WD 5TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive for Windows, USB 3.2 Gen 1/USB 3.0 for PC & Mac, Plug and Play Ready – WDBU6Y0050BBK-WESN

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Western Digital elements portable hard drives offer reliable, high-capacity storage, fast data transfer rates and universal connectivity with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 devices to back up your photos, videos and files on the go. The small, lightweight design offers up to 5TB capacity.
High capacity in a small enclosure – The small, lightweight design offers up to 6TB* capacity, making WD Elements portable hard drives the ideal companion for consumers on the go.
Plug-and-play expandability
Vast capacities up to 6TB[1] to store your photos, videos, music, important documents and more
SuperSpeed USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5Gbps)

Customers say

Customers find the external hard drive works straight out of the box and offers great value for its 2TB capacity. The drive is easy to use as plug-and-play, and customers appreciate its compact size, with one mentioning it can fit in most pockets. They praise its speed, noting no appreciable delay in accessing files, and consider it a reliable backup solution. While some customers find it extraordinarily reliable, others express disappointment with its reliability.

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  1. Easy Reader

    Actual size is considerably smaller than expected, until I discovered the answer
    I will give it only four stars at this time. The loss of a star is due to a missing 370 GB of space. It was purchased as a 4 TB drive, yet at startup only has 3.73 TB. That only looks good presented as a percentage; 92.5%. Yet, in actual data, it s 370 GB… quite a large sum.I just updated the stars. I Googled the problem and found this answer. The math comes out exact. I have found the missing bites.”WD Elements external hard drives often appear smaller in capacity than advertised because manufacturers use different units of measurement for storage capacity. While the manufacturer might use a decimal system (1 GB = 1 billion bytes), operating systems like Windows and older Macs use a binary system (1 GB = 1.07 billion bytes). This difference in calculation leads to the discrepancy. “

  2. Geoff K. Hart

    used for Frigate NVR recordings
    I just wanted to report my experience for a very specific use case: using this for Frigate NVR recordings.I have a Frigate NVR VM running in ProxMox (i3-14100). Plugged the drive in (went for a USB-C cable), and used USB pass-through. Formatted the main partition with ext4, and mounted at the storage/recordings directory. Moving the old recordings over (was on NVMe) at around 95MB/s. During normal operation, with 15 cameras recording, I see about 5MB/s being written to the USB drive.Overall, very happy with this setup. I didn’t have any spare SATA ports, 4 used for a RAID-5 array (as my main NAS server) and I didn’t want the recordings constantly spinning up that array – so I decided on a USB powered external drive just for recordings. I also have an NVMe drive for the VM storage, which was working fine, but I also had a slight concern regarding TBW (I have almost 20 cameras all recording). If there are issues with bandwidth, I’ll post a follow-up.

  3. mimi c

    Quick to mount and dismount
    This product performs and solves a problem that I had with my previous external drive. The previous drive would mount when plugged in, but when I ejected through the OS, it wouldn’t eject properly and I would just pull out the drive and eventually, it corrupted and I lost all of the files. This drive doesn’t have that issue and I’m very pleased by the mount and dismount.

  4. Votd

    Everything I Could Ask For
    Very happy with my purchase, having a 1TB SSD main and this as my side piece external gives me all the space I need. Playing games on it the loading speeds are slightly slower on this HDD than the SSD but not by much. Other than that the gameplay performance is the same no matter which drive I’m using which are ultra settings everything in any game on my decent laptop (16GB DDR5 RAM, Nvidia Geforce 4060 graphics card). So any games that require a lot of loading and are newer I’ll put on the SSD and everything else goes on this. Thank you, it is a great product.

  5. OldTech99

    Bought two. Both are going strong, making full and differential backups, for 6 years on 2 computers.
    Bought two.Very strong points: Both are going strong, making full and differential backups, for six years, on two computers.Since I’ve had mixed luck with automatic-backup software, I have to spend more time than I want keeping everything backed up, but these really great. These have been far more reliable than most external hard drives in the past.Minor Downside: Since they are high-speed spinning disks, handle them with great care when they are running or spinning down. To turn just the external hard drive off when not in use for a day or more: first you must software-eject the drive using Windows Explorer, then unplug the power plug because these don’t have an on/off switch. Don’t move it for about 5 minutes until it has stopped and is perfectly quiet and no vibration.

