Currently, I would buy many more of these hard drives, but the price has become unreasonable lately due to elevated chip demand and the emergence of a cryptocurrency called Chia Coin that uses proof of space instead of proof of effort as the basis for currency mining

WD 5TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive is awesome!Nice low price

when i was doing research i found lot of articles about how WD external hard drives are very reliable and durable and that they last for a few years at least without

WD elements hard drive

At first I was worried whether a portable drive would be up to this kind of use, but it's still running strong after two years of this punishment, and I've never experienced a glitch or lag.

I've bought a few portable drives in the past, and this was an amazing price for 5TB

For the price, I think this hard drive is well worth it.

These hard drives are small, easily portable, and durable.

I need multiple backups for my files and have many WD hard drives.

I got this 2 TB hard drive to back up all of my photography and videos as they have quickly spilled over from my other hard drive

The hard drive broke after minimal use

Great hard drive.

Don't know if it is a bad drive, a bad cable, but I finally had success after trying three different USB ports.

The cost affordable drive of 2TB at the price of 1TB

Affordable, fast and reliable hard drive

It's a great external hard drive, excellent for the price, however, the product information said

it's a great hard drive, it does what a hard drive is supposed to do

Nice external storage drive by WD

I really like this external hard drive

Excellent Compact Portable 4TB Hard Drive that connects and operates on a USB port without additional power supply.

I’ve started adding data recovery to every hard drive I’ve purchased

Love west hard drives..

Excellent Compact Portable 4TB Hard Drive that connects and operates on a USB port without additional power supply.

Western digital makes the best hard drives in the industry in my opinion

It's a good, simple hard drive, and I'm glad I spent the money on it.

Like weeks of hours played put into certain games like the new RE8 and in-game purchases that I lost due to this hard drive failing

I bought this hard drive a little under a year ago and have only been using consistently the last few months

This portable hard drive has all my pictures on it with a few TB's to spare.

Can only store PS5 games on it won’t play from the external, you will need to re download them to the internal hard drive to play

suddenly, I clicked on a video on my hard drive and it stopped working and gave me that same error code I got before

Please invest in a better hard drive.

I love having an external hard drive to store all of my pictures

Needless to say, I'm looking for a different reliable brand of hard drive.

From there it'll walk you through how to transfer things from you library to the hard drive

Also great backup drive, way cheaper and faster than a cloud backup services

The Only way to Experience real Joy, is to have 3 terrible portable hard drives, and give up

After loading up many valuable pictures and files, the hard drive completely stopped working

the drive worked a great replacement after having a bunch failed before but i seriously don't expect this hard drive to last longer 2-3 years thus dont be me and buy the data

Nice hard drive for a good price point.

The gaming computer doesn't recognize the external hard drive.?.?.

I've only used this external hard drive twice to store photos

This drive and cable were untouched for the entire 3.5 months while it was in use

Download the Acronis software from the WD website, plug in the drive, easy as it can be

I bought this hard drive to store my large collection of videos (mkv, mp4, and avi, mostly, if its important to know), as well as run a couple of applications and store backups of my archives of files (a variety of media types, mostly jpg, png, docx, and similar files)

Nice hard drive for a good price point.

Please note, it will take bandwidth, so you might see a markup on your next internet bill of you try to download a bunch of large files onto the hard drive.

the drive worked a great replacement after having a bunch failed before but i seriously don't expect this hard drive to last longer 2-3 years thus dont be me and buy the data

The Only way to Experience real Joy, is to have 3 terrible portable hard drives, and give up

Also great backup drive, way cheaper and faster than a cloud backup services

After loading up many valuable pictures and files, the hard drive completely stopped working

This drive works great and is smaller

Ok so i bought this external hard drive for my

Western Digital has always been very reliable in my experience (I have WD gold drives, red drives, blue drives and black) without ever having a DOA or failure in under the expected warranty time.

so my ps5 wasn't detecting the hard drive at all i gave a 5 star because my brother haves one of this for his xbox and works like a charm i guess this one was just defective...

I love having an external hard drive to store all of my pictures

Because I use this identical hard drive at work (on my PC), I purchased one for our home computer (MAC)

This portable hard drive has all my pictures on it with a few TB's to spare.

