WD Elements Desktop 6TB USB 3.0 Black External Drive
WD Elements desktop storage with USB 3.0 offers reliable, high-capacity, add-on storage, fast data transfer rates and universal connectivity. USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatibility With this single drive you get compatibility with the latest USB 3.0 devices and backward compatibility with USB 2.0 devices as well. Fast transfer rates When connected to a USB 3.0 port, WD Elements desktop storage delivers fast data transfer rates. Improve PC performance When your internal hard drive is almost full your PC slows down. Dont delete files. Free up space on your internal hard drive by transferring files to your WD Elements desktop storage and get your computer moving again. High capacity in a sleek design The sleek design offers up to plenty of capacity, making WD Elements desktop storage the ideal solution for easy, add-on storage of all your important photos, music, videos and files. Can be reformatted for Mac.
WD Elements desktop storage with USB 3.0 offers reliable, high-capacity, add-on storage, fast data transfer rates and universal connectivity. USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatibility With this single drive you get compatibility with the latest USB 3.0 devices and backward compatibility with USB 2.0 devices as well. Fast transfer rates When connected to a USB 3.0 port, WD Elements desktop storage delivers fast data transfer rates. Improve PC performance When your internal hard drive is almost full your PC slows down. Dont delete files. Free up space on your internal hard drive by transferring files to your WD Elements desktop storage and get your computer moving again. High capacity in a sleek design The sleek design offers up to plenty of capacity, making WD Elements desktop storage the ideal solution for easy, add-on storage of all your important photos, music, videos and files. Can be reformatted for Mac.
WD Elements desktop storage with USB 3.0 offers reliable, high-capacity, add-on storage, fast data transfer rates and universal connectivity. USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatibility With this single drive you get compatibility with the latest USB 3.0 devices and backward compatibility with USB 2.0 devices as well. Fast transfer rates When connected to a USB 3.0 port, WD Elements desktop storage delivers fast data transfer rates. Improve PC performance When your internal hard drive is almost full your PC slows down. Dont delete files. Free up space on your internal hard drive by transferring files to your WD Elements desktop storage and get your computer moving again. High capacity in a sleek design The sleek design offers up to plenty of capacity, making WD Elements desktop storage the ideal solution for easy, add-on storage of all your important photos, music, videos and files. Can be reformatted for Mac.
WD Elements desktop storage with USB 3.0 offers reliable, high-capacity, add-on storage, fast data transfer rates and universal connectivity. USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatibility With this single drive you get compatibility with the latest USB 3.0 devices and backward compatibility with USB 2.0 devices as well. Fast transfer rates When connected to a USB 3.0 port, WD Elements desktop storage delivers fast data transfer rates. Improve PC performance When your internal hard drive is almost full your PC slows down. Dont delete files. Free up space on your internal hard drive by transferring files to your WD Elements desktop storage and get your computer moving again. High capacity in a sleek design The sleek design offers up to plenty of capacity, making WD Elements desktop storage the ideal solution for easy, add-on storage of all your important photos, music, videos and files. Can be reformatted for Mac.
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WD 6TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive - USB 3.0
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I'm always on the lookout for great deals, especially ones coming from B&H Photo. And this 14TB WD Elements desktop hard drive was one of them.Back in March of this year, I'd bought a 12TB WD Elements external hard drive from B&H for $180 with free shipping and zero sales tax since I'd purchased it with my PayBoo/B&H credit card. That works out to be $15/TB! The latest deal I bought from B&H was this 14TB WD external hard drive for $260, which translates to $18.57/TB. This was still an excellent buy considering the price of electronics, especially hard drives, has recently skyrocketed due to the COVID supply chain shortages. B&H's closest competitor was $20 higher, and I would've had to pay another $20 in sales tax. That made it a $40 savings for me.These ... MoreI'm always on the lookout for great deals, especially ones coming from B&H Photo. And this 14TB WD Elements desktop hard drive was one of them.Back in March of this year, I'd bought a 12TB WD Elements external hard drive from B&H for $180 with free shipping and zero sales tax since I'd purchased it with my PayBoo/B&H credit card. That works out to be $15/TB! The latest deal I bought from B&H was this 14TB WD external hard drive for $260, which translates to $18.57/TB. This was still an excellent buy considering the price of electronics, especially hard drives, has recently skyrocketed due to the COVID supply chain shortages. B&H's closest competitor was $20 higher, and I would've had to pay another $20 in sales tax. That made it a $40 savings for me.These ultra-high capacity USB hard drives are great for storing my huge collection of Blu-rays and DVDs, both as back-ups and as a convenient means of playback without having to shuffle through my extensive Blu-ray and DVD collection (I have over 2000 titles), opening the case (sometimes finding an empty case since my wife or kids took the disc somewhere else and