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Digital Storage Capacity	5 TB
Hard Disk Interface	USB 3.0
Connectivity Technology	USB
Brand	WD
Special Feature	Backward Compatible
Hard Disk Form Factor	2.5 Inches
Hard Disk Description	Portable
Compatible Devices	Desktop
Installation Type	External Hard Drive
Color	Black

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Adding extra storage for your videos, music, photos, and files..Date transfer rate:5Gbps.Operating temperature: 5°C to 35°C, Non-op. temperature: –20°C to 65°C.
Transfer data at maximum speed with USB 3.0; USB 2.0 compatible
Improve PC performance - When your internal hard drive is almost full your PC slows down. Don’t delete files. Free up space on your internal hard drive by transferring files to your WD Elements portable hard drive and get your laptop moving again.
Plug-and-play ready for Windows PC
High capacity in a small enclosure – The small, lightweight design offers up to 5TB* capacity, making WD Elements portable hard drives the ideal companion for consumers on the go.

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Plug-and-play portable storage.

Connect this portable drive to your PC for an instant storage upgrade. WD Elements is the ideal companion for taking important files with you on the go.

Available in capacities up to 5TB
SuperSpeed USB-A cable for transfers up to 5Gbps
2-year limited warranty
Comes formatted for Windows 10, 8.1, and 7.1. Compatible with Mac and other operating systems after reformatting

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Along with the portable hard drive, you get a quick install guide and a SuperSpeed USB-A cable (5Gbps) to effortlessly connect your device and transport your files.

Big capacity in a small device

Available in capacities up to 5TB, take your photos, videos, music and other files wherever you go.

Improve PC performance

Get your computer moving again by transferring files to your WD Elements drive.

USB 3.0/2.0 compatible

With USB 3.0 connectivity, transfer files to and from your WD Elements portable drive with ease.

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Simply connect the WD Elements Portable to your device with the included cable to start transferring your files.

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	WD Elements Portable	WD Elements Desktop	WD My Book Desktop	My Passport HDD	My Passport Ultra HDD
Capacity Up To	5TB	22TB	22TB	5TB	5TB
Backup Software	✘	✘	✔	✔	✔
Great for	Plug-and-play storage	Plug-and-play storage	Secure back up	Secure back up	Secure back up
Interface	SuperSpeed USB 3.0/2.0	SuperSpeed USB 3.0/2.0	SuperSpeed USB 3.0/2.0	SuperSpeed USB 3.0/2.0	USB-C and USB 3.1 compatible
Compatibility	Windows; Mac w/Reformat	Windows; Mac w/Reformat	Windows; Mac w/Reformat	Windows; Mac w/Reformat	Windows; Mac w/Reformat
Hardware Encryption	✘	✘	✔	✔	✔
Password Protection	✘	✘	✔	✔	✔

Will this drive [Elements Portable] work with my Xbox or PS4? What about my Mac or PC?

Yes, however, it’s best suited for PC or Mac. For the best gaming experience, we recommend the WD_BLACK P10, which is designed for optimal compatibility with Xbox/PS5/PS4.

I'm not computer savvy, is the set-up easy?

Setup is simple! Plug the drive into a USB Type-A 3.0 or 2.0 port using the included USB Type-A cable and open your device’s file manager, such as File Explorer or Finder.

Do you need a battery for the drive to work?

The drive is powered by your PC. There is no battery or battery replacement to worry about.

What needs to be done to format this device for mac?

To easily reformat to Mac, plug in the drive, open your Mac’s Disk Utility application, and follow the steps from there. Please note, this will erase any data on the drive.

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Customer Ratings	4.7266,392	4.773,528	4.43,423	4.635,191	4.66,435	4.653,662
Storage Capacity	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.4	4.6
Tech Support	4.1	4.2	3.8	4.1	3.7	3.9
Easy to use	4.6	4.7	4.6	—	4.3	4.0
Portability	4.6	4.6	—	4.6	4.4	4.6
Easy to install	4.7	4.7	4.6	4.6	—	—
Sold By	Amazon.com	Amazon.com	Amazon.com	Amazon.com	Amazon.com	Amazon.com
storage capacity	5 TB	4 TB	8 TB	4 TB	2 TB	2 TB
hardware interface	usb3.0	usb	usb3.0	usb	usb3.0, usb, usb c	usb3.1 c
compatible devices	Desktop	Desktop, Laptop	Desktop	PC, Laptop, Camera	Mac, PC, Tablet	Smartphone
form factor	Portable	Portable	—	Portable	2.5-inch	Portable

