WD 6TB My Book USB 3.0 External Hard Drive

Though only an upgrade in appearance and size, the new My Book offers mainstream consumers with a very reliable way to back up their content via a generous capacity point.

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  New modern, compact design, Easy-to-use backup software, Good performance for its intended application

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  No component upgrades

Strangely mixed reviews. Editors of The Wirecutter award the My Book their "Best External Desktop Hard Drive" title partly because of its good record for reliability. In their analysis of Amazon.com reviews, they found a failure rate of under 5 percent.

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  Lots of capacity for the price, Fast transfer speeds, Easy setup

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  Mixed reviews for reliability, Some software glitches

If you can get this cheaper than a normal 2TB drive (I got this for $70 all in during black Friday sale in the US) get it and take the drive out to use it somewhere else. I took mine out and it is a WDC20EZRX green drive, I changed the idle time from 8 seconds to 5 minutes and put it in my Asustor...

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  Easy to take HDD out, Easy to change parking from 8 seconds to 5 minutes

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  As an external drive

Hardware encryption is always on, whether you turn it "on" with a password or not. If the enclosure dies, you will not be able to recover your data as it will be encrypted. This is a very poor idea. Bought one of these in a brick and mortar store. First one had bad sectors within 60 hours of use.

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  Mine had a WD blue WD40EZRZ. Better price than buying just the internal drive.

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  You CANNOT turn off hardware encryption.

Used it right away to backup my photos. File transfer is fast! I was expecting a bigger size, but nope, this one is small enough to fit among my clutters on table. Sold at a good price too. :)So far so good! I picked WD because of their reputation for quality and durability.

I am through buying these. I have 6 or 7 dead External Drives. Doesn't matter who makes them. I Got Seagate, Lace, WD. Really you are just borrowing the information.I'm going to using Raid Storage.

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  Easy To Install

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  Unreliable

The WD 3T external hard drive would not install on my W7 computer. After 2 telephone calls to WD tech. service and returning hard drive to try another WD, tech. service gave up. Therefore I returned the WD hard drive.

I have three external backups now. One Seagate, and two Western Digital. This is very quite and fast! I was surprised how small it was. It's as small as my 1TB Seagate. It also comes with their Backup Pro software which was a major reason I bought this over the other brand. Highly recommend this