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The company, “Western Digital”, which specializes in the manufacture of storage solutions, introduced the new hard drive, the My Book Desktop Duo, which offers a huge storage space of 44 GB.
The My Book Desktop Duo hard disk is the latest version of the company, which is two hard disks in one storage device.
The company had previously introduced the My Book Desktop hard disk with a large storage space of 22 GB, which the company said – at the time – it was the largest storage space for a hard disk of its production.
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Meet the growing needs for data storage
“Western Digital” said that it launched the two disks to meet the growing needs of consumers to store their data, as it stated that families around the world generated an average of more than 20 terabytes of data per family, with expectations that this number will increase with the increase in the production and consumption of data by people.
The company said that with an average of more than ten devices connected to the Internet in every American household, the new storage capacities provide users with plenty of space to back up their personal devices.
She added that the 22 terabyte copy of her hard disk gives the user the ability to save thousands of documents, images and video files that the hard disk supports transferring by various means such as portable SSD disks, HDD hard disks, memory cards and flash disks.
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Built-in backup capability
For those looking for more powerful storage, the My Book Duo offers 44TB of storage with built-in RAID backup between its two hard drives.
The My Book Duo can run with RAID-1 technology which automatically makes a copy of the files on both drives to ensure no data is lost if one of them fails. It is also possible to adjust the device settings through a special program to use each disc independently.
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