Customers consistently note the Easystore 5TB External Hard Drive's large storage capacity and ease of use. Many appreciate its reliability, reasonable price, and convenient size. Some customers have reported issues with the software, noise, and heat.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Perfect size, good capacity
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Posted . Owned for 1.5 years when reviewed.
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You can’t go wrong with this 5tb portable hard drive. Good quality
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Great external hard drive. I’ve trusted WD for hard drives for the last 10 years and must say that I’m happy that I trust my family pictures and videos on their hardware.
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DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE! I used to be Western Digital's biggest fan. Not anymore. I bought four of these in the past year and a half. Two of them are dead. And here's why: Western Digital and pretty much every other hard drive manufacturer switched their recording process from CMR to SMR. This is too vast a subject to be discussed here, but you can do a Google search for 'CMR vs SMR'.
I'll sum it up like this: In the past, I did all my archiving and video streaming using Western Digital Portable Drives. It was great. I still have every one of those drives and they perform excellently. Then I ordered some 5TB models and started putting data on one of them. After a few transfers, I started to hear clicking noises. I didn't give it much thought. That is until my computer quit recognizing the drive. I tried everything I could to recover the drive and save some of the data, all to no avail.
To ensure the rest of these horrible drives wouldn't die on me, I created a program in C# that transfers a certain amount of data, then 'sleeps' the transfers for about 5 to 10 minutes before I had the transfers resume. This is working, well, just ok. I still hear what I now call, 'The Western Digital Click of Death', and the transfers can take up to a week depending on the size of the data being transferred.
Do yourself a favor and get an old-fashioned internal SATA drive and, if needed, an external drive by from a company like Sabrent. For the hard drive, ironically, I'd suggest the Western Digital RED drives. The good ones have 'CMR' printed right on the drive. Get one of those. They're a bit more expensive, but worth it.
To sum up:
1) Old WD portable drives were great.
2) The new WD portable drives money-sucking, time-wasting, data-destroying demons from the firey pits of computing Hell.
3) WD Red CMR drives are still the best around. Go with them for reliability. Their relatively low transfer speeds are a breath of fresh air after what I went through with the new SMR portable drives.