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product_id: 48301324
title: "My Book"
brand: "western digital"
price: "₱26469"
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category: "Western Digital"
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# USB 3.0 SuperSpeed interface 4TB massive storage 256-bit AES hardware encryption My Book

**Brand:** western digital
**Price:** ₱26469
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> 💼 Secure your legacy with speed and style—because your data deserves the best.

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** My Book by western digital
- **How much does it cost?** ₱26469 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/48301324-my-book)

## Best For

- western digital enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted western digital brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Rock-Solid Security:** 256-bit AES hardware encryption with personalized password protection keeps your data truly private.
- • **Massive 4TB Capacity:** Store your entire digital life with room to spare—photos, videos, projects, and more.
- • **Blazing USB 3.0 Speeds:** SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ensures fast backups and quick access without the wait.
- • **Seamless Cross-Platform Backup:** Compatible with WD Backup for Windows and Apple Time Machine for Mac—effortless, automated protection.
- • **Trusted Durability & Reliability:** Engineered for shock tolerance and backed by a 3-year warranty, this drive is your dependable data guardian.

## Overview

The WD 4TB My Book is a high-capacity external desktop hard drive featuring USB 3.0 SuperSpeed connectivity, built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption with password protection, and compatibility with both Windows and Mac backup software. Designed for durability and long-term reliability, it offers a quiet, efficient backup solution trusted by millions, backed by a 3-year limited warranty.

## Description

Secure 4TB external hard drive with backup, encryption, and 3-year warranty for reliable data storage. Includes WD backup software and 256-bit AES encryption.

Review: Not loud, but does take a while to spin up. Good backup drive for a NAS. - Having read dozens of reviews of these WD MyBook Duo drives, the conclusion I had come to was that they are very loud, but otherwise ok. I found a 'used' one on the desertcart Warehouse at a vastly reduced price, so I was happy to give it a go for myself. I was chiefly interested in using it in RAID 1 (mirrored mode) as an expansion for my QNAP T451 NAS although I decided to also try it directly connected via USB to my Macbook. Dealing with the 'noise' issue first, I'm not sure if I've been exceptionally lucky, but other that when it first switches on (you get a brief flurry from the fan, just to prove it works) it is basically silent (other than a little bit of clicking of the HDD heads getting in the right position). There's no audible fan noise and it seems to run pretty cool. I wasn't worried about noise as it was going to live in a cupboard with my NAS, but I'm glad it's very quiet in case plans change and it moves out of it's under-stairs home. When testing via USB, it was tucked away on a bookshelf behind the sofa with a long USB3 lead and noise was not an issue. Speed is very good plugged into my Macbook. As you can see from my screenshot, in RAID 1 (mirror) mode it achieves ~100MB/s Write and ~135MB/s Read over USB 3. When plugged into my macbook, it takes a little while to be recognised, but once it is, it responds quickly and seems very solid. It comes up formatted as a single drive using the capacity of both drives with data striped across them both (RAID 0). This is a terrifying proposition (to me at least) as if one of the drives fails, you lose all the data on both. Luckily you have the opportunity to install an app (Windows or Mac, download from the WD website) that can change the formatting of the drive. You thereby have 2 alternatives: RAID 1 - only gives you half the capacity but if a drive fails, all of the data is safely on the other drive JBOD - which treats each disk like a separate drive, so if one fails, you only lose the data on that drive - data on the other is safe. The big advantage of how it comes set up is you get one nice big drive, and it works faster than either of the other 2 options. Fine for a backup as it's unlikely both your main disk and the backup would go at the same time. Whether it's worth the risk as a storage drive is up to you... The drives inside are WD Reds, which are designed for NAS use, and regarded as some of the more reliable drives you can buy, so you should get many many hours of use without any issues. One annoying thing on the Mac is that when you wake your Mac from sleep with the drive plugged in, the WD software will frequently alert you that there is a RAID error. There is no error, it's a false alarm. The best way to deal with this is to simply uninstall the WD software after you've configured the drive to your requirements. It has very few functions, aside from changing RAID modes and giving annoying alerts! You can always reinstall should you need to change the RAID mode (which will also wipe out all of your data).
Review: Extremely reliable - I first bought one of these 13 years ago. It has been in constant daily use for that entire time. Lately, it has shown some concerning anomalies, so this one is replacing it. Even though it is an older model, reasonably slow by todays standards, this model is trusted by photographers everywhere as extremely reliable. It will power down after a few minutes of non use to complete silence and will take a few seconds to power up on activation and runs as just a whisper. It is a work-horse hard drive.

