--- product_id: 48726036 title: "WD 6TB My Book external hard drive, Desktop HDD with Password Protection, USB 3.0, SuperSpeed USB, software for device management, backup, hardware encryption, Black" brand: "western digital" price: "€ 385.24" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.it/products/48726036-wd-6tb-my-book-external-hard-drive-desktop-hdd-password store_origin: IT region: Italy --- # USB 3.0 SuperSpeed 6TB Storage Capacity 256-bit AES Encryption WD 6TB My Book external hard drive, Desktop HDD with Password Protection, USB 3.0, SuperSpeed USB, software for device management, backup, hardware encryption, Black **Brand:** western digital **Price:** € 385.24 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🔐 Secure Your Memories, Effortlessly! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** WD 6TB My Book external hard drive, Desktop HDD with Password Protection, USB 3.0, SuperSpeed USB, software for device management, backup, hardware encryption, Black by western digital - **How much does it cost?** € 385.24 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.it](https://www.desertcart.it/products/48726036-wd-6tb-my-book-external-hard-drive-desktop-hdd-password) ## Best For - western digital enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted western digital brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Top-Notch Security:** Protect your files with hardware encryption and personalized password access. - • **Future-Proof Your Data:** USB 3.0 compatibility ensures fast transfer speeds for all your files. - • **Seamless Compatibility:** Ready to use with both Mac and Windows right out of the box. - • **Automated Backup Made Easy:** Set your backup schedule and let the software do the rest. - • **Massive Storage for All Your Memories:** With 6TB of space, store your photos, videos, and documents without worry. ## Overview The WD 6TB My Book external hard drive offers a robust solution for data storage with its massive capacity, advanced security features, and user-friendly backup software, making it an essential tool for anyone looking to safeguard their digital life. ## Description Full description not available ## Features - The My Book drive is trusted desktop storage designed to complement your personal style with a massive amount of space to store your photos, videos, music, and documents. Equipped with password protection and perfectly paired with backup software, My Book desktop storage helps keep your files safe. - Easy to Use. Ready to use with Mac and Windows computers right out of the box, so you can start transferring files, saving your memories, and backing up right away. It also comes with all the software you need to help protect your data. - Complete Backup. My Book desktop storage comes equipped with backup software to help make sure your photos, videos, music, and documents don’t get lost. You can set it to run automatically to your schedule. Just pick the time and frequency to back up important files from your system. With the power of the included backup software, you’ve got complete backup routine options to help recover data in the event of a computer virus or computer failure, or if you accidentally press “delete”. - Password Protection with Hardware Encryption. The My Book drive’s built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption with password protection helps keep your content private and safe. Just activate password protection and set your own personalized password using the included software. For quick, convenient access you can set to automatically unlock the drive on your computer, saving you the hassle of keying in your password every time. - Massive capacity, Available in capacities up to 18TB, there's plenty of room to save the massive amounts of photos, videos, and music you love, plus your important documents. - SuperSpeed USB 3.0, (5 Gbps); USB 2.0 compatible ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Brand | Western Digital | | Product Dimensions | 13.93 x 4.9 x 17.06 cm; 1.05 kg | | Item model number | WDBBGB0060HBK-EESN | | Manufacturer | Western Digital | | Series | My Book | | Colour | Black | | Form Factor | 3.5-inch | | RAM Size | 6 TB | | Hard Drive Size | 6000 GB | | Hard Disk Description | Mechanical Hard Disk | | Hard Drive Interface | USB 3.0 | | Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 1 | | Voltage | 12 Volts | | Hardware Platform | PC;Mac | | Supported Software | Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks | | Are Batteries Included | No | | Item Weight | 1.05 kg | | Guaranteed software updates until | unknown | ## Product Details - **Digital storage capacity:** 6 TB - **Hard disk interface:** USB 3.0 - **Connectivity technology:** USB - **Brand:** Western Digital - **Special feature:** Hot Swap Function - **Hard disk form factor:** 3.5 Inches - **Hard disk description:** Mechanical Hard Disk - **Compatible devices:** hard drive - **Installation type:** External Hard Drive - **Colour:** Black ## Images ![WD 6TB My Book external hard drive, Desktop HDD with Password Protection, USB 3.0, SuperSpeed USB, software for device management, backup, hardware encryption, Black - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51et0qNt9bL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Size, Style** options. ## Questions & Answers **Q: What is the real size capacity of 6th hard drive e.g 5.60tb.?** A: This is to with the way drives sizes are calculated. We see drive sizes at TB but drives see it as TiB. Converting 8TB to 8TiB is 7.27596TB Converting 6TB to 6TiB is 5.45697TB Converting 4TB to 4TiB is 3.63798TB Hope this helps. **Q: Is this compatible with XP** A: XP? surely not. **Q: By 'full system backup' does this include a system image & programmes etc as well as docs, pics, music ?