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(Image credit: Western Digital) Final verdict
#Wd 8tb my book desktop usb 3.0 external hard drive for mac plus#
The price differential is so small that the Elements drive might only be for those who might be buying in bulk, but there are cheaper options available elsewhere.īut the best alternative is the Seagate 8 TB Backup Plus Hub, as it costs just £145 ($154.99), has two USB 3.0 through ports for charging or connecting and comes with backup software.
#Wd 8tb my book desktop usb 3.0 external hard drive for mac software#
It’s priced slightly lower, has less attractive styling, and doesn’t come with the software that the My Book line includes. The 8TB version costs just £132.96 ($144.99) on Amazon, making it cheaper than the Western Digital offering in the UK by around £30, and even $5 less than in the US.īut curiously, another choice comes from another line at Western Digital, the Elements Desktop Drive. The primary opposition to the My Book is the Seagate Desktop 8 TB External Hard Drive (STGY8000400), a practically identical concept from another seasoned hard drive maker. If you want to secure a system very quickly, the My Book probably isn’t the hardware that you need. To make this situation more palatable a backup application that focuses only on files that have changed is required, and the WD Backup tool offers that feature.īut what it won’t do is a live dynamic backup, securing only on an hourly or daily basis. If you have an extensive system to backup to the My Book this would invariably be an out of hours exercise, since small files would reduce the transfer speed further. It's quicker than the equivalent Seagate external drives, but neither is quick. That’s about a half of what you might expect from a SATA SSD externally connected via USB 3.0, and about a fifth of the best NVMe SSD external drives connected via USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports. We ran several synthetic tests on the My Book 8TB connected to a USB 3.0 port (USB 3.2 Gen 1), and they all pointed towards a plateau at around 190MB/s for reading and 180MB/s for writes. Here’s how the My Book 8TB performed in our suite of benchmark tests:ĬrystalDiskMark: 189MBps (read) 179MBps (write)Ītto: 193MBps (read, 256mb) 191MBps (write, 256mb)ĪS SSD: 182MBps (seq read) 178MBps (seq write) And, we’d only recommend that action if the drive were outside warranty, and you suspected that the USB board or PSU had died, and not the physical drive.Īnd, if you’ve used the hardware encryption option, extracting the drive might not get your data back anyway. For those curious, getting the physical drive out of the enclosure probably involves destroying the case. Inside the shiny black case is a WD Red, and 8TB in the review model, and the electronics to enable this SATA mechanism to be interfaced to USB. This version doesn’t even have a power on/off switch, so the drive becomes active the moment it is connected.Īlongside the USB Type-B Micro connection on the back, and the barrel power socket, the only other external feature of note is a Kensington lock slot, enabling the My Book to be physically secured. Setting up the drive is remarkably simple it’s a matter of attaching the provided power pack and the USB cable to the computer. Once static charged by the removal of the protection, dust is attracted to the My Book like wasps to a family picnic. That said, the designers love of shiny black plastic that comes with clear plastic to be peeled off isn’t without its issues. And, the two-tone wavy/flat styling still looks good on this latest version.
#Wd 8tb my book desktop usb 3.0 external hard drive for mac series#
When Western Digital stopped trying to make the My Book series look like actual books, it heralded a vast improvement in aesthetics.
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