WD 22TB/1 Disk My Book and 44TB/2 Disks My Book Duo USB 3.2 Gen 1 USB Type-C Desktop External HDDs

To help consumers preserve their growing digital world, Western Digital Corp.‘s WD brand is expanding its My Book desktop storage lineup.

WD My Book and My Book Duo desktop HDDs

The company has released its highest capacity consumer drive with the 22TB (*) My Book desktop HDD, giving people flexibility to store more of what they love.

“Consumers continue generating data at a rapid pace. In 2022 alone, the average household worldwide generated more than 20TB of data ⁽¹⁾ and we expect this number to continue to rise as people continue to consume and create more data,” said John Rydning, research VP, global datasphere, IDC. “While many people rely on the cloud, we know consumers are looking for local storage at their fingertips to help them preserve and readily control their growing amount of personal and business data.“

With more than 10 connected devices in the average American household ⁽²⁾, the new high-capacity solutions give people an amount of space to help backup their personal devices – and possibly even those of their household’s as well. Whether it’s priceless photos and videos or a backup of their most important work files and applications, the WD brand seeks to offer people solutions that keep up with their evolving storage needs.

“With multiple devices used in our everyday life, we have the ability to instantly create, consume and generate massive amounts of content,” said Susan Park, VP, product management, WD. “Our goal is to help people easily and reliably store it all.“

The 22TB ^(*) My Book offers users the ability to back up and preserve thousands of documents, photos, videos and other files from a variety of storage devices including portable SSDs and HDDs, memory cards and USB flash drives, consolidating them into one organized and easy to access location. For those looking for storage capabilities, the My Book Duo is also available in a 44TB ^(*) capacity, equipped with RAID-optimized company’s drives that are ready to perform at maximum speed and capacity right out of the box. My Book Duo can be reconfigured to RAID-1 for redundancy (data mirroring) or used as 2 independent drives (JBOD) with the included software.

The 22TB ^(*) My Book retails for $599.99 MSRP and the 44TB ^(*) My Book Duo retails for $1,099.99 MSRP. Both products are available at select company’s retailers, e-tailers and on the firm’s webstore.

WD My Book front and rear

WD My Book Duo front and rear

^(*) 1TB=1 trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment and RAID/JBOD configuration.
⁽¹⁾ Rydning, John. Worldwide IDC Global DataSphere Forecast, 2022–2026: Enterprise Organizations Driving Most of the Data Growth. Global DataSphere, IDC, May 2022.
⁽²⁾ Laricchia, Federica. Average Number of Connected Devices in U.S. Households 2020. Statista, Statista, June 2022.