The WD My Book Duo 28TB USB 3.0 RAID Array features two 3.5" drive bays that each sport a 14TB hard drive to provide a total capacity of 28TB for USB Type-C and USB Type-A systems. The two included hard drives are WD Red drives designed for high-performance and reliability. WD has configured the drives in RAID 0 and lets you reconfigure them in RAID 1 or JBOD, using the included WD Drive Utilities software program. The My Book Duo comes with a USB 3.0 Type-C port, plus a USB 3.0 Type-C to Type-C cable and a USB 3.0 Type-C to Type-A cable. With RAID 0 and USB 3.0 technology, the My Book Duo delivers sequential read speeds of up to 360 MB/s.

Other notable features include a 2-port USB 3.0 Type-A hub, which expands the host system's connections, and AES hardware encryption that helps prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data. In addition, the My Book Duo is pre-formatted in NTFS for Windows systems and requires a reformat for use with Mac.

2 x 14TB WD Red Hard Drives    2 x 3.5" SATA Drive Bays    1 x USB 3.0 Type-C | 2 x USB 3.0 Type-A    Supports RAID 0, 1, and JBOD    Configured as RAID 0    Sequential Read Speeds of up to 360 MB/s    2-Port USB 3.0 Hub    Formatted NTFS for Windows    Reformatting Required for Mac    256-Bit AES Encryption

The My Book Duo drive provides 28TB of storage capacity with a single connection. This amount of digital storage space lets you hold and back up your photos, videos, documents, and songs.

The My Book Duo is preconfigured in a RAID 0 array that grants maximum speed and capacity. Utilizing the included WD Drive Utilities software, you can reconfigure the drives in a RAID 1 for redundancy or JBOD array as two independent drives.

Two WD Red drives are included to provide high-speed and reliable storage. To help ensure read/write cycle data integrity, RAID-optimized firmware is suitable for a two-disk array system with auto management of drive operations.

With the included USB Type-C to Type-C and USB Type-C to Type-A cables, the My Book Duo supports a wide-variety of systems.

The My Book Duo drive can serve as a quasi-docking station with two USB 3.0 Type-A ports designed for accessories, such as an additional storage device, keyboard and mouse set, card reader, and mobile devices.

The My Book Duo drive comes with 256-bit AES hardware encryption with WD Security software built in to help keep private content secure. You can set a personalized password to activate hardware encryption and data protection.

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. WD Red Drives are 5400 or 7200rpm?

A: These are WD red drive NOT Red Pro dives which would be 7200RPM. These drives are 5400RPM.

Q: 2. Since it looks like the automatic data encryption is proprietary can it be turned off?

A: If you don't want to use the Encryption feature in WD Security Software with this HDD, you don't have to.

Q: 3. I am understanding that if a drive fails one has to buy a new one from WD due to their encryption are these drives available and how much are they so one cannot just by another seagate red drive and. put it in ?

A: The drives are replaced by WD within the Limited 3-Year Warranty. Otherwise, you can use any RAID compatible drive that is 5400 RPM.

Q: 4. Can you swap out the drives to increase the storage later?

A: Yes you swap the drives on WD My Book Duo 8TB Two-Bay USB 3.0 and you can Increase drive capacity.

Q: 5. Does it include the 2 14tb drives?

A: Yes, the WD My Book Duo 28TB Two-Bay USB 3.0 Type-C RAID Array (2 x 14TB) BH #WEWDBFBJB28 includes 2 x 14TB hard drives.

Q: 6. I would like to use this for HD and 4k video editing. I would also like to use them as back up storage. My current external WD HDs are really slow with copying videos and editing. How fast are thesea and are they sufficient for video editing?

A: With speeds of up to 360MB/s these would be on the slow side for editing 4k video.

Q: 7. In RAID-0, can a single drive letter include the whole 28TB, with the device seamlessly managing the whole device?

A: Yes, that is exactly how a RAID 0 volume would behave. You would never see both drives unless you set it up in JBOD (non-raid) where you would then have 2 drives independent from each other.

Q: 8. Doesn't this have an Ethernet port to connect to my network? Will it work with an old mac mini with OS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard?

A: No, this is not the model with the Ethernet port. Yes, this will work with your mac mini.

Q: 9. Can you access this drive from 2 computers at the same time?

A: This drive can be shared by more than one computer if it is plugged into and part of a Local Area Network (LAN). So, if this is connected to your network, you can have access with more than one computer at a time. Otherwise, using a cable you can only have access to one computer at a time.

Q: 10. can i edit 4k raw dng straight of the drive?

A: I've had no problems working directly with Photoshop files, but I don't edit video files.