never bothered to put it back!), inserting the discs into the Blu-ray player, and wait for it to cycle on. Now, I can quickly sort and scroll through with my computer to find a movie I want, and watch it using CyberLink's PowerDVD that I'd also bought from B&H for $58; another great value.Needless-to-say, aside from the convenience of playing Blu-rays and DVDs from my computer, having the ability to backup and store all my Blu-rays and DVDs onto a couple of ultra-high capacity, portable hard drives is priceless since I've invested a small fortune collecting and building my movie and TV series collection. At an average of $20 per Blu-ray and $15 per DVD, that's over $25,000 in purchases I've made over the years! What's more, I live in a wild-land fire prone area, and to gather up 2000+ boxed discs during an evacuation at a moment's notice would be almost impossible, not to mention the time and space that are required, especially in the midst of an evacuation, I wouldn't have the luxury of either. Now, if and when the time has come to book out of Dodge, all I have to do is grab two book-size hard drives, together with our other more important items and belongings, I no longer have to worry about loosing my entire movie and TV collection.As for the Western Digital portable USB hard drive, I've always had good experience with WD hard drives in general. Of all the external hard drives I've owned and used over the years (nearly a hundred), I've never had a WD drive failed on me (fingers crossed! Lol), except one, which was entirely my fault since I'd dropped it onto a hardwood floor while the drive was in use and spinning. All of the other failed hard drives (for no apparent reasons at all - they'd just up and died) I've owned have either been Seagate, Maxtor, and Quantum - the latter two were inherited by Seagate through mergers and acquisitions. But that's just my own experience, yours might differ.Also, it just seems to me that the WD drives have faster throughput than other hard drives I've used in the past, but that's an anecdotal observation,again based on my own experience.All-in-all, I've had good experience with Western Digital drives, and expect that this 14TB desktop unit will provide me with the same longevity and reliable service.
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I initially thought this drive was defective, but after checking with Western Digital, it appears the design geniuses there thought it would be a good idea to flutter the disk head every 5 seconds. Not every minute. Not every hour. EVERY 5 SECONDS! I guarantee you, IT WILL DRIVE YOU CRAZY!!!I've been told there is no way to alter this setting.Presumably this is to increase the life of the drive. The funny thing is that I have several WD external drives that I have been using for almost 20 years, that do not have this annoying feature, and they continue to work just fine.While the drive functions properly today, the frequent chattering, causing unnecessary wear and tear, makes me doubt the long term reliability of this drive, as well as WD's disregard for ... MoreI initially thought this drive was defective, but after checking with Western Digital, it appears the design geniuses there thought it would be a good idea to flutter the disk head every 5 seconds. Not every minute. Not every hour. EVERY 5 SECONDS! I guarantee you, IT WILL DRIVE YOU CRAZY!!!I've been told there is no way to alter this setting.Presumably this is to increase the life of the drive. The funny thing is that I have several WD external drives that I have been using for almost 20 years, that do not have this annoying feature, and they continue to work just fine.While the drive functions properly today, the frequent chattering, causing unnecessary wear and tear, makes me doubt the long term reliability of this drive, as well as WD's disregard for customer real-world use and satisfaction.I wish I would have know about this beforehand so I could have avoided the purchase.
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Goes to SLEEP constantly and then any time you need to reboot PC, it has to SLOWLY wake up, which takes about 20 seconds, then PC will reboot, but then it instantly GOES TO SLEEP again before computer reboots! Then you wait another 20 seconds for drive to SLOWLY spin up and wake up, then windows will boot finally. Without drive hooked up my PC will reboot in about 10 seconds because I have a fast SSD boot drive. It also does this all the time while I am using the PC. Go to move files to this USB drive and it takes it's sweet time to wake up. Go to use a toolbar on the taskbar, windows waits till this ridiculous drive to "wake up" before it will open the toolbar. It's absolutely ridiculous and there's no way I have found to fix it. I bought a 6TB version for me Mom's ... MoreGoes to SLEEP constantly and then any time you need to reboot PC, it has to SLOWLY wake up, which takes about 20 seconds, then PC will reboot, but then it instantly GOES TO SLEEP again before computer reboots! Then you wait another 20 seconds for drive to SLOWLY spin up and wake up, then windows will boot finally. Without drive hooked up my PC will reboot in about 10 seconds because I have a fast SSD boot drive. It also does this all the time while I am using the PC. Go to move files to this USB drive and it takes it's sweet time to wake up. Go to use a toolbar on the taskbar, windows waits till this ridiculous drive to "wake up" before it will open the toolbar. It's absolutely ridiculous and there's no way I have found to fix it. I bought a 6TB version for me Mom's PC and that doesn't happen with that drive so it's not all of these drives, but this 8TB is slow and useless. It's like I have a new PC when i disconnect this slow parasite USB drive. The actual transfer speed is fine, it's hooked up to USB 3. The thing just constantly sleeps and takes forever to spin up.
