WD5TB Elements portable external hard drive, USB 3.0 interface, portable external storage, Plug-and-Play, SuperSpeed USB 3.2 Gen 1, Formatted for PC and Mac, Black

This WD 2TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive has been absolutely brilliant—so much so that I ended up buying two! Before this, I used traditional hard drives with moving parts and often faced issues with reliability. This hard drive, being an SSD, is not only small and lightweight but also super fast and reliable. As a YouTuber, it’s crucial for me to have dependable storage for my content, and this hard drive definitely delivers. There’s a lot less chance of failure since there are no moving parts. Overall, it’s a 5-star product in my book, and I highly recommend it to anyone in need of reliable storage.

Plug in and go. No set up necessary. Well packaged and arrived early. Huge amount of space for backups and videos photos etc.

Hooray! After several attempts a hard drive that actually is a hard drive, not a disguised SD card. Pleased with the access speed.

I am 71 and know next to nothing anout computers, but I don't suppose I'm alone in that, so perhaps the following might be of use. I hope so. This was almost too straight-forward! I expected it to be "plug and play" but no instructions came up on the screen when I did so. After some time I discovered that it was detected by my (Windows11) PC, under "This PC", but I was at a loss how to make it "work". Eventually, after referring to Chat GPT, I discovered that you simply "drag and drop" any files/documents/pictures onto it. When I became more confident I dragged and dropped my entire "My Documents", onto it, which it swallowed up in a very few minutes. I was relieved to find that they were indeed copied onto the device, and not transferred onto it; my Documents remained on my PC. I am now wondering how it "knows" when I have made a small amendment to a single document next time I do a backup, or whether it will copy my entire Documents all over again, which seems a terrible waste of effort. Finally, I wondered whether there was a minor fault because it had a memory available of 1.81TB all through my experimenting with it, but then, having swallowed pretty much my entire life's work, it now says 1.80 TB. In other words, all my documents, files, pictures and videos have taken up one 181st of its available memory. I could probably have made do with the 1TB version! In summary, a good device but we older customers would appreciate a modicum of basic instruction.

Excellent for backing up my data

Loads of storage, easy to build up

Affordable storage solution

Brilliant little piece of kit, does exactly what it says on the tin. A bonus feature I didn't know about, it acts as a TV recorder as well which I was pleasantly surprised at and which I use often.Possibly in the market fot buying another as it makes economical sense as opposed to buying flash drives.Definitely would recommend this product to anyone. It's a no brainer !