## Features

- Equipped with WD backup software for Windows and Apple Time Machine compatibility for Mac, the My Book desktop hard drive can back up your photos, videos, music and documents
- Works with acronis true image WD edition software to schedule full system backups
- Password protection with built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption with WD Security software, just set your own personalised password to help keep your content private and safe
- Millions of people around the world trust their data to My Book desktop storage; designed to meet WD’s demanding requirements for durability, shock tolerance and long-term reliability, we back up (pun intended!) the trusted My Book desktop storage with a 3-year limited warranty
- The My Book desktop hard drive can back up your photos, videos, music and documents

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B01LZHJ77Q |
| Are Batteries Included | No |
| Best Sellers Rank | 27,035 in Computers & Accessories ( See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories ) 100 in External Hard Drives |
| Brand | Western Digital |
| Colour | Black |
| Computer Memory Type | DDR3 SDRAM |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (4,923) |
| Date First Available | 11 Oct. 2016 |
| Form Factor | 3.5-inch |
| Guaranteed software updates until | unknown |
| Hard Disk Description | Mechanical Hard Disk |
| Hard Drive Interface | USB 3.0 |
| Hard Drive Size | 4000 GB |
| Hardware Platform | standard |
| Item Weight | 1 kg |
| Item model number | WDBBGB0040HBK-EESN |
| Manufacturer | WESBX |
| Power Source | Hand-operated |
| Processor Count | 1 |
| Product Dimensions | 13.93 x 4.9 x 17.06 cm; 1 kg |
| Series | My Book |
| Supported Software | Windows 10, Windows 8.1 or Windows 7. MacOS High Sierra, Sierra (10.12), El Capitan (10.11) |
| Voltage | 12 Volts |
| Wattage | 3600 watts |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Western Digital
- **Colour:** Black
- **Compatible devices:** laptop, desktop, camera, game console
- **Connectivity technology:** USB
- **Digital storage capacity:** 4 TB
- **Hard disk description:** Mechanical Hard Disk
- **Hard disk form factor:** 3.5 Inches
- **Hard disk interface:** USB 3.0
- **Installation type:** External Hard Drive
- **Special feature:** External power adapter^Security algorithms:256-bit AES^Y

## Images

![My Book - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51SlrW8MsJL.jpg)

## Questions & Answers

**Q: What is the real size capacity of 6th hard drive  e.g 5.60tb.?**
A: This is to with the way drives sizes are calculated. We see drive sizes at TB but drives see it as TiB. 

Converting 8TB to 8TiB is 7.27596TB
Converting 6TB to 6TiB is 5.45697TB
Converting 4TB to 4TiB is 3.63798TB 

Hope this helps.

**Q: Is this compatible with XP**
A: XP? surely not.

**Q: By 'full system backup' does this include a system image & programmes etc as well as docs, pics, music ?**
A: Well, as its just an external drive,  there's no restriction on what you can store subject to capacity constraints.  HOW and WHAT to store is entirely up to you.   
Are you actually asking about software to accomplish these tasks???    If so,  WD let you download a freebie copy of Acronis True image from the WD support site.  Whether this can also be used for file backup/restore  is not something I can comment on but is it doesn't,  you could use the Microsoft supplied tools (with win 7, 8 and 10) to do this.   
Personally, I prefer Macrium Reflect. Although it can do file and folder backup as well as imaging disks,  I don't bother with file backup.   I do a full system image once per week, then differential images for the rest of the week. Given this, there's no point in performing file/folder backups since Macrium images can be mounted as temporary drives and the files/folders that are needed to recover from eg accidental deletions can be extracted from the mounted image.  I believe, but cant swear to Acronis True Image having analogous capabilities but I am referring to the full product  - whether the WD freebie version includes this capability is another matter!

