WD 1TB Elements Portable USB 3.0 External Hard Drive, Up to 5Gb/s Data Transfer Rate

WD Elements

WD 1TB Elements USB 3.0 External Hard Drive, Up to 5Gb/s Data Transfer Rate

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Buy: WD 1TB Elements Portable USB 3.0 External Hard Drive, Up to 5Gb/s Data Transfer Rate Color: Black, Operating System: PC/Windows

Crap product, came in defective, hooked up to 2 computers and it would even recognize it, I have had WD drives before but this will definitely be the last time I ever order one from them

Piece of Crap

I've only just recently installed the drive and copied about 1TB of data from my second internal drive, via TeraCopy.  It ran smoothly and completed the task.  I bought this for a second backup external drive.

First impression: excellent

This is ridiculous. It broke down with no warning just 3 months after the 2-year warranty expired ... !!! There no stress whatsoever. I didn't move for the entire time, no duat, no high temperatures. No unplugging. Nothing !!!

I have other disks (Toshiba, Samsung & Seagate) that are 5+ years old and they work impeccanly under the same conditions.

This is completely unacceptable and I AM DEFINITELY ÐONE WITH BUYING ANY WD PRODUCTS.

By all means, take your time ... You have plenty of time to get your act together until you lose all your other customers and get labeled as the company producing the worst disks ever and robbing your customers of their money, data and time ...

What a surprise ... ? It broke down just 3 months

I've been using the 6TB WD Element as an external hard drive for my work as a full time wedding photographer since 2018. I guess I just stuck with what I knew, but I should have left this model behind the first time it failed me. This HD is super sensitive to being unexpectedly ejected. On the few occasions that power has gone out and shut down my desktop, it has unmounted and will not mount to the desktop again. Despite a lot of trouble shooting, the hard drive is useless and my photos are inaccessible. I'm tired of the near misses and continued problems with this hard drive.

Three WD Elements Failed

Great drive! I have the 4TB drive. In 1985, disk storage was expensive and certainly not comparable to what we have today, and for the price!

Best buy for the money

I got the WS elements drive via amazon, it comes with software that is not supported on the wd elements so I have had to send drive back. If you supply software and none of it work why add it on the drive. and as for getting support the paper gives telephone number, they asks a list of loads of drives and you need to select what you think is correct then told you need to call another number then told its not supported. so drive going back to amazon and I will buy seagate

Terrible support and drives with unsupported sw

Barely used it just to back up data just for safety
Never touched it in a couple of yaers. When I came back to retrieve my data it was not working.
Talking about a waste of money and all the data that it cost me.
Shame WD. Thats it a low quality product you released there.

Although long WD fan, my next HDD was not an WD

Unreliable and flimsy

I now have three of these in the 5TB size, all perform perfectly for their intended purpose, offline storage of seldom accessed files.  I am able to transfer large chunks of data quickly, even between drives and they take up very little space when not in use, even fits in a pocket in my laptop bag.

great performance in a compact size

How do you get rid of the driver on your Windows 11 system that has caused nothing but problems.  The drive did not do a system image at all.  Nothing but errors. Now can't turn on memory integrity due to this driver.   I returned the WD Elements drive because I was fed up with it.

Never again

The hard drive became totally dead. I tried different cables and different computers, but it did not work. No proper support is available online. I was relying on that device as solid-state trouble-free, and I lost all the data that I have been collecting for years.

Hard drive is dead.

I purchased and to my surprise there is no WD security software comes with the and you have to use third party software. this is absolutely ridicules.

No WD security to encrypt information.

I bought this hard drive model several years ago and so far it hasn't slowed down one iota

It's really fast. Durable. Powerful

it never left my desktop setup.  randomly stopped working after 4 months.  all data lost.  terrible

stopped working in 4 months

wont even turn on no matter what you do its crap and dont buy it go with sandisk

crap

This device never worked from day one and I get no Tech suoport either!

not really

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This drive is proving to be reliable.  I just plugged it in and it was ready to go.  Nice, small form factor makes this east to pack.

The right tool for the job.

Started malfunctioning in less than a month. I have been using WD discs for decades. I have owned a passport portable drive and using it all the time since approx. 15 years now. The latest offerings by WD over the last 3-5 years (and I've bought many) are TERRIBLE and avoidable at best in terms of quality and reliability. I am looking to switch all my storage solutions away from WD. Beware!!!

Terribly unreliable

Lost all my data I'd been saving for years. 1000's of artwork vector files gone. This drive has always been difficult. I have 2 of them and both have failed me. Don't waste your money.

Junk

I had this for about a year and it failed on me. I have business customer and personal data on that I hopefully should be able to retrieve but very inconvenient. I have to purchase another device and an another hard drive . I prefer  external hard drives but i might have to go to cloud . I also had a WD My Book. That one lasted me 8 years and now that one failed also. Anyone look into buying WD Element I would be very cautious. maybe a higher end one would work.

WD 1TB Elements? USB 3.0 Portable - WDBUZG0010BBK-

The preformence was pretty good when i first bought it and it was very easy to set up, sadly im never buying here again, their warranty is absolute trash. It covers nothing and its basically a worthless piece of paper. they dont cover any type of damage, even if it arrives broken, gets scratched or anything. in one part of the warranty they say they offer repairs, but in another part (and in my convo with support) they dont offer any repairs. it really sucks that their warranty is like this because the price is good and i was satisfied with how easy it was to use.

Buy from Seagate instead

Drive is compact. Quiet and easily setup. Good price

Everything you need for good storage

Bought this to add storage for my tv Tablo...works easy in 2 minutes

Hard drive

Can't get it to work   I have spent hours and can't get it to work

Too complicated

Been using them for years, they are a great product

Portable drive

Thes little guys always work.  We have 15 or so we rotate for back ups,  Never a problem!

WD ELEMENTS

Please beware. I got the 2TB version because it was cheap. The first one failed within first two weeks, and the replacement drive I received overheats after 15 minutes. 
I am now awaiting my third drive, of which I have very little hope for.

Two failed drives.

its been just 1 year and hard disk not working. i lost my saved data also dont buy it.wrost product

not showing in LAPTOP

It pays to purchae straight from the manufactorI purchase one from Amazon, broke.

WD Elements Portable

Had 2 of these fail so far 1st one got the fatal hardware error right out of the box, the replacement let me load 600gb worth of games onto it before having the same error

WD 1TB Elements Portable USB 3.0 External Hard Drive, Up to 5Gb/s Data Transfer Rate

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