Western Digital Unveils 4TB NAS, Works With PC, Xbox, PS3

From DailyTech: It used to be that network attached storage was something that only business users really considered. The amount of data on personal networks in homes wasn't big enough in years past to warrant network storage.

Today the amount of digital content that the average consumer generates is much larger with digital music and digital home movies now the norm. Western Digital announced a new network attached storage device today for home users called the My Book World Edition II.

The storage system uses RAID 1 mirrored drives to protect the data and offers an extra copy of the data stored on the drive in case of a failure of one or the other drives inside the device. The network storage system also ships with backup software that allows for continual backups of computers on the network.

The storage capacity of the My Book World Edition II is 4TB, with 2TB of usable storage space and the other 2TB of space set aside for data redundancy. WD says that the high performance design of the device makes it ideal for use as a media server and it is compatible with PCs, Macs, and any other DLNA media player like the PS3 and Xbox 360.

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