  6. Michelle Grome

    Great hard drive
    I love this external hard drive! I have had one prior but ran out of room with my old one. I often store pictures and videos on this and hope it will be great for years to come as I continue to take photos of my son.

  7. DL NB

    Fast and simple
    Good transfer speed, simple to use, and looks good on the desk next to the computer. Always a good practice to have your backup data in more than one place. With a couple of these, can copy more than one and then store one elsewhere.

  8. Joey

    High Quality Drive
    What can you expect from WD? Pure quality. They built this thing like a tank. I dropped it 2 times and I though that’s it. However it still works really well. I only buy drives from WD because they are very reliable.

  9. Dr S P Verma

    From a good seller….Excellent performance….*****(5 stars for Amazon)…?

  10. Mark AfterDark

    I recently purchased the WD 4TB Elements Portable USB 3.0 High Capacity Hard Drive and I am extremely satisfied with my purchase. The drive is compact and easy to use – just plug it into my computer’s USB port and I’m good to go. The 4TB of storage is more than enough for my needs, and the transfer speeds are reasonable for a standard 5400rpm HDD..One thing that initially concerned me was the drive’s tendency to get hot during use. However, I have used it extensively over the past few weeks and have not experienced any issues with overheating.In terms of value, I believe the WD 4TB Elements Portable USB 3.0 High Capacity Hard Drive offers excellent value for the price and the high capacity and decent transfer speeds make it well worth the investment. If you need a lot of storage on the go and are looking for a reliable and high-performance option, I highly recommend the WD 4TB Elements Portable USB 3.0 High Capacity Hard Drive.

