WD Elements SE 1TB Portable External HDD - Black

Great product Great product

This is our preferred piece of our storage system so always useful .Reliable product This is our preferred piece of our storage system so always useful .Reliable product

Well pleased with this purchase. Compact, light, and unobtrusive. Ideal for carrying in pocket or purse, so that you have all the data you have loaded at hand. Well pleased with this purchase. Compact, light, and unobtrusive. Ideal for carrying in pocket or purse, so that you have all the data you have loaded at hand.

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If a storage device is needed, then this product does the trick. I’m not sure how fancy they can get, but this product is light, and small (compared to the older external hard drives). The product connects, and is powered via USB (don’t ask me what type). The one USB cable achieves both of these functions. It appears to be reasonably fast too - I uploaded several hundred gigs on data onto it the first time I used it. I thought it may take many hours, but it did not. So, I’m satisfied with the product and see no reason why I shouldn’t recommend it be purchased by other people.

Excellent product Excellent product

I asked in store for a Mac compatible and USB C port external hard drive to back up a damaged Macbook.
Store person selected this product and I paid and he opened it to help me transfer some data to it. But unfortunately it was a USB A not a C and he had to configure as not Mac compatible.
I stated that I was not really that happy and he checked, and they didn’t have any suitable Mac ones in stock - so I was sort of stuck with what I had -as downloading the data was critical. An he installed drivers to be able to do the data transfer
So in the end I just took it away – but this product was not what I asked for.
In fairness he later e...view more I asked in store for a Mac compatible and USB C port external hard drive to back up a damaged Macbook.
Store person selected this product and I paid and he opened it to help me transfer some data to it. But unfortunately it was a USB A not a C and he had to configure as not Mac compatible.
I stated that I was not really that happy and he checked, and they didn’t have any suitable Mac ones in stock - so I was sort of stuck with what I had -as downloading the data was critical. An he installed drivers to be able to do the data transfer
So in the end I just took it away – but this product was not what I asked for.
In fairness he later emailed me a how to do drivers and 2 ways that MAC can read and write from external HDD. But I just wanted a plug and play option and not have to do all this. Very disappointed with this product - but only because it was not what I asked for and after payment and opening it – I was stuck with it.