Western Digital MyBook 3.0 presented with its first external hard drive with USB 3.0 port. In the first version of the external 3.5-inch hard drive has a capacity of 1,000 GB (1 TB). In the next few days will be followed by a version with 2 TB of storage. The maximum transfer rate to Western Digital with 5 gigabits per second.

By comparison, conventional USB 2.0 hard drives to transfer a maximum of 480 megabits per second, only about one tenth of the amount of data.

As there are currently very few PCs and laptops with USB 3.0 ports are offering Western Digital hard drive bundled with a USB 3.0 interface card for the PCIe slot.

Western Digital My Book from returns immediately from 3.0 in the 1-TB version. In the online shop from Western Digital, they cost around 200 U.S. dollars.