WD - My Book 6TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black

Work great on Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit and detect 5.45 TB capacity from 6 TB. I use program to check all surface test said no bad sectors found. That is great news! I don't need WD software for protection, that is for someone who had children like to mess up files. I'm very happy with 6 TB hard drive and it's really big capacity space should be great for tons of games, movies, videos, pictures, and other important files backup. I would buy again when it get on sale again. Western Digital (WD) is best ever in the world that is what I own every WD hard drives are still stronger and never fail on me so far. WD company is doing great! I'm heard this 6 TB will work fine with Xbox One and PS4. Come in ExFAT format type will work with Xbox One and PS4.

Prefer to also maintain copies of my data backups at home, physically. Bought the new generation WD My Book with 6TB, as I plan ahead for future capacity. Using best practices in cyber-hygiene, my backup drives are never connected to the internet during the backup process, or when accessing files. There is no power down switches or buttons on this drive (also no LEDs to indicate whether it's even on). This is a huge downside to this desktop solution; I read that previous iterations of My Book had power switches. Instead, what has to occur EVERY time I want to connect or disconnect this drive for my use case — I have to completely shut down my CPU, and physically plug both the USB and power cables into the back of the device. Then I turn on the CPU, do what I need to do — then shut down the computer AGAIN — AND AGAIN unplug the USB and power cables from the back. The software that comes with the device only allows you to set an amount of time before it goes to sleep, and, for Windows 10, since it recognizes the devices as a HDD (different from how it identifies the portable WD version; My Passport), you cannot disconnect the device; like you would for an SD card or USB drive. Horrid decision by the engineers to eliminate the power button; makes me wish I bought the previous version of My Book when it was still available in stores. Therefore, rated only at three (3) stars.

This is my second 6TB storage device and the price was right, since it was on sale and the larger ones were not. Being a wildlife photographer and newspaper columnist, the pressure is on for a lot of photos and several are large files. This is a good simple way to do it. Everything can be retrieved quickly and they can be stored via several parameters for easy recall.

Western Digital is my go to for hard drives. I have had more problems over the last 3-4 years with other brands of drives. So far only Western Digital drive lost was my fault I dropped a bare drive and manage to mess up the connector. This unit is reliable and is being used as a storage device plugged in only occasionally to store backups of important files. It is plugged in to an already running PC and always starts up, periodically run disk check on it so far no bad sectors. SW indicates it runs cool has never hit the red zone even during large data transfers. No fan so it runs quiet. Would also be a great drive for more active use as well.

This is a very fast hard drive. Super quiet in my opinion. Ample storage capacity for archiving music and data from my laptops and desktops, and video footage from my dashcam. I love that it is a password protected hard drive. I've been using it for several months without any technical issues. Great hard drive.

WD has been around long enough to prove they are not some cheap, fly by night brand. They offer great quality drives at good prices. The sale price at Best Buy made this a steal and it is a fantastic, reliable drive for backup or extra storage for any system.

My husband and I both have a Western Digital Hard Drive and use it as a backup for our computers. I feel comfortable that my backup is right on my desk and not in a cloud somewhere. Great hard drive for the price and is easy to use.

I bought this item because of its capacity, as well as price. So far I've been happy with my purchase. It's easy to set up and use immediately. Would recommend this item.