WD makes hard drives. WD makes lots of hard drives. Their most recent release is a 6TB monster, specifically designed for Mac users.
With an RRP of $719, the new My Book Studio Edition II offers FireWire 800/400, eSATA and USB 2.0 connectivity, and features WD’s GreenPower energy modes and capacity gauge.
But really, it’s the 6TB figure that you should be drooling over. That’s a lot of high definition por…celain doll photographs. Yeah. That’s exactly what I meant to say.
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hugh
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 5:08 PM600 000 hi res photos at 10 mb a pop
David Firman
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 5:13 PMLol, yeah I don’t see any pc user wasting that much on what’s just a few drives crammed together and connected with raid.
Chaoticlusts
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 9:34 PMYeah is a pretty massive waste of money…If it worked like a 2 Drive NAS it would be less overpriced…. but considering you can get a 6TB NAS for $700….seems like a wee bit of a waste…though people will pay a lot for uniform style
Theo Batchelor
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 9:47 PM+1
Stan V
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 5:27 PMThat picture is quite strange, apple computers, apple keyboard, and microsoft mouse!!!?? =/
olearymo
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 9:50 AMDo you spend any time among full-time mac users in a work environment?
Microsoft mice are an old favourite. Often the mouse of choice for people working with macs (try designing something with an apple mouse! possible exception of magic mouse… maybe).
Nich
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 5:31 PMIt’s nothing new. They already had 3TB hard drives. They just offer them in their Studio II configuration which has been out for a while.
pads
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 8:51 PMGood to see that an old Microsoft mouse managed to sneak into the photo
Stefan
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 9:10 PMLol no thunderbolt?
Mike
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 9:12 PMNice product planning/release timing.
Cashed up Mac users certainly aren’t looking for Thunderbolt support at the moment.
kris
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 9:47 PMcan i just ask, why specifically for macs?? when they only make up like .1% market share???
Steve M.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 8:32 PMIt’s more like 14% in Australia these days. The real question of interest is why WD brand certain products as being for Mac (and mark up the price on them) when any of their hard drives can very easily be formatted for OS X. I can’t imagine they sell too well given that markup and the obvious indication of Mac compatibility on the rest of their products, but I guess the higher profit margin must make it worth their while.
Simon Lawrence
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 10:24 PMwith 6TB of data… there is a distinct lack of thunderbolt connectivity on this device so that I can use that much data in a timely manner… my mac doesn’t have an eSATA port, why include that…
Robert
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 1:30 AMFor Mac.. yet the transfer speeds will be much better on a PC with via the eSATA port. 6TB via Firewire 800 would literally take days to move.
eSATA to a RAID drive = 120-140MB/s (limited by the max speed of the hard drives themselves)
Firewire800 to a RAID drive = 35MB/s (limited by the unicorn horn shavings clogging up the proprietary connection)
Roman, yes...Roman
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 2:06 AM6TBs is a lot to lose of anything if that drive fails… Not convinced. I’ll stick with my Drobo. Any day.
Low Boon
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 2:18 PMUSB 3 ?