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    WD 5TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive HDD, USB 3.0, Compatible with PC, Mac, PS4 & Xbox - WDBU6Y0050BBK-WESN

    • In Summary, one of the very best and affordable (< $100) extra large capacity portable HDD drives available
    • The drive did the trick for me, the software it easy to use, as is the drive.
    • Purchase a hard case to protect this hard drive.
    • At the same time all other external hard drives work with my computer without problems.
    • 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
    • Spend a little bit more and get a better quality drive
    • mí Xbox one y hasta ahora estoy contente con el.______________________________Excellent hard drive, good size and its operation is optimal, I meet expectations, the use that I give it is exclusive for me Xbox one
    • I am very impressed with this hard drive
    • I read this in another review and it’s true- the cord it comes with developed a shortage and the drive was unresponsive
    • The mere fact this hard drive could have been dropped is enough to return
    • Excellent Portable drive - easy to setup .
    • I got this because I've had several, long lasting WD hard drives in the
    • This hard drive malfunctioned for some unknown reason.
    • Awesome small portable hard drive.
    • In my opinion these drives are not worth it--I'm just lucky that I didn't need anything from those older time machine backups.
    • Switching from computer to computer caused the hard drive to no longer read anymore and lost all over 50 gigs of music
    • Once you get it reformatted and up and running, its a great external hard drive for Mac.
    • WD hard drive was excellent getting set up
    • Holds memory great first month had no issues then suddenly my external hard Drive would disconnect and remove me from whichever
    • I was surprised by how compact this drive was.
    • I bought this thinking it was a great hard drive, which its not bad at all; but if you buy a bigger or newer game it will not let you run it on the external
    • WD hard drives were always dependable for me
    • The drives fail every time
    • Elements Portable External Hard Drive is Easy to format for Mac users.
    • I love this hard drive
    • My drive crapped out less than 6 months after I bought itit
    • Tried copying my hard drive, did not work even though there was a max of 100 gigabytes of data transfer.
    • After re-formatting, the drive would come back to life for a couple hours, then fail again
    • I am suspecting it is a used hard drive.
    • If you want a hard drive to take 20 minutes to load a single photo while you can hear parts whiz around in
    • This hard drive has been extremely reliable and quick
    • It worked great as an external documents drive for 2 years then it suddenly started chirping and failed to read the data
    • The hard drive made grinding noises when saving files.
    • Great drive.
    • Not a secure drive!
    • Very nice portable externals hard drive
    • I’ve started adding data recovery to every hard drive I’ve purchased
    • My 2TB Elements Portable Hard Drive completely crashed out of the blue just a little over a year into owning it
    • To use this external hard drive with a Mac you have to reformat it through the Disk Utility
    • This portable hard drive has all my pictures on it with a few TB's to spare.
    • The 2TB Elements hard drive is working great so for
    • 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
    • I've been using WD hard drive for a while
    • Really impressive how well these external drives work today
    • Looking for a portable hard drive to transfer old VHS tape mp4 and family photos for offsite storage
    • This hard drive works like a champ, it is small and easy to back to!
    • The hard drive no longer even reads on any device either
    • This is a great hard drive that holds a lot of information
    • And really very nice Elements Portable External Hard Drive
    • With a used hard drive like this there is also the potential for malware to be on the drive that could be loaded directly into my computer upon hooking it up
    • WD hard drives are the only external HD I use
    • This is a solid drive and is great for long term storage.
    • brand, external hard-drive was dying, so I bought this and moved over a bunch of photos before my old external died
    • This is a great mobile hard drive with huge storage capacity, and fast data transfer, at a great price
    • This 4TB Element portable hard drive is junk
    • And it doesn't reliably copy to another hard drive
    • This external Hard drive will break down and not work within a few months of using it
    • I have had cheaper drives last way longer than this one
    • This 4TB Element portable hard drive is junk
    • This is a great mobile hard drive with huge storage capacity, and fast data transfer, at a great price
    • I just recently received the drive and so far so good.. transferred over 1TB and the speed was okay expected a bit faster over USB 3.0 than 95 mbits/second
    • do not even think about using this for backup without another reliable backup drive, It sounds good but it does not deliver, unreliable.
    • And really very nice Elements Portable External Hard Drive
    • This is a great hard drive that holds a lot of information
    • It's a blessing to NOT have to try & salvage all my pictures & videos from an internal hard drive, before upgrading computers!
