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Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II 4TB External USB 2.0/FireWire/eSATA Hard Drive for Mac

Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II 4TB External USB 2.0/FireWire/eSATA Hard Drive for Mac Reviews

$148 to $458 (Average price: $344.99)

The My Book® Studio Edition™ II dual-drive external storage system for Mac from Western Digital® offers optimum performance for creative professionals. Incorporating RAID technolo... Show More

The My Book® Studio Edition™ II dual-drive external storage system for Mac from Western Digital® offers optimum performance for creative professionals. Incorporating RAID technology, this system comes configured for RAID 0 (striping) for extraordinary capacity and performance, or you can set it to RAID 1 (mirroring) for extra data protection. With automatic backup software, you can back up important projects to multiple destinations including file servers, portable drives and My Book. Every time you save a change, it gets automatically backed up. It features automatic power-up, Safe Shutdown™ technology and LED status feature that make this storage system especially easy to use. Additionally, you can upgrade the drive by simply opening the case and replacing the existing drive, no screwdriver needed. Moreover, it includes automatic data backup software, user-service ability and works with Apple’s Time Machine.

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  • Average Customer Review

    Based on 21 reviews
    • (76%) "This hard drive is great, and I would go out and purchase it again. It..."
    • (9%) "comes pre formatted to osx journaling and imediately showed up in the ..."
    • (4%) "PC users must reformat drive for use with PC and then set RAID configu..."
    • (0%)
    • (9%) "I consider my self computer literate and I have not been able to insta..."

Most Recent Reviews

Showing 1 - 21 of 21

Great Hard Drive! Reliable, Quiet, and Fast!

Jan. 28, 2013
By: FlyBoyJT

This hard drive is great, and I would go out and purchase it again. It is very quiet, very fast, and is large enough that I don't have to worry about space for a very long time. I like the peace of mi...

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Great Drive

Oct. 21, 2012
By: terrywho

comes pre formatted to osx journaling and imediately showed up in the finder

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J&R always comes through

Nov. 4, 2011
By: Ascenza

We use these exclusive for our media design business. It's a great product, we would be using it regardless where we get it from. It's quiet, runs fast, and the storage space and physical design mak...

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Worked perfectly, first time

Aug. 3, 2011
By: Digital on Location

Use it to store largec concert files. Complete from recorded wav files from the field to complete edits. There are now thusands of concerts on the drive.

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Jun. 22, 2011
By: Cho

Great product. Best price at J&R.

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Great product

May. 18, 2011
By: Jo

The perfect drive.

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Silent and easy setup

May. 12, 2011
By: KenR

My Apple Time Capsule crashed as soon as it was out of warranty. This 4TB drive is a superb replacement. I have it operating as a Raid 1 Firewire connected system using the Apple Time Machine software...

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Lousy Software

Mar. 11, 2011
By: MQP

I consider my self computer literate and I have not been able to install the SW for the aplications related to the external disk. I went to their website, dowloaded the SW and that did not work eithe...

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Mom, backup, Backup, BACKUP!

Dec. 8, 2010
By: U.P. Camp Girl

The My Book Studio II 4TB was recommended to me by my son - link and all. After much research, he now has several of these in his branding solutions business where backup and storage are critical. It ...

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One of the best things ...

Aug. 4, 2010
By: GRK Astronomer

One of the best things is owning an iMac. From an IT perspective, nothing is easier to maintain. It is products like the Western Digital My Book Studio II series of RAID0/1 configurable drives that ...

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Has Issues

Jun. 7, 2010
By: Matt

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Own two, great item.

May. 1, 2010
By: poser002

Great item for anyone that uses media. Great for movies, games, music just about any file you have. Easy to use and fast to take if need to go. plug and play great useage.

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So good, it's my second one

Apr. 22, 2010
By: AudioHandyman

User replaceable hard drives make this unlikely need easy to remedy. The drives are the WD GreenPower 2TB units, some of the highest rated and most reliable drives on the market.

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Great product

Apr. 22, 2010
By: mchia

I already own one of these units for my personal use and bought a second one now for my business. I read all reviews I could find about NASs make and models and the SYNOLOGY was the only one I found w...

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Great Drive

Mar. 1, 2010
By: Paul

Im using this drive to store my media files. Using firewire 800 with good success and daisy chained to a 2nd Firewire 800 drive. Both drives show up on my screen as seperate drives, which is great.

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Good product, but poor manual

Feb. 25, 2010
By: Wired 4 Chess

PC users must reformat drive for use with PC and then set RAID configuration. The manual is inadequate to help Windows 7 users with this process.

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easy to setup and use, and works perfect

Jan. 24, 2010
By: KD

I've been using various external hard drives for backup purpose for my 4 computers at home, including Time Capsule for Mac, and the cool-looking LaCie one. This WD is so far the best. Very easy to ena...

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Good to go!

Dec. 23, 2009
By: Tmaxnyc

I have this drive set up RAID 1. I'm using to store and back-up all my music, movies and tv shows. I have 2 TB of storage automatically backed-up at all times. I'm using a Macbook pro and this drive ...

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"I would buy this product again

Oct. 6, 2009
By: Rob

Good solid product. It will work with XP Pro in Mirrored only which reduces the storage to 2 TB. Raid 0 works with vista which will give you 4 TB of storage

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Already rolled up its sleeves and jumped

Oct. 2, 2009
By: ltss3yr2

I needed storage for videos and thought I didn't need backup, since we have Mozy for both computers. I have a new, powerful IMac with Snow Leopard and all the bells and whistles and have begun to foo...

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30 second setup

Sep. 30, 2009
By: STM

I use it for storage of massive photo files. Allows me to keep all my original file as well as my altered files. Out of box and into function on my Mac in a matter of seconds. No surprises, it just wo...

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