WD My Book Studio Edition II 4TB Two Bay External Desktop Hard Drive with RAID

Title : WD My Book Studio Edition II 4TB Two Bay External Desktop Hard Drive with RAID
ASIN : B002CB2SFA

Features :

• Width:9.8 cm
• Height:16.6 cm
• Device Type:Hard drive array
• Localisation:Middle East, Africa, Europe
• Weight:2.6 kg

List Price : £270.99
Price : £270.99


category: Products
brand: Western Digital
Item Page Detail URL : link
Rating : 4.3
Review : Good capacity to price ratio - Poor transfer rate performance
This is a good purchase only if you need a high capacity drive, wether it's RAID 0 'striped' to get it's maximum 6TB capacity or using the peace of mind RAID 1 'mirror' for security albeit at half the capacity but then again 3TB is a lot for RAID 1 mirror.

Unfortunately, speed performance in terms of transfer rates are poor. This capacious capacity drive is NOT going to give you decent transfer rates so be aware of this before you buy. To my surprise even when trying out RAID 1 stripped using the Firewire 800 connection, the speed of transfer rates were appalling in my opinion (worse than expected).

I did have a good idea of this before I purchased having read some reviews on the internet, so admittedly I knew what I would be getting in terms of speed performance however my main requirement was to get an external hard drive that had 1. largest possible capacity for RAID 1 mirror use with, 2. lowest price with, 3. smallest desktop footprint and finally with, 4...