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There is also the option which is set-up through the software to enable encryption. This is 256-bit AES hardware encryption. Meanwhile, I was somewhat concerned about reliability too. Is hard drive failure real? Yes it has happened to me, a couple of years ago, on a Sandisk SSD drive that I was using as my C: drive on one of my PCs. One day, my PC couldn’t load it and it took a reboot to be able to read it. The same thing happened the next day. The third day it just stopped loading altogether. And just this week in one of the Facebook groups for 360 cameras, someone posted that their hard drive failed. So it is uncommon, but it happens. As default, the drive arrives formatted as NTFS which is a PC file system. As a Mac user, I’ll need to reformat as a Mac Format, either JHFS+ or APFS. I’ve selected JHFS+ for maximum compatibility. If the network drive's name has been changed, please attempt to use the drive's name instead of mybooklive. For example, use http://drivename/ on a PC, or http://drivename.local/ on a Mac.
If the network drive's name has been changed, please attempt to use the drive's name instead of mybookliveduo. For example, use http://drivename/ on a PC, or http://drivename.local/ on a Mac. Connection speeds for both read and write are good and more than fast enough for you to edit 1080p video directly from the drive. The WD My Book Duo (2017 edition) is certainly a class act that combines new styling with excellent performance and potentially massive capacities. A little research reveals that the larger PSU comes with Duo’s of 16TB or bigger, and that infers it might be a bad plan to get a 12TB or smaller Duo and put 22TB mechanisms in it. I found that the My Book Duo was faster than My Book. Here are the speeds of the My Book Duo in JBOD, compared to the regular WD My Book. The top two are sequential, while the bottom two are random. I did these tests using a USB Type C to Type C cable connected to a USB 3.1 port. WD My Book speed vs. WD My Book Duo speed in JBOD configurationThat’s realistically the only way to use one of these, feeding it data daily that builds up to represent a much larger capacity. Having massive amounts of storage capacity attached to your system isn’t much use if it’s slow to access. With this configuration, the two disks inside the My Book Duo are treated as independent hard drives (each one has its own drive letter). With My Book Duo, you only need one USB cable to access both drives. I tested the speed of RAID-1 on My Book Duo and found that it was almost half as slow when reading sequential data, although the write speed was about the same. The increase in speed appeared to be from random read. My Book Duo RAID-1 speed The danger now is that the controller of the MyBook Duo case could also die. Both disks are then still intact, but can probably no longer be read anywhere…
One photographer friend of mine had a very large RAID drive that he set up at RAID-0 and, as you would expect, one drive failed and he lost an ENORMOUS amount of original shots and then spent many hundreds of dollars in recovery services. And even then, I think he was only able to recover part of his content. So please… avoid RAID-0 at all costs ! Chance of failure: normal. If the normal chance of failure of one drive is 1%, the chance of failure using JBOD is 1%. To make these devices more useful, WD needs to consider adding a third drive and an SSD slot for caching. Because merely making the drives bigger each cycle doesn’t solve any of the problems associated with using these, and realistically each new greater capacity makes them less flexible and more challenging to manage.Use the setup software, if it has not been attempted already. The software can be found in the Online Learning Center. Besides expandability, another advantage of My Book Duo over a single external hard drive is that it can be reconfigured for better reliability, or higher speed using RAID (see below). c. If the MyBook Duo enclosure fails for any reason, a replacement enclosure will read the disks successfully. The data IS NOT LOST.”
Although it optimises the drive, it’s not a great solution for secure storage as I need something that is as robust as possible. One aspect of this design we wish was better is how noisy it can be. The fault-tolerant drives in these units are always doing something even when the drive isn’t in implicit use. The chance of failure with JBOD is the same as individual disks. Some say that you should consider the failure rate of both disks. But the two disks are independent, and using them in a JBOD configuration is no different than having two external drives instead of one. If the chance of losing a file from hard drive failure is 1%, then it is still 1% when using JBOD.Because I was ambivalent about the performance gains, I decided to just use JBOD as a decent compromise of speed, safety, and storage capacity (minimax strategy). If I want speed, I’ll use an external SSD for my working files. MY BOOK DUO HARDWARE ENCRYPTION ISSUE
RAID 1 mirrors the content from each drive. This means that when you copy a file onto the drive, it will be duplicated across to the other drive. Although there are two 6TB drives giving a total capacity of 12TB, by using RAID 1 I’ll only have access to 6TB of total storage. The new My Book Duo has diverged in one major way from the previous designs; the rather lame ‘Book’ analogy has finally been terminated. My Book Duo connects to your PC or Mac via USB Type C and supports USB 3.1. It includes USB Type C to Type C, and a USB Type C to Type A cables. The drive also has two USB 3.0 pass-through ports for accessories or other drives. WD My Book Duo has two pass through USB 3 ports Having this much capacity sounds like a dream, especially for those using a 4TB external drive or a smaller Duo model. But the dream of having this much space is also, oddly, something of a nightmare. videos and 360 photos can take up a lot of space, especially if you use high quality formats such as Prores or TIFF. I’ve almost filled up two 8TB hard drives and was looking for an external hard drive and chose the WD My Book Duo is an external hard drive with two bays that can each accommodate standard 3.5-inch hard drives.I do a lot of photo editing and video editing, and I couldn’t get a clear answer on this. At first I tried RAID-0, and usually it seemed faster, although sometimes it was slower. I found that when I was extracting zip files from within the My Book Duo in RAID-0, it was extremely slow. Whereas on my usual external drive, expanding that same zip file took only a second or two, it would take a minute or longer on the My Book Duo. The other drive was an old My Book Duo connected through USB 2.0/3.0, so it has much slower transfer speeds and connects through my Kingston Nucleum hub. As I’ll be looking at the My Book Duo as a photo and video storage solution I aim to set the RAID to RAID 1. The drive arrives as RAID 0 and preformatted as NTFS.
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