Western Digital Elements 8TB Desktop Hard Drive - Black
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About this product
The WD Elements desktop hard disk drive with USB 3.0 offers reliable, high-capacity, add-on storage, fast data transfer rates, and universal connectivity with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 devices. Built with WD quality and reliability, the drive's sleek design features up to 18TB capacity so you can store more of what matters to you.
- Storage space 8TB.
- USB 2.0.
- USB 3.0.
- Weight 0.86kg.
- Size H16.58, W4.8, L13.5cm.
- Manufacturer's 2 year guarantee.
- EAN: 718037863665.
4.9
20 reviews
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Recommended this product
Customers Say
Users appreciate the large storage capacity and ease of use of this external hard drive, although some note that it can be slow and requires external power.
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Expensive but worth it
Bought for storing photographs
NicT, 65 or over, Edinburgh
Great size and ease of use
Really impressed with the amount of data that this drive can hold - and although I didn't use USB3 to load it it was fast enough. My only quibble is that I now need more space - I should have purchased a bigger drive!
bob27, 65 or over, Twickenham
8tb hdd
Exactly what I expected. Does the job. I need it for saving data as a bank data. Not for regular use. I have already one in use everyday working for 6 years now. Worth the money
Dan, 55 - 64, Dungannon
Good size and fairly quiet. Not lazing speeds
I bought this as an external drive on which to store my backups. Being used as one of the 1-2-1 backup regime. Good looking but a little bigger than my previous drive. For the storage size it's a good price. I was concerned at first before it arrived, that I hadn't noticed of it had a power switch - it does. Although it's connected to the pc all the time, I only want it on when doing a backup. Security first. Although you can hear the drive running, it's not intrusive, so I'm happy with that. Being a spinning rust drive, it's not the quickest. Clearly a 5k spin speed. Although the backups can take a while, it's not disastrous. Good drive. Is a 7200 spin speed drive, it would have received 5 stars
Mrc, 65 or over, Farnborough
It's exactly what I wanted
It's exactly what I wanted. Perfect
Madmackem1969, 55 - 64, Sunderland
great digital store
Great for storing my music files.
dave, 65 or over, barry
Exactly what I needed for my PC Backup Storage
This item was bought to give me plenty of backup storage for my computers. It's working very well and I have no complaints about it.
Jimbo1964, 55 - 64, Banbury
Western Digital Elements 8TB Desktop Hard Drive
Great item, It's already formatted to NTFS for Windows PC/Laptop, so plug in and go. You don't get the full 8TB, you get 7.27TB. Not the fastest Hard Drive, but seems very reliable at time of writing this review.
Ste, 45 - 54, Manchester
Western Digital External HDD
I bought this to replace a similar model which had failed. Can't complain though as it was purchased over 10 years ago. I always use WD components because of the quality.
Eileen, 65 or over, UK
Excellent Product & Service.
Simple hassle free collection. Good value prodduct.. Could not ask for more!
JonHop, 55 - 64, Brighton
Hello Brian,
The Western Digital Elements 8TB Desktop Hard Drive - Black will need to be formatted and have its own power source to be used with an Xbox One.
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Hello thickie,
I can advise the following for the Western Digital Elements 8TB Desktop Hard Drive - Black:
This is 8 (Eight) TB of storage, may be less once formatted but the drive inside is a 8TB drive.
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Hello LucyJ,
The supplier has advised the following for the Western Digital Elements 8TB Desktop Hard Drive - Black:
"The customer would need an adapter from USB-A to USB-C and would need to reformat the drive to exFAT in order to see the photos on the drive."
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Hello Patrick,
The Western Digital Elements 8TB Desktop Hard Drive - Black is compatible with Windows 10+
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Hello MRC,
The supplier has advised the following for the Western Digital Elements 8TB Desktop Hard Drive - Black:
"The unit is not designed to be opened to replace the drive. The warranty will be void if the HDD is replaced."
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Hello wayne,
The supplier has advised the following for the Western Digital Elements 8TB Desktop Hard Drive - Black:
“ The capacity is 8TB, but you need to allow for cache so the total usable is approx. 7.2TB and on some computers you will see 8TB on some they will show the usable space which is 7.2TB. ”
This is also depending on format of the drive as well.
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Hi Michelle
Western Digital Elements 8TB Desktop Hard Drive - Black:
The Hard Drive is compatible with the macOS, however reformatting my be required.
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Hi Andy,
You can store games on this but won't be able to play current generation games from the drive itself. You would need to move them back on to the PS5 internal drive.
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Hello ChrisM,
I can advise the following on the Western Digital Elements 8TB Desktop Hard Drive - Black:
This external hard drive is not supplied with any software.
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Hello Error,
I can advise the following for the Western Digital Elements 8TB Desktop Hard Drive - Black:
Yes, this does work in this way. It is a 7200RPM disk.
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