That is as good as or better than the comparable WD Thunderbolt drives I have tested in the past. I get around 290MB/s read speed and 233MB/s write speeds out of the WD 8TB My Book Duo drive over USB 3.0, which is what you see from the screen shot above using Blackmagic’s Disk Speed Test utility. ![]() Notably, the current price is $200 cheaper than its Thunderbolt counterpart – the WD 8TB My Book Thunderbolt Duo. It has been available at $349.99 for several months now – down from its retail price tag of $419.99. The performance of this drive is fantastic when you consider the price it costs to jump up to comparable Thunderbolt storage. ![]() However, I use it in a Mac environment and it was very simple to reformat it for Mac OS X. It is a USB 3.0 interface and comes pre-formatted in NTFS for Windows. It can be configured in RAID 0, 1 or as a JBOD drive. The WD 8TB My Book Duo external hard drive is one of the bigger dual drives in the My Book line (but there’s also a 12TB version).
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