Speeds are good and I also ran a full sector check (that took 12 hours!) that showed everything's healthy out of the box.Īlso if you're wondering the difference between WD Elements and WD My Book (other than design) is that the My Book comes pre-loaded with WD software for things like backups, and I believe it is also hardware-encrypted (which actually caused issues for some people when trying to recover data or when shucking). So I ended up buying the WD and so far so good. From reading around it also seems in general Seagate is considered less reliable. The WD Elements has 4.5/5 stars on Amazon. By that I mean the Seagate BP has a 4/5 rating on Amazon, with quite a few recent reviews saying it failed on them. I actually prefer the Seagate BP's design too, but decided to get the WD because it "seemed" more reliable.
I ended up buying a WD Elements 6TB desktop external HDD for $129 (which at the time was $10 more than a Seagate Backup Plus 6TB). I recently bought a 6TB external hard drive, I had the same considerations as you. Just make sure to tag the post with the flair and give a little background info/context. On Fridays we'll allow posts that don't normally fit in the usual data-hoarding theme, including posts that would usually be removed by rule 4: “No memes or 'look at this '”
Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Timetm). government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data - legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g.