WD Elements USB 2.0 external hard drive is an easy-to-use, reliable way to add more storage to your PC or Macintosh. Simply plug it in to a USB port and start saving or backing up your photos, music, video, and files. It's preformatted for immediate use so there's no software or CD to load. The compact, durable metal case provides extra data protection helping keep data safe from loss.
WD Elements USB 2.0 external hard drive is an easy-to-use, reliable way to add more storage to your PC or Macintosh. Simply plug it in to a USB port and start saving or backing up your photos, music, video, and files. It's preformatted for immediate use so there's no software or CD to load. The compact, durable metal case provides extra data protection helping keep data safe from loss.
Western Digital WD Elements 16TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive WDBBKG0160HBK
WD Elements USB 2.0 external hard drive is an easy-to-use, reliable way to add more storage to your PC or Macintosh. Simply plug it in to a USB port and start saving or backing up your photos, music, video, and files. It's preformatted for immediate use so there's no software or CD to load. The compact, durable metal case provides extra data protection helping keep data safe from loss.
WD Elements USB 2.0 external hard drive is an easy-to-use, reliable way to add more storage to your PC or Macintosh. Simply plug it in to a USB port and start saving or backing up your photos, music, video, and files. It's preformatted for immediate use so there's no software or CD to load. The compact, durable metal case provides extra data protection helping keep data safe from loss.
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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.
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I've had this drive for a couple of years as a drive that I would occasionally connect for backups. No heavy usage. Sitting on a desk. No drops or power surges. Yesterday, it suddenly crapped out mid-use. I have the 4TB model with less than 1TB of data on it. All my photos and videos since 2009 and some important documents. The drive just stopped working and, when I tried to reconnect, it sounds like it is booting normally then starts to makes an ultra high-pitched noise. It stops, then it sounds like it is booting again normally then it just shuts off (lights and all). It never mounts. And now I'm faced with a massive bill if I want to recover my data, and there is no guarantee that the data can be recovered. I've had it for 2 to 3 years with very light use. As you ... MoreI've had this drive for a couple of years as a drive that I would occasionally connect for backups. No heavy usage. Sitting on a desk. No drops or power surges. Yesterday, it suddenly crapped out mid-use. I have the 4TB model with less than 1TB of data on it. All my photos and videos since 2009 and some important documents. The drive just stopped working and, when I tried to reconnect, it sounds like it is booting normally then starts to makes an ultra high-pitched noise. It stops, then it sounds like it is booting again normally then it just shuts off (lights and all). It never mounts. And now I'm faced with a massive bill if I want to recover my data, and there is no guarantee that the data can be recovered. I've had it for 2 to 3 years with very light use. As you can imagine, I am quite upset.
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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...
| Maximum data transfer rate | 5000 Mbit/s |
| Thunderbolt technology | N |
| Storage temperature (T-T) | -20 - 65 °C |
| Bus powered | USB |
| USB connector | USB Type-A |
WD Western Digital 2TB Elements Portable USB 3.0 High-Capacity Hard Drive, WDBU6Y0020BBK, WESN,Black
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Western Digital WD Elements 2T 1T External Hard Drive 2.5" USB 3.0 Portable External HDD Hard Disk
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Western Digital 1TB USB3 0 External Hard Drive Black WDBUZG0010BBK WESN - External Hard Drives
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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.
I've had this drive for a couple of years as a drive that I would occasionally connect for backups. No heavy usage. Sitting on a desk. No drops or power surges. Yesterday, it suddenly crapped out mid-use. I have the 4TB model with less than 1TB of data on it. All my photos and videos since 2009 and some important documents. The drive just stopped working and, when I tried to reconnect, it sounds like it is booting normally then starts to makes an ultra high-pitched noise. It stops, then it sounds like it is booting again normally then it just shuts off (lights and all). It never mounts. And now I'm faced with a massive bill if I want to recover my data, and there is no guarantee that the data can be recovered. I've had it for 2 to 3 years with very light use. As you ... MoreI've had this drive for a couple of years as a drive that I would occasionally connect for backups. No heavy usage. Sitting on a desk. No drops or power surges. Yesterday, it suddenly crapped out mid-use. I have the 4TB model with less than 1TB of data on it. All my photos and videos since 2009 and some important documents. The drive just stopped working and, when I tried to reconnect, it sounds like it is booting normally then starts to makes an ultra high-pitched noise. It stops, then it sounds like it is booting again normally then it just shuts off (lights and all). It never mounts. And now I'm faced with a massive bill if I want to recover my data, and there is no guarantee that the data can be recovered. I've had it for 2 to 3 years with very light use. As you can imagine, I am quite upset.
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.
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.
This Giant 4TB Western Digital External Hard Drive is my families Firebox of Memories and General Info. Super secure , it offers so much instant storage, we can’t imagine actually filling it all! We’ve all had the pitfalls of lost information and memories through broken computers, failing fans causing overheating, and even theft - we decided it’s not happening again!! This awesome hard drive stores all our info and memories safe and separately - avoiding any possibilities of loss and providing the ease of mind that anyone who has lost a computer or phone will never take for granted. We knew to go for western digital as they have been a front runner of hard drive tech since we can remember and have certainly gone above and beyond what we needed! Extremely user ... MoreThis Giant 4TB Western Digital External Hard Drive is my families Firebox of Memories and General Info. Super secure , it offers so much instant storage, we can’t imagine actually filling it all! We’ve all had the pitfalls of lost information and memories through broken computers, failing fans causing overheating, and even theft - we decided it’s not happening again!! This awesome hard drive stores all our info and memories safe and separately - avoiding any possibilities of loss and providing the ease of mind that anyone who has lost a computer or phone will never take for granted. We knew to go for western digital as they have been a front runner of hard drive tech since we can remember and have certainly gone above and beyond what we needed! Extremely user friendly setup and use, if you can click a mouse, you ll have no issue securing your life with this powerhouse hard drive of awesome!
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.
I have bought two wd externals over the years. I take good cate of my equipment and expect it to last for years. Well we had a plan to stop that. If your gd is still working well as mine were they just end support for it so it no longer works at all. I finally ripped out the hd's, he's, them and just use them as extra HD for other things. I would not recommend spending hundreds of dollars for something that they may stop support on at anytime they want to render it worthless. Besides it was always much slower transfering data than they advertised. Buy a HD and a HD enclosure and plug it into a USB port and you'll have a storage device that will last for almost ever and you won't have to worry about support e ding ND it failing to work any longer.
| Maximum data transfer rate | 5000 Mbit/s |
| Thunderbolt technology | N |
| Storage temperature (T-T) | -20 - 65 °C |
| Bus powered | USB |
| USB connector | USB Type-A |
