Western Digital has announced the launch of two new models of its My Book external desktop storage range. WITH 22 TB in its version with record and tremendous 44 TB in their Duo version, they are the company’s largest to date.

The amount of data to be managed and stored continues to grow at an enormous rate, and forecasts indicate further growth as we continue to generate content and collect more devices in use, explains Susan Park, vice president of product management at Western Digital: “With the use of multiple devices in our daily lives, we have the ability to instantly create, consume and generate vast amounts of content”.

Although cloud storage services are here to stay, nothing beats local storage for managing massive amounts of data, which also allows maintain physical control over the contentwhich a large part of consumers and professionals prefer.

22TB and 44TB My Book

The new models of this series are intended for them, certainly the most popular on the market in the segment of external storage solutions for desktops and which offer huge capacity to store all your digital life, games, photos, videos, music and personal or professional documents, because this type of drive will cover any need.

My Books connect to a USB port found on virtually any computer, increasing their versatility. The internal interface is a USB 3.2 Gen 1 high performance and connects using a single SuperSpeed ​​​​(5 Gb/s) USB-A cable. WD includes specific software for managing devices and backing up with drives.

The security section is covered with password protected access and also 256-bit AES hardware encryption to maintain the privacy and security of your content. They officially support Windows 10 (or later) and macOS 11 (or later), although they can also be used with Linux or other systems by formatting the drives with compatible file systems.

The My Book works with a single drive, but for those who need even more, they can opt for the “Duo” version with two drives, which, in addition to doubling the storage capacity, can be used in RAID to increase the speed of data transfers. and its versatility of use thanks to two connection ports.

The 22TB My Book retails for €685.99, while the 44TB My Book Duo costs €1,703.99. Both are available at select retailers and the Western Digital online store. In case you don’t need that much capacity, you should know that you can buy other models of this series with 4Tbyte My Book pro 119 euros.