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‎5 TB Portable

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Brand

‎WD

Series

‎WD Elements Portable

Item model number

‎WDBU6Y0050BBK-WESN

Hardware Platform

‎PC, Mac

Item Weight

‎8.3 ounces

Product Dimensions

‎4.35 x 3.23 x 0.82 inches

Item Dimensions LxWxH

‎4.35 x 3.23 x 0.82 inches

Color

‎Black

Flash Memory Size

‎5

Hard Drive Interface

‎USB 3.0

Hard Drive Rotational Speed

‎7200 RPM

Manufacturer

‎Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

Language

‎English

ASIN

‎B07X41PWTY

Country of Origin

‎Thailand

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

‎No

Date First Available

‎September 11, 2019

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Western Digital elements portable hard drives offer reliable, high-capacity storage, fast data transfer rates and universal connectivity with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 devices to back up your photos, videos and files on the go. The small, lightweight design offers up to 5TB capacity.

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Ryan C

Compact and Efficient 5TB Storage Solution!

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2023

Capacity: 5TBStyle: HDDVerified Purchase

I must say I'm super impressed with the WD 5TB Elements Portable HDD, External Hard Drive. The small stature of this device is a real game-changer. It's incredibly compact, making it easy to carry and store without sacrificing on storage capacity.

Connecting it to my laptop was a breeze, and it was ready to go as an external hard drive in no time. The plug-and-play functionality was seamless, and I didn't have to deal with any complicated setups. It's a testament to its user-friendliness.

With 5TB of storage at my fingertips, I couldn't be happier with this purchase. It's made handling and storing my digital content a breeze. This external hard drive is a reliable and efficient solution that I'm truly satisfied with. If you're in need of extra storage space without the bulk, I highly recommend the WD 5TB Elements Portable HDD.

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It works great. Enjoy a huge amount of storage for a reasonable amount of money.

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2021

Capacity: 5TBStyle: HDDVerified Purchase

TL;dr – it works great. Treat it with respect, be prepared to toss the cable it comes with (because they fail) and enjoy a huge amount of storage for a reasonable amount of money.

You’ve probably read a ton of reviews on external drives and have arrived here. I’ve been in the tech biz over 44 years and was there when 128Kbyte 8” floppy disks were considered advanced. I’ve used a LOT of different drives.
Let’s put this drive into perspective: it is NOT a “portable drive”, it’s an external drive that you can choose to move from place to place. AS WITH ALL SUCH DRIVES, it contains precision moving parts; if you drop it, it will likely break. If you move it around when it’s operating, it probably won’t like it. If you drop your laptop, it will likely break. If you want an external drive that you can really move around, get an SSD.
I purchased one of these drives for cloud-storage and archival purposes. Simply put, I needed somewhere to dump large data collections for essentially read-only access as well as having a buffer area for cloud storage synchronization purposes (lots of r/w access to the drive). It worked so well I purchased another and might even get a 3rd.
Cloud storage is great for frequently accessed data, but for your video collection, your vast music collection or the 130GB of pictures your spouse took last month, you might want off-line storage. This is a great choice.
Is it fast? Slower than an SSD but faster than many external hard drives out there. If you want speed, use the local SSD in your device or get an external SSD drive. If you don’t want that expense, this is still a great drive.
In operation the drive is whisper quiet and runs slightly warm. You may have read about the “click of death”, well, yeah, it happened to me too. It won’t run on an overloaded unpowered USB hub (click, click due to lack of power). The cable it comes with is frankly troublesome and honestly you should invest in a replacement. Yup, click, click, click because the cable failed (fortunately I had another to hand, doesn’t everyone?). All that will happen with other drives too, so it’s nothing unusual.
My system: Win10 Pro and Win10 Home on Lenovo, Surface Books and Surface Pro; works out of the box just fine.
For those complaining that the drive doesn’t work with some backup software; that’s not the drives fault. For those complaining about the speed for gaming purposes, that’s not the drives’ fault either, you should have purchased an SSD.

