WD 20TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive, USB 3.0 external hard drive for plug-and-play storage - WDBWLG0200HBK-NESN

Used or refurbished. Loud spinning noises when loading. Shakes the desk. Takes a minute to wake up from sleeping.

This is still good storage drive and really not much to complain nor praise about for these storage drive. What I would love to know is the information mentioned by this user, LA in Dallas, mentioned in it review for 16tb external hard drive WD. One thing to mention: your computer may report the size of the disk as 14.5 TB. What that really means is that the drive capacity is 16 x 10^12 bytes, which corresponds to 14.5 x 2^40 bytes, sometimes written as 14.5 TiB. (One tibibyte, 1 TB, is 2^40 bytes.) Computers often work in powers of 2, which is why your computer may say the disk is 14.5 TB. - LA in Dallas There is not a lot of people who would go into details behind the TB number or how different it would look once connected and loaded onto the computer. I am certain those that looking for storage only look at the capacity or only come to know of the capacity and not the ins of TB and it different appearance. I would like WD and many other companies that make hard drive and external hard drive, and etc. to considered adding these information onto their product pages. Thank you.

Used this drive to upgrade the capacity of my Storj Node speeds and capacity are great even thought it falls 1.5tb short of the 20tb capacity it’s advertised as

Pro - Simple White Label WD drive inside, passed stress test with no issues Con - Much more difficult to shuck than lower capacity models, power cable is quite short for anyone planning on using it as an external drive

Using this connected to a Asustor NAS, have lots of media and this drive is currently housing all the movies I have, works great and spins down when Im not watching something on Plex. Have loaded it up with almost 12TB of content so far and no issues, runs great. Actual formatted capacity will always be less of course, but overall this fits my needs perfectly!

in terms of dollars per gigabyte, at the time I purchased these, the 12 TB was the best value. Assuming that you are not substantially space constrained (shelf space). With these high density drives reliability is always a primary concern too. they really push the boundaries of what is feasible as they continue to push the capacity higher and higher. Which is why for a long time I avoided such monsters. But these have been around for long enough now that I feel more comfortable buying them. I used a program called BADBLOCKS and let it run tests continuously for about 5 days (every sector read/write multiple times) before deciding to put these bad boys into use. One of the big problems with these high capacity drives is the amount of time that it takes to move data in and out of them. So I was very happy to see that they have increased the throughput to a sustained 200 Megabytes per second Read/Write. Of course actual access times vary due to many factors but on large files USB3 that is what I was seeing. So Really Happy About That. There is an endless debate about which is better (more reliable) Seagate or Western Digital. I have found WD to be very reliable, I cant tell you which one is more reliable But I tend to avoid Seagate because some of their drives are/were very slow for me. Only time will tell about the ultimate reliability, but these passed my tests with flying colors and I have some WD 8TB drives that are about 4 years old without any problems. (Im only using these drives for backups so not super stressing them). Remember folks.... You need to make at least two copies of everything ( 2 drives) and if it is something that you really care about then make 3 copies and take one offsite. I have seen far too many horror stories of people whos backups failed for various reasons. These drives will get the job done.

I was looking for a large capacity USB drive as a backup for my NAS. This fits the bill but I was a little concerned after reading reviews. After researching multiple brands it seems they all have DOAs and early death units to some degree so I decided that any brand would probably have about the same level of risk. Upon arrival I took it out of the package, connected it to my NAS, and immediately started copying 8TB of data to it. It was ready to go out of the box and my Synology had no issues detecting it. I wanted to find out right away if there was going to be any issues. No problems with the initial copy or any syncs after that. This has worked great for me. Most of the time it is sleeping, so I hope it lasts for a long time.

I have (had) two of these for my HD movie server, one for the server, and one for backup. They work great for streaming over your network and have a reasonably fast transfer speed. really the only negative I can find is that theyre not too durable. While backing up the main drive, I knocked the backup drive onto the floor. This was about an 18 drop but it was enough to cause internal damage to the drive. Ive dropped HDs before without this happening. So now I only have one of these and need to purchase another for my backup.

I get these for add-on storage for Windows 10 PC, I have some from as far back as 2011 that are still running, sizes back then as small as 2.5 TiB now I have several 8 TiB and 10 TiB Elements, and a few 12 TiB Elements as well. The Elements series of WD drives are meant to save energy consumption, and after several minutes of no read or write requests from the system, they stop spinning. This saves energy and wear on the device, as read and write heads, arms and actuators, spindle motor and servo control motor are all points where friction and wear cause eventual device failure over time, months and years, so a drive that rests when not in use can definitely last longer than one that is always ready for input or reading. Experience has taught me this. I have bought several brands of drives for add-on storage, but WD Elements have never failed on me, I have not had such good value with other brands. Because of this I only buy WD Elements now. While Solid State Drives are becoming more popular and readily available, for now they only make sense for me as the operating system drive for Windows and Windows Updates, not for mass storage until they become available in large storage sizes at a much lower price per TiB, since I have no idea how long I will need more storage at a reasonable price like WD Elements. These work right out of the box, I have more than 20 of them. I remember one time when something went wrong (I am not sure what), and an Elements 10 TiB didnt show in Windows. I went to the Western Digital web site which had several apps for Windows and Mac to support the Elements and other drives they sell, and forums for support as well as other support options. I was able to download an app that formatted the drive for NTFS with GUID partition table (GPT), and in a short time it was ready to use. Except for that one time, they are always plug in ready right from the box and store files.

so far no issues, purchased to replace a newly purchased Seagate which failed in 20 days or less,