Western Digital Officially Launched 8TB Hard-drives in the Philippines

Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC), a world leader in storage solutions, today announced the expansion of its award-winning portfolio of performance storage solutions with 8TB capacity drives for NAS, video surveillance and desktop external applications. Increasingly centralized, rich-content, which continues to grow in popularity among enterprises, small business and consumers alike, is driving demand for greater storage capacities.

Launching throughout the first half of 2016, My Cloud® personal storage devices (My Cloud, My Cloud Mirror, My Cloud EX2 Ultra), My Book® external hard drives (My Book, My Book for Mac, My Book Duo and My Book Pro), WD Red®, WD Red Pro and WD Purple™ hard drives will all be designed with the new high-capacity configuration. Each storage solution offers purpose-driven engineering and HelioSeal™ helium-technology with the new 8TB drives for maximum and efficient performance in the applications for which each model is designed.

“We are committed to integrating high-performance, high-capacity and high-quality drives into all of our solutions,” said Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing, Western Digital Corporation. “No matter what market or application, we have a solution - whether it’s for small businesses, channel partners, enterprises or end-users. Our goal is to deliver the best and most competitive solutions on the market.”

The increase to 8TB or 16TB (with two 8TB drives in RAID 0) capacity applies to the following WD products:

External Hard Drives

• My Book/My Book for Mac — An external hard drive solution that provides complete backup and storage with USB connectivity.
• My Book Duo/My Book Pro – Dual-drive external hard drive solutions which provide ultra-fast storage in RAID-0 and complete backup and storage with USB and/or Thunderbolt connectivity and up to 16TB capacity.
• My Cloud/My Cloud Mirror – A personal storage device that plugs into your router at home to provide consumers with their very own private cloud.
• My Cloud EX2 Ultra – As part of the creative professional series of My Cloud products, the My Cloud EX2 Ultra provides high-performance two-bay network attached storage.

Internal Hard Drives


• WD Purple – Engineered for 24/7, always-on, high-definition surveillance security systems that use up to eight hard drives and up to 32 cameras.
• WD Red – Optimized for personal, home and small business NAS (network attached storage) systems.
• WD Red Pro – Optimized for small business and enterprise class NAS systems with high performance and reliability.


Availability and Pricing My Book 8TB will be available in March at select retailers and distributors in the Philippines. Manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) for the My Book 8TB (model #: WDBFJK0080HBK) is Php 15,900.

My Cloud, My Book for Mac, My Book Duo, My Book Pro, WD Red and WD Purple 8TB configurations will be available during the first half of 2016. More information about the WD product line, 8TB capacity, and terms of the limited warranty may be found on the company website at www.wdc.com.

Western Digital Officially Launched The My Book Pro Storage Solution

“It really is designed to perform under the most demanding environments.”

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.

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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.