WD 3TB My Book Studio External Hard Drive
WD 3TB My Book Studio External Hard Drive
Product Information
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Overview
The WD My Book Studio desktop hard drive is an ideal complement for your Mac, delivering the amazing speed of USB 3.0, outstanding capacity, and the beauty of a high-quality aluminum enclosure. Along with Time Machine compatibility it provides password protection and hardware encryption to safeguard your data. This drive is the right choice for videographers, photographers, and other graphic professionals. -
Highlights
- Heat-dissipating, aluminum enclosure remains cool to the touch and takes up minimal space
- Save and access data at top speeds with the high-performance, USB 3.0 connectivity
- Plenty of room to store all the chapters of your digital life
- Formatted HFS+ journaled so it works with your Mac OS X v10.6.5 or later system
- Easily reformatted to work with Windows operating systems
- Password protection and hardware-based encryption prevents unauthorized access to your data
- Register your drive, run diagnostics, and more using WD Drive Utilities
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Did you notice?
Delivers universal compatibility today and speed for tomorrow—use with high-speed USB 2.0 or step up to SuperSpeed USB 3.0. -
Apple Recommends For
Super-Speed USB 3.0 connectivity to the Mac makes this ideal for videographers, photographers, and other graphic professionals. -
What's in the Box?
- WD My Book Studio desktop hard drive
- USB cable
- AC adapter
- WD Security
- WD Drive Utilities
- Quick install guide
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Tech Specs
- Connections : USB 2,USB 3.0
- Height : 6.5 in./16.51 cm
- Width : 1.9 in./4.83 cm
- Weight : 2.34 lb./1.06 kg
- Length : 5.3 in./13.46 cm
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System Requirements
Mac
- OS X 10.6 or later
- USB 3.0 port or USB 2.0 port*
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Manufacturer Information
Part Number
- Mfr. Part Number : WDBCPZ0030HAL-NESN
- UPC or EAN No. : 718037802992
Warranty
- Note : Products sold through this website that do not bear the Apple Brand name are serviced and supported exclusively by their manufacturers in accordance with terms and conditions packaged with the products. Apple's Limited Warranty does not apply to products that are not Apple-branded, even if packaged or sold with Apple products. Please contact the manufacturer directly for technical support and customer service.
- Warranty : Three-year limited
Manufacturer Note
- * USB 3.0 port required for USB 3.0 speed and features
Ratings & Reviews
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Ignore the one-star review
The one-star review was from someone that does not own the product. His review was to rant about WD. This drive is less than 3 y ears old, yet he claimed the drive failed out of warranty, a 3-year warranty. He claimed WD would do nothing. His post was June 2013, so it is impossible for the drive to be out of warranty. All hard drives are susceptible to failure, it is a spinning disk. I have had two WD drives fail and their warranty was excellent for both external and internal bare drives. Go to their website, enter the serial number, and request a drive swap. I had a PATA 500GB drive go bad within the 3 year warranty and they offered me a 1TB SATA since they were out of stock on PATA drives. How could that be bad service? The WD 3TB is a great drive. If he really owned a drive that failed after the warranty expired, then of course WD would not replace the drive. Warranties have expirations. …
- Written by Peter H from Valencia
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WD are terrible drives
WD drives are notorious for failing I now realize after my drive has failed and I've researched. I had babied this drive and only used it for back ups once a month or so. My drive stopped working right after the warranty period. When I contacted WD they told me they couldn't help and suggested I go to their data recovery partners. That should be a warning-a company that has many data recovery partners because their drives fail on a regular basis. I will never do business with this company again as the drives they sell are VERY cheap. You get what you pay for. …
- Written by THOMAS LEN B from houston
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Questions & Answers
Answers from the community
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How many books or songs or movies and pictures will this hold?
- Asked by Chris W from Ft Wortb
- May 11, 2013
Answer
That is a hard question to answer. It is variable to the quality and equipment used to create the mu sic and pictures. For example: a 2hr HD Movie is about 3gb. SO this drive can hold about 3,000 movies / 6,000 hours of HD Video. I hope this helps :) …
- Answered by Robert B from Ft. Lauderdale
- Jun 5, 2013
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Will this allow me to copy cd's and pictures that I have saved to cd's?
- Asked by Laura B from Jacksonville
- Apr 21, 2013
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Can you use a firewire with this product?
- Asked by Lori B from Dubuque
- May 13, 2013
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Will this work if I connect it on my Airport Express?
- Asked by Paul B from Burlington
- Apr 10, 2013
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I have a Mac OS X Version 10.5.8, Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. Is this external hard drive compatible?
- Asked by Joanne S from Wilmington
- Jan 21, 2013
Answer
Only if you have a USB3 port on your laptop will you gain the top speed this unit offers, You can us e it with USB2 of course, but you would be paying a very high price for a relatively slow rate of transfer. If you have a Thunderbolt port you may be able to buy a Thunderbolt to USB3 adapter, but then this drive should be at the end of any daisy chain of actual Thunderbolt devices (up to 5 including this product) so you don't create a bottleneck with this slower device. Hope this helps. …
- Answered by Gary B from Tucson
- Jan 28, 2013
