When it comes to digital storage, more is usually better. After all, the more someone can store on their own, the less reliant they’ll be on cloud storage with wallet-sapping, ever-increasing subscription fees.
But Western Digital’s newly expanded My Book and My Book Duo series (22TB and 44TB, respectively) had us wondering: who is using all this storage? A user with 22TB or 44TB of data likely has almost incomprehensible amounts of RAW footage or photos – but is it even possible to recover that much data if one of the drives becomes corrupted or gets destroyed?
Of course, that’s not a knock on WD’s well-designed and stylish storage pieces. Nothing in the My Book series weighs more than 6 pounds, which feels like an achievement considering the sheer size of these volumes. The Duo’s drives are configured for hardware RAID 0 by default, but savvy storers can configure a RAID 1 setup for redundancy or even create independent drives with JBOD.
The My Book and My Book Duo both support USB 3.2 Gen 1; the Duo offers a USB-C port, while the standard My Book has a USB-SuperSpeed port. The duo features a USB Hub with two Type-A ports for those who somehow need even more storage or want to get wild with peripherals. The 44TB My Book Duo retails for $1,500, while the 22TB My Book will only set data devourers back $550.
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