Western Digital My Book Live Duo 6 TB Review

May 31, 2012 Filed under Computers Posted by William A. Humphrey

Gadget Reviews – With the Western Digital My Book Live Duo 6 TB, you can create your own personal cloud with no mysterious location of your data and monthly fees. Once the data are stored into the Western Digital My Book Live Duo 6 TB hard drives, they can be accessed securely over the Internet.

The Western Digital My Book Live Duo 6 TB comes with two desktop hard drives that offer dual 3TB high-capacity but run in low power consumption and quiet operation.

Western Digital My Book Live Duo 6 TB Features Specs and Performance

The Western Digital My Book Live Duo 6 TB has dimensions at 6.2 x 3.9 x 6.5 inches while its weight is measured at just 5 pounds. Connected to any laptop that runs on Mac, Windows 7, or Windows Vista, the laptop will automatically find the Western Digital My Book Live Duo 6 TB in seconds.

Western Digital My Book Live Duo 6 TB Review

The Western Digital My Book Live Duo 6 TB is compatible with WD 2Go application to access your music, photos, and files with your mobile device. The WD Photos application allows you to take a photo with your mobile device and upload it to your drive directly.

To access the data stored into the Western Digital My Book Live Duo 6 TB, you need an iPhone or iPod touch with OS 3.1 or later, Android device with OS 2.1 or higher, or any model of iPad.

Under the hood, the Western Digital My Book Live Duo 6 TB is powered with an 800 MHz CPU to handle all applications for streaming or remote access. The Western Digital My Book Live Duo 6 TB also features most recent Ethernet chip technology to deliver best-in-class read speeds.

The Western Digital My Book Live Duo 6 TB can be used with RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) configuration to store your data in the 3TB hard drive while the rest hard drive is used for a duplicate copy.

You can also use the Western Digital My Book Live Duo 6 TB with a Spanning configuration that will combine all the drives into one big volume. It’s like you have one giant 6TB hard drive.