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- Model:
- WDBAMA0080HBK-NESN
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- SKU:
- 6425302
Highly rated by customers for: Storage Capacity, Reliability, Ease of use
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Q: QuestionWd 8tb easystorage, I just bought this and it makes A clicking noise or like chirping noise every 5-6 seconds, I've heard that normal almost sounding like A single drop of water every so often?
Asked by Brandon.
- A:Answer None of these answers are correct. This is a "feature" of a lot of non-helium filled large capacity drives. It's a firmware feature meant to increase the life and reliability of the drive. WD has specifically answered this question. Your drive is fine. It's just incredibly annoying if everything else is quiet all the time.
Answered by inphu510n
Q: QuestionHow do I recover 4TB of priceless family pictures I put on this drive in hopes of long term storage that died 60 days from purchase ? WD absolves themselves of all liability for lost data.
Asked by Bob.
- A:Answer First off, sorry that this happened. I would have thought with all sorts of warranties, WD would have made good especially after only a short time that you had the drive. Well I had a similar situation happen to me and I had to seek professional assistance with my whole life nearly gone on a hard drive. If your memories are as precious to you as they are to me then I will recommend a company that gave me my life back. It’s going to cost you some major money but it’s worth it and a lesson learned. The company is called Ontrack Data Recovery located in NJ. Formerly Kroll ontrack https://www.ontrack.com/rutherford-data-recovery-experts/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=physical-location&utm_campaign=USA0002. The amount you pay depends on the severity of what they need to do to get you up and running again. With me They had to extract the platters and the info on them transferred to another ext hard drive. The original drive wouldn’t comply. Which I knew ahead of time, but if they could’ve gotten the original drive to work, it wouldn’t have cost me as much. Now the lesson learned here is to - BACKUP YOUR EXTERNAL DRIVE(S) WITH ANOTHER BACKUP(S). In other words BACKUP YOUR BACKUPS, TOO !!! GOOD LUCK TO YOU !
Answered by Reelguy
Q: QuestionI have an old desk top running Microsoft Windows XP Home. Now, I'm having troubles installing or transferring my data. 1.) Will this work on my XP? 2.) If not, what will
Asked by Jerry.
- A:Answer It will but you will need to format it first in xp. See my other answer here on using with xp for details. I have the larger 10TB drive working in xp. :)
Answered by Samir
Q: QuestionCan I use a USB 3.0 Type-A to USB Type-C Adapter with this? If so, will I still get data transfer rates up to 5 Gbps?
Asked by jmedina3219.
- A:Answer I have tested these drives internally and externally with numerous USB, USB C, and Active Thunderbolt cables. With all I get roughly the same speed which is about 200 MB/s. That speed was even consistent using a SATA cable and having the drive internal to the PC.
Answered by knamed2016
Q: QuestionCan this drive be used with both XP and windows operating systems? Would I have to reformat it ?
Asked by mikeg.
- A:Answer Xp is a windows operating system and so are windows 7 or 8 or 10 they are all windows operating system and they normally use NTFS format. If you do NTFS you can use the drive among all windows operating system.....now if you own a Mac and a Windows and want to use the same drive you might have to use third party software to use either NTSF or HSF+ (you have to pick one and find the third party app to use on the off format pc)....
Answered by Timberland
Q: QuestionDoes the WDBCKA0080HBK-NESN have one of the new SMR drives? How large is the drive cache ? Thanks!
Asked by SmilingPlastic.
- A:Answer They are CMR. The SMR drives are lower capacity. These are 256meg cache.
Answered by tenjuna
Q: QuestionDo these still contain WD red drives?
Asked by phavor.
- A:Answer They still do even in 2024, though they are updated drives now.
Answered by tenjuna
Q: QuestionCan I connect this easystore to my router to have WiFi?
Asked by Anonymous.
- A:Answer I have this connected to the USB 3.0 port on my router and have copied files to and from this device. It has a built in FTP and Media Center. Which work GREAT. I have a Linksys 1200 series router.
Answered by George























