Ok, it’s actually just the MyBook external drive that they’ve released in the past, but enhanced with a USB 3.0 interface. If you’re looking for serious file transfer performance from an external drive—for animation, graphic design, or plain old large-file-transfers-that-you-can’t-wait-to-get-done—Western Digital’s 2TB MyBook 3.0 offers up to 5Gb/s, or ten times the transfer speed of traditional USB 2.0 drives.

Nothing much else to add to that; the MyBook 3.0 comes in either 1TB or 2TB capacities, in a basic drive-only package, or with a kit that bundles a USB 3.0 PCIe adapter card with the drive so you can take advantage of the 3.0-level performance.

The MyBook 3.0 complete bundle (with the USB 3.0 adapter) is available now, priced at $200 for the 1TB package, and $280 for the 2TB model.

Tags: External Hard Drives, MyBook, Storage, USB 3.0, Western Digital

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