Western Digital 6TB My Book Thunderbolt Duo WDBUSK0060JSL-NESN Leaflet

My Book  

Thunderbolt

™

 Duo

Dual-drive storage system

Finally, a drive that can keep up  
with your creativity. Video editors 
and other digital media professionals 
can do more work in less time with 
the ground-breaking data transfer 
speed of the Thunderbolt ports on 
My Book Thunderbolt Duo. It offers 
the indisputably fastest way to get 
information to and from your  
external drive.  

 

• RAID 0 (striping) offers the 
performance you need when 
designing or editing time-sensitive 
graphic-intensive media files. 
• RAID 1 (mirroring) provides double 
safe data protection by automatically 
generating a duplicate copy of  
your data. 
• JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) 
allows you to use this dual-drive 
storage system as two individual 
drives and select between HFS+J 
or ExFAT per disk. Ideal for running 
Windows

®

 OS on a Mac

®

.

Daisy chain multiple devices or 
peripherals such as HD displays, media 
players, HD media capture and editing 
systems using the two Thunderbolt ports 
to achieve maximum workflow efficiency  
and productivity. 

The revolutionary bidirectional 
Thunderbolt technology delivers 
unmatched speed for multi-tasking  
while video editing, 3D rendering  
and completing other graphics- 
intensive projects.

Want to replace a drive? Simply open the 
case and exchange the existing drive – no 
tools needed. If you fill up a drive, you can 
simply remove it and replace it with a fresh 
drive and begin saving even more of your 
creative life.

Register your drive, run diagnostics, 
manage RAID or JBOD modes and more 
using WD Drive Utilities.

Stated transfer rates for Thunderbolt, FireWire, and USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 
are based on published specifications from Intel

®

, Apple

®

 and USB.org. 

Actual transfer rates will differ significantly based on system configuration. 
Performance testing by WD resulted in an average actual transfer rate for 
Thunderbolt of >250 MB/s on 6 TB systems and >225 MB/s on 4 TB systems.

10 Gb/s

800 Mb/s

480 Mb/s

USB 2.0

FireWire

®

 800

5 Gb/s

USB 3.0

Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, My Book and Put Your Life On It are registered trademarks in the U.S. and other countries. My Book Thunderbolt and WD Drive Utilities are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Thunderbolt and the Thunderbolt logo are trademarks of 
Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to other companies. Pictures shown may vary from actual products. Not all products may be available in all regions of the world. All product and packaging specifications subject 
to change without notice. The term of your limited warranty depends on the country in which your product was purchased. Please visit our website at http:support.wdc.com/warranty for the detailed terms and conditions of our limited warranty and for a list of the specific countries in 
these regions.
© 2012 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
As used for storage capacity, one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits 
per second. 

 

              

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

               4178-705323-A02 Oct 2012 

Thunderbolt (x2)

Height: 
Depth:  
Width: 
Weight:  

6.5 in (165 mm)
6.2 in (157 mm)
3.9 in (99 mm)
4 TB   4.73 lb (2.15 kg)
6 TB   4.98 lb (2.26 kg)
8 TB   5.07 lb (2.30 kg)

Mac

  

OS

®

 X 10.6.8 or higher

4 TB
6 TB
8 TB

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WDBUPB0060JSL
WDBUSK0080JSL
(includes cable)

Dual-drive storage system with  
two Thunderbolt ports
AC adapter
WD Drive Utilities software
Quick install guide
(Thunderbolt cable sold separately 
for 4 TB and 6 TB models.)

3 years  Worldwide

Data transfer rate

1

: Thunderbolt 10 Gb/s 

(maximum)
Operating temperature: 5°C to 35°C
Non-op. temperature: –20°C to 65°C