Western Digital has come out with a spatial upgrade to its My Book series of external hard drives, now sporting six terabytes (TB) of storage.The My Book Studio Edition II is a dual drive storage system that functions on both Mac and Windows, with a focus on the creative professional who needs a large capacity bank that runs fast across multiple platforms for HD video and photo editing.

Connectivity ranges up to the high end speed categories, with FireWire 800 and eSATA ports for top performance in data transfer and FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 for average use. The My Book also supports RAID configurations for linking multiple disk drives together.

The upgrade on previous My Book models offers two extra TB at the same energy consumption with ‘GreenPower’ technology. Users can open the casing of the dual drive and replace drives manually if they need to.

In-built software automatically backs up data on the storage device to make sure data says secure and lossless.

The Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II (WDH2Q60000) is now available for $719.