Yes, it will work with Onedrive; just create a junction from your Onedrive folder to the required folder in the external drive.
mklink /J srcFolder destFolder
Since you have a large capacity drive for large data sets, robocopy (part of Windows) will be your friend as well as mklink to create junctions from your main drive to connection points in external drives filesystems.
What happens if the drive goes down? As with any other drive, you might have lost your data. The solution is to (gasp) purchase two drives and sync one with the other.
Pro’s: 5TB of storage for <$100. Quiet, fast and gets the job done. It’s a disk drive, it’s not there to be exciting.
Con’s: I didn’t like the cable; invest $6 on a better one. As with ALL DRIVES, you need to treat it nicely.

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Worked Great on a Brand New 2022 MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro Chip

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2022

Capacity: 2TBStyle: HDDVerified Purchase

Worked Great on a brand new 2022 MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro Chip. It's amazing how cheap HDDs are now. I will continue buying them until the price of external SDDs goes down. You can literally get twice as much storage capacity with HDDs for half the price of a SSD.

As always, with external drives used to do backups on Mac computers, you must reformat the disk before doing the backup and this WD is no different. Reformatting is a very easy task as always, and it takes no more than a few minutes to get the external drive ready for your Mac.

However, I ran into some issues with Time Machine on the newest version of Monterey (the one that came installed in the laptop). It seems like it no matter what format you choose when reformatting the external drive, Time Machine automatically reformats the drive on its own to the new Apple File System (APFS) when you do your first backup. Not only that, but once Time Machine reformats the drive to APFS and completes the backup, then it blocks the HDD and you cannot use it to save anything else in it, drop files, etc. It basically locks the drive for backups only. Oh, and with the APFS format you cannot use the drive to backup older Apple computers. I NEVER had this happened in any of my Apple computers before.

I tried a few other HDDs from other brands to ensure this was not an issue of the WD brand. They all did the same, so I knew it was an Apple software glitch issue. It took several calls to Apple to figure out that yes, Time Machine does this. The only way around this issue is to create a "new volume" in the external HDD. Then you can use the separate volume to save other things, drop files, etc. You could create as many volumes as you can, and the APFS makes it very easy. When you plug the HDD, the volume for the backup pops on your desktop (Time Machine color), along with any other volumes you created (yellow color).

Hope this saves somebody out there a lot of frustration and aggravation trying to figure out what the issue with Time Machine and external drives using the newest Monterey version. I also hope Apple fixes this problem. It makes no sense that you select a specific reformat option but then Time Machine ignores it and reformats to APFS against your wish and block the drive in the process.

The WD external drive works great. It is a really great value for 2TBs of storage, and it is a very small and lightweight drive. All the issues mentioned are specific to the Apple operating system that would happen with any HDD of any brand.

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Mary E. Davis

AS ADVERTISED; ITS A WINNER

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2023

Capacity: 1TBStyle: HDDVerified Purchase

My older external drive was no longer compatible with the new O/S system on my iMac. This tiny one takes the place of my older, larger one and fits perfectly under my computer for my back up needs. I am thrilled with the size, portability, capacity and performance. IT'S A WINNER FOR ME!

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Reviewed in Mexico on December 11, 2023

Capacity: 2TBStyle: SSDVerified Purchase

una maravilla la velocidad con la que se hacen los respaldos. algo que me tomaba 1 hora ahora me toma 10 min

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Tiago

Ótimo HD externo.

Reviewed in Brazil on November 29, 2023

Capacity: 4TBStyle: HDDVerified Purchase

4 TB. Cabe bastante coisa!
O material do HD também é bem resistente. Passa a sensação de um produto bem robusto.

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Daniel OG

Excelente compra

Reviewed in Mexico on November 4, 2023

Capacity: 4TBStyle: HDDVerified Purchase

Hasta este momento el disco me ha dando un gran desempeño, pues los datos se transfieren muy rápido sí lo conectas al puerto indicado; es perfecto para hacer el respaldo de tu información con sus 4 TB

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Juliana Assunção

Muito bom.

Reviewed in Brazil on November 2, 2023

Capacity: 1TBStyle: HDDVerified Purchase

Uso a muito tempo. De acordo com o anúncio

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Worth the price

Reviewed in Canada on October 28, 2023

Capacity: 2TBStyle: SSDVerified Purchase

It’s small, so cute! It works fine, worth the price.

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