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Western Digital 12TB External My Cloud Home Duo External NAS Hard Drive
The G-RAID 2 is a high-performance, dual Enterprise-class 7200RPM hard drive storage system featuring Thunderbolt 3, USB-C™ (supports USB 3. With two drives set to Mirror Mode, your content is automatically saved twice. With ultra-reliable, removable Ultrastar drives inside, this ultra-fast, high-capacity storage solution is designed for the most demanding applications while easily supporting multi-stream HD, 2K, 4K and HDR video workflows. 1 Gen 2) and HDMI® connectivity for ultimate flexibility. My Cloud Home Duo is an easy-to-use, dual-drive personal storage device that plugs directly into your Wi-FiTM router at home so you can save all your digital content in one central place.
G-Technology G-RAID 2 12TB USB C Thunderbolt 3 External Hard Disk Drive
Reviews
Relric
It seems that those drives being an SMR drive is the reason why. Unlike some other drives that are designed to run off of USB power from computer, this WD 16TB drive cannot, and needs mains power from a wall wart.
customer
And if I may say, its fast and seems to be durable with no Hardware Encryption as it would really seem too. So in mathematical terms WD is legally correct in claiming 12TB, but is using sophistry to get around actually giving us 12TB in computer terminology. Compared to when I bought em, they are now half the speed. But when I had the replacement USB 3.