Questions & Answers for WD 6TB My Book Thunderbolt Duo Dual-Drive Storage System

No it would not double the speed

• Answered by Brandon G from Painted Post
• Jul 30, 2012
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Hi Erika,

After some trial and error I finally did it. Open Disk Utility. You need to first erase the WD Thunderbolt Raid that is preconfigured. Then you go to the first 3TB WDC and create your partitions and name them. You then go to the second 3TB WDC and create the same size partitions and name them. After that, select the first partition and its RAID tab. I then dragged the two like partitions from each of the drives and named it - creating a RAID 1 drive. Then I did the same for the second partition and so forth. The end result is two (or multiple) drives of same size that are RAID1s.

Hope that helps:)
Gil

• Answered by Gilbert M from Boca Raton
• Jan 5, 2013
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It can be either, you have the option of RAID 0 which gives 6TB or RAID 1 which gives 3TB and the drives are mirrored so protecting against drive failure. Your choice, safety or speed and capacity. I have gone for capacity as I also have a FW800 6TB drive for backup which is set for RAID 1 to allow for any failure of the Thunderbolt drive (I only have the 4TB thunderbolt) Hope this helps.

• Answered by Michael K
• Nov 14, 2012
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You can combine two RAID0 Duo's into a RAID 10 array for redundancy. According to WD, because of the two channel Thunderbolt (not to be confused with two Thunderbolt ports), if you daisy chain two of these in one RAID0 set, you'll see a significant increase in performance. In a single RAID0 Duo, it is writing to both of the internal drives simultaneously, doubling the speed. So if you have two channels, and two Duo's, it makes since that the speed would double again. It is writing to four drives at once, hence 4x the speed -- in theory.

• Answered by Jack P from Fair Oaks Ranch
• Nov 28, 2012
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Western Digital Caviar Green Drives, 5400 RPM (device is passively cooled, no fan so 7200 RPM might get to hot). 220MB/s read and 262MB/s write.

• Answered by Frederick J from San Diego
• Apr 26, 2012
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I'm not sure you understand what Thunderbolt is- basically, it's a faster connection than USB or FireWire. It can't be wireless. There is no such thing as a wireless Thunderbolt connection; whatever you've seen on some other site wasn't a wireless Thunderbolt drive.

As this is a Thunderbolt drive, it must be connected to a computer by a Thunderbolt cable- not Ethernet. You're thinking of a NAS drive, like the My Book Live- not the My Book Thunderbolt Duo. Bear in mind the My Book Live would not have the speed advantage this drive has, though.

• Answered by Andy F
• Apr 25, 2012
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