| Maximum data transfer rate | 5000 Mbit/s |
| Wi-Fi | N |
| HDD capacity | 6000 GB |
| Thunderbolt technology | N |
| Storage temperature (T-T) | -20 - 65 °C |
WD 6TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive - USB 3.0
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Western Digital Elements Desktop Hard Drive Disk Hdd 6tb Usb3.0
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I'm always on the lookout for great deals, especially ones coming from B&H Photo. And this 14TB WD Elements desktop hard drive was one of them.Back in March of this year, I'd bought a 12TB WD Elements external hard drive from B&H for $180 with free shipping and zero sales tax since I'd purchased it with my PayBoo/B&H credit card. That works out to be $15/TB! The latest deal I bought from B&H was this 14TB WD external hard drive for $260, which translates to $18.57/TB. This was still an excellent buy considering the price of electronics, especially hard drives, has recently skyrocketed due to the COVID supply chain shortages. B&H's closest competitor was $20 higher, and I would've had to pay another $20 in sales tax. That made it a $40 savings for me.These ... MoreI'm always on the lookout for great deals, especially ones coming from B&H Photo. And this 14TB WD Elements desktop hard drive was one of them.Back in March of this year, I'd bought a 12TB WD Elements external hard drive from B&H for $180 with free shipping and zero sales tax since I'd purchased it with my PayBoo/B&H credit card. That works out to be $15/TB! The latest deal I bought from B&H was this 14TB WD external hard drive for $260, which translates to $18.57/TB. This was still an excellent buy considering the price of electronics, especially hard drives, has recently skyrocketed due to the COVID supply chain shortages. B&H's closest competitor was $20 higher, and I would've had to pay another $20 in sales tax. That made it a $40 savings for me.These ultra-high capacity USB hard drives are great for storing my huge collection of Blu-rays and DVDs, both as back-ups and as a convenient means of playback without having to shuffle through my extensive Blu-ray and DVD collection (I have over 2000 titles), opening the case (sometimes finding an empty case since my wife or kids took the disc somewhere else and never bothered to put it back!), inserting the discs into the Blu-ray player, and wait for it to cycle on. Now, I can quickly sort and scroll through with my computer to find a movie I want, and watch it using CyberLink's PowerDVD that I'd also bought from B&H for $58; another great value.Needless-to-say, aside from the convenience of playing Blu-rays and DVDs from my computer, having the ability to backup and store all my Blu-rays and DVDs onto a couple of ultra-high capacity, portable hard drives is priceless since I've invested a small fortune collecting and building my movie and TV series collection. At an average of $20 per Blu-ray and $15 per DVD, that's over $25,000 in purchases I've made over the years! What's more, I live in a wild-land fire prone area, and to gather up 2000+ boxed discs during an evacuation at a moment's notice would be almost impossible, not to mention the time and space that are required, especially in the midst of an evacuation, I wouldn't have the luxury of either. Now, if and when the time has come to book out of Dodge, all I have to do is grab two book-size hard drives, together with our other more important items and belongings, I no longer have to worry about loosing my entire movie and TV collection.As for the Western Digital portable USB hard drive, I've always had good experience with WD hard drives in general. Of all the external hard drives I've owned and used over the years (nearly a hundred), I've never had a WD drive failed on me (fingers crossed! Lol), except one, which was entirely my fault since I'd dropped it onto a hardwood floor while the drive was in use and spinning. All of the other failed hard drives (for no apparent reasons at all - they'd just up and died) I've owned have either been Seagate, Maxtor, and Quantum - the latter two were inherited by Seagate through mergers and acquisitions. But that's just my own experience, yours might differ.Also, it just seems to me that the WD drives have faster throughput than other hard drives I've used in the past, but that's an anecdotal observation,again based on my own experience.All-in-all, I've had good experience with Western Digital drives, and expect that this 14TB desktop unit will provide me with the same longevity and reliable service.