  11. guitounet59

    Utilisateur, depuis plusieurs décennies, d’informatique et par voie de conséquence de disques durs ; dans cette catégorie, je considère les WD comme le top des disques « classiques » à plateaux. Leur fiabilité et leur durée de vie sont parmi les meilleures du marché ( je n’ai jamais eu un disque dur WD crashé !). Cette version « Elements » est compacte, légère et silencieuse, et ne nécessite pas, comme les gros disques 3.5 pouces, d’alimentation externe.Commandé et reçu très vite (Bravo et merci Amazon pour le service). L’emballage du disque est parfaitement d’origine, scellé et protégé, accompagné d’une notice et du câble USB 3. Ce type , micro B, étant surtout utilisé avec ce type de disque dur, je recommande de le laisser connecté en permanence au disque, ce qui évitera de l’endommager.Sitôt reçu, testé :Déjà formaté en NTFS Windows, il y a juste à le brancher. Attention, si destiné au MAC, il faudra le formater par le MAC avec l’utilitaire disque si on ne l’utilise qu’avec un MAC. Si destiné à être utilisé à la fois sur PC et sur MAC, il faudra un logiciel de « conversion NTFS » sur le MAC (comme Paragon ou Tuxera) et le laisser en NTFS (c’est ce que je fais).Les tests : vérification état du disque avec outil Windows, du SMART avec AIDA, et des vitesses avec CrystalDiskInfo. Tous les tests sont OK, on voit que le disque n’a été allumé que 2 fois, ce qui prouve le contrôle des disques après fabrication (NB : made in Thailand et non China !). Pour la vitesse en USB3, les valeurs sont de 120 MB/s, ce qui est très correct. J’ai sauvegardé 580 Go de photos en 3 heures, en silence total et sans échauffement important.Je voudrais ici, apporter quelques informations complémentaires, contre-vérités destinées à certains utilisateurs insatisfaits, notamment concernant les capacités de ces disques. J’ai vraiment l’impression que certains « découvrent » les disques durs externes !Il ne s’agit en aucune façon de tromperies, mensonges ou arnaques.Il faut simplement savoir qu’il s’agit d’une différence de langage et de mathématiques !Tous les fabricants de disques ( classiques, SSD, clés USB…) comptent la capacité en DECIMAL ( Base 10 ). Un Téraoctet (To) est l’équivalent de 1 000 000 000 000 octets. Les programmes, comme les système d’exploitation, cas de WINDOWS, utilisent les système de numérotation binaire ( Base 2) . Dans ce système, 1 To est équivalent à 1 099 511 627 776 octets.En fait, les 2 équivalent à la même capacité réelle. C’est comme si on mesurait une distance en Km et en Miles : les valeurs sont différentes, mais la distance réelle est la même.Pour les usagers MAC, les valeurs sont bien indiquées en décimal, Base 10, ce qui fait que la capacité donnée par le fabricant se retrouve réellement sur le MAC.C’est surtout Windows qui aurait dû modifier son « Go » dans l’unité standardisée en 1998 : le Kilo Binaire. Exemple :Un Gibioctet (Gio) = 1 073 741 824 octetsUn Tébioctet (Tio) = 1 099 511 627 776 octetsSi cela avait été modifié en Gio et Tio, il n’y aurait plus d’interrogation et de doute. En fait, si on regarde dans les « Propriétés » des disques la valeur en octets est donnée et correspond bien à la capacité du disque.Pour confirmer ceci, par exemple un fichier de 25 Mo sur MAC, devient 23,4 Mo sous windows.Autres bizarreries dans les commentaires :Une dizaine de films enregistrés, remplissent complètement un disque de 5 To. Cela semble impossible, car si on prend les plus gros films en 4K UltraHD+ BluRay, ils font au maxi 90 Go. Soit environ 1 To la dizaine !! on est loin de la saturation.Egalement, quand je lis « impossible de formater en FAT32 un disque de 4 To…… bien sûr que cela n’est pas possible , ce système est limité dèjà à moins de 4 Go pour les fichiers. Il faut être en NTFS ou en ExFAT, qui n’ont pas les mêmes limites.Je fais généralement peu de commentaires sur ce que j’achète, mais au vu de ces commentaires « négatifs » je souhaitais intervenir. Je n’ai aucun lien avec WD et autres fabricants, mais j’utilise pas mal de disques ou autres procédés de stockage, mais tous sont des fabricants reconnus et fiables.En résumé, ce disque de grande capacité est d’un excellent rapport qualité/prix et mérite ces 5 étoiles. Je suis souvent étonné que certains mettent 4 étoiles et qq fois 3, alors que leur commentaire est positif. A partir du moment où un produit réuni TOUTES les qualités attendues : Livraison, emballage, utilisation, fiabilité, etc SANS réserves, il n’ y a pas lieu de mettre autre chose que 5 étoiles.Désolé d’avoir été un peu long, mais le sujet en valait la peine.

  12. Dhirendra

    This is a great hard drive. I previously had a 1 TB hard drive of WD and that worked really fine. That is why I decided to go for a 2TB hard drive of WD. Though, Seagate hard drives are much better than WD because they are thinner and they sustain for a long time like WD.I purchased it @Rs. 5599.Pros-1. WD is a very reliable name in the field of hard drives. So it is reliable.2. 2-year warranty.3. small in size.4. Reading speed is amazing. I got around 150 MBps/ 1.2 Mbps while reading. (Data was a movie and USB port was USB 3.0)5. Writing speed is also great. I got around 55 MBps/ 440 Mbps while writing on the hard drive. (Data was a movie and USB port was USB 3.0)6. The speed of reading and writing on USB 2.0 ports is also great.7. USB 3.0 cable is already included in the package. So you don’t need to purchase a USB 3.0 cable separately.8. The length of the cable is enough for normal usage.9. The product is original. So you can get is registered on WD website. You will also get your warranty from there.10. Cheaper than Seagate models. (in general)Cons-1. If you are in need of a long USB 3.0 cable then you will be disappointed. The length of the cable is just enough for normal usage.2. The hard drive is somewhat thick. You will get a Seagate hard drive of the same capacity to be slimmer.Final comment- If the price is not a big issue for you and you want a slimmer hard drive then go for Seagate hard drive. Else this is certainly one of the best choices.

  13. Fits my Bose soundbar perfectly

    Works well

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