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The My Book VelociRaptor Duo is one of the best storage devices thanks to its balanced combination of excellent performance, practical design, and relatively friendly pricing.

If you have the need for a high performance drive, and are willing to drop $900 on 2TB, then the My Book VelociRaptor Duo is a great choice. In our tests, this drive more than exceeded our expectations, posting faster transfer speeds than most drives we’ve seen.

If you have the need for speed, the Western Digital My Book VelociRaptor Duo is the drive you want sitting next to your MacBook, PC, or iMac with Thunderbolt.

The VelociRaptor Duo is a particular drive filling a particular need for those that feel cramped using a small SSD as their main drive. It is expensive but makes good use of the Thunderbolt interface. Yet, it is very hard to recommend the drive because of the price.

In the case of the My Book VelociRaptor Duo, you get better performance than any other two-HDD Thunderbolt enclosure. The problem is it comes at a hefty price. With a cost per GB higher than most other Thunderbolt solutions, you have to really want the performance to make the VR Duo worthwhile.

There's a steep price to be paid for ... this. But if you want the maximum speed possible from a drive, it's worth the money.

With incredible read and write performance in RAID0 ... the My Book VelociRaptor Duo may solve a great deal of workflow pain for creative pros who need fast local storage.

... the My Book VelociRaptor Duo is designed with a certain type of user in mind, and for that specific segment, Western Digital offers seriously fast external storage over the fastest external PC link available on the market today.