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Small profile, stylish with current monitor setup, no hassle operation... it's pretty much just plug and go.

I have owned many dozens of the WD Elements, My Book and and internal hard disk drives over the decades and have NEVER had one fail. Many of my old storage drives are over 15 years old and still working perfectly. Having said that it is of course time to retire the 1 TB or smaller hard drives now and back them all up on a larger single drive like the WD Elements 18 TB. Really nice to be able to fit the data from 5 to 10 older drives onto one large HD. I have since purchased another of these as a backup. Quiet, dependable and long lasting. Who could ask for more? I have had other hard drives fail in the past made by companies other than WD but I will not provide names as they have some good products but I only trust Western Digital for long term protection of my files. IMHO, they have no equal.

When it comes to data storage, no one does it like WD, I've been a consumer of theirs for over 12 years, and in that time only one drive has failed me. This one is quick and large.

I'm getting on average 150 MB transfer per second, great drive to back things up if you have a lot of large files or just a lot of files in general. Over the years I've learned you can't have too many backups

Plug and play. Worked perfectly with the PS5

Works perfectly out of the box. Just connect plug in and use.

Huge storage capacity Easy set-up

Plug in and it works. There is some software included to make everything work great.

unboxed it pulled it in and it was working can't get easier than that.

Works Excellent. Fairly Quick for being a mechanical Hard Disk. Was even able to Flash my Bios with it.

Easy setup and use

Western Digital drives are a constant staple for me. They are rock solid and never fail.

So I've had the 4TB for a bit longer than a month now, so I figure I can go ahead and leave a review. To start with, I actually own a 10 year old, 640GB WD My Book. It still runs perfectly, but 640GB just wasn't enough to cut it anymore, so I figured it was time to upgrade and put the other away for safekeeping, and because of how long it's lasted I felt it was a safe bet to purchase another WD. I'm very pleased thus-far. I do like that it has a slimmer body than my original MyBook, and installation is incredibly easy. Plug it in and go. The HD makes things a little easier on me for backing up important documents not just for work but for school and personal use. Now and then I'll hear a bit of a vibration when I'm putting it through use, but doesn't really bother me because computers' do the same thing when the processor is in use. It sits quietly in the corner of my desk when not in use, like it's not even there. It's actually faster than my 10 y/o My Book, so that's a positive. It's sufficient storage for what I need, and while it was strange to me at first, I do mostly like the new case design.

Good price for the size of the drive

Ultimately got what I wanted Friendly service

- No indicator light, but a nice gentle hum - Can be equipped with a usb 3.1 Type C port for newer machines - Fast and huge