
Bought 18 TB on sale for less than the price of a 12 TB. This is my 3rd size/generation of a WD Elements external hard disk drive. No failures on previous drives. None so far on this one.


Overall satisfied with the drive

Works well, way quieter than a normal external drive Run pretty cool in temp too


Name Brand, only 1 drive has failed in the last 4 years out of 150-200 drives installed. Def recommend.



I rely on these drives for my work PCs, and have trusted WD black going back to the Velociraptor days 20 years back. Only issue I had on latest purchase, was defective drive that had been cut open and repackaged to look like a new return but was defective with "cyclic redundancy error." Luckily Newegg shipped me a fast replacement and that worked first try, as per usual. Whew!

Two months later and it's still working. No problems so far. It's relatively quiet, fast and runs at around 37 degrees Celsius.


Easy and quick to remove or insert drives-toolless. It is both eSATA or USB 3.0 interface. Computers instantly recognize it, just plug it in and turn on computer for eSATA or hot plug the USB

I had one of these go bad after many years and I had replaced it with 3 if these as all backup HDD's

Great value for the overall cost

Low cost for 2TB storage, USB 3.0


Easy to set up as external HDD Remains cool after running for over 2 hours.

I bought this 4TB drive to use with time matching on my Mac. So far it has performed flawlessly and at decent speed. Happy with purchase.

Easy to install. Very fast with 512 cache. Works great. No noise when I use. Very nice.

-Great if you have spare m.2 chips that you want to access. -Small footprint means you can place it almost anywhere -Useful for backing up information with its quick read/write speed