WD 4TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBFJK0040HBK-NESN,Black

I was scared at 1st because of all the reviews were a bit mixed. Therefore I took a chance on a device that could have my Steam games run on and I have to say I am not the least bit upset. I think people are running into the issue they expect the 3.0 USB to work on a 2.0 with indicates that most of the reviews that say this is slow are false. This runs at the same speed as my native drive and uploads and downloads just as fast. I have 2 3.0 USB ports on my custom PC. If you want a external HDD that has 4TB and is fast this is the one to have. I like this too because when I visit my family on the East Coast I can just bring this and not have to worry about installing the games on their computer and can just open my account. A+ 10/10 CPU Specs: H8-1450 Custom BIOS v8.10 Processor AMD FX(tm)-6120 (6 CPUs), ~3.5GHz 12 Gigs Ram 2TB HD drive 3.0 USB WD External Book 4TB DirectX 11.2 30 SSD OS Runner Win 8.1 64 Bit 600 GIG Backup drive from my old CPU 550 Watt bronze cert. Power Supply Dual-X R9 270 Sapphire 2GIG GDDR5 OC Beats Audio

This is a review of the Western Digital My Book 4TB external hard drive. It came in a timely manner, and it and the packaging showed no signs of damage. The hard drive did everything I needed it to do. I have a computer with 2 1TB hard drives, and 2 128GB hard drives, and am planning to expand. Until now, I had no means of backing up the thousands of files I have accrued over the years, and had become worried about possible data loss over how long Ive had my hard drives. After getting this, and a few days of waiting, I had successfully backed up all my data to it. I plan on expanding my hard drive space by 1TB more, so the 4TB solution leaves me enough room to do so. It was slow transferring on my end, as I was running it through USB 2.0, and it can only go so fast that way. I saw no problems with the data before or after transfer. I plan on using it once every month or so to backup any new data I happen to add. So far, I have had no problems, and since Ive used Western Digital, I havent had problems until now as it is, so I expect the drive to last a long time hence.

It works well. No complaints. I use this as a backup/mirror to a WD My Cloud harddrive of the same capacity where I store everything (high resolution photographs mainly) since my laptop harddrive is so small. The My Book was cheaper as a backup then buying another My Cloud harddrive. Note the My Cloud just adds a wireless/internet sharing capability. My Book is a bit large if you want to try and carry it with a laptop in a backpack. It also has to be plugged into AC. Not a portable drive. Good drive for a desktop PC or if you have a desk/table to leave it on. I plug the My Book via USB direct into the back of the My Cloud device once a day or week. The My Cloud allowed me to create an automated backup using their Safepoint feature that I can set on a schedule without ever having to plug it into the computer. The Safepoint setup took maybe a minute to setup. I believe it transfered 350GB between the 2 drives somewhere between 1-3 hour.

This lil drive has been a great resource at home. We have it plugged-into our Linksys WRT1900ACS home router for family sharing as network storage. Was easy to setup with this router by creating folders, sharing by a convenient share-name and then setting user permissions for ea share. Since SSD storage devices can lose a lot of speed if more than like 70% space is used, we have off-loaded large files and regained a bit of PC performance here. No more emailing large files to ea other, no more downloading large files when we can share them locally. No more re-downloading when you have to reload your crappy MS Windows OS (due to its typical super Cool BUT buggy and non-safe/non-secure nature) but even our updates, service packs and normally installed software is now kept locally, on this device. Does not take up much space. Has just enough weight from the hard drive and case plus rubber feet on the bottom to allow it to stand up like a real book on a book case without the power cable or network cable pulling it overboard. We can also share MP3s and other media. Lastly, makes a nice backup. All key local files are also stored on this drive and updated as often we dont want to lose something ; )

I purchased this device after avoiding WD for years due to bad drives a long time ago, but after the recent rash of bad Toshiba hard drives, I decided to go back to WD and I purchased the drive, 4TB My Book for 99.99 as part of a Black Friday Flash Sale (literally was only like a hour and limit 1 per person) I decided to give them another shot, So I ordered it, got it very quickly with Amazon Prime and plugged it in, No extremley loud scratching, No clicking, Nothing out of the ordinary, but I wanted to verify the drive was good because 2 of the 3 last drives I have purchased have been bad with SMART data or just horrible grinding and clicking on day one, Needless to say they was returned ASAP. Anyways, I ran a full Extended check on the drive with WD LifeGuard Diagnostics and after 10 hours and 900 million sectores later, the drive is good, so extremely happy with my purchase for now, I cant say what will happen months down the road but after reviewing and seeing WD has really fixed there program, I dont belive I will have much issue, especially since I leave the drive unplugged from the PC I use daily to increase the life of the drive I love the WD internal drives, its all I ever purchase aside from Samsung Pro SSDs so expecting the same performance out of the externals

