Western Digital Launches 8TB My Book Thunderbolt Drive
My Book 4TB external hard drive also announced.
Western Digital has announced the availability of its My Book Thunderbolt Duo, which offers 8TB of storage space.
The My Book Thunderbolt Duo represents Western Digital's foray into the Thunderbolt storage device market. In terms of cost per gigabyte, the My Book Thunderbolt Duo is the most affordable storage device currently availability with a price of $850. In addition to the drive, a Thunderbolt cable is also included.
The drive contains two internal hard drives that can be set up in either RAID 0, which is the default option, or RAID 1 configurations.
In addition, Western Digital announced its My Book 4TB external hard drive, a single-volume external USB 3.0-compatible hard drive that costs $250.

For anyone expecting them to contain WD designed/built drives you will be sorely disappointed.
Inside are 4TB 5400RPM Hitachi drives
Well, at least their external drives are still €40 less expensive than a bare 4TB drive in Germany
In addition, Western Digital announced its My Book 4TB external hard drive, a single-volume external USB 3.0-compatible hard drive that costs $250.
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850/8 = 106 per gb
62.5/4 = 62.5 per gb
I think you mean per TB.
and yea, i can get 2 2tb drives for cheaper, i know, but i want all my data on 1 drive, instead of my current 5... to make the management of data so much easier.
850/8 = 106 per gb
62.5/4 = 62.5 per gb
Firstly, you accidentally wrote GB, but I am sure you meant TB anyway..
Secondly, I am sure the article meant that the My Book Thunderbolt Duo is the most affordable thunderbolt drive. But I didn't check around to see if even that is true, as usually claims like these in articles like these (purely product announcements) are often inaccurate.
It's one thing for a Toshiba Laptop to use a HDD from another brand (and perhaps we are just used to this happening), but another thing entirely for a Western Digital External Hard Drive to use a hard drive from another brand! Hard drive is in the product name for Pete's sake! It's not unreasonable to expect the drive inside to be Western Digital! I find this rather misleading and dishonest.. I always select my external drive's brand based on which brand of hard drive I want (on the inside) for the particular usage I have in mind.
Well, seeing as Western Digital was required to sell Hitachi's 3.5" hard drive business to Tohsiba when they acquired Hitachi, they are actually purchasing the drives from Toshiba.
http://ftc.gov/opa/2012/03/westerndigital.shtm
In any case, the drives I removed from Western Digital's enclosures have no additional Western Digital labels.
They are clearly marked as Hitachi drives; model H3IK40003254SW's to be exact.
Raid 0
basikmaths :
In terms of cost per gigabyte, the My Book Thunderbolt Duo is the most affordable storage device currently availability with a price of $850. In addition, Western Digital announced its My Book 4TB external hard drive, a single-volume external USB 3.0-compatible hard drive that costs $250.***********************************************
850/8 = 106 per gb
62.5/4 = 62.5 per gb
Firstly, you accidentally wrote GB, but I am sure you meant TB anyway..
Secondly, I am sure the article meant that the My Book Thunderbolt Duo is the most affordable thunderbolt drive. But I didn't check around to see if even that is true, as usually claims like these in articles like these (purely product announcements) are often inaccurate.
1) nice try but i meant cents per gb,,,
2) according to the laws of mathematics 62.5c per gb is more affordable than 106c per gb
Not entirely true.
During the acquisition of Hitachi, Western Digital was forced to sell the 3.5" division of Hitachi to Toshiba.
Therefore, they are purchasing drives for their 4/8TB external solutions from a direct competitor; Toshiba.
http://ftc.gov/opa/2012/03/westerndigital.shtm
basikmaths: (or now known as "Anonymous")
In terms of cost per gigabyte, the My Book Thunderbolt Duo is the most affordable storage device currently availability with a price of $850. In addition, Western Digital announced its My Book 4TB external hard drive, a single-volume external USB 3.0-compatible hard drive that costs $250.***********************************************850/8 = 106 per gb62.5/4 = 62.5 per gb
yamman101:
I think you mean per TB
techcurious:
Firstly, you accidentally wrote GB, but I am sure you meant TB anyway..Secondly, I am sure the article meant that the My Book Thunderbolt Duo is the most affordable thunderbolt drive. But I didn't check around to see if even that is true, as usually claims like these in articles like these (purely product announcements) are often inaccurate.
Anonymous:
1) nice try but i meant cents per gb,,,
2) according to the laws of mathematics 62.5c per gb is more affordable than 106c per gb
HAHAAA..! No.. "nice try" back at you! techcurious is absolutely right.. You tried to cover up your initial mistake with a worse mistake..
Did you fail the most basic maths in school?
$850 for 8TB, 850/8=106.25 .. so $106 per 1TB...
you do realize 1TB has 1024GB (or 1000GB).. and you do know that there are only 100 cents in a dollar right?
so 1GB costs $106/1000=$0.106 .. or 10.6 cents.. (if you are still confused, 106 cents would actually be $1.06)
.. go back to school!