WD - Easystore 10TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black

Excellent buy to shuck and utilize in a NAS or DVR / TiVo. Videos on how to shuck this newer case can be found online. Highly recommended buy especially when on sale at BestBuy.

The install and transferring of data from my old external to this one was really easy. I am happy and satisfied with my purchase. The amount I paid for this much storage was also a real benefit.

I know it is common for manufacturers to round up a bit to the next gigabyte but 9.09 TB should not round up to 10TB. Why don't they just tell you the truth and call it a 9 TB drive? I would not recommend this item to anyone.

I bought this drive to back up data from a 2 TB HDD that's starting to get bad clusters. I opted for the 10 TB size instead of the 8, because it has a faster sequential transfer rate. I've attached a benchmark of an empty drive connected to a Windows 10 laptop, showing a 208 MB/s sequential read speed. Random reads are much slower, less than 1 MB/s. The bottom line is that it takes long time to access all of it. I've been running a WD diagnostic that checks for bad sectors, and after 18 hours it's still only 90% complete. I don't know yet how reliable this drive will be. It seems to have a good heritage, and I'm hoping for the best. But, something as simple as careless shipping or knocking it over while it's powered on could be disastrous. The drive is mostly quiet, but not silent like an SSD. Also, the top of the case gets warm. During the sector checking, I measured 106°F at the top of the case with an infrared thermometer, while the ambient temperature measured 68°F. I've attached screen captures showing the disk's temperature increasing from 42 C to 47 C (107.6°F to 116.6°F) during the sector checking.

No issues with this external drive. Was able to consolidate all of my smaller external drives to this one and now have multiple copies of my data. I was also able to download and store all of my photos from the cloud and social media platforms to keep local backups of those. Just a tip however to maximize it's speed since this has USB 3.0. A recent windows 10 update changed the default USB 3.0 drive policy to protect data if the drive is incorrectly disconnected from the PC to prevent data loss. This significantly reduces the transfer speed. You will want to switch the policy in your settings to restore the maximum transfer speed. Instructions to do this can be googled. After switching the policy you'll need to make sure and eject the drive properly before disconnecting to prevent potential data loss or corruption.

I bought this for additional storage of my laptop. It works good. I had taken lots of picture so made lots of RAW files. It took not much time for copying the files. Speed is good. Also noise and heat is better than I expected.

Just to put this out there, I did NOT buy this for the reason it was intended. I'm putting together a large NAS system and wanted all 10TB drives in my NAS. The average price on a single 10TB HDD is more than twice as much as this product. So I bought 4 of these, extracted the HDD from the inside and voila! The HDD inside is just a normal 3.5" internal HDD. Open it up, remove the accessories and you are set. I then took the old 2TB drives that came out of my old NAS, attached the accessories to them and put them in the enclosure. So, now I have turned my old internal HDDs to external HDDs. Such a deal! The drives seem reliable so far, but we'll see.

I always buy WD drives because I trust them. They hardly ever fail compared to the other harddrives that I've used both internal and external. I won't share the name of which harddrives I've used in the past that have always failed on me but they do start with a SEA and end with a GATE. IMO WD is pretty trustworthy. I use WD external drives to back up all my digital projects because I do not trust using the cloud. Easystore is simple to use. Plug and play. Gotta love it.