[Brian]

WD is showing off their upcoming Thunderbolt-based 6TB externals.

Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo External Hard Drives Push 1000MB/s

[danwat1234]

Or, 3 enclosures with (2) 4TB Caviar Blacks inside to probably get the same throughput and better access times . I wonder when those will come out.

[ChrisMcPole]

Do they use the same AV GP drives as in the regular MyBook Duo?

Also no USB on those makes it limited to MACs and some high-end X79/Z77(yet to be released) boards - fail.

[Brian]

They are some iteration of Green drive, not exactly sure which though.

Lack of USB is kind of odd, the cost to add that can't be much.

[Kevin OBrien]

ChrisMcPole, on 27 January 2012 - 02:14 AM, said:

Do they use the same AV GP drives as in the regular MyBook Duo?

Also no USB on those makes it limited to MACs and some high-end X79/Z77(yet to be released) boards - fail.

These appear to be the OEM 24/7 DVR aim'ed HDDs, although similar build compared to the standard Caviar models. Not entirely sure why the switch took place outside of that the MyBook Duo might not be considered a 24/7 applications whereas the MyBook Live is a NAS and plugged in all the time.

[ChrisMcPole]

Kevin OBrien, on 30 January 2012 - 01:08 AM, said:

These appear to be the OEM 24/7 DVR aim'ed HDDs, although similar build compared to the standard Caviar models. Not entirely sure why the switch took place outside of that the MyBook Duo might not be considered a 24/7 applications whereas the MyBook Live is a NAS and plugged in all the time.

So these use different drives (not AV-GP) than the Live Duo? Weird. Also do you know if it's aluminum casing or a painted plastic?