I initially thought this drive was defective, but after checking with Western Digital, it appears the design geniuses there thought it would be a good idea to flutter the disk head every 5 seconds. Not every minute. Not every hour. EVERY 5 SECONDS! I guarantee you, IT WILL DRIVE YOU CRAZY!!!I've been told there is no way to alter this setting.Presumably this is to increase the life of the drive. The funny thing is that I have several WD external drives that I have been using for almost 20 years, that do not have this annoying feature, and they continue to work just fine.While the drive functions properly today, the frequent chattering, causing unnecessary wear and tear, makes me doubt the long term reliability of this drive, as well as WD's disregard for ... MoreI initially thought this drive was defective, but after checking with Western Digital, it appears the design geniuses there thought it would be a good idea to flutter the disk head every 5 seconds. Not every minute. Not every hour. EVERY 5 SECONDS! I guarantee you, IT WILL DRIVE YOU CRAZY!!!I've been told there is no way to alter this setting.Presumably this is to increase the life of the drive. The funny thing is that I have several WD external drives that I have been using for almost 20 years, that do not have this annoying feature, and they continue to work just fine.While the drive functions properly today, the frequent chattering, causing unnecessary wear and tear, makes me doubt the long term reliability of this drive, as well as WD's disregard for customer real-world use and satisfaction.I wish I would have know about this beforehand so I could have avoided the purchase.
Goes to SLEEP constantly and then any time you need to reboot PC, it has to SLOWLY wake up, which takes about 20 seconds, then PC will reboot, but then it instantly GOES TO SLEEP again before computer reboots! Then you wait another 20 seconds for drive to SLOWLY spin up and wake up, then windows will boot finally. Without drive hooked up my PC will reboot in about 10 seconds because I have a fast SSD boot drive. It also does this all the time while I am using the PC. Go to move files to this USB drive and it takes it's sweet time to wake up. Go to use a toolbar on the taskbar, windows waits till this ridiculous drive to "wake up" before it will open the toolbar. It's absolutely ridiculous and there's no way I have found to fix it. I bought a 6TB version for me Mom's ... MoreGoes to SLEEP constantly and then any time you need to reboot PC, it has to SLOWLY wake up, which takes about 20 seconds, then PC will reboot, but then it instantly GOES TO SLEEP again before computer reboots! Then you wait another 20 seconds for drive to SLOWLY spin up and wake up, then windows will boot finally. Without drive hooked up my PC will reboot in about 10 seconds because I have a fast SSD boot drive. It also does this all the time while I am using the PC. Go to move files to this USB drive and it takes it's sweet time to wake up. Go to use a toolbar on the taskbar, windows waits till this ridiculous drive to "wake up" before it will open the toolbar. It's absolutely ridiculous and there's no way I have found to fix it. I bought a 6TB version for me Mom's PC and that doesn't happen with that drive so it's not all of these drives, but this 8TB is slow and useless. It's like I have a new PC when i disconnect this slow parasite USB drive. The actual transfer speed is fine, it's hooked up to USB 3. The thing just constantly sleeps and takes forever to spin up.
In the last 10 years I have bought more than 20 WD Drives plus Sandisk Drives too (including passport, desktop & wireless types). I had almost no issues with WD Products except this one. I bought a 18T WD Elements Desktop Drive thru B & H Photo and Video for my personal data storage. After I copied 6TB of data & on the next day I heard some gridding sound. That was it! The Drive can't be detected anymore. I used Disk Management software and WD Dashboard to check it. All tells me that this drive is DEAD! I am hesitating to send the drive back for a replacement as the data I copied in this drive pertain some personal information. Of course, the data can be retrieved by sending it back to WD but I don't want to take that chance for someone to access the data. This ... MoreIn the last 10 years I have bought more than 20 WD Drives plus Sandisk Drives too (including passport, desktop & wireless types). I had almost no issues with WD Products except this one. I bought a 18T WD Elements Desktop Drive thru B & H Photo and Video for my personal data storage. After I copied 6TB of data & on the next day I heard some gridding sound. That was it! The Drive can't be detected anymore. I used Disk Management software and WD Dashboard to check it. All tells me that this drive is DEAD! I am hesitating to send the drive back for a replacement as the data I copied in this drive pertain some personal information. Of course, the data can be retrieved by sending it back to WD but I don't want to take that chance for someone to access the data. This drive, to me, is no useful. Reached out to WD Support Team to see if they can send me a replacement one without sending this dead one back. WD confirmed that this one is a defective one. I can destroy it and then show them the video to prove I am not using it or pretend to use it. Waiting for an answer now. If they come back to say "no" I have no other choice but to buy another one, however it definitely is NOT WD Elements. I believe WD My Book is more reliable...
