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Ultimately, the western digital my book studio is a massive, impressive, and fast drive. My book world edition iiwhite light my net ac wifi n900. Western digitals new my book studio edition ii has 6tb on. Theres not much to say about the new western digital my book studio 3tb hard drive. Shop best buy for a great selection western digital hard drives, internetaccessible drives, portable ssds and more. While we await more thunderbolt storage devices, western digital grabbed headlines not too long ago for the announcement of its 6tb my book studio edition ii macready external drive. While we understand western digitals decision to not stick an usb 3. Complete backup equipped with wd backup software for windows and apple time machine compatibility for mac, the my book desktop hard drive can back up. Western digital mybook 6tb studio edition ii 9to5mac. Western digital has slapped two of its tripleterabyte monsters into a dualdisk.
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Western digital buy from our western digital nz store. Hi folks, a friend of mine has given me his my book to test for him. We spent a little time with the western digital my book studio edition ii, a dual drive in a single box. Western digitals new my book studio edition ii has 6tb on offer, but. External hard drives free delivery possible on eligible purchases. Data center drives accelerate applications, analytics and data access with western digitals broad portfolio of ultrastar hdds, ssds and memory extension drives. Hp announces zbook studio and zbook create notebooks. Mar 17, 2011 western digital has announced a 6tb my book studio edition ii dualdrive storage system.
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