4Tb External Hard Drive 2.5 Inch

I just added the WD 4TB Elements External Desktop Hard Disk Drive to my� back up solution (6 hard drives) and Windows 10.� I disconnected the power and USB cable from a full WD hard drive and replaced it with this new drive and fired it up. It works great, just like I would expect from Western Digital.

I am a biased user when it comes to hard disks and use only Seagate manufactured units. Both the 4TB and the 7200 rpm 2TB, 3.5 versions have performed well. These two units was my first 3.5 purchase since the appearance of laptops, other purchased units were 2.5, replaceable for internal drive if needed. The price of the 3.5 4TB unit, for an external drive, was why I did not buy a more expensive 2.5 drive. Mind you I do miss the performance of the old 2.5 models with 4 GB of solid state cache; not seen in the catalog recently.

I purchased two of these 4TB drives to use as backups for my Lightroom files. I have a 3.5 inch 4 TB external hard drive on my desktop and use these compact 2.5 inch hard drives to keep additional backups in other locations (work plus my daughter's home). They work great with Carbon Copy Cloner for making incremental backups periodically. I've tried the cloud storage option (Backblaze) but even with a high speed internet connection it takes weeks to establish the initial backup and my bandwidth is always being taxed. I prefer having my essential backups more local and under my control. These Western Digital external drives are fast and efficient and so affordable.

Purchased this to transfer photos from another WD 4TB external hard drive as a backup.

This hard drive docking station is terific in a lab environment or anywhere you need to format or image a large volume of drives. It supports both 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch drives over USB 3.0 so speed is not an issue. When connecting the smaller 2.5 inch drives a plastic shield pops up to protect the internals from dust, etc. If I had to change one thing about this docking station it would be to have a similar protection shield when no drives are in use but this is only a minor annoyance. I received this product in exchange for an unbiased review.

I love having this 4TB drive in a compact size, and it's definitely my favorite external hard drive so far, writes quickly, and is super reliable. Only thing that I've noticed is that it sometimes buzzes against my desk, but if I move it that sound goes away. It definitely is quiet, but if your perception is attuned to it, you might hear it, there is also a slight vibration when you touch it, so that's probably why it buzzes occasionally when it's not flush to the surface of the desk.

I use this hard drive in an external Thermaltake USB3 dock for creating my offsite backups. The 4TB is perfect for my system configuration and the drive is fast and quiet.

My go-to external hard drive. Very dependable. Use this drive and a second WB 4TB to back up my photos - 3.75 GB.

I recently received this external hard drive but don't plan to use it until probably the end of the year. I have a blue 4TB My Passport that I've been using for several years with no problems, so am hoping this one gives good service also.

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