can't comment on this as RAID enclosure because I only used it for a few minutes out of curiosity, but what I can say is that this enclosure contains 2 x 8TB WD Red NAS drives, and cost £150 less than the 2 x individual 8TB WD Reds I needed to upgrade my NAS (QNAP TS253Pro) storage. The drives are screwed into easily accessible, removable caddies, so they were swapped one at a time with the ones in my NAS, waiting for sync in between, then the 2 x 4TB WD Reds from my NAS were put into this enclosure. I've doubled my NAS storage, acquired an 8TB RAID enclosure, and saved £150 in the process.Note: When mounting this enclosure on the QNAP NAS it's seen as an external drive and not a RAID enclosure,
15.12.2019
Looking to upgrade my current external hard drive I was after something faster and with more storage. I was actually looking at the Seagate drives, but this one was at a good price over Black Friday and therefore I decided to give to give Western Digital a go.It was a good buy, worked straight out of the box and is easy to use, it also runs very quietly. The bundled back-up software looks perfectly adequate even if I haven't used it as I prefer to use the same third party product across all my devices.I've only got one minor niggle and that's the lack of an indicator light to show its on, aside from that this WD My Book suits my needs perfectly.
6.3.2018
I bought the 2x3tb model.It's a nice looking unit that I have connected to my iMac for backups and to store my large collection of files.It needs to be mains powered, has USB and thunderbolt connectivity.Mine is setup as a mirror pair to give me redundancy in the event of a drive failing, this seems to work well, and so far the drives have worked okay.One thing I note and others have too is that it can be a bit noisy, which if it's sat on your desk can be annoying.In the end I bought a 2 metre cable so i could hide it in a cupboard next to my desk to muffle the noise.So far so good, had it for about 4 months and its working fine.
26.1.2020
I've used WD external hard drives for years and always found them to be very goodI use it for my Time Machine back up on my MacI was using another WD drive which after years of use was giving some trouble, not terminal but not 100% either, so thought it time to replace it just in case so purchased yet another WDMy previous one was only 1TB but thought I'd order the 3TB version this timeI've partitioned this 3TB into 2 partitions so I have 2TB for Time Machine Back Ups and 1TB for extra storageI've marked the rating down by one star as the drive is a little bit noisier than my previous WD but it's really not that bad
19.6.2018
I’ve always had good experiences with WD raid drives over about 12 years, only one has ever failed and it rebuilt no problem. Only oddity with this one is that it appears to stay unencrypted once you’ve entered the password if you keep it powered. So even if you eject it, and / or turn off your computer (Mac in my case) it’s still unencrypted until you remove the power to the drive. So I just remember to unplug it, but it does seem a bit odd, and worth checking if security is important to you. Other than that, it appears to be performing as well as my existing WD Duo’s, which is very well indeed.
26.12.2018
Like many i suspect, i was less interested in the enclosure and more in the internal drive. In this case it is PMR WD white label 8TB drive with a 256MB Cache. This is a rebranded version of the WD Red drives which retail for almost twice the price! the drive is incredibly easy to remove and has been installed in my Synology NAS, greatly increasing it's capacity. I'd recommend this drive if you're looking for a good quality internal drive to use in a NAS etc, or equally if you need reliable desktop storage.
17.10.2019
If you're looking to disassemble (also referred to as shucking) this drive and use it internally in your NAS or PC, this will work just fine. I have mine running in a Synology 1 bay NAS and it's great! The drive inside the enclosure is a WD White label drive but it's actually a WD Red just with a different label which is nice. Keep in mind drives 8TB and up use new tech which makes them louder so remember that if the sound is a factor for you (you can hear the read/write head clicking when in use).
6.5.2020
Great value for 4TB despite of all the comments about being noisy this unit is really quiet and super easy to set up. Very quick with USB 3. I bought this slightly cheaper from the Amazon warehouse as there was a minor dent on the package but the product was perfectly fine. The only problem was that there was no GB adapter for the mains plug but luckily I had another lead from an old WD unit which worked. Amazing value that you can get 4TB of storage for under £90.
13.10.2019
Bought two of these with the intention of backing up and mirroring a lot of data. Working well so far - no issues.They do spin down when not being used for a while, so be prepared to wait 10-12 seconds before you're able to access data. Can't go wrong for backup drives, though.NOTE: ALL hard disks are sized in GiB (Gibibytes) not GB (Gigabytes) even though they use the term "GB". So these are 8.0 GiB drives and will show up as 7.27GB in Windows.
19.10.2019
Used with an iMac. I use it as a Time Machine backup drive. Works as expected then for no reason disconnects... then locks.If one shuts down and restarts immediately on the lock occurring the issue is resolved until a few weeks later. If one does not then the problem becomes much worse and requires messing about with the system through terminal.I expect it is a driver issue, something WD has had for years (10 yrs to my knowledge) with the Mac.