WD - Elements 1TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Black

This particular product extends and surpasses the expectation of storage, connectivity, and size. I use this product to store my pics and videos. I have very large database of pics and it keeps adding every week. It is very easy and fast to transfer pics from laptop to this hard drive. This portable hard drive is very sturdy and works perfectly fine even after a drop on the floor. It does come with the Cable. Great price and great customer service from WD. When you buy this particular product from the best buy make sure about the return policy (If you ever have to return or if you don't like this product, which might be unusual) for this product.

Hard drive does not have firmware upgrade to allow it to play with my Samsung LED 55in TV. So, this hard drive shows no videos after plugged into multiple USB ports on TV. It will only show videos on my laptop and other computers. I returned the item back to store.

Note: I HAVE tested this hard drive on BOTH PC & MAC operating systems, and they both work immaculately well. If need be, sometimes it is recommend to partition your hard drive BEFORE you test your hard drives on different platforms.* This hard drive is a steal. Not only is it compact, but it gets the job done when it comes to placing files within the hard drive, and making life a breeze. Be mindful that sometimes older computers cannot detect 3.0 based usbs for devices, but this one is quite helpful in both 3.0 and 2.0 ports. If you're not sure that the device isn't being read by your computer, simply shut down the computer (Not just the restart button), and power your computer back on. I can guarantee you, your issues will be resolved. So far, have had this 1TB drive for well over a month, and I can confidently say, that Western Digital is not only one of the best company's out there today, but the do make quality products.

Well, I don't usually do too many reviews, but I felt the need on this one... for those who might need the info. I was dangerously low on memory for my XBOX 360, and after wading through endless reviews trying to figure out if this WD ELEMENTS 1TB External drive was acceptable as an extended memory supply for my 360, I realize that I wasn't finding a straight-forward enough answer. Only comments pertaining to the next-gen systems where popping up. And, knock me for being out-of-date, but I honestly prefer and play more of my 360 games over the newer stuff that's currently out there. But, I don't have anymore memory left to download all the super-cheap deals XBOX LIVE is having on their "old" titles. So, I figured, for the AWESOME Deal-Of-The-Day price($34.99) that Best Buy periodically throws these drives up for on their site, it was well worth the gamble. Well, all in all, IT WORKS GREAT! Plus, simple USB Plug-N-Play functionality, too! No software needed(or included). It just takes a quick reformatting before use, then you are good to go! Also, being a 3.0 drive(as well as 2.0 backwards compatible), when needed, it will be a good source of extra memory for my XBOX ONE as well. :) Highly recommended!

I bought this to use as additional storage space for my Xbox One. Out of the box worked perfectly for my purposes. Plugged it in and it was recognized, completed the initial formatting so I could move my games to it. Transferred most of my stuff off my main hard drive to this. It seems to load things faster and I have freed up my internal storage, so my Xbox runs smoother. Overall a great buy when it was on sale for $40, would recommend this to anyone!

Easy to use but the software directions were difficult to understand. The file for them wasn't marked clearly and when I figured out which one it was, the directions were totally off about how to download the software. FYI: the software file doesn't come with the item like the directions say it should. I ended up going to the website to download that and even then the software needed for the particular model wasn't easy to find.

I have two computers in different parts of the house. I have all my files stored on an external hard drive next to my main desk top computer. I wanted the same setup with my downstairs laptop. I copied the upstairs external drive to the small WD 1 TB USB 3 unit and it works fine whenever I want to look up something from the past with my laptop. I wouldn't be able to store all that information on the laptop's rather low capacity hard drive.

I use this ext hard drive to backup photos and videos from my wife's various mobile devices. We have constantly updated sizes of sd cards and they keep getting full and hurt the performance of the devices. So I decided to get all the data off the devices and save it on this portable hard drive. It works well but it transfers data a bit slow. With my experience, it was anywhere between 10mbps to 25mbps on average. When there are multiple gigabytes of data to transfer, it can take quite a while... but the device never stumbled or stuttered. Not until after I received the device did I realize it was a 5400rpm hard drive. For "high speed USB 3.0" as it says in the description, that isnt completely correct. However the price should have been the biggest hint at was I was getting so I am not going to penalize it more than 1 star. That is why I gave it a 4 star rating. It is SOLID but Slow. It is a USB 3.0 at USB 2.0 speeds. It could have been the drive format that the mobile device needed that caused this I am not sure.