After a week of detailed formatting of one of your 16 Tb machines, I found it operated perfectly. I installed about 5 Tb of my data for the past 20+ years and ran it with no problem.I soon bought one of your 18 Tb units, detail-formatted it in a day (using a faster home computer) and copied the same date to it. I now have two machines which PROBABLY will operate forever without any problem; but, if one fails, the other will compensate. Two machines also allow me to work simultaneously on my two Windows and Ubuntu home computers.I am an experienced WD owned, who previously was using two 5-Tb "Easystore" units for my backups, but they were almost entirely full.Before them, I was using a 2 Tb and a 4 Tb Seagate machine. However, years ago, an older Seagate went ... MoreAfter a week of detailed formatting of one of your 16 Tb machines, I found it operated perfectly. I installed about 5 Tb of my data for the past 20+ years and ran it with no problem.I soon bought one of your 18 Tb units, detail-formatted it in a day (using a faster home computer) and copied the same date to it. I now have two machines which PROBABLY will operate forever without any problem; but, if one fails, the other will compensate. Two machines also allow me to work simultaneously on my two Windows and Ubuntu home computers.I am an experienced WD owned, who previously was using two 5-Tb "Easystore" units for my backups, but they were almost entirely full.Before them, I was using a 2 Tb and a 4 Tb Seagate machine. However, years ago, an older Seagate went dead on me (about 3 months after the warranty expired), costing me some lost data.
Our personal drives have been running continuously in a trying environmet (lots and LOTS of unexpected power outages (costing our power provider over $700,000 in 8 neighborhoods to fix according to their communications to us!) and these drives have been BULLETPROOF!We're here to by two more 8tb drives as another storage-and-mirror combo for our personal use and felt the bad reviews need to be answered. We recommend these to small business as an easy plug-and-play data storage solution and a nice offsite storage choice.There's lots of reviews with computers "loosing connection(s) to PC" and "drives going to sleep" that are from folks who don't understand how PC's work:These PC's are almost certainly (in the case of our work with users) letting some or all of ... MoreOur personal drives have been running continuously in a trying environmet (lots and LOTS of unexpected power outages (costing our power provider over $700,000 in 8 neighborhoods to fix according to their communications to us!) and these drives have been BULLETPROOF!We're here to by two more 8tb drives as another storage-and-mirror combo for our personal use and felt the bad reviews need to be answered. We recommend these to small business as an easy plug-and-play data storage solution and a nice offsite storage choice.There's lots of reviews with computers "loosing connection(s) to PC" and "drives going to sleep" that are from folks who don't understand how PC's work:These PC's are almost certainly (in the case of our work with users) letting some or all of their USB devices go to sleep and/or hibernation. Look this up online and fix your setups and they'll run great!Don't forget to put your main drive on high-speed ("SS") port for best results.
I've been reading through the reviews of these Elements drives and have taken particular notice of the critical ones. All I can say is that I guess I've gotten lucky...4 TIMES! I have 2 My Book 8TB ( purchased in 2019 ), one My Book 4TB ( purchased in 2018 ), and this, my most recent purchase, an Elements 6TB ( 2022 ). I have wondered if I should have just purchased another My Book 8TB as I don't like that Drive Utilities doesn't recognize Elements drives , but the price was very attractive, so I decided to give it a shot. Unfortunately, I started having issues with it a month ago so I contacted WD. Customer service was prompt and attentive. A tech called ME and walked me through some diagnostics ( most of which I had already done ) and it was determined that I ... MoreI've been reading through the reviews of these Elements drives and have taken particular notice of the critical ones. All I can say is that I guess I've gotten lucky...4 TIMES! I have 2 My Book 8TB ( purchased in 2019 ), one My Book 4TB ( purchased in 2018 ), and this, my most recent purchase, an Elements 6TB ( 2022 ). I have wondered if I should have just purchased another My Book 8TB as I don't like that Drive Utilities doesn't recognize Elements drives , but the price was very attractive, so I decided to give it a shot. Unfortunately, I started having issues with it a month ago so I contacted WD. Customer service was prompt and attentive. A tech called ME and walked me through some diagnostics ( most of which I had already done ) and it was determined that I should receive a replacement. The turn around time was 10 days which was a bit of a pain since my other back-up drives were full because of all of those files transferred from the Elements drive before I returned it, but I understand why that can't ship the replacement before inspecting the return first. In any case, the new drive is working well so far, and I by comparison, I can definitely tell there was a problem with the first one from the beginning. It HAPPENS SOMETIMES! And based on my experience with my other WD drives which not only include those already mentioned, but 2 Black internal drives ( 2TB and 8TB ) as well as an Ultrastar 10TB, I must say that I'm extremely happy my products overall, and my only experience with the return process was a positive one.