** A: Well, as its just an external drive, there's no restriction on what you can store subject to capacity constraints. HOW and WHAT to store is entirely up to you. Are you actually asking about software to accomplish these tasks??? If so, WD let you download a freebie copy of Acronis True image from the WD support site. Whether this can also be used for file backup/restore is not something I can comment on but is it doesn't, you could use the Microsoft supplied tools (with win 7, 8 and 10) to do this. Personally, I prefer Macrium Reflect. Although it can do file and folder backup as well as imaging disks, I don't bother with file backup. I do a full system image once per week, then differential images for the rest of the week. Given this, there's no point in performing file/folder backups since Macrium images can be mounted as temporary drives and the files/folders that are needed to recover from eg accidental deletions can be extracted from the mounted image. I believe, but cant swear to Acronis True Image having analogous capabilities but I am referring to the full product - whether the WD freebie version includes this capability is another matter! **Q: hi will this work with ps4 pro thanks** A: Confirming, works pretty nicely with my PS4 Pro. One caveat though: The hard drive may not properly switch off if the console is left on standby mode. Power the console off completely and you are fine. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My Book Duo - Easy Install *by T***A on 1 December 2018* Easy install and format on my iMac as a backup drive. To me its silent as I can barely hear it. Copied all by files, movies and photos to their own folders. Created a750mb partition for Time Machine to limit it's size. Scheduled Time Machine via Time Machine App and the rest via Carbon Copy Clone for weekly updates. everythings works fine with no problems.One thing to note and I've had this before on WD and Mac is that some operations like formatting or setting up a partition can take 2-3 attempts after failures but then goes like a train. So dont think the first failure is a problem.It's not and it will workUpdate: Box failed twice in a week after a RAID 1 error with 2nd drive offline. Rebuilt once which took 18 hours and it was OK for a week then happened again. Box replaced by Amazon so will keep an eye on it ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not loud, but does take a while to spin up. Good backup drive for a NAS. *by R***H on 23 April 2019* Having read dozens of reviews of these WD MyBook Duo drives, the conclusion I had come to was that they are very loud, but otherwise ok. I found a 'used' one on the Amazon Warehouse at a vastly reduced price, so I was happy to give it a go for myself. I was chiefly interested in using it in RAID 1 (mirrored mode) as an expansion for my QNAP T451 NAS although I decided to also try it directly connected via USB to my Macbook.Dealing with the 'noise' issue first, I'm not sure if I've been exceptionally lucky, but other that when it first switches on (you get a brief flurry from the fan, just to prove it works) it is basically silent (other than a little bit of clicking of the HDD heads getting in the right position). There's no audible fan noise and it seems to run pretty cool. I wasn't worried about noise as it was going to live in a cupboard with my NAS, but I'm glad it's very quiet in case plans change and it moves out of it's under-stairs home. When testing via USB, it was tucked away on a bookshelf behind the sofa with a long USB3 lead and noise was not an issue.Speed is very good plugged into my Macbook. As you can see from my screenshot, in RAID 1 (mirror) mode it achieves ~100MB/s Write and ~135MB/s Read over USB 3.When plugged into my macbook, it takes a little while to be recognised, but once it is, it responds quickly and seems very solid. It comes up formatted as a single drive using the capacity of both drives with data striped across them both (RAID 0). This is a terrifying proposition (to me at least) as if one of the drives fails, you lose all the data on both. Luckily you have the opportunity to install an app (Windows or Mac, download from the WD website) that can change the formatting of the drive. You thereby have 2 alternatives:RAID 1 - only gives you half the capacity but if a drive fails, all of the data is safely on the other driveJBOD - which treats each disk like a separate drive, so if one fails, you only lose the data on that drive - data on the other is safe.The big advantage of how it comes set up is you get one nice big drive, and it works faster than either of the other 2 options. Fine for a backup as it's unlikely both your main disk and the backup would go at the same time. Whether it's worth the risk as a storage drive is up to you...The drives inside are WD Reds, which are designed for NAS use, and regarded as some of the more reliable drives you can buy, so you should get many many hours of use without any issues.One annoying thing on the Mac is that when you wake your Mac from sleep with the drive plugged in, the WD software will frequently alert you that there is a RAID error. There is no error, it's a false alarm. The best way to deal with this is to simply uninstall the WD software after you've configured the drive to your requirements. It has very few functions, aside from changing RAID modes and giving annoying alerts! You can always reinstall should you need to change the RAID mode (which will also wipe out all of your data). ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Worked out of the box. *by M***H on 14 December 2023* I bought this drive as the previous WD drive I use for system/data backups threw a wobbly after a power cut. Straight out of the box I connected it up and fired up the iMac backup software. After choosing this drive as the backup target the system formatted it and I ran the first backup. My backups come out at just under 2gb so this 4gb drive will have ample space for the process. It just sits thee doing it’s thing until I need to recover a file. These drives are reliable and last for a good time the last one for five years until a rogue heater dropped out our RCD and caused an issue with it. I am able to read from it so will still have nearly six months of previous backups to hand if needs be. I would recommend this drive especially at its current price point. ## Frequently Bought Together - WD 6TB My Book external hard drive, Desktop HDD with Password Protection, USB 3.0, SuperSpeed USB, software for device management, backup, hardware encryption, Black - UGREEN Hard Drive Cable Braided USB 3.0 Micro B Lead 2M 5Gbps SuperSpeed 4TB Max Compatible with External Hard Drive, WD Element, Seagate Expansion, LaCie Rugged, Toshiba Canvio, Maxtor (2M) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.it/products/48726036-wd-6tb-my-book-external-hard-drive-desktop-hdd-password](https://www.desertcart.it/products/48726036-wd-6tb-my-book-external-hard-drive-desktop-hdd-password) --- *Product available on Desertcart Italy* *Store origin: IT* *Last updated: 2026-05-10*