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Overall Review: I would definitely recommend this product. It's very easy to use and easy to setup. It's really just plug and play. I created a share for this storage and I'm using it to storage all the data from all of my networked devices. I will definitely purchase another one of these external hard drives when the time arises to either replace it or add additional storage
Pros:
fast, easy setup
good price for the amount of storage
Cons: none
Overall Review: I would recommend this product for anyone that is looking for extra storage that doesn't have room in their PC. I have two of these attached to my PC and use them for Steam along with 3 M.2 1TB. Can't go wrong with WD.
Pros: Bought this to use for back up of my gaming rig. Large pool of space and seems to be very quick.
Cons: Does not have an activity light/led
Overall Review:
A great product at a great NewEgg price
Good warranty and Western Digital Quality!!
Pros:
Very fast read and write speeds.
Easy setup with no additional software on Windows 10.
Cons:
Drive seems to take longer than other external drives when waking up after going to sleep.
Drive came preformatted with the exfat64 filesystem. Just a minor inconvenience, having to reformat it as NTFS.
Overall Review:
I have only had the drive for a few weeks, so we'll have to wait and see how durable it is. I've been using my Toshiba 6TB external drive for about 5 years, now, with no problems, so that's the benchmark that I'll be using.
But overall, this seems to be an excellent drive for a home user. I'm using it as a backup for my entire 8TB+ system.
Pros: Fast transfer rate and plenty of space.
Cons: I do wish the USB cable were a bit longer.
Overall Review: I do wish the USB cable were a bit longer, but other than that, it works for me. Fast and quiet.
Pros: I got this when it was on sale for 169.00. Lots of storage as I have all of my movies in digital format now. I have a lot of 4k movies in mkv format 10bit x265. Hooked it up to my ASUS router and streamed it to my Samsung TVs.
Cons: Since I am streaming movies from my router, I found that the hard drive get's very hot. Up around 45 C. I got concerned. So I "shucked" the case and put it into a Rosewill Armer RX304-APU3-35B which has a 80mm fan and the best part, a digital readout of the HD temperature. With this combination, I am now running at 33-35 C. a much safer temperature. Bad design flaw for WD MyBook.
Overall Review: So far everything is Aces. I am doing what I want, with a very good hard drive.
Overall Review: I would recommend this item .
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Pros: -huge
Cons: when you plug this in, the computer CAN see the hard drive in the disk mounting manager, but it's not "human readable" ... you have to force ownership of the drive access control lists to be able to add data to it. This requires an elevated command prompt, time and knowhow which is an unmanageable combination for every consumer.
Overall Review: Dear western digital, i'm not going to install your bloatware on my computer. Please just send me a drive without all the hassle!
If you're unwilling to install western digital bloatware, and you don't feel like learning everything there is to know about TAKEOWN commands in different O/S's, get a better hard drive.
i ended up disassembling this device and putting the hard drive into a computer. This is probably your best option with this drive if you want to control it.