WD - easystore 12TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black
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Description
Features
12TB storage capacity
Provides ample space for storing documents, photos, music and more.
USB 3.0 interface
Offers an easy-to-use connection to devices. Backward compatible with USB 2.0 for simple connection to your computer.
Data transfer rates up to 5 Gbps with USB 3.0
Enable a rapid response when updating files.
Automatic backup options
Allow you to use compatible software to back up your files to the server.
Compatible with Mac and PC
For flexible installation options.
What's Included
Power adapter
Software
USB cable
WD easystore 12TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive
Key Specs
- Storage Drive TypeHDD
- Rotational Speed5400 revolutions per minute
- Interface(s)USB 2.0, USB 3.0
General
- Product Nameeasystore 12TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive
- BrandWD
- Model NumberWDBCKA0120HBK-NESN
Performance
- Storage Drive TypeHDD
- Rotational Speed5400 revolutions per minute
Compatibility
- Internal Or ExternalExternal
- External Hard Drive TypeDesktop
- Interface(s)USB 2.0, USB 3.0
- Minimum System RequirementsmacOS, Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 operating systems; reformatting required for macOS
Features
- Security FeaturesNone
- UsageEveryday computing
Power
- Power SourceAC adapter
Dimensions
- Product Height6.7 inches
- Product Width1.9 inches
- Product Weight35.6 ounces
Included
- Included SoftwareWD Drive Utilities, WD Backup, WD Discovery
Warranty
- Manufacturer's Warranty - Parts2 years
- Manufacturer's Warranty - Labor2 years
Other
- UPC718037872278
Customer reviews
Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars with 1731 reviews
(1,731 customer reviews)Rating by feature
- Value4.6
Rating 4.6 out of 5 stars
- Quality4.6
Rating 4.6 out of 5 stars
- Ease of Use4.7
Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars
Customers are saying
Customers express satisfaction with the easystore 12TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive's massive storage space, affordable price, and reliability. Many users find it easy to use and quiet during operation. However, some users have concerns about compatibility issues, particularly with Windows only recognizing 11TB of the total storage, as well as occasional reports of defective units and higher operating temperatures.
This summary was generated by AI based on customer reviews.
- Pros mentioned:Price, Reliability, Storage capacity
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Loads of space for dirt cheap
||Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.With streaming being all the rage you might think that the days of making personal rips of your purchased media to be a thing of the past, that is until you watch Netflix, Hulu, DisneyPlus, and others on your new LG OLED 65 or 75" HDTV, all of a sudden you start to notice the terrible compression caused mainly by your internet not being able to pipe enough bandwidth to have your true 4k content look good. So unless you are one of the few people that have a 1GB fiber connection to your house you are going to be better off with purchased physical media, or even a legal personal rip of your purchased media, and where do you store that? Well on your new 12TB hard drives. As a matter of fact you better buy at least 2 as it is a common fact that the larger capacity drives (3TB+) have a much higher failure rate then previous drives and that is no surprise as the price per GB is super low compared to what it used to be so buy one drive to use and one for backup so that if either 1 fails you wont be redoing all the work again. As for quality, there is no doubt that media played from a disk that was ripped from your purchased BD or 4k BD is going to be better than streaming the same title so with that in mind, grab a few of these drives as you can never have enough storage. These WD drives are quite, mainly because they run at lower RPMs and the enclosures are actually fairly good at deadening the noise from the drive. These points give this drive a Excellent value as you can buy 2, 4 or more of these and use one as a useable drive and the other as a backup and you will be fine for the most part. Those are the Pros, now lets hit some of the Cons, you MUST be careful with these drives, one accidental knock over of the drive, even a small one can cause catastrophic damage to the platers, additionally these drives use the incredibly annoying type of USB cable that tends to get lose over time if you unplug and re-plug the cable at the drive, so I recommend unplugging from the end that plugs into whatever device you are using and leaving the end that plugs into the drive plugged in as once they get lose they become very unreliable (basically if you even breath on the cable it can shift slightly and the drive disappears from your system, jiggle the cable and it comes back again, so use the other end when unplugging to take to another system. Another points, as mentioned before, the large drives of today are more fallible and must therefore consider a duplicate