WD - easystore 14TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black

I'm very satisfied. It's 14tb, so it has plenty of capacity.Me I'm less worried about physical damage because it's the wd I trust the most.

Great performance! Fast delivery! Easy to use!! and Nice price(with a good deal) Thank you best buy~ :)

Normally I'm a fan of WD, but we always test our hard drives before using them. This unit FAILED the Complete Drive Test (full media scan) in the official WD Utilities tool. We ran the test twice, and the drive failed both times. :( Hopefully Best Buy just got a bad batch around the holidays. We will be exchanging the bad drives soon and will test the replacements as well.

I've had a lot of storage (not RAM) over the years, so the need for a 14 TB hard drive was a bit shocking. I'm hoping this will be my last backup drive for a while. It works great, no installation for a fellow that enjoys electronics. Sometimes I look at my drive, just sitting there... blinking quietly; it warms my cold robotic heart. Thanks for holding on to my data, new friend.

With apologies to George Carlin... I filled up my easyStore 10TB a while ago, so offloaded to another drive. Thus was looking for additional capacity. 12TB's were on sale occasionally, but decided to wait for the 14TB. Who knows when or if a 16TB easyStore will arrive. And my wait was rewarded recently. Ordered it on 3/17. Initially said it would ship in a week, but shipped on 3/19 from the Chicago area, got it the next day in SE Minnesota via Fedex. Inside a larger shipping box with inflatable bags to fill the empty space to keep the external drive box from sliding around. I ordered it so I didn't have to run clear across town to the local BB. Plus avoided the city sales tax as I am outside the city limits in a township. If there are problems I can still return/exchange it to/at the local BB instead of paying to ship it back. CrystalDiskInfo reports WDC WD140EMFZ-11A0WA0 5400 RPM. Firmware revision 81.00A81 Windows properties has Capacity: 14,000,517,541,888 bytes 12.7 TB First is decimal (1000's) second is binary (1024's) Divide the first by 1024 enough times and you will end up with 12.7 Powerbrick is still 12V 1.5A, but is rotated 90 degrees compared to the 10TB brick. Will fit better on a typical power strip, leaves more room. But at 1.2 inches wide at the base the bricks can't be adjacent, at least on my power strip. And the brick also partially covers the next ground pin. But a two wire plug should fit between them. First thing I did was run ChkDsk: 20:33:38.65 Fri 03/20/2020 C:\WINDOWS\system32>chkdsk f: /f /r The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is WD 14TB. Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ... 256 file records processed. File verification completed. 0 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ... 1 reparse records processed. 286 index entries processed. Index verification completed. 0 unindexed files scanned. 0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found. 1 reparse records processed. Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ... Security descriptor verification completed. 15 data files processed. Stage 4: Looking for bad clusters in user file data ... 240 files processed. File data verification completed. Stage 5: Looking for bad, free clusters ... 3417964753 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete. Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems. No further action is required. 13351933 MB total disk space. 37864 KB in 13 files. 84 KB in 17 indexes. 0 KB in bad sectors. 483451 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 13351424 MB available on disk. 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 3418095103 total allocation units on disk. 3417964754 allocation units available on disk. 5:12:44.92 Wed 04/01/2020 C:\WINDOWS\system32> That took almost two weeks, Stage 5 took most of the time. Then I ran WD Drive Utilities Complete Drive Test. That took about 23 hours to run. Lastly I ran HGST DFT (Drive Fitness Test) SMART Extended Test. That also took about 23 hours to run. In conclusion ChkDsk /f /r is by far the more thorough test. (Used Auto Screen Capture and MouseJiggle to capture the screens and to keep Windows 10 updating the windows. Standalone exe's, no installation needed.) Robocopy'ing (multi-GB size files) from the aforementioned offloaded drive to the 14TB was running around 110 MB/s write speed. Both connected to the same Sunix USB4300NS USB 3 card. Took a combined time of 27 hours to copy 9.58 TB from the offloaded drive and the easyStore 10TB to the 14TB. Had some three wire Thermaltake TT-1225 case fans removed from a disposed case. Mounted them on bolts to blow up into the enclosure. Pretty quiet. During the robocopy, the 14TB was 27 degrees. The other drive, 7200 RPM, in an Orico 6619S3-US-BK open dock, was 42 degrees. So far, so good...

I got this 14TB HDD for a great price @ $189.99, and in the last few weeks of use, I am left with no complaints; everything works as it should and I have not experienced any issue with noise or clicking as some others have reported, unfortunately. This is strictly for personal, non-professional use for backing up a variety of file types. I have not yet run the backup software that is included, or any other software for that matter, so I cannot comment on that. Nevertheless, it was a breeze to set up, quite straightforward really. I did notice that after ceasing to operate the drive (after having initiated activity between the WD and my internal drive, such as during a file transfer, and then going on about my business while leaving the external WD powered on), the drive spins down when not in direct use. This of course adds to its longevity and preserves its lifespan, as others have pointed out. This can, however, be a bit annoying as it requires a brief moment for the drive to start up again should you want to resume file transfer and such between the drives. But if it's working to its own benefit on the other hand, I can tolerate this minor inconvenience. The overall size and design of the case is quite decent, though short of extraordinary, if anybody was concerned. Although a matte finish would probably be ideal to avoid fingerprints and scuffs (reminiscent of WD's My Book model, it appears), I also appreciate the glossy finish on this one. It's nice to glance at this mini tower from time to time and realize that I am set for half a lifetime as far as storage solutions go :)

I love these drives, but you do need to run the WD tool to test the drive before you start to use it. It takes about 30 hours to do it with a drive this size, but it's so worth it as the first one I got was bad.

Very NOISY hard drive. I record studio samples so this drive is useless. I would return but I ahve already backedup my samples so I will forgive this. Terrible. Also It is only a 12 TeraByte Drive. They obviously do not know the MicroSoft Standards. 12TB. I bought my Sandisk and Western Digital and other models which are the TERABYTES they advertise in detection. I would say I'd return it but I have a lot of samples already stored. I throw this noisy drive into the closet in case I ever need my samples later on down the road.