Green Eric
9 de abril de 2021
Hardware: 5 stars; Software: no so much
Let me start by saying that I do not buy other brands. Western Digital drives have never failed me, ever. I cannot say so much for their competition. When other drives fail, I always replace them with WD. I have been using WD hardware as long as I've owned computers (over 30 years now).I have 6 Passports at this time. 2 2-Tb, 3 4-Tb and now this 5-Tb. My laptop has pretty limited onboard drive space, so I use one of my 4-Tb drives full-time. If my computer is on, this drive is running. I use the other Passports less often, such as for backup tasks or storing media. I have only had this drive (the 5-Tb) for a few days but it will be my new "always" drive once I get all my files transferred onto it. I was surprised that its case is slightly smaller than my 4-Tb drives. I have not benchmarked it, but it seems as fast as the 4-Tb drives. When I see people complaining about a drive's speed, I wonder if they're aware how big a terabyte is. If you had the information printed on paper, you would not move a terabyte around as quickly as one of these drives!One drawback I'm noticing is in the software. When I first attempted to install, it hung at 18% and in 1/2 hour never proceeded. I shut it down and retried. That time it successfully installed, but almost immediately told me there's an update and asked if I wanted to install that. I've tried the update several times now, but it keeps reporting that the update failed. Additionally, I tried installing WD Security but it continues to fail. I'm running Windows 10 and keep it updated, so I'm not sure where the problem could be other than in the WD software. I do my own backups, so I can't report on the WD backup software.I'll report back if there are any changes. But for now, the product gets 5 stars from me!Ver másVer menos
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