MY BOOK VELOCIRAPTOR DUO
USER MANUAL
ABOUT YOUR WD STORAGE DEVICE
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About Your WD Storage Device
Welcome to your My Book
®
VelociRaptor™ Duo dual-drive storage device, uniting the
extreme speed of two 10,000 RPM WD VelociRaptor
®
drives with revolutionary
Thunderbolt™ technology to set new standards for data transfer speeds and workflow
flexibility in high-capacity storage.
This chapter includes the following topics:
Features
Kit Contents
Optional Accessories
Operating System Compatibility
Disk Drive Formats
Physical Description
Registering Your Device
Handling Precautions
Features
Extreme speed, high capacity storage
—Built with two 10,000 RPM WD VelociRaptor
drives inside, My Book VelociRaptor Duo delivers extreme speed and high capacity for
high-end video and photo editing, 3D rendering, graphic-intensive design and more.
Move data at unprecedented speeds
—The Thunderbolt connector provides two
channels of up to 10 Gb/s transfer rate in both directions. This allows data to travel both
ways without compromising bandwidth. And this means you can do more work in less
time with the ground-breaking data transfer speed of the Thunderbolt technology.
User-configurable RAID for speed or double-safe data protection
—Select the mode
that is right for you:
• RAID 0 (Striped mode) for maximum capacity and accelerated performance.
• RAID 1 (Mirrored mode) for double-safe data protection by automatically creating
a second copy of your data. One drive stores your data and the other saves a
second copy. If either drive fails, your data is protected because it is duplicated on
the other drive.
• JBOD (Individual Drives mode) for using the two drives independently, and not
configured into a RAID array. In JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks) mode, you can
chose either HFS+J or exFAT format for each drive: HFS+J for Mac applications
or exFAT for running Windows
®
operating systems on a Mac computer.
Daisy chain more drives for more speed
—Use the two Thunderbolt ports to daisy
chain more drives for more speed and higher capacity. Connect a Thunderbolt display
and other Thunderbolt-enabled peripherals to achieve maximum efficiency and
productivity.
High-speed multitasking
—The revolutionary bidirectional Thunderbolt technology
delivers unmatched speed for multitasking projects.
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