drive to clone your data to in case of failure, again I knock 1 point off for Quality because these larger drives have a higher tendency to fail, but that goes for Seagate, HSGT, Toshiba and others. Finally the power connectors on these drives are extremely large and if you are using a battery backup (which you should be) then this one power connector will take up one plug and block another regardless of were you put it as the top end overlaps the outlet above it and if you plug it in the other way then the adapter not only blocks a 2nd outlet but the power wire coming out of it can block even a third outlet so consider getting some small 1.5 foot extension cables to help eliminate this issue. The large power plug makes ease of use a bit frustrating so I knock off a point for having to do some creative wiring in order not to block half my outlets. I hope this helps, as for performance, I transferred a 27GB test file from one eternal drive to another in around 2-3 minutes which is pretty impressive and thus you should have no problems with playing your shows or even using it as a game drive. VipersHardware
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Ease of use, Reliability, Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
WD is top quality with massive storage space.
||Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.I have had excellent performance with all my WD external drives. Over time I am finding the need for more and more storage space and these externals are easily filling that need. This recent purchase is basically "plug and play". Very easy to plug in, format to my Mac and begin using. Best Buy had a really great sale and I happened to be looking for another larger external. The 12tb is going to be a great addition and help for storing and accessing my files, photos and raw video. I strongly recommend WD external drives if you're looking to store and access data. Their reputation and customer reviews speak volumes.
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Price
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
My second WD external drive and still good
||Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.This is my second 12GB external drive from Western Digital. I figured since the first one is holding up so well i'd bite it and buy another. After the drive goes to sleep it takes about 10 seconds to wake up to list the contents of the drive. This doesn't bother me but some people are very Impatient so i thought I'd mention it. I'm using this under Fedora Linux, it is formatted with EXT4 and works like a charm. The transfer rates seem fast enough although I've not benchmarked the drive. This drive is a great value when you catch them on sale. The 12GB seems to be the sweet spot for price to capacity.
This review is from WD - easystore 12TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Reliability
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great!
||Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.I've purchased 9 of these models over the course of the last 6 months and not one issue with any of them. I've shucked some of them (thank you WD for making disassembly super simple) and will do the same with the remainder. They work well and the performance is great. I get ~190MB/sec read/writes on these drives. I'm very happy. Hoping another sale pops up and I can pick up 3 more to complete my 12-drive RAID group.
This review is from WD - easystore 12TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Reliability, Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent drive with a little disappointment
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Good performance as usual, just increase the capacity. Hope to get a full-power 7200RPM drive as description, but only found out the actually rotational speed still 5400RPM as usual.
I would recommend this to a friend Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Quiet & Fast
||Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.I've had this WD 12TB external drive for almost a month now and I'm satisfied with my purchase. It's the most quiet external drive I've had. File transfer from the 6 external drives (one at a time) was quick.
This review is from WD - easystore 12TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black
I would recommend this to a friend- Pros mentioned:Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Bought 2 of these to use in a NAS
||Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.If you’re wanting a huge drive at a budget price to shuck and use in a NAS, this is it chief. For folks that are looking for specific model info about the drives inside, both contained a 12tb WD120EMFZ. Bought 2 of these for $179 each and shucked them (removed the drive from the casing) right away. I set them up in a NAS using RAID 1 (mirrored) because they are budget drives that aren’t designed to run 24/7. I wanted to minimize, as much as possible, my concern about data loss. For folks that are shopping for a NAS as well, I’d recommend a Western Digital MyCloud EX2 Ultra. Very cheap (about $150), easy to setup, has a TON of features, and supports these drives!