    • I needed this to take my photos and videos around without a bulky drive or a use of USB that I could loose
    • If your standard hard drive is almost maxed out, I’d definitely recommend adding one of these
    • This hard drive works like a champ, it is small and easy to back to!
    • Hard drive failed after 12 months
    • It’s another external hard drive.
    • I liked the drive when I received it, however I recently discovered the drive is only 4.5 TB (4.54 TB to be precise) instead of the 5 TB advertised
    • Looking for a portable hard drive to transfer old VHS tape mp4 and family photos for offsite storage
    • It needs an additional part which is a usb hub to generate enough power between the iPad and the hard drive
    • The 2TB Elements hard drive is working great so for
    • I needed to ditch my tired old computer when I moved, so I backed EVERYTHING onto this hard drive - gigabytes of data
    • This portable hard drive has all my pictures on it with a few TB's to spare.
    • Needed space on my PS5 hard drive
    • I use this to store all of my games that took up a lot of storage space on my main hard drive
    • So far I like the drive and the speed it transfers over all my big
    • Highly recommend these drives
    • My 2TB Elements Portable Hard Drive completely crashed out of the blue just a little over a year into owning it
    • Just as my prior purchase of WD hard drives this one did not disappoint
    • Very nice portable externals hard drive
    • Now I can finally download extra games and keep my internal hard drive empty
    • I never faced an issue with hard drives that I have since 2009.
    • This hard drive has been extremely reliable and quick
    • Now I can't use it as a portable drive for computer files
    • I bought this drive to use it on the PlayStation 4 and ao far it hasn't disappointed
    • The build quality is something to be wary of of with this portable drive
    • I enjoy the portability of the external hard drive, a lot of storage capacity.
    • This device has a frequently reported issue with the cord getting stuck in the hard drive
    • This hard drive does not work at all
    • My other backup drives I bought years ago are faster than this.
    • deivered as advertised and frees up hard drive space on my lsptop
    • My old drive was bog clunky and noisy
    • Elements Portable External Hard Drive is Easy to format for Mac users.
    • I love this hard drive
    • I got this external hard drive to back up my computers.
    • Unlike some reviewers, I had no trouble formatting this drive for my iMac
    • I use this hard drive to back up all my photos
    • Drive is ready to go straight out of the box very compact and does a great job
    • This external drive will work well if you have a recent console and want to put games away without filling up the internal drive on your console, especially with Series S / X / PS5
    • I got the hard drive for purpose of storing some family photos and videos and also some personal education resource I like, unfortanly ALL is lost because in literarily one month of getting the hard drive it started ticking
    • I bought this thinking it was a great hard drive, which its not bad at all; but if you buy a bigger or newer game it will not let you run it on the external
    • Worst backup drive I have ever purchased
    • WD hard drives were always dependable for me
    • I love this Western Digital 5-TB portable HDD drive, it's amazingly lightweight - much lighter than my previous 5-TB drive from Seagate, which is a real plus when travelling
    • Who came with this brilliant idea to sell a readonly empty hard drive?
    • I have to move the files that still good to other hard drive
    • WD hard drive was excellent getting set up
    • Once you get it reformatted and up and running, its a great external hard drive for Mac.
    • Should have tried it out when I first received it, but when I finally went to set it up and back up my hard drive, nothing worked
    • Awesome small portable hard drive.
    • I downloaded 26,500 pictures on my new external hard drive easily.
    • It takes forever to transfer files from the hard drive to a PC or delete the files off the drive.
    • This drive solved the problem and gave my PC new life
    • mí Xbox one y hasta ahora estoy contente con el.______________________________Excellent hard drive, good size and its operation is optimal, I meet expectations, the use that I give it is exclusive for me Xbox one
    • I use the external hard drive to storage music, as a dj I need to keep my music by genre and this help me a lot.
    • I had hard drive for 3 days and next day heard clicking noise and never was operations again
    • It barely showed on the bar indicated space used/available - the hard drive holds a TERABYTE of data
    • At the same time all other external hard drives work with my computer without problems.
    • 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
    • My go to company for hard drives
    • Purchase a hard case to protect this hard drive.
    • Very nice drive with lots of capacity and very small form factor
    • I thought 2 TB would be enough for everything I already own and for what I am working on before I would need to buy a second External Hard drive
    • It’s great because unlike the other hard drives this doesn’t need a power cord and is very portable
    • I've been a professional photographer for 4 years, and I've used WD hard drives for most of that timeframe, but for some reason their new version is incredibly disappointing
    • Excellent little portable drive
    • If you are looking for great wear and tear, this hard drive does it all.
