Complete Backup
Equipped with WD Backup software for Windows and Apple Time Machine compatibility for Mac, the My Book desktop hard drive can back up your photos, videos, music, and documents.

Password Protection
The My Book drive’s built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption with WD Security™ tools helps keep your content private and safe. Just activate password protection and set your own personalized password.

WD Reliability
Millions of people around the world trust their data to My Book desktop storage. Designed to meet WD’s demanding requirements for durability, shock tolerance, and long-term reliability, we back up (pun intended!) the trusted My Book desktop storage with a 3-year limited warranty.

Watch the Power of My Book Come to Life
We live hectic lives and generate tons of digital content. My Book desktop storage has massive storage capacity so you can confidently back up the files that make up your digital life.

Do More With Discovery
Included WD Discovery™ software connects to popular social media and cloud storage services, like Facebook, Dropbox, and Google Drive™.2 Import your photos, videos, and docs to the My Book drive to help preserve your online life. WD Discovery can also be used to manage your drive with WD Drive Utilities.

Easy To Use
My Book desktop storage is ready to use out of the box so you can start transferring files, saving your memories and backing up right away. It comes with all the software you need to help protect your data, including WD Backup and WD Security software and is compatible with Time Machine.1

Massive Capacity
The My Book™ Duo drive has up to 36TB1 capacity with a single cable. Free up valuable space on all your computers. Store and back up your photo, video and music collections, and important documents in one reliable place.
RAID-0 Ready Out of the Box
Ready to perform at maximum speed and capacity in default mode, RAID-0. Reconfigure the drive to RAID-1 for redundancy (data mirroring), or use it as two independent drives (JBOD) with the included WD Drive Utilities™ software.
RAID-Optimized WD Drives
The My Book™ Duo drive comes with RAID-optimized WD drives inside to deliver high-speed, quality storage to rely on. RAID-optimized firmware is perfect for two-disk array systems with auto management of drive operations to help ensure read/write cycle data integrity.
USB 3.1 Ready, Plus USB 3.0 Hub Ports
Compatible with USB 3.1 and USB 3.0/2.0, the My Book™ Duo drive works to deliver high-speed connectivity no matter the interface. Includes both USB Type-C™ to Type-C and Type-C to Type-A cables.
The My Book™ Duo drive can serve as a quasi-docking station with 2x USB 3.0 Type-A hub ports for accessories, including additional storage, keyboard, and mouse, card readers, USBs, or phone sync and charge.
256-Bit AES Hardware Encryption and Password Protection
The My Book™ Duo drive comes with 256-bit AES Hardware Encryption with WD Security™ software built in to help keep private content secure. Set a personalized password to activate hardware encryption and data protection.

One central place to store everything
Backup photos, videos and files from your external drives, USBs, mobile devices, computers and cloud accounts while saving it in one place.

Automatically backup your files
Wirelessly back up your devices. The My Cloud™ Home Duo works seamlessly with Windows Backup, Time Machine and your phone's camera roll.

Organize and easily find
Search by date, time or keyword to quickly find your favorite memories and create photo albums or folders.

Anywhere Access
Remotely access all your files on your My Cloud™ Home Duo from anywhere you have internet.

Share and Collaborate
Invite your family and friends to collaborate on folders and albums. Share photos, videos, documents and more. Perfect for vacations, work and school.

Individual, private spaces for each user
Everyone added to your device can set up their own private space that only they have access to. They have full control over how they manage, access and share their files.

Plays well with others
Stream music and movies with Sonos, Google Chromecast, Plex Media server and more.*

Save everything twice with Mirror Mode
My Cloud Home™ Duo comes equipped with two hard drives and is set to Mirror Mode (RAID 1), so all your content is automatically duplicated on each drive for extra peace of mind. Turn off Mirror Mode to get full capacity.