WD Elements SE 4TB Portable External HDD - Black

For context I haven't touched a Seagate in over a decade, but needed some media storage and decided to buy two FireCuda drives and this Western Digital. To be fair, I knew not to expect much of the Seagates, but also expected things to have improved over the past 10 years. Marketed as gaming storage drives, perfect, storage, don't need performance, just need a place to store data, right? Wrong. The write speed of the FireCuda drives were god awful. Running winsat, I conducted a test of 2x 7 year old MyBook drives resulting in 120MB/s read and write. Next I tested the first FireCuda drive... 100MB/s read, 5.5MB/s write. 5.5MB/s!! Surely...view more For context I haven't touched a Seagate in over a decade, but needed some media storage and decided to buy two FireCuda drives and this Western Digital. To be fair, I knew not to expect much of the Seagates, but also expected things to have improved over the past 10 years. Marketed as gaming storage drives, perfect, storage, don't need performance, just need a place to store data, right? Wrong. The write speed of the FireCuda drives were god awful. Running winsat, I conducted a test of 2x 7 year old MyBook drives resulting in 120MB/s read and write. Next I tested the first FireCuda drive... 100MB/s read, 5.5MB/s write. 5.5MB/s!! Surely not, I thought to myself as I ran the test again... same result. I bought two, the Luke version and the Black Panther version, so I plugged the other in and conducted the same test... same result. In the same order I also purchased this WD Elements SE... 243MB/s Read, 116MB/s Write. TL;DR - Invest your money in Western Digital (WD), always, keep away from Seagate.

Easy to format and boost my PlayStation capacity Easy to format and boost my PlayStation capacity

Great hard drive. However serial number too small to read. Great hard drive. However serial number too small to read.

Nice hard drive, decent price Nice hard drive, decent price

Simply plug it in and it's ready to go. I trust Western Digital more than any other hard drive manufacturer - the only thing wrong with my other WD drives (that caused me to purchase this one) is that they're "too small" - they're still working, but I needed more space. Now I have a 1TB, a 2TB and this 4TB - all WD drives. They'll probably still be running when I graduate to a Petabyte drive... Simply plug it in and it's ready to go. I trust Western Digital more than any other hard drive manufacturer - the only thing wrong with my other WD drives (that caused me to purchase this one) is that they're "too small" - they're still working, but I needed more space. Now I have a 1TB, a 2TB and this 4TB - all WD drives. They'll probably still be running when I graduate to a Petabyte drive...

Great product. Great product.

I've had similar WD Elements drives for many years - very happy with their reliability and value and quietness; plus speed isn't too bad either! So good all round. I've had similar WD Elements drives for many years - very happy with their reliability and value and quietness; plus speed isn't too bad either! So good all round.

Very happy with the product. Just pluged it in, and started copping files. Much quicker than my old ExHDD. Very happy with the product. Just pluged it in, and started copping files. Much quicker than my old ExHDD.

Connected through a USB hub with no problems. Plenty of capacity for system image and file backups - I was finding my 2GB drive a bit constrained. Connected through a USB hub with no problems. Plenty of capacity for system image and file backups - I was finding my 2GB drive a bit constrained.

A great product. Small, compact and very quiet while transferring (transfers quite fast too). 3.6GB total space. A great product. Small, compact and very quiet while transferring (transfers quite fast too). 3.6GB total space.

I now have two of these and use them as dual backup drives for all my personal files and data. I bought this second one because I had another Seagate drive die on me with no warning. I'll stick with WD from now on. Thanks for the prompt delivery, PB Tech! I now have two of these and use them as dual backup drives for all my personal files and data. I bought this second one because I had another Seagate drive die on me with no warning. I'll stick with WD from now on. Thanks for the prompt delivery, PB Tech!

I've been buying WD external drives for over 10 years, have about eight of them (HDDs), and they're all still working fine. I've been buying WD external drives for over 10 years, have about eight of them (HDDs), and they're all still working fine.