WD My Book Duo

WD External and Portable SSD External SSD for Windows
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I have two WD Elements 12 TB drives, and a new unused empty My Book Duo enclosure. Can I remove the drives from the Elements enclosures and use them as a RAID array in the My Book Duo?

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Hi,

When replacing the internal drive of a My Book Duo external drive, please be sure the replacement drive meets the following criteria:

  1. Only use WD Red or WD Green drives inside the My Book Duo enclosure.
  2. The replacement drive should be an unformatted (Raw) WD Red or WD Green drive. Western Digital provides software utilities that can erase all the files on a hard drive. Erasing the drive is recommended before installing it in this unit. See Answer ID: 1211 HOW TO LOW LEVEL FORMAT OR WRITE ZEROS (ERASE) TO A WD HARD DRIVE OR SSHD for more information.
  3. The replacement drive should be at least the same capacity as the drive that failed.