**Q: hi will this work with ps4 pro thanks**
A: Confirming, works pretty nicely with my PS4 Pro. One caveat though: The hard drive may not properly switch off if the console is left on standby mode. Power the console off completely and you are fine.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not loud, but does take a while to spin up. Good backup drive for a NAS.
*by R***H on 23 April 2019*

Having read dozens of reviews of these WD MyBook Duo drives, the conclusion I had come to was that they are very loud, but otherwise ok. I found a 'used' one on the Amazon Warehouse at a vastly reduced price, so I was happy to give it a go for myself. I was chiefly interested in using it in RAID 1 (mirrored mode) as an expansion for my QNAP T451 NAS although I decided to also try it directly connected via USB to my Macbook. Dealing with the 'noise' issue first, I'm not sure if I've been exceptionally lucky, but other that when it first switches on (you get a brief flurry from the fan, just to prove it works) it is basically silent (other than a little bit of clicking of the HDD heads getting in the right position). There's no audible fan noise and it seems to run pretty cool. I wasn't worried about noise as it was going to live in a cupboard with my NAS, but I'm glad it's very quiet in case plans change and it moves out of it's under-stairs home. When testing via USB, it was tucked away on a bookshelf behind the sofa with a long USB3 lead and noise was not an issue. Speed is very good plugged into my Macbook. As you can see from my screenshot, in RAID 1 (mirror) mode it achieves ~100MB/s Write and ~135MB/s Read over USB 3. When plugged into my macbook, it takes a little while to be recognised, but once it is, it responds quickly and seems very solid. It comes up formatted as a single drive using the capacity of both drives with data striped across them both (RAID 0). This is a terrifying proposition (to me at least) as if one of the drives fails, you lose all the data on both. Luckily you have the opportunity to install an app (Windows or Mac, download from the WD website) that can change the formatting of the drive. You thereby have 2 alternatives: RAID 1 - only gives you half the capacity but if a drive fails, all of the data is safely on the other drive JBOD - which treats each disk like a separate drive, so if one fails, you only lose the data on that drive - data on the other is safe. The big advantage of how it comes set up is you get one nice big drive, and it works faster than either of the other 2 options. Fine for a backup as it's unlikely both your main disk and the backup would go at the same time. Whether it's worth the risk as a storage drive is up to you... The drives inside are WD Reds, which are designed for NAS use, and regarded as some of the more reliable drives you can buy, so you should get many many hours of use without any issues. One annoying thing on the Mac is that when you wake your Mac from sleep with the drive plugged in, the WD software will frequently alert you that there is a RAID error. There is no error, it's a false alarm. The best way to deal with this is to simply uninstall the WD software after you've configured the drive to your requirements. It has very few functions, aside from changing RAID modes and giving annoying alerts! You can always reinstall should you need to change the RAID mode (which will also wipe out all of your data).

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Extremely reliable
*by C***B on 10 December 2025*

I first bought one of these 13 years ago. It has been in constant daily use for that entire time. Lately, it has shown some concerning anomalies, so this one is replacing it. Even though it is an older model, reasonably slow by todays standards, this model is trusted by photographers everywhere as extremely reliable. It will power down after a few minutes of non use to complete silence and will take a few seconds to power up on activation and runs as just a whisper. It is a work-horse hard drive.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Worked out of the box.
*by M***H on 14 December 2023*

I bought this drive as the previous WD drive I use for system/data backups threw a wobbly after a power cut. Straight out of the box I connected it up and fired up the iMac backup software. After choosing this drive as the backup target the system formatted it and I ran the first backup. My backups come out at just under 2gb so this 4gb drive will have ample space for the process. It just sits thee doing it’s thing until I need to recover a file. These drives are reliable and last for a good time the last one for five years until a rogue heater dropped out our RCD and caused an issue with it. I am able to read from it so will still have nearly six months of previous backups to hand if needs be. I would recommend this drive especially at its current price point.

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