Last week, Western Digital (WD) officially announced their latest external storage solution which aims for the professional and amateur content creators for the 21st century with a transfer rate of 435 MB/s; the released the WD My Book Pro Storage Solution.
The WD My Book Pro offers in the following whopping storage capacity of 6 TB, 8 TB, 10 TB and 12 TB; at the speed of 7200 RPM; equipped with Intel’s Thunderbolt™ 2 technology ports; comes with the 3.0 USB ports; and a hot-swappable hardware RAID controller.
WD My Book Pro: Benefits
The WD My My Book Pro is designed for creative professionals and enthusiasts alike to focus on what they love doing by significantly cutting the time to transfer large videos, photos and audio files. Here are the following professional who will reap the benefits:
Photographers:
For photographers, the very common feature that they are looking for is the fast transfer rate and the WD My Book Pro provided the answer, and offers a large storage capacity for professional photographer — for shooting RAW.
Modern professional cameras — whether it is a DSLR, Medium Formats, Mirrorless Camera, or even high-end smartphones — will have a benefit on this equipment because the WD My Book Pro has a charging feature.
Videographers:
For videographers, having fast transfer rate and large capacity storage — same with the photographers; the Thunderbolt 2 ports that will meet the requirements for 4k video and their WD Black Drive will be a big advantage since they will come as a Solid State Drive.
Professional DJ
Professional DJs' — who are producing EDM music — will also benefits with the features of the WD My Book Pro, from their large capacity at higher speed rates, to advanced USB ports that they usually required when they are producing awesome tracks.
Professional Bloggers
Now, this is a mixed of both worlds. Professional Bloggers are sometimes is a combination of professional Videographer, Photographer, and a writer in one because they create content on their website. Tons of files — whether video, photos, or contents — are stored with eased because with the feature that was offered to the two professions — like the large capacity storage, and high transfer rate; another requirements that bloggers needs when creating their content is their computer’s CPU performance.
WD My Book Pro resolves that issue because the equipment is comes with RAID processing feature.
“The My Book Pro device has been designed from the ground up for the creative professional workflow. We’ve been able to take the newest, highest capacity 6 TB 7200 RPM drives on the market and marry them with leading technologies to deliver a product you can leverage from the moment you connect it.” said Sven Rathjen, vice president of marketing for WD’s Content Solutions business.
Pricing and Availability
In the Philippines, the My Book Pro storage device is protected by a 3-year limited warranty and is available at select retailers and distributed by EA Global Supply Chains Solutions, Inc. and Iontech, Inc. in the Philippines. Manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) is PhP 31,490 for the 6 TB, PhP 40,490 for the 8 TB, PhP 47,990 for the 10 TB and PhP 53,990 for the 12 TB.
