WD My Book Duo, how to properly format the disks

[JMPhoto]

Hello there,

I just received my WD My Book Duo and before installing and formatting disks, I have a few questions:

• at the moment, I am using Mac environment for my work, but this might change - is ExFAT the best options for formatting?

• I will set the disks in my WD My Book Duo in Raid1, after the disks are full - will I be able to just simply take one of the disks out of MyBook Duo housing and i.e. put it in another, smaller external disk enclosure so I will be able to use it on the field as well? Or I will always need the original housing to get to the data?

Thanks,
Jure

[ERmorel]

@JMPhoto

at the moment, I am using Mac environment for my work, but this might change - is ExFAT the best options for formatting?

To my knowledge, yes. This will allow you to use the unit properly on the Mac.

@JMPhoto

I will set the disks in my WD My Book Duo in Raid1, after the disks are full - will I be able to just simply take one of the disks out of MyBook Duo housing and i.e. put it in another, smaller external disk enclosure so I will be able to use it on the field as well? Or I will always need the original housing to get to the data?

Due to the firmware information on the drives, changing the enclosure is not a good option.

[JMPhoto]

Thanks for your answer. What if I format the drives in the enclosure as a JBOD, simply, one disk being disk one and the other one, disk two, and then manually, or with help of a third party software, make my backups? In example, like I would do with a disk dock? Still would not work outside this WD enclosure?

Thanks again!