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Pros

Tb of storage rocks. I'm pleased with the speed and accuracy of the back-ups of the 8 tb drive and with how well a wide variety of productivity software and my strategy and simulation games run. I am very pleased that 12 tb of space is so cheap these ...  Read More



Cons

The drive disconnects out of the blue every so often, putting my data on the disk at risk. It says 5 bytes a second, sometimes it says 5kbytes a second. Seems unstable. I can't read the datum.

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Quality


Good device, use it for time machine backups and just extra storage for pictures or music


I'm pleased with the speed and accuracy of the back-ups of the 8 tb drive and with how well a wide variety of productivity soft...  Read More


These issues are nonexistent with the external drive unplugged.


This beast backs up part of my professional photo and video library without breaking a sweat.

Price


It wasn't that long ago that just 4 tb was a bit expensive.


However, ssds on the magnitude of 8+ tb are simply not affordable yet.

Shipping


They need to delivery to room number- we don't have mail room.

Packaging/appearance


Keep it put away in it's box, and take out only when you need to retrieve or store away data.

Competitiveness


I can count on western digital for reliable drives.


Prefer wd, rated by many as best hd available.

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    western, external, tried and good.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 8474.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 6,078 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 27 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It makes noise during file transfer otherwise the storage works as described


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I bought this external drive to both back up files from an 8 tb hard drive and to run programs and games from that i access on multiple computers


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    However ssds on the magnitude of 8 tb are simply not affordable yet


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It helps but its more like a clicking sound now


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It also takes longer to shut down the computer


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    These issues are nonexistent with the external drive unplugged


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I wanted to provide this review mostly to correct haters on this product


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The haters who complain that the size they order is not what they get

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