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WD - easystore 12TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black

Model:WDBAMA0120HBK-NESN
SKU:6425301
Your price for this item is $219.99

Storage Capacity

12000GB
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Specifications
  • Key Specs

    Storage Capacity
    12000 gigabytes
    Storage Drive Type
    HDD
    Interface(s)
    Micro-USB Type B
  • General

    Product Name
    easystore 12TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive
    Brand
    WD
    Model Number
    WDBAMA0120HBK-NESN
    Color
    Black
  • Capacity

    Storage Capacity
    12000 gigabytes
  • Performance

    Storage Drive Type
    HDD
  • Compatibility

    Internal Or External
    External
    External Hard Drive Type
    Desktop
    Interface(s)
    Micro-USB Type B
    Operating System Compatibility
    Windows, Mac
    Minimum System Requirements
    Formatted for Windows 8.1/10, Reformatting required for macOS
  • Features

    Security Features
    Software
    Data Encryption
    true
    Usage
    Backup, Everyday computing
  • Power

    Power Source
    AC adapter
  • Dimensions

    Product Height
    6.7 inches
    Product Width
    2 inches
    Product Weight
    31.5 ounces
  • Included

    Included Software
    WD Discovery
  • Warranty

    Manufacturer's Warranty - Parts
    2 years
    Manufacturer's Warranty - Labor
    2 years
  • Other

    UPC
    718037882987
Features

Find a reliable storage solution for large files with this WD easystore external desktop hard drive. The USB 3.0 interface and backward-compatibility with USB 2.0 offer broad connectivity, while the automatic backup solution reduces the risk of data loss. This WD easystore external desktop hard drive features a 12TB capacity to provide ample space for videos and photos.

  • USB 3.0 interface

    Offers easy-to-use connection to devices. Backward-compatible with USB 2.0 for simple connection to your computer.

  • Easy-to-use auto backup

    Comes with the WD Discovery™ backup software that lets you set hourly, daily, or monthly backup schedules and makes it easy to back up high-capacity files to your drive. Compatible with Apple Time Machine (requires reformatting).

  • Get More Out of WD Discovery™

    Included WD Discovery™ software makes it easy to back up your photos, videos, and documents to the easystore™ desktop storage.

  • Compatible with Mac and PC

    For use with your existing computers.

  • 12TB storage capacity

    Provides ample space for storing documents, photos, music and more.

  • Limited warranty

    This WD easystore™ desktop drive comes with a two-year warranty.

  • External design

    The desktop storage features a USB cable and AC adapter to work with most systems.

  • WD Discovery™ software

    Allows you to manage your easystore™ HDD and expands its capabilities.

What's Included

  • WD easystore 12TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive

  • AC adapter

  • USB cable

  • WD Discovery software

  • Owner's manual

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Reviews

Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars with 1731 reviews

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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.

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  • Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Loads of space for dirt cheap

    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

    Posted by VipersHardware

  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    WD is top quality with massive storage space.

    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.

    Posted by NHlocal

  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    My second WD external drive and still good

    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.

    Posted by jdwininger

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