    • We have about 20TB of movies stored on the server and use these portable drives for backup of the movies we just cannot lose
    • Still going through to data recovery specialists to recover unusable Drive.
    • I purchased this drive at the end of JULY 2021 and it has crapped out already
    • Its a great drive, very fast to copy the files
    • However, when transferring data the hard drive was unable to load data beyond 300 GB
    • Probably the most inexpensive 2TB External drive I could find
    • The hard drive is fine.
    • This is the only external hard drive I trust to keep my pictures and videos.
    • Good external hard drive
    • I've had several external hard drives
    • Just got to use it on this HD and still haven’t received my hard drive back or updates after 5 months
    • I am glad that I was able to find this WD hard drive that cost less than the Seagate.
    • This Portable drive is very durable.
    • Finally got a tech to try to use this hard drive and was told that it was defective
    • So far, this expensive drive has been an overpriced brick of a paperweight
    • 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
    • No drive is perfect or fully what it says it is I get
    • This hard drive is missing the eject button.
    • This is a solid hard drive
    • I'm just a bit bummed that its not a full 2 TB and I will be needing another External Hard drive sooner then I thought.
    • My godmother purchased the hard drive and the adapter necessary because she was under the impression that’s all that was needed
    • But having bought the last two external drives (WD 5TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive & WD 4TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive), I was stunned
    • If you want to expand your PS4 storage, I recommend this drive.
    • Not ONE issue, including the cable provided with the hard drive
    • Convenient drive
    • I’m frustrated with this hard drive
    • A great upgrade and replacement for my 8 year old portable drive
    • But having bought the last two external drives (WD 5TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive & WD 4TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive), I was stunned
    • This drive formatted and worked on my Mac right off the bat and was readable by my daughter's Windows laptop
    • I was playing that was on the hard drive which there was an easy fix to
    • This is a solid hard drive
    • I cant get anything to save on this hard drive...
    • hard drive
    • , then yeah sure, definitely purchase this hard drive
    • Reviews indicate this drive is not truly compatible with PS game consoles
    • After a few weeks use, the drive begins to fail.
    • I went to use it today and it says the whole drive is now corrupt.
    • This drive has served me well for the past year and a half as storage for my steam library (video games)
    • Since 2017 I’ve gone through at least 5 external hard drives
    • Perfect drive to have my files and pictures while on the go.
    • I have had it too long toreturn because I thought it was my own ignorance preventing the hard drive from working.
    • Portable drive, cheap price, and portable power means low power requirements and thus, drive will run much slower compared to a traditional desktop external drive, despite having a USB superspeed connection
    • My main use of this hard drive is copying files from my Windows machine to my Mac, and it is ideal for that
    • This is not a fast drive
    • After three months, the drive started to mysteriously fail.
    • I rely on my external hard drive daily for my business so this is a HUUUUUGGGE issue for me -- files lost, money lost, time lost
    • When we installed this external hard drive it didn't work AND it corrupted our files
    • I have a Dell XPS13 that doesn't always like to recognize flash drives and external hard drives, but this works perfectly.
    • The hard drive is fine.
    • Having had a hard drive crash on me more than once, I am obsessive about backing up not only the images, but also the text files that actually make the image in the fractal generating software.
    • This is a great little drive with lots of storage.
    • The light is on and I can hear the hard drive working, like the other reviews don’t waste your time buying this.
    • Love this little drive.
    • I believe that the hardware was damaged in transport and the drive is now unusable
    • I bought this product 2 years ago and it was a solid drive
    • Good external hard drive
    • Good storage capacity and decent drive.
    • If your using the drive to do a lot of file sharing, deleting, modifying files, get a solid state drive or something more reliable.
    • It's an okay external hard drive
    • I am discusted with this hard drive
    • Still going through to data recovery specialists to recover unusable Drive.
    • I have a few computers that I am trying to transfer over information off of and when purchasing this hard drive I had already Calculated that I would need around 1.6 or 1.7 TBs of space just for all my old files
    • I was so excited for this hard drive to come for all my music storage needs
    • That's all I need for an external hard drive.
    • Muy bueno y llego bien y super rápido lo recomiendo gracias
    • Hopefully a new usb cord will do the trick, other wise I’m screwed 😩
    • la velocidad no era compatible todos los demas juegos los e podido jugar sin problema