Bought this for my dad so he could back up his computer. Plugged it into the router so it would function as a make-shift NAS and works perfectly. Has been running for 6 months now without issue and no need to reboot thus far.

I just got 2 of these as well as 2 of the portable WD 4TB My Passport drives (B&H # WEMP4WDBYFB). WD's portable drives are 5 stars, because you can password protect them and when you connect your drive to a new computer, there's a small 30MB partition on the drive that acts as a virtual CD-ROM to...

This hard drive was an excellent price. It is working well, and is simple to use. I have not tried to use any of the special features, as I'm just using it as a backup drive for now.

These Western Digital external drives are great, simple to use (you just connect it to your computer, open it, and then drag and drop your files) and not too noisy. The only downside is that 3TB isn't a lot at all these days, a decade ago it maybe was fine but this is 2014 and it would be good if...

Reliable; none

I purchased this product for the benefit of saving and protecting all my file from hard drive failure. Cloud storage is good but when you need to protect a lot of files beyond 5 GB it starts to get realty expensive.

Easy To Operate And Hook; Small Foot Print; Smooth File Transfers

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I've only had it for a few months, but like all similar WD drives in its class, it looks like it will last for several years of normal use! A normal expectation, of a high-performing product!

If you need your data storage needs to be taken care for years then this is the perfect product. Works well with my IMac Desktop , pretty easy to configure through desktop utilities. I wasnt able to use the preinstalled software to format, so had to use system software to format it.

I have three external backups now. One Seagate, and two Western Digital. This is very quite and fast! I was surprised how small it was. It's as small as my 1TB Seagate. It also comes with their Backup Pro software which was a major reason I bought this over the other brand. Highly recommend this

This is my external drive for storing archive copies of all RAW format pictures from my business.

I have used WD drives as primary data backups in my work for 4+ years, and never had a bad experience. Transferring large data files is relatively fast using the 3.0 interface, and haven't had a drive fail yet. Would recommend as a primary data backup drive.