WD 5TB WD Elements Portable External Hard Drive, USB 3.0 - WDBU6Y0050BBK-WESN

Packaging was WD default which wasn't put in any other padding to protect the box itself, some bubble wrap would've been nice. But the box was sealed, drive itself was brand new and working without a hassle. I'll update after some months' usage.

Not fast like SSD but in this price 5tb storage is huge

Nice Mass Storage Drive!

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I’ve been using the WD 5TB External Hard Drive for a while now, and it’s been fantastic! The storage capacity is perfect for backing up my files, storing large media collections, and even expanding storage for my gaming consoles. The transfer speeds are great for a USB 3.0 drive, and I haven’t had any issues with connectivity or performance. It’s also compact and lightweight, making it easy to carry around. WD has always been a reliable brand for storage, and this hard drive lives up to the reputation. If you need a high-capacity, dependable external hard drive, this is a great choice.

We received the product on the same day it was ordered, which was highly impressive. The hard drive itself is excellent – fast and efficient performance with a sleek and functional design. It’s lightweight, making it easy to carry around, and the USB 3.0 ensures quick data transfer speeds. Perfect for backing up large files or expanding storage capacity. Highly recommended for its reliability and convenience.

Great Value for Money

It worked perfectly fine for around 1 year. However, one day it just stopped showing the data. I suspect it was due to PC being switched off suddenly due to power gone off. The entire 4 TB worth of data went off. It was tempting to buy this as the most reasonable offer at the time. Tried few apps to recover data but unable to do so.

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TL;dr – it works great. Treat it with respect, be prepared to toss the cable it comes with (because they fail) and enjoy a huge amount of storage for a reasonable amount of money. You’ve probably read a ton of reviews on external drives and have arrived here. I’ve been in the tech biz over 44 years and was there when 128Kbyte 8” floppy disks were considered advanced. I’ve used a LOT of different drives. Let’s put this drive into perspective: it is NOT a “portable drive”, it’s an external drive that you can choose to move from place to place. AS WITH ALL SUCH DRIVES, it contains precision moving parts; if you drop it, it will likely break. If you move it around when it’s operating, it probably won’t like it. If you drop your laptop, it will likely break. If you want an external drive that you can really move around, get an SSD. I purchased one of these drives for cloud-storage and archival purposes. Simply put, I needed somewhere to dump large data collections for essentially read-only access as well as having a buffer area for cloud storage synchronization purposes (lots of r/w access to the drive). It worked so well I purchased another and might even get a 3rd. Cloud storage is great for frequently accessed data, but for your video collection, your vast music collection or the 130GB of pictures your spouse took last month, you might want off-line storage. This is a great choice. Is it fast? Slower than an SSD but faster than many external hard drives out there. If you want speed, use the local SSD in your device or get an external SSD drive. If you don’t want that expense, this is still a great drive. In operation the drive is whisper quiet and runs slightly warm. You may have read about the “click of death”, well, yeah, it happened to me too. It won’t run on an overloaded unpowered USB hub (click, click due to lack of power). The cable it comes with is frankly troublesome and honestly you should invest in a replacement. Yup, click, click, click because the cable failed (fortunately I had another to hand, doesn’t everyone?). All that will happen with other drives too, so it’s nothing unusual. My system: Win10 Pro and Win10 Home on Lenovo, Surface Books and Surface Pro; works out of the box just fine. For those complaining that the drive doesn’t work with some backup software; that’s not the drives fault. For those complaining about the speed for gaming purposes, that’s not the drives’ fault either, you should have purchased an SSD. Yes, it will work with Onedrive; just create a junction from your Onedrive folder to the required folder in the external drive. mklink /J srcFolder destFolder Since you have a large capacity drive for large data sets, robocopy (part of Windows) will be your friend as well as mklink to create junctions from your main drive to connection points in external drives filesystems. What happens if the drive goes down? As with any other drive, you might have lost your data. The solution is to (gasp) purchase two drives and sync one with the other. Pro’s: 5TB of storage for <$100. Quiet, fast and gets the job done. It’s a disk drive, it’s not there to be exciting. Con’s: I didn’t like the cable; invest $6 on a better one. As with ALL DRIVES, you need to treat it nicely.

Its pretty solid and heavy which is good. Its pretty quick and reliable. No hard drive errors at all. Just format it first before use. Dont do a "quick format" in windows. Uncheck that and it will format it much slower, be patient, it will take 3-4 hours BUT what that does is remove any dodgy areas so that youre not recording valuable data onto damaged areas. This prolongs the life and reliabilty of any hard drive (this is untrue of ssd).

Disque d appoint pour mon nas. Il ne tourne pas des semaines ou des mois d affilés, mais, je prie que ca dure, il est tourne.

Très satisfait de ce disque dur externe WD Elements. Avec ses 5 To, il offre énormément d’espace pour stocker photos, vidéos, documents et sauvegardes sans avoir à se soucier rapidement du manque de place. L’installation est vraiment simple : il suffit de le brancher en USB et il est immédiatement reconnu sous Windows. Les transferts sont également suffisamment rapides pour un usage quotidien grâce à l’USB 3.0. Malgré sa capacité importante, le disque reste assez compact pour être facilement transporté. C’est exactement ce que je recherchais pour disposer d’un gros espace de stockage externe sans installation compliquée. Un produit simple, efficace et fiable, avec un excellent rapport capacité/prix. Je recommande sans hésiter.