- WD MY BOOK 3TB USB 3.0 HARD DRIVE RPM SPECS DRIVER
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The bold, vibrant design of My Book desktop storage is sure to stop you in your tracks.
WD MY BOOK 3TB USB 3.0 HARD DRIVE RPM SPECS PASSWORD
Just activate password protection and set your own personalized password.įor quick, convenient access, you can set WD Security to automatically unlock the drive on your computer, saving you the hassle of keying in your password every time.
WD MY BOOK 3TB USB 3.0 HARD DRIVE RPM SPECS SOFTWARE
The My Book drive's built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption with WD Security software helps keep your content private and safe. Password Protection with Hardware Encryption With the power of WD Backup, Apple Time Machine compatibility and Acronis True Image WD Edition software, you've got a complete backup routine to help recover data in the event of a computer virus, computer failure, or if you accidentally press "delete". My Book desktop storage also works great with Acronis True Image WD Edition software to schedule complete system backups. Just pick the time and frequency to back up important files from your system. You can set it to run automatically to your schedule. My Book desktop storage comes equipped with WD Backup software and Apple Time Machine compatibility to help make sure your photos, videos, music and documents don't get lost. gavbon86: Just noticed you deleted me from your FB friends list.Learn more about the Western Digital WDBBGB0030HBK-NESN Model Brand.gavbon86: When it rains, it pours, but feels more like hydrochloric acid than water tbh!.gavbon86: Congratulations on the promotion!.The lack of quality on there is embarrassing now RyanSmithAT: I worked on the first-generation Xserve back when I worked in IT.We still need to do some additional testing be… QC is starting things out for what should be a good Q for the hardware guys… RyanSmithAT: And earnings season is here once more.RyanSmithAT: Earnings before taxes for QCT (Qualcomm's actual hardware/software group) as a percentage of revenue are also way u….This is ok for backups and large file storage, but it's not something you'd want to use as an application drive. The move to USB 3 adds about a 3+ ms latency penalty compared to the internal drive. The variable performance also isn't consistent between runs or benchmarks You'll notice that I didn't see these problems with the internal drive, which leads me to believe that this is either a problem with my review sample or with the USB 3 to SATA bridge in the My Book Essential itself. The problem mostly resolved itself after further passes, although there were always some strange performance blips aross various LBAs:
Here’s a shot of the first sequential read pass on the drive: The only problem I had in testing the My Book Essential was very erratic read performance at the beginning of my testing. As an external drive, you’re more likely to be writing to the My Book Essential sequentially rather than throwing a more random workload at it. Random performance is significantly lower, presumably because of the translation that happens at the USB controller level. There’s very little sequential performance difference between the 3TB My Book Essential and the desktop Caviar Green. USB 3.0 continues to be a great interface for external storage. Western Digital My Book Essential 3TB (USB 2.0) Western Digital My Book Essential 3TB (USB 3.0) I’d say the tradeoff is worth it given the tremendous difference in heat however. Seagate is over 25% faster for sequential reads and writes over USB 3.0. The performance of the My Book Essential isn’t nearly as good as what we saw with the GoFlex Desk.
WD MY BOOK 3TB USB 3.0 HARD DRIVE RPM SPECS WINDOWS
WD’s SmartWare utility does let you seamlessly lock and unlock the drive across both Windows and OS X however.
WD MY BOOK 3TB USB 3.0 HARD DRIVE RPM SPECS DRIVER
Western Digital doesn’t bundle a NTFS Mac driver so you’ll need to reformat the NTFS formatted drive for write use on a Mac (or supply your own NTFS driver for OS X). Like Seagate, Western Digital supplies software with the drive to manage the drive and backups. Here’s the drive at idle and after over an hour of use: A pair of rubber feet prop the drive up a few millimeters off of the ground to allow air in from below.The ventilation story is a lot better than what I encountered with the GoFlex Desk.Īs a result, temperature is a non-issue. To make sure the drive never gets too hot Western Digital has a grate that runs along the top, spine and bottom of the My Book Essential. Remember the Caviar Green is a 4 platter sub-6000 RPM drive compared to the 5-platter 7200 RPM design in the GoFlex Desk, so temperatures should inherently be lower. The first thing I wanted to test with the My Book Essential was how well it kept the drive cool. Obviously USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 on the host connector side. Unlike Seagate’s GoFlex Desk, the My Book Essential doesn’t have an option for interfaces: USB 3.0 is all you get.
Western Digital also sent along the My Book Essential, an external version of the 3TB Caviar Green.