Drive is large for an upright device. It only has registration software and zero software to backup files or devices, not even an offer to buy some software product. Fortunately, one of my laptops had the WD Smart system and it worked fine. The other had zero options other than the built in M/S System backup. So disappointing. I have liked WD over other brands for reliability. Fortunately, i bought 2 to make a backup of a backup for safety. Disappointing Western Digital .
The drive is nice for the price and meets my needs but transfer speeds are slow. Info states that using usb 3.0 transfer speeds up to 5GB/s are possible. I am not getting anywhere near those speeds. I have a Dell XPS 15 9500 with 32GB of RAM and two SSDs with a total of 3TB of memory. My 1TB ssd is dedicated to the operating system and the 2TB ssd is for everything else. My thunderport USB-C ports are supposed to be capable of up to 10 GB/s transfer. Since the element didn't come with a usb-c cable I had to buy one. The cable I bought is rated the same as the Elements at 5 gb/s. When transfering files from a sandisk extreme pro sdxc card I am only getting 85 mb/s. When transfering directly from my internal ssd or an external sandisk extreme ssd I get transfer speeds ... MoreThe drive is nice for the price and meets my needs but transfer speeds are slow. Info states that using usb 3.0 transfer speeds up to 5GB/s are possible. I am not getting anywhere near those speeds. I have a Dell XPS 15 9500 with 32GB of RAM and two SSDs with a total of 3TB of memory. My 1TB ssd is dedicated to the operating system and the 2TB ssd is for everything else. My thunderport USB-C ports are supposed to be capable of up to 10 GB/s transfer. Since the element didn't come with a usb-c cable I had to buy one. The cable I bought is rated the same as the Elements at 5 gb/s. When transfering files from a sandisk extreme pro sdxc card I am only getting 85 mb/s. When transfering directly from my internal ssd or an external sandisk extreme ssd I get transfer speeds of 200 mb/s.
WD 4TB Elements Desktop - WDBWLG0040HBK-NESNI have been in the market for a desktop hard drive for some time, after my other one stopped working and I lost all the content on it. After hearing and reading rave reviews about the Western Digital brand, I decided to go with their WD 4TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive - WDBWLG0040HBK-NESN. I really didn't need 4TB of space, but for the price, it was well worth. I loved how it was an easy plug and play ready for Windows PCs, as I wasn't ready to give up hours of my time to read through instructions or follow lengthy step by step instructions to get the WD 4TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive - WDBWLG0040HBK-NESN up and running.I couldn't believe just how fast the data transfers were. Now I can free up a bunch of space on my ... MoreWD 4TB Elements Desktop - WDBWLG0040HBK-NESNI have been in the market for a desktop hard drive for some time, after my other one stopped working and I lost all the content on it. After hearing and reading rave reviews about the Western Digital brand, I decided to go with their WD 4TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive - WDBWLG0040HBK-NESN. I really didn't need 4TB of space, but for the price, it was well worth. I loved how it was an easy plug and play ready for Windows PCs, as I wasn't ready to give up hours of my time to read through instructions or follow lengthy step by step instructions to get the WD 4TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive - WDBWLG0040HBK-NESN up and running.I couldn't believe just how fast the data transfers were. Now I can free up a bunch of space on my computer with the use of the WD 4TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive - WDBWLG0040HBK-NESN and it makes my computer run much faster. And, I don't have to worry about losing important files and documents as they are backed up and stored in no time with this high-capacity storage unit from Western Digital. If you have been looking for a desktop hard drive, I highly recommend the WD 4TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive. This is also a must for gamers who use XBox and PS4 and need extra storage.
| Maximum data transfer rate | 5000 Mbit/s |
| Wi-Fi | N |
| HDD capacity | 6000 GB |
| Thunderbolt technology | N |
| Storage temperature (T-T) | -20 - 65 °C |
