4TB MyBook Has Easy Swap Drives
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Western Digital’s huge new 4TB external drive is aimed at Mac Users, but is just as good for anyone else. And with yesterday’s launch of new MacBooks bringing back a FireWire port to the small Mac notebook, the drive looks like a rather good companion.
The white MyBook Studio Edition II has four ways to hook up: eSata and FireWire 800 are the speediest, followed by FireWire 400 and the lowly USB 2.0. Western Digital also says that the drive is Time-Machine compatible, a slightly misleading claim as any external drive will work with Apple’s crappy backup software. What is useful, though, for Mac and PC owners alike, is that the lid of the box flips up to allow fast access to the hard drives inside (two of them are already in there, holding 2GB apiece). This is how all external drives should be made, allowing fast upgrading or replacement when the drives crash.
The price, though, is a little steep. For the 4TB version you’ll need to find $650.
Product page [WD via Digital Trends]
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