WD5TB Elements portable external hard drive, USB 3.0 interface, portable external storage, Plug-and-Play, SuperSpeed USB 3.2 Gen 1, Formatted for PC and Mac, Black

I bought this to connect to a Raspberry Pi as a shared storage device for our home network. It's about the same size as the Pi itself so it's a good fit. It's been working constantly without any problems for the last month or so, and we've got a number of devices dropping data onto it in a variety of file sizes and types.It comes formatted for Windows, so the only change I've made is to ditch the Windows/NTFS partition on it and reformat them as ext4, which only took a few minutes then set up a file share in Samba so it can be used by Windows machines over the network.File transfer speed is good between the host and the drive, to the point where it is viable to use files on the drive directly in applications without first copying them on to a local machine first. That's not always the case with USB disks used over a network, so definitely a plus point there.I'm not using it as a portable device, and if you are considering it I'd suggest some sort of carry case or bumpers to protect the edges and corners while in transit.In all, this is a good little device that exceeds my expectations, and well worth the money paid.

Excellent. Small size, fast data transfer. Using it to back up my data for which it is perfect.

Very compact and easy to use at a very competitive price for 2TB.I bought this specifically to take my PS4 games off the internal PS5 SSD but I didn't want to get a 'game drive' specific one as I would have more freedom if I wanted to partition it and backup some PC files as well.The setup couldn't have been easier, I took it out of the box, plugged it in and the PS5 recognised it instantly. I had to format the drive before I could use it which I thought might take a few minutes at most but only took 5 seconds, then I selected around 360GB of PS4 games/apps and started the transfer.After the format I had 1.8TB free which is more than enough and with all drives they need space for their base operating software which is usually a small fraction off the stated capacity, a lot of people clearly don't understand this from some of the reviews complaining they got less capacity than they purchased -_-The transfer was speed really good for a physical drive, better than I was expecting, it took just over an hour for it to finish moving the whole 350+GB to the external drive.My PS5 told me once that the drive wasn't removed properly after powering on after being in rest mode, I didn't remove the drive at all so I'm not sure why it said that. This error message has only come up once and happened the first time the console had been in rest mode with the new drive connected. The console has been in rest mode and turned off multiple times after this message and hasn't given me the error since so it may just be a one time thing.I'll update this review if I come across any issues.Loading PS4 games from the External as opposed to launching them from the internal SSD was a little bit slower. All times below were timed from the point of clicking resume on my game file to actually getting into the game.- Resident Evil 7 took 77sec to load which I'd played the day before on the PS5 SSD which probably took under 30 seconds. In-game the performance was perfect, no frame drop, no noticeable delay on textures rendering in.- Horizon Zero Dawn took 30-40sec which was actually quicker than RE7 despite being a huge open world game, the in-game performance was perfect too even with the 60FPS patch.- God of War took 29 seconds to load into the game.- Batman Arkham Knight took just 32 seconds to load my save and get into the game.- Mortal Shell took just 20 seconds to load into the game.- Call of Duty Modern Warfare took 56 seconds to load into the game from chapter selection.

This is the second one of these that I have bought as I was pleased with the first. I use them as backup devices and have added another in to my rotation. It's a traditional disk (not sold state). It's fast. And so far reliable. I bought the 4TB model. It's still a reasonable price but the price has shot up significantly since the first one I bought (and so if I were to shop around now there may be better deals out there)

Used for backups, does the job

Easy to format for iMac, works well, delighted with this external hard drive, so delighted that I bought a second one for my partner and she too is very happy with it. Pretty silent, though my old Mac isn’t 😄

Worked first time and ease of use good. Description of contents is misleading as a cable is included.Truly pocket size so ease of storing. Replaced a chunky 20 year old hdd.Pleased so far.

Great little hard drive which is a perfect backup for my PC. Thanks