Western Digital WDBVHT0040JCH Installation instructions

My Book®
Live™Duo
Personal Cloud Storage
Dual-drive shared storage
for computers, tablets and
smartphones
Create your own personal cloud
Protect your data with double-safe backup
Store, access and stream with best-in-class speed
Connect this powerful drive to your wireless
router for shared storage on your home
network. Share data with all your computers,
stream media to your entertainment center,
and get to your les from anywhere with
remote access and mobile apps. And with
RAID 1 technology, you have double-safe
backup for your data.

Your media and les on your
own personal cloud
Create your own personal cloud,
without the monthly fees and
mysterious location of your data. Store
your media and les on the drive and
access them securely over the Internet.
Or, use WD’s mobile apps for easy
access with your tablet or smartphone.
Maximum storage capacity or
double-safe backup
Out of the box, this two-drive system
combines both drives into one big
volume so they act like one drive for
maximum capacity. Or, set this system
to data protection mode (also known
as mirrored mode or RAID 1) and the
capacity is divided in half. Half of the
capacity is used to store your data and
half is used for a second copy.
Complete out-of-the-box
solution
My Book Live Duo comes complete
with two desktop hard drives offering
high-capacity, low power consumption
and cool, quiet operation.
Shared storage for all your
computers
Connect the My Book Live Duo to
your wireless router to share and
access les with any PC or Mac®
computer on your network.
Speed without compromise
Built with an 800 MHz CPU for
maximum performance to power all
your applications from streaming to
remote access.This product delivers
best-in-class read speeds faster than
traditional USB 2.0 drives.
Now streaming to your HDTV
The built-in media server streams
music, photos and movies to any
DLNA-certied multimedia device
such as a WD TV®Live™streaming
media player, Blu-ray Disc™player,
Xbox®360, PlayStation®3 and
connected TV. DLNA®1.5 &
UPnP™certied.
Serve up your music with
iTunes®
Includes iTunes server support so you
can centralize your music and stream it
to any Mac or PC with iTunes.
Automatic, wireless backup for
all your computers
Windows®users can use the included
WD SmartWare™software and every
time you save something, it’s instantly
backed up. Mac users can utilize all
the features of Apple®Time Machine®
backup software to protect their data.
Easy to set up, easy to nd on
your network
Mac, Windows 7, and Windows
Vista®computers will automatically nd
your My Book Live Duo in seconds. If
you’re running Windows XP, our simple
discovery software makes it easy to set
up the drive.
USB expansion port
Connect a USB 2.0 drive to the USB
port on the My Book Live Duo and it
will automatically be shared on your
network to instantly add even more
shared storage.
Access stored les with apps
for iPad®, iPhone®iPod touch®,
BlackBerry™and Android™
smartphones and tablets.
My Book Live Duo
Personal Cloud Storage
Product Features
Product Specications
Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, My Book, WD TV, and Put Your Life On It are registered trademarks in the U.S. and other countries; My Book Live, WD SmartWare, WD Photos, and WD 2go are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Other marks may be mentioned herein that
belong to other companies. Pictures shown may vary from actual products. Not all products may be available in all regions of the world. All product and packaging specications subject to change without notice. The term of your limited warranty depends on the country in which your
product was purchased. Please visit our web site at http://support.wdc.com/warranty for the detailed terms and conditions of our limited warranty and for a list of the specic countries in these regions.
© 2011 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
As used for storage capacity, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, and
gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second. 4178-705284-A00 Nov 2011
INTERFACE DIMENSIONS SYSTEM COMPATIBILITY CAPACITIES AND MODELS
Gigabit Ethernet Height:
Depth:
Width:
Weight:
6.5 in (165 mm)
6.2 in (157 mm)
3.9 in (99 mm)
4.98 lb (1.09 kg)
Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista,
Windows 7
Mac OS®X Leopard®, Snow Leopard®
or Lion™
DLNA/UPnP-enabled devices
Internet connection for remote access
4 TB
6 TB
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KIT CONTENTS SUPPORTED BROWSERS LIMITED WARRANTY
Network drive
Ethernet cable for network connection
AC power adapter
Installation and software CD
Quick Install Guide
Internet Explorer®7.0 or higher
Safari®4.0 or higher
Firefox®3.6 or higher
Google®Chrome™14.0 and later on
supported Windows and Mac OS
platforms
2 years
2 years
3 years
3 years
Pan Am
EMEA
APAC
Japan
WD Photos™app WD 2go™app