WD My Book 6TB External Hard Drive Storage USB 3.0 File Backup and Storage

Pros: 1) Very large digital storage space and reasonably portable 2) It is affordable 3) Quiet (No audible noise unless I get right up next to it) 4) No heat issue 5) Fast read/write speeds 6) Works right out of the box 7) USB 3.0 cord is sturdy Cons: 1) Annoying Utility Software 2) Glossy exterior can attract fingerprints easily Update: I formatted the Drive and using it without its Utility Software...

Delivery was prompt. The hdd worked as expected.

I had got this product in October of 2015 at ~19k and it was every bit of the money I paid. It works perfectly and has never had any issue as such. However given that now (July 2017) the cost is gone to 29K, I would not recommend this product. A cheaper and newer alternatives are available.

got many others too

Very Good.

Price is very high compare to 4tb drives. For additional 2tb no way to pay nearly double the price of 4tb Price is under 15k means OK otherwise go for 4tb drives We can get 8tb for 20k

I confess to not having spiked it in via the usb 3.0 yet, however the unit appears 100% and should perform as robustly and reliably as all my other WD products, NONE OF WHICH (Western Digital only) I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED A PROBLEM WITH!! I can only say this about Western Digital products - others hard drive manufacturers like Samsung hard drive division (since bought by Seagate, which subsequently was then bought by Western Digital) have in past proved dismally unreliable, and customer service was lacking in my several experiences with these brands, as well. G-Tech, now owned also by WD, proved the worst ever experience, worse even that the dismal Samsung and the dismal Seagate. And it wasn't even about the products, which are ok. It was the executive attitude there at G Tech in California toward us global consumers (distrustful, arrogant, smug and self-satisfied, and blatantly outwardly hostile) that gave me the utter creeps, as I experienced a certain executive at that company (G Tech) who was downright sleazy and paranoid when I dealt with her on a matter related to their product line - I own 4 G Techs, but would never bother with that brand no matter who owns them now, as the company's core team as represented by this key marketing employee has demonstrated some lousy attitude toward customers, I discovered. Lady Marketing exec at G Tech, if you read this you know who you are and you simply suck as a brand builder and aren't half as smart as you think you are, you smug wonk. I will never forget that B%^$#& executive at G-tech and I hope her bosses threw her to the curb by now like yesterday's trash, for she is indeed a true brand liability. She knew so little about the technology she was representing as a Marketing head, and it was via her that I realized how far we consumers are being conned on pricing for these basic peripheral, and how little we are respected and valued by the executive team that gets paid the nice salaries there at G Tech. Get over yourself lady Marketing head at G Tech, you know who you are and yer shi^ ain't that special. She reminds me of the scumbag cd music execs at the big name music studios from an earlier era who were disdainful of both consumers and the recording artists as well – just give them their go^da8n money and everyone be damned... G Tech execs are just not likeable people, I discovered. They have issues. Moving on... WD is the reliability leader in the external hard drive realm. So assuming this WD unit performs as it should (which I have no doubt it will), I will comment on the speed of the Amazon transaction itself... It was expedited with great efficiency and precision. Yet another win for Joe Consumer, as this unit was at a "great" price point. Now if this general product category would only begin to lower its prices and keep them there, I would be thrilled. As it is, one has to be patient until such a deal as this price point makes its appearance. I feel these hard drives are generally selling here in Canada for more than is necessary for WD and the others to turn a profit, and I wish they would rethink their pricing strategy to enable consumers to avail themselves more of this technology with less concern for the high prices. More units sold (greater economy of scale) will net WD great profits and will benefit consumers simultaneously, as opposed to socking it to us with these (on average) $250-$300 per 6TB drive prices... this reminds me of the way the cd was used to exploit / extort the western consumer into parting with more cash than was necessary to purchase a simple prerecorded cd. The vinyl album pricing (moderate expense) soon enough gave way to the duplicitous collusive industry pricing of the cd industry, which became something of a rip-off. With external hard drives, they don't need to go for the kill price to succeed, but these consolidated hard drive manufacturers (and WD owns quite a few recognized hard drive brands under its umbrella). In my opinion, the industry jacked hard drive prices some years ago complaining their manufacturing infrastructure in Thailand was compromised due to destructive typhoon. OK, boys that ship has sailed long ago and you have your Porsches parked in your garages and your new home renos done now, so lay off on the overheated prices for these pretty basic pieces of modern technology that will in some few years essentially be obsolete tech. OK I'm done now. But WD does make a great hard drive regardless, so buy WD as they have earned this loyalty.

Over the years, I've owned several WD drives for storage and backup. At 6TB, this one was by far the largest. Like the other ones, it is reliable and trouble-free, and this one is big enough that I can store everything I have in digital format onto it: half a million photos, hours and hours of video, and archived documents going back 25 years. In the old days, such capacity would have cost thousands of dollars. Now, it costs a fraction of that, and if and when I need more storage in the future, I'll get an even bigger WD drive (10 - 12 TB) and the price, I'm sure will be even lower than today. Another thing that I like about WD is the bundled back up software: easy to set up and very reliable. Backed up files are accessible as they are anytime, without the need to extract or decompress them.

Muy bueno, pero mi equipo se dañó pronto y tendré que recurrir a garantía. Muy buen equilibrio entre precio, funcionalidad y capacidad

good hard drive, USB 3.0, compact, user friendly, love the possibility to lock with a password the entire drive, what i don't like is the lie about the capacity, don't expect to use the 6TB written on the box because after plug in your 6TB defrost to +5TB, where is my 1TB missing, i know about the calcul done, but why the companies don't put on the box the real amount usable on the hard drive, some action in this sense are in there way (forcing them to change this point), that's why i give a 3 stars. overall: good product at 249$

I like this product so much I bought a second one. The first I use for storing feature films, concerts etc. in my home theater room. You can store several hundred feature films in the highest quality on this product with 6TB of memory and it connects to my DVR and provides three times the memory of the DVR itself. I use a second for all music files, photos, etc. and connect that one to a MINIX media player in my home theater room. While all of these files for films, music, etc. can fit on one box for now, I am anticipating the time when I will need to split them up and since I connect them to separate devices, it made sense to divide things up and prepare for the future. The WB My Book is very effective for storage and yes, you can use it to back up computer files too. It is quick for storing and retrieving, quiet, and offers a large amount of storage. This device is normally "on" at all times since it doesn't have an on-off switch. However if you connect it to a DVR, media player, or computer via a USB cable, and shut that device off for the night, you will turn this unit off at the same time.