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Price, Reliability
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Wonderful regular external and gaming backup hard
||Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Just like all Western Digital products we have had this works beautifully! It backs up all of our data. This drive is used as the backup drive for our Xbox One S. Games play without any lag, and download to the drive without any issues. Much cheaper alternative than the hard drives marketed as gaming hard drives.
I would recommend this to a friend
Q: QuestionPC owners report that their actual usable capacity is only 10.9 TB. When reformatted for mac, do you get the full 12TB?
Asked by storage.
- A:Answer The size difference is not caused by formatting but because of the definition of Terabyte that hard drive manufacturers use (1000 gigabytes) vs what most operating systems do (1024 gigabytes). What Windows reports is actually in Tebibyte and not Terabytes. So you haven't actually lost any space at all, the OS is just giving you a different number. It is very confusing for consumers though and I wish OS makers and hard drive manufacturers would both agree to one definition and stick with it.
Answered by Trogdor
Q: QuestionHow many pictures can this hold
Asked by Linda.
- A:Answer It can probably hold about 800-1000 blu ray movies on it, which are thousands to millions of times larger than a picture so I wouldn't expect picture storage to even be a concern. The drive would probably go bad before you could ever fill it up to be honest.
Answered by Ian2019
Q: QuestionCan this drive be partitioned with each partition having a different file systems? Does this drive come with the software to do?
Asked by itsQuatro.
- A:Answer Yes and Yes, the drive comes with WD software, however you can go into control panel, administrative tools, computer management, Storage and then Disk Management and you will se the 12TB drive there. All you need to do then is delete the volume and then create volumes in whatever sizes you deem appropriate for your needs, then right click on the volume on the right side of the panel and it will present you with formatting options. I am not sure why you would want to do this but if it is what you want to do then go for it. My only recommendation is that you purchase 2 drives when dealing with 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 or now even the 16TB drives as they do have a much higher failure rate then drives did 8-10 years ago, after all you must sacrifice something for all that storage at a cheaper price so to ensure you don't lose your data, buy two and clone the drives every other month or quarterly to keep a rolling back up, that is my recommendation and as someone that has worked in IT and telecom for 32+ years I would say I have a pretty vast array of knowledge to draw from be it the 7 years I worked for a system manufacture, or the 6 years I ran a call center for a major ISP including dealing with the NOC and the Data Center there or to the 7 years I spent as a Network Administrator and Engineer as well as Facilities manager, just to give some insight into my real world experiences, you can never have enough backups. hope that helps
Answered by VipersHardware
Q: QuestionCan I connect this external hard drive to a laptop for external storage or is this a desktop exclusive external hard drive?
Asked by King12TB.
- A:Answer As long as your computer has the appropriate USB connection, it’ll work. There’s no such thing as a desktop-only or laptop-only external drive. Maybe you’re confusing with internal drives, which ARE for desktops only (though you could put one in an enclosure and connect to a laptop).
Answered by TheNerdKing
Q: QuestionIs this PMR?Or is it SMR?
Asked by procera53.
- A:Answer Both the EMAZ and EMFZ drives are PMR. Interestingly, there is evidence that the EMFZ is actually a 14TB capacity drive with 12TB firmware - presumably due to binning.
Answered by szass
Q: QuestionWould it work on my Xbox one
Asked by RGLScarface.
- A:Answer Yes, it will work. I have a 12tb for my Xbox One and works great.
Answered by Henry
Q: QuestionCan I daisy chain this drive to another external hard drive using USB 3.0?
Asked by stixx1001.
- A:Answer No, but I use a usb hub to connect multiple drives, works fine
Answered by MEB577
Q: QuestionAnyone shucked one of these and find any differences to the previous model? Curious if they are still good for use in NAS devices.
Asked by LUNDEJD.
- A:Answer I recently purchased 5 of these and shucked them for use in a new NAS. Every drive was a WD White label drive. They are currently installed in my NAS and everything is working properly.
Answered by RPH1