This is a pretty great drive. I bought a 4TB for my office and liked it for backing up our Synology Nas. So when I needed something big, I got the 6TB for myself. Its great for transferring large files. Im getting around 165MB/sec transfers to and from my internal Intel SSD. It does have one negative that could be seen as a positive depending on how youre using the drive. It winds down and goes into a kind of low power state pretty quickly. So it takes some extra time to access files in that state. I want to say close to 10 secs but I could be exaggerating since it feels like forever (Im impatient). So if its simply a backup drive this is a positive as its super low maintenance and can just be left on. If you are using it to store media it could time out music playlists if you have media from different sources; I had music from my PC and from the drive playing in Windows Media Player and when it would play a PC song then try a ext HD song it would say file was inaccessible since WMP didnt want to wait for it to spin back up. It does seem to be fine for network streaming too. I stream movies from this to Kodi on my Matricom G Box Q android tv box. Overall Im very happy and would recommend this drive at a decent price.

I always by WD drives they work well and are easy to setup and use.

So I purchased the WD 4TB My Book External Hard Drive about 8 1/2 months ago. I bought it to expand the memory of my Xbox One gaming system. Keep in mind, that this needs an outlet to power it, not through a USB port. I hooked it up when it arrived, and everything worked swimmingly. I had ZERO issues with this hard drive. I have worked in the gaming industry for about 15 years now and I am not a novice with electronics. Basically, I know how to take care of my stuff. The hard drive was set up and used with no issues up until about a month ago. All of a sudden it stopped working. I have it hooked into top end surge strip, and had no power issues or anything like that. The HD powered on fine but was no longer recognizable from my Xbox or even my PC. I figured that maybe it was the data cable that came with it, so I replaced that and nothing. The HD has NEVER been moved, knocked over, or abused in any way, shape or form. It has sat on an open-aired shelf since I had it. It was not even used a lot because I didnt need it 24/7. Anyways, I knew the product had a 2-year warranty through WD, so I followed the necessary steps to get it shipped to them so I can figure out what is wrong with it. At this point, I just assumed it was just a bad Hard Drive itself. I left a note in the box stating the steps I took to try to figure out the issue(s). Basically, just to help them eliminate possibilities of defect. I received the Hard Drive back a few weeks later with a note stating internal damage and it was not covered under their warranty. How in the hell is there internal damage on a hard drive that was sitting on a shelf (minimally used)?? When I shipped the item back to them, I used more than enough packing material to avoid shipping damage from UPS. Now I am out $100+ because... why? There was nothing else listed as to what kind of internal damage, just that they wouldnt swap it for me. This is the worst customer service I have had since the Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death issues (if you know what I am talking about). I will NEVER buy another Western Digital product again.

My initial inclination when receiving a new hard-drive is to do a format and then use it however I want, since the software that come with them are uaually worthless. In this case though, I decided to just try it out and found that the WD SmartWare software works flawlessly. So, I have two internal drives that I wanted to backup to this one: My main C (Windows on a 512gb SSD with some user files) and D (media, photos, videos, documents on a 2TB HDD). After installing the software that came with the WD drive, I went ahead and formatted it. Using the WD SmartWare software to setup backups was easy, but the software interface was a bit unintuitive. On full 1920x1080 resolution the really important buttons at the bottom of the backup dialog were cut off. For about 10 minutes I was trying to find out how to initiate the backup, since the setup was really basic. The scroll up/down bar was the same color as the background so I had to make the app full screen, then scroll down with my mouse wheel and got lucky to see the Enable Backup button, otherwise I wouldnt have known it was there. Once clicked, it worked great for both drives. My only problem now is that you cannot see both backups from one screen. You have to go back to the original screen, then click again to the Backup screen to see the other drive. I also found a dialog in the software that says TODO: Place buttons for UI here. Looked like a placeholder made by developers and they forgot to complete it before releasing. Anyway, my initial backup with drives C and D combined was about 2gb of data which took about 6 hours to do the initial backup, and now it will sync continuously anytime a file is changed on the source drives.

$115 for a USB 3.0 4TB drive that is well made, sleek, and comes with everything you need. While it is a green drive (cheapest they make), its decently fast (USB 3.0) so that you can fill it (4tb) reasonably fast. Dont expect this to be a performance thing. This is just mass storage for archiving, or large media files. Dont get this for every day small file use. You get this to store large files. USB 3.0 works great. I get sustained 70MBps transfers with it on my setup on large 1Gb files, so I was able to transfer 2Tb at a reasonable time frame to a portable, external drive. On USB2.0 this would have taken days (literally two days). USB3.0 makes it fast enough to be functional. It would be nice if they used Red/Black/Blue drives instead of Green. But you have to consider its $115. I opted to go this route instead of a self-enclosure and a good Red or Seagate NAS drive, because my experience so far with self-enclosures is that they sometimes cause issues and if you lose index on the drive, the data is toast, unless you pay for recovery or get software to do it yourself. Either way, tedious and costly. I like it to just work. I use double backups, so this drive is serving as a massive backup of another backup of large files that I keep (videos).