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322 reviews
The little HDD that could
Small 2TB HDD with read/write about 120/120, usually around 80/110 when copying large files. USB male end of cord means it plugs into anywhere, great use as a video streaming medium between a workstation and a laptop (I can hold entire Netflix seasons on here!)
Overall, great “mega USB” and a great find for about $20-25 per TB if you can get them used. Phenomenal gift for the tech person in your family! It’s hard not to love larger, faster, and more versatile storage capacity than even a USB 3.1Read full review...
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: mikesmerchbhm
Difficult to get to work
Top brand name, just cannot get it to work with my windows 10 computer, I have read the instructions and went online for more guidance. Wish I had bought a back up that I can just plug in and use.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: wd
Great Product for Large Loads
For the price it is/was I'm glad I bought it. It takes the load off of my laptop's internal storage and allows me to Install my games and such on it, many at that. It is something I recommend if you have low storage capacity and are looking for an alternate place to install any large program.Read full review...
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: new | Sold by: hongyutrading
Great little hard drive.
This is a great little drive. It has a great price too. I have two of these already so adding two more was an easy decision. The previous drives were used as full hard drive image backups. These will be used as data backups. My VAIO laptop uses 2.0 USB ports. I did a full file-by-file no compression backup of an Essentials desktop WD drive to this drive and it took about 20 hours for 2 TB! I believe I should have done a "clone" rather than "backup" because I wanted to see the individual files and folders. I just wanted to be able to swap out the drive in case the source were to fail. Then just reassign this destination drive as the original drive letter. The drive looks nice too. It can be driven using a single USB connector. Read full review...
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: new | Sold by: newegg
basic, easy to use and good value external hard drive that works
Pros: This is WD's basic external hard drive for those that want to manually copy the files they want, when thy want, an easy process for many that prefer this over using backup software.
I have purchased several refurbished models (3) from the WD factory store and all worked flawlessly and the price is right.
Cons: Really the only one is that the formatting used does not work on the old XP OS, The drive can be reformatted to an older version (ie exfat) that is not as good. I forgot that and was frustrated trying to copy some large files from an old computer. Really not the drives fault that they moved on to a newer and better format. I left it as is and used a different method since it works fine on Windows 7 on up.Read full review...
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: refurbished | Sold by: wd
Great product for a great value. Easy to use!
It was easy to format to work with my Mac and has worked very well! I'm very happy.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: refurbished | Sold by: wd
Good Little Backup Drive.
Realize that a USB drive will never attain the speeds that one gets with an internal SATA drive. Instead of 150 MB/sec, one sees such speeds as 22 MB/sec; but it is still a beautiful backup drive.
I've used it as the Virtual Memory area for Photoshop (which will soon be switched to an Internal SATA drive because of the speed increase potential... but still, it did well.
I've been backing up my system on it every 2 days using the free program EaseUs ToDo Backup.
And I've even re-installed from this drive.
On my system, for unknown reasons, the drive could be seen when I plugged it in the USB 2.0 port; but not when I plug it in the USB 3.0 port; but that's just a strangeness having to do with my particular compute, not something having to do with this drive.
Is always seen by my system when I plug it in. Have never had a problem with it.
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Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: new | Sold by: liple_19
WD Elements 2TB Great Storage
Very happy with this, very nice design, works well and very compact. Good solution for storage concerns. May get an even larger one.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: refurbished | Sold by: wd
Great Storage and Easy to Use
Great price and exceptionally easy to use. I would highly recommend this USB HD to others that want storage and easy recovery of files.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: nc_geckos
Excellent external drive.
Perfect. Large capacity, easy to use. Comes with a USB cable.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: refurbished | Sold by: kp0one
Perfect.
The device works beautifully for ps4. 2 TB of external hard drive with the plug of a USB. No need to take your system apart at all. $46 refurbished with free shipping on an $80 device was worth every penny. Simply go to devices on ps4 settings menu and click format as external hard drive and boom your ready. I will note that you must plug it directly into usb port without extensions bc most extensions are 2.0 and it requires 3.0 to transfer data. Other than that it's perfect. Shipping process was a bit slower than I'd wish but was worth the wait. Read full review...
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: refurbished | Sold by: wd