Deck out your Mac setup with WD’s new 12TB hard drive rack

By Gabe Carey Published September 8, 2015

western digital my book pro 12tb storage wdfmb — Image used with permission by copyright holder

Finding yourself constantly running out of space on your Mac? Western Digital may have a solution for you, as the data storage giant has begun to ship a Thunderbolt-compatible hard drive rack with support for up to 12TB of external hard drive space.

Dubbed the My Book Pro, WD’s new hard drive rack combines two hard drive variants of your choosing, with the option of either 3, 4, 5, or 6 terabytes and bolstering an input option of either 20Gbps Thunderbolt or 5Gbps USB 3.0. By default, the device is set to RAID-0 in order to make full use of the higher storage options, but can manually be configured to RAID-1 or JBOD if preferred. RAID-1, however, does not support multiple drives so, in doing so, the capacity would be split in half.

Recommended Videos

“The My Book Pro device has been designed from the ground up for the creative professional workflow,” writes Western Digital marketing VP Sven Rathjen. “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.”

Please enable Javascript to view this content

Inhibiting the forefront of the My Book Pro are two USB 3.0 ports towards the front of the device, acting as a USB input hub and allowing users to connect devices to the hard drive deck and in turn connecting them to the host computer. On the back of the drive reside a couple of Thunderbolt ports, allowing users to daisy chain up to six My Book Pros, in addition to another USB 3.0 port.

Though it’s not clear which drives are bundled with the My Book Pro, the press release mentions a rotation frequency of 7,200 rpm, and considering WD just launched a few higher-capacity versions of the Red Pro, it seems like the obvious choice here. The My Book Pro is available from Western Digital’s official website or from a number of other retailers at $599 (6TB), $749 (8TB), $899 (10TB), or $999 (12TB) depending on storage configuration options.

Topics

Former Digital Trends Contributor

A freelancer for Digital Trends, Gabe Carey has been covering the intersection of video games and technology since he was 16…

Computing

Intel’s promised Arrow Lake autopsy details up to 30% loss in performance

The Core Ultra 9 285K socketed into a motherboard.

Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs didn't make it on our list of the best processors when they released earlier this year. As you can read in our Core Ultra 9 285K review, Intel's latest desktop offering struggled to keep pace with last-gen options, particularly in games, and showed strange behavior in apps like Premiere Pro. Now, Intel says it has fixed the issues with its Arrow Lake range, which accounted for up to a 30% loss in real-world performance compared to Intel's in-house testing.

The company identified five issues with the performance of Arrow Lake, four of which are resolved now. The latest BIOS and Windows Updates (more details on those later in this story) will restore Arrow Lake processors to their expected level of performance, according to Intel, while a new firmware will offer additional performance improvements. That firmware is expected to release in January, pushing beyond the baseline level of performance Intel expected out of Arrow Lake.

Computing

You can get this 40-inch LG UltraWide 5K monitor at $560 off if you hurry

A woman using the LG UltraWide 40WP95C-W 5K monitor.

If you need a screen to go with the upgrade that you made with desktop computer deals, and you're willing to spend for a top-of-the-line display, then you may want to set your sights on the LG 40WP95C-W UltraWide curved 5K monitor. From its original price of $1,800, you can get it for $1,240 from Walmart for huge savings of $560, or for $1,275 from Amazon for a $525 discount. You should complete your purchase quickly if you're interested though, as there's no telling when the offers for this monitor will expire.

Why you should buy the LG 40WP95C-W UltraWide curved 5K monitor
5K monitors are highly recommended for serious creative professionals, such as graphic designers and filmmakers, for their extremely sharp details and precise colors, and the LG 40WP95C-W UltraWide curved 5K monitor is an excellent choice. We've tagged it as the best ultrawide 5K monitor in our roundup of the best 5K monitors, with its huge 40-inch curved screen featuring 5120 x 2160 resolution, 98% coverage of the DCI-P3 spectrum, and support for HDR10 providing striking visuals that you won't enjoy from most of the other options in the market.

Computing

Generative-AI-powered video editing is coming to Instagram

Instagram on iPhone against a colorful background.

Editing your Instagram videos will soon be as simple as typing out a text prompt, thanks to a new generative AI tool the company hopes to release in 2025, CEO Adam Mosseri announced Thursday.

The upcoming tool, which leverages Meta's Movie Gen model, will enable users to "change nearly any aspect of your videos," Mosseri said during his preview demonstration. Those changes range from subtle modifications, like adding a gold chain to his existing outfit or a hippo in the background, to wholesale alterations including swapping his wardrobe or giving himself a felt, Muppet-like appearance.