WD - My Book 8TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black

I purchased this drive largely based upon a specific need for a USB 3.0 product with 4TB of storage. I've owned many WD internal and external HD products over time and have not had any drive failures to date over many years. I purchased this drive specifically as a backup storage drive attached to a Synology 1813+ NAS unit. This required a reformat to EXT4 as the drive comes natively formated in NTFS. The Synology NAS schedules backup to this drive of selected folder shares using the "Time Backup" software available from Synology. I'm not utilizing any of the software included from WD with this drive (backup, cloud, etc.) as the Synology NAS has its own software for each of these purposes. The drive itself is similar in size to other My Book drives. The plastic casing is certainly not as nice as the aluminum finish on the WD My Book drives that I have for my Macs, but it is similar to the black of the Synology unit and overall looks good. The power adapter is reasonably sized (not a brick), and the unit comes with a USB 3.0 cord for use with its single USB 3.0/2.0 port. WD provides a 2-year warranty with this product.

Lots of data storage for all your data needs. It's a new hard drive model (not shingled), so long term reliability is unknown. Internally it's a SATA drive, so you may remove it for internal use if you wish (which voids warranty).

price was right. easy set up. storage is very good.

Reconfiguration for mac / setup was rather quick and easy. No issues at all thus far in a month-plus of daily use, primarily as a music server. I have only been using the USB 2.0 connection thus far, so cannot comment on speed for USB 3.0. Overall reliability should be proven with time, and I will write followup if any issues arise.

You can't go wrong with an external hard drive from WD. I have owned a few over the years and have never had any problems with them. Completely user friendly. Simply plug and play. I went larger this time due to the sale price, but all their drive sizes are excellent. Highly recommend.

You can't beat the price/performance of this hard drive. I have my entire iTunes library stored on this drive, which is about 3/4 full right now. Not a single problem ever. If I need another one in the future, this is the first place I would go.

Beside losing 800mb from the system space if you looking to veracrypt the drive better wait a whole day for it to finish.

Biggest TB out there so far and well worth the money! Easy to install, pretty my much plug and go! I saved under 20,000 pics including some videos and only used 188 GB!