Western Digital Unveils First Thunderbolt Enclosure

Rob Williams · 01-26-2012, 07:29 PM

With the growing momentum of Thunderbolt on the Mac platform, it was only a matter of time before storage giant Western Digital unveiled its first solution. That comes in the form of the My Book Thunderbolt Duo, a dual-drive enclosure that, as you'd expect, connects via Thunderbolt in lieu of USB or LAN. Details are a little scarce on the product at the moment (including an actual photo of it; the one below is of a similar product), but it can be assumed that this product would also work on PCs, provided a Thunderbolt connection is available.

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MacMan · 01-26-2012, 08:50 PM

Engadget has a video of it running below:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/26/w...macworld-2012/

Rob Williams · 01-27-2012, 04:41 PM

It's so generic to be honest. If this didn't feature Thunderbolt, it'd just be another enclosure :-/

It'd be great if WD released a 4-bay version of this... but typically the company doesn't go quite that high-end in the consumer space.

01-26-2012, 07:29 PM	#1
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,231	Western Digital Unveils First Thunderbolt Enclosure With the growing momentum of Thunderbolt on the Mac platform, it was only a matter of time before storage giant Western Digital unveiled its first solution. That comes in the form of the My Book Thunderbolt Duo, a dual-drive enclosure that, as you'd expect, connects via Thunderbolt in lieu of USB or LAN. Details are a little scarce on the product at the moment (including an actual photo of it; the one below is of a similar product), but it can be assumed that this product would also work on PCs, provided a Thunderbolt connection is available. Read the rest of our post and then discuss it here! __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

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01-27-2012, 04:41 PM	#3
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,231	It's so generic to be honest. If this didn't feature Thunderbolt, it'd just be another enclosure :-/ It'd be great if WD released a 4-bay version of this... but typically the company doesn't go quite that high-end in the consumer space. __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

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