WD 2TB Elements portable external hard drive, USB 3.0 interface, portable external storage, Plug-and-Play, SuperSpeed USB 3.2 Gen 1, Formatted for PC and Mac, Black

I'm really happy with this external hard drive! It arrived well packaged, and considering its capacity, the price was great. It's been working smoothly so far, and I'm confident it'll be a reliable storage solution. Overall, good value for the money.

I've had several of these WD Elements drives now - various sizes - over several years. They've all worked an absolute treat and have never failed on me - super reliable. I transport them around all of the time and they are rugged enough that you can cart them around, throw them into luggage etc. and not have to treat them with kid gloves. Recommended.

compatible with all devices i tried it on so tv desktops laptops consoles etc, not too heavy. good value for money. easy to set up no need to download anything just installs itself

This is the second one of these that I have bought as I was pleased with the first. I use them as backup devices and have added another in to my rotation. It's a traditional disk (not sold state). It's fast. And so far reliable. I bought the 4TB model. It's still a reasonable price but the price has shot up significantly since the first one I bought (and so if I were to shop around now there may be better deals out there)

...the best brand there ever was, there ever is, and the best there will ever be. I've been buying and using (specifically) WD Element hard drives for the past 11+ years. I'm a heavy user - large games, UHD GoPro videos etc - somehow now of them have failed (1TB, 2TB, 4TB capacity drives). Would recommend to anyone seeking something long lasting, durable and value for money - absolute best as an off-cloud alternative. Just received my 4th drive - storage of memories continues!

Very compact and easy to use at a very competitive price for 2TB.I bought this specifically to take my PS4 games off the internal PS5 SSD but I didn't want to get a 'game drive' specific one as I would have more freedom if I wanted to partition it and backup some PC files as well.The setup couldn't have been easier, I took it out of the box, plugged it in and the PS5 recognised it instantly. I had to format the drive before I could use it which I thought might take a few minutes at most but only took 5 seconds, then I selected around 360GB of PS4 games/apps and started the transfer.After the format I had 1.8TB free which is more than enough and with all drives they need space for their base operating software which is usually a small fraction off the stated capacity, a lot of people clearly don't understand this from some of the reviews complaining they got less capacity than they purchased -_-The transfer was speed really good for a physical drive, better than I was expecting, it took just over an hour for it to finish moving the whole 350+GB to the external drive.My PS5 told me once that the drive wasn't removed properly after powering on after being in rest mode, I didn't remove the drive at all so I'm not sure why it said that. This error message has only come up once and happened the first time the console had been in rest mode with the new drive connected. The console has been in rest mode and turned off multiple times after this message and hasn't given me the error since so it may just be a one time thing.I'll update this review if I come across any issues.Loading PS4 games from the External as opposed to launching them from the internal SSD was a little bit slower. All times below were timed from the point of clicking resume on my game file to actually getting into the game.- Resident Evil 7 took 77sec to load which I'd played the day before on the PS5 SSD which probably took under 30 seconds. In-game the performance was perfect, no frame drop, no noticeable delay on textures rendering in.- Horizon Zero Dawn took 30-40sec which was actually quicker than RE7 despite being a huge open world game, the in-game performance was perfect too even with the 60FPS patch.- God of War took 29 seconds to load into the game.- Batman Arkham Knight took just 32 seconds to load my save and get into the game.- Mortal Shell took just 20 seconds to load into the game.- Call of Duty Modern Warfare took 56 seconds to load into the game from chapter selection.

Very large capacity and the price is decent too. I like the design. The only con I can mention is that the port needs to be upgraded to Type-C, microUSB is very outdated. The 6TB version is a little bit thicker than the 4TB one.

Brilliant little piece of kit, does exactly what it says on the tin. A bonus feature I didn't know about, it acts as a TV recorder as well which I was pleasantly surprised at and which I use often.Possibly in the market fot buying another as it makes economical sense as opposed to buying flash drives.Definitely would recommend this product to anyone. It's a no brainer !