Western Digital’s 22 TB exhausting disk drives hit retail in July 2022, with a trio of merchandise catering to the prosumer and enterprise / enterprise markets. Immediately, the corporate is saying an replace to their portfolio of HDD-using direct-attached storage merchandise – the My Guide and My Guide Duo. These merchandise now are available in new SKUs using 22 TB HDDs tweaked for client workloads.
The My Guide is an exterior storage answer that comes with a USB 3.2 Gen 1 Sort-A interface and makes use of a single exhausting disk. It requires an exterior energy adapter. However, the My Guide Duo is a dual-drive answer with {hardware} RAID. By default, the drives are configured in RAID-0. The product additionally contains hub performance. It comes with a USB 3.2 Gen 1 Sort-C interface and likewise has two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Sort-A downstream ports. Each merchandise include 256-bit {hardware} encryption assist (requires WD Safety software program set up on consumer system to configure and use passwords). The WD Backup software program part can be out there for each techniques as a way to allow simple configuration of backups.
Earlier WD My Guide Duo releases used WD Pink exhausting drives, however the firm has not publicly confirmed the character of the 22 TB HDD used within the new SKUs. No efficiency numbers have been offered, however it’s anticipated to be in the identical ballpark because the earlier era SKUs.
| Western Digital’s WD My Guide (2023) Exterior Storage Units | ||||||||
| Capability | Switch Charge | Interface | Dimensions | Mannequin Quantity | Worth | |||
| 4 TB | As much as 250 MB/s, relies on mannequin |
USB 3.2 Gen 1 Sort-A | Top: 170.6 mm / 6.7” Size: 139.3 mm / 5.5” Width: 49 mm / 1.9″ |
WDBBGB0040HBK | $95 | |||
| 6 TB | WDBBGB0060HBK | $119 | ||||||
| 8 TB | WDBBGB0080HBK | $140 | ||||||
| 12 TB | WDBBGB0120HBK | $237 | ||||||
| 14 TB | WDBBGB0140HBK | $280 | ||||||
| 16 TB | WDBBGB0160HBK | $330 | ||||||
| 18 TB | WDBBGB0180HBK | $300 | ||||||
| 22 TB | WDBBGB0220HBK | $600 | ||||||
| Western Digital’s WD My Guide Duo (2023) Exterior Storage Units | ||||||||
| Capability | Switch Charge | Interface | Dimensions | Mannequin Quantity | Worth | |||
| 16 TB | As much as 360 MB/s?, relies on mannequin |
USB 3.2 Gen 1 Sort-C | Top: 180 mm / 7.09” Size: 160 mm / 6.3” Width: 100 mm / 3.94″ |
WDBFBE0160JBK | $440 | |||
| 20 TB | WDBFBE0200JBK | $668 | ||||||
| 24 TB | WDBFBE0240JBK | $900 | ||||||
| 28 TB | WDBFBE0280JBK | $1200 | ||||||
| 36 TB | WDBFBE0360JBK | $1500 | ||||||
| 44 TB | WDBFBE0440JBK | $1500 | ||||||
The corporate already has the brand new SKUs out there for buy within the retail market. The 22 TB My Guide is priced at $600 (commensurate with the pricing of the naked 22 TB drives launched final yr), whereas the 44 TB My Guide Duo is priced at $1500. A $300 premium for a RAID-0 / RAID-1 controller and a few downstream USB 3.2 Gen 1 Sort-A ports seems very steep, however that’s the premium the corporate expects early adopters to pay (and is par for the course, based mostly on how the earlier My Guide Duo SKUs have been priced at launch). The one HDD My Guide appears to be a cheap answer for shoppers in search of an off-the-shelf backup answer with excessive capability necessities.
