WD Easystore External USB 3 0 12TB Hard Drive - Black

I gave this drive 5 stars because it works great. It's fast and easy to use. However, I was a little disappointed because this is supposed to be a 12TB drive and there was only 10.9TB available on it. I was so surprised that I looked at the box to be sure that they sent the right one. I understand that some of the drive software may use up some of the space for operating reasons, but a loss of 1.1TB seems excessive to me. So, this is more like an 11TB drive and not a 12TB drive. That being said, the drive works great and it does what I need it to do. Also, I think the price is fair for an 11TB drive. I just wish they would advertise it for the space that it actually has. I always prefer honesty. Read more

every one should get this harddrive it is the best one in the world i put 120000 videos on it and still ahe not even half of the hard drive but have at leasted 9000 more to go thanks again amazon for the best hard drive and a good price for it Read more

I removed the white label 12GB drive from this unit and installed it into my PC. Talk about cheap storage! I didn't do the "pin 3 mod", I just used a "molex to sata power" adapter, so no mod required! Read more

This review is about the SINGLE DRIVE 8TB version of the WD MyBook. Green & white cardboard box, black plastic drive case. No Encryption. Go ahead & buy it, it is ok. :-)SPEED: The drive is faster than I expected. It took about 1 day to copy 5.14 TB to it via USB 3. Those were mostly music files 3MB to 60mb plus some videos. I did not time it or watch it closely. You can easily play movies or music from this drive without skipping.HEAT: the drive did NOT get hot. Not even very warm while chugging away for almost a whole day relentlessly copying over 5 TB of data. The drive has vents on the 2 ends. You are supposed to put the vent side up, so the heat can exit. That means the drive will be standing on end, which is probably not how you were going to place it. There are rubber feet on the other end. I suspect that the people who said this drive runs hot did not stand the drive up as intended. Read more

Using the drive on a OMEN by HP Obelisk Gaming Desktop Computer, 9th Generation Intel Core i9-9900K Processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB, HyperX 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, VR Ready, Windows 10 Home. Supposed to be plug and play. PC won't recognize drive. Won't show up in my list of external hard drives. If I cannot get this resolved, will need to return it. There was no software included with drive as it said on the box. The device showed up in my Device Manager under Disk Drives, but cannot save to it or transfer files. Read more

I received a DOA, but the seller was SUPER responsive and took no time in refunding me the order. Will hopefully buy another shortly and hope I don't get another DOA! :D Read more

I am so pleased with this storage device. It holds a "ton" of information, is very light weight and small. It was easy to use. Read more

This drive is doing great! I would not spend the extra money on more expense less reliable dives. Read more