Needed space on my PS5 hard drive

When I connect, the disk drives rotates (I can hear the vibration of the rotating disks), but the PC can not identify the drive & the Explorer crashes

It's a good, simple hard drive, and I'm glad I spent the money on it.

Western digital makes the best hard drives in the industry in my opinion

Love west hard drives..

Excellent Compact Portable 4TB Hard Drive that connects and operates on a USB port without additional power supply.

would prefer little stronger built.outside body cover is not really hard but soft plastic and does not look like will protect drive from any fall or damage.well this one not design for shock proof anyway but was hoping for hard enhousing

it's a great hard drive, it does what a hard drive is supposed to do

It's a great external hard drive, excellent for the price, however, the product information said

Affordable, fast and reliable hard drive

Great hard drive.

These hard drives are small, easily portable, and durable.

For the price, I think this hard drive is well worth it.

I had 18 games on this hard drive

I keep everything on remote drives and love these drives.

Then you finally have a perfect 2 Terabyte drive that does what you expect with reasonable speed

This has been an ongoing issue and I have not been able to recover any of the items on my hard-drive

when i was doing research i found lot of articles about how WD external hard drives are very reliable and durable and that they last for a few years at least without

Had hella more data on a previous hard-drive than imagined and this little, unobtrusive puppy was capable of storing it all, with acres more space to share.

plan!!!the hard drive

WD 5TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive is awesome!Nice low price

great drive

Excellent external storage and hard drive

I purchased the hard drive to back up my DVR

I use it to store games on, and then when I want to play them, I’ll plug this hard drive in and copy the games back to the SSD on my PC

No worries, fast, reliable portable hard drive with lots of storage.

Its a great drive, very fast to copy the files

yay, there's no issues, everything is fine and dandy!SIKE!While I slowly went through my computer's files and deleted them as I thought I didn't need them anymore as they were moved to my hard drive

Just got to use it on this HD and still haven’t received my hard drive back or updates after 5 months

However, this hard drive should not have broken in 4 months with minimal use

Turn the machine on first and then plug in the hard drive

Good portable hard drive

WD 2TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive HDD, USB 3.0, Compatible with PC,

Plugged it into my Win 7 laptop, it had to install the driver for the hard drive before it could be used

hard drive failed.

I have used it maybe five times per year over the last three years, never even filling the drive halfway before it failed today.

With the exception of 1 from 8 years ago, every hard drive I’ve gotten from western digital has failed within 3 years, the majority failed in less than 2 years

The 4TB external drive works perfectly

This is the top ranked hard drive for the XBox One

This is a solid hard drive

Not a bad drive and does the job when set up.

Bought this hard drive to store all my trail camera pictures and videos on

The hard drive broke after minimal use

I opened it a few weeks ago, started shifting video files from my computer to the hard drive, and after two hours of doing so, I got an error code saying that a fatal error occurred and I was no longer able to view the contents of the drive

The Ed elements external hard drives are really good and efficient, slapping 5 terabyte hard drive on a console never felt this good

The Ed elements external hard drives are really good and efficient, slapping 5 terabyte hard drive on a console never felt this good

The hard drive disconnects automatically with out any physical touch and then takes a while to connect back once plugged back in.

This is a solid hard drive

This is the top ranked hard drive for the XBox One

Does not work as a drive to write to.

Always a risk when you order hard drives online, as they may sustain unseen damage during packing & delivery and you can't tell till the return window is closed or your data is wiped out

WD 2TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive HDD, USB 3.0, Compatible with PC,

I can either send the drive in for a replacement and lose my data or use one of their "recommended" data recovery partners

Good portable hard drive

Great drive

Since 2017 I’ve gone through at least 5 external hard drives

However, this hard drive should not have broken in 4 months with minimal use

After copying 2 folders over the hard drive suddenly disconnected and stopped responding completely

We needed a high storage hard drive for thousands of pictures

No worries, fast, reliable portable hard drive with lots of storage.

needs a password for an external Hard drive anyway

What's the point of having an external hard drive that you can't password-protect

But I would not trust to put any important documents on it, because if the product stops working it will be nearly impossible to recover them if you only kept them on that one hard-drive.

I am surprised by how quiet this drive is

Excellent external storage and hard drive

I liked several things, size = very compact, capacity = 2 terabytes and ease of use = plugged it right in no problems