Western Digital 1TB Elements SE – Portable SSD, USB 3.0, Compatible with PC, Mac – WDBAYN0010BBK-WESN
Original price was: $89.99.$79.99Current price is: $79.99.
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Get affordable performance in a pocket-size design for your on-the-go lifestyle. With dependability from a brand you can trust, empower your next-level productivity with a WD Elements SE SSD.
Accelerate your productivity with fast yet affordable SSD performance from a brand you can trust.
Read speeds up to 400MB/s let you move large files fast so you can get more done in your day. (1 MB/s = 1 million bytes per second. Based on internal testing; performance may vary depending upon host device, usage conditions, drive capacity, and other factors.)
A compact design and drop resistance up to 2 meters make this the perfect drive no matter where you are.
Whether you’re on the job or creating for pleasure, gain control of your content across laptop, desktop and other devices.
Seamlessly integrate the drive into your workflow with plug-and-play functionality that’s ready to use right out of the box.
What’s in the Box: Portable SSD, USB 3.0 Cable, Safety and Warranty Guide
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Customers find the computer drive functional and easy to use. It offers good storage capacity and is suitable for storing files. They find it simple to set up and connect without any formatting or complicated software. Many consider it a good value for money. Customers are also satisfied with its size, speed, and hard drive. However, opinions differ on its reliability.
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DG –
Portable and fast
The Western Digital 2TB Elements SE Portable SSD is a fantastic storage solution. Itâs lightweight, fast, and highly portable, making file transfers quick and easy. The USB 3.0 compatibility ensures excellent performance on both PC and Mac. Reliable and compact, itâs perfect for on-the-go use. Highly recommended for extra storage!
21days –
Worked Great on a Brand New 2022 MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro Chip
Worked Great on a brand new 2022 MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro Chip. It’s amazing how cheap HDDs are now. I will continue buying them until the price of external SDDs goes down. You can literally get twice as much storage capacity with HDDs for half the price of a SSD.As always, with external drives used to do backups on Mac computers, you must reformat the disk before doing the backup and this WD is no different. Reformatting is a very easy task as always, and it takes no more than a few minutes to get the external drive ready for your Mac.However, I ran into some issues with Time Machine on the newest version of Monterey (the one that came installed in the laptop). It seems like it no matter what format you choose when reformatting the external drive, Time Machine automatically reformats the drive on its own to the new Apple File System (APFS) when you do your first backup. Not only that, but once Time Machine reformats the drive to APFS and completes the backup, then it blocks the HDD and you cannot use it to save anything else in it, drop files, etc. It basically locks the drive for backups only. Oh, and with the APFS format you cannot use the drive to backup older Apple computers. I NEVER had this happened in any of my Apple computers before.I tried a few other HDDs from other brands to ensure this was not an issue of the WD brand. They all did the same, so I knew it was an Apple software glitch issue. It took several calls to Apple to figure out that yes, Time Machine does this. The only way around this issue is to create a “new volume” in the external HDD. Then you can use the separate volume to save other things, drop files, etc. You could create as many volumes as you can, and the APFS makes it very easy. When you plug the HDD, the volume for the backup pops on your desktop (Time Machine color), along with any other volumes you created (yellow color).Hope this saves somebody out there a lot of frustration and aggravation trying to figure out what the issue with Time Machine and external drives using the newest Monterey version. I also hope Apple fixes this problem. It makes no sense that you select a specific reformat option but then Time Machine ignores it and reformats to APFS against your wish and block the drive in the process.The WD external drive works great. It is a really great value for 2TBs of storage, and it is a very small and lightweight drive. All the issues mentioned are specific to the Apple operating system that would happen with any HDD of any brand.
Ian Nandhra –
It works great. Enjoy a huge amount of storage for a reasonable amount of money.
TL;dr â it works great. Treat it with respect, be prepared to toss the cable it comes with (because they fail) and enjoy a huge amount of storage for a reasonable amount of money.Youâve probably read a ton of reviews on external drives and have arrived here. Iâve been in the tech biz over 44 years and was there when 128Kbyte 8â floppy disks were considered advanced. Iâve used a LOT of different drives.Letâs put this drive into perspective: it is NOT a âportable driveâ, itâs an external drive that you can choose to move from place to place. AS WITH ALL SUCH DRIVES, it contains precision moving parts; if you drop it, it will likely break. If you move it around when itâs operating, it probably wonât like it. If you drop your laptop, it will likely break. If you want an external drive that you can really move around, get an SSD.I purchased one of these drives for cloud-storage and archival purposes. Simply put, I needed somewhere to dump large data collections for essentially read-only access as well as having a buffer area for cloud storage synchronization purposes (lots of r/w access to the drive). It worked so well I purchased another and might even get a 3rd.Cloud storage is great for frequently accessed data, but for your video collection, your vast music collection or the 130GB of pictures your spouse took last month, you might want off-line storage. This is a great choice.Is it fast? Slower than an SSD but faster than many external hard drives out there. If you want speed, use the local SSD in your device or get an external SSD drive. If you donât want that expense, this is still a great drive.In operation the drive is whisper quiet and runs slightly warm. You may have read about the âclick of deathâ, well, yeah, it happened to me too. It wonât run on an overloaded unpowered USB hub (click, click due to lack of power). The cable it comes with is frankly troublesome and honestly you should invest in a replacement. Yup, click, click, click because the cable failed (fortunately I had another to hand, doesnât everyone?). All that will happen with other drives too, so itâs nothing unusual.My system: Win10 Pro and Win10 Home on Lenovo, Surface Books and Surface Pro; works out of the box just fine.For those complaining that the drive doesnât work with some backup software; thatâs not the drives fault. For those complaining about the speed for gaming purposes, thatâs not the drivesâ fault either, you should have purchased an SSD.Yes, it will work with Onedrive; just create a junction from your Onedrive folder to the required folder in the external drive.mklink /J srcFolder destFolderSince you have a large capacity drive for large data sets, robocopy (part of Windows) will be your friend as well as mklink to create junctions from your main drive to connection points in external drives filesystems.What happens if the drive goes down? As with any other drive, you might have lost your data. The solution is to (gasp) purchase two drives and sync one with the other.Proâs: 5TB of storage for <$100. Quiet, fast and gets the job done. Itâs a disk drive, itâs not there to be exciting.Conâs: I didnât like the cable; invest $6 on a better one. As with ALL DRIVES, you need to treat it nicely.
Sterzy –
4 years later – Still no issues
Iâve had this external hard drive for over 4 years and it has not lost any data, crashed, or even had as much as a hiccup since Iâve bought it. The only mistake I made was not backing up my important and grad school documents from my laptop on a regular basis.It is plug and play, no external powersource needed and best of all itâs even smaller than my iPhone.I upgraded from a 1TB WD external hard drive that was externally powered, and also had not ever had any issues. It was much bigger and needed an external power supply.So if you need external storage Western Digital is the way to go.
Ricardo –
Llevo años usando el producto y aún funciona sin problema, puedo almacenar pelÃculas de tos del disco y lo mejor la velocidad en la que viaja la información..
Mariana Ceci –
Chegou certinho, dentro do prazo e sem avarias. Só estranhei a caixa do produto ter vindo do lado de fora do saco-plastico-bolha. No mais, vem com manual, cabo e funcionando. Uma luzinha discreta acende quando está conectado. Ele não tem exatamente 1 Tera é 931, mas está mais que bom. Satisfeita.
TV excelente. Cumpre tudo o que promete. –
Funciona bem, seguro e confiável. Durável.
Daniel Leonardo –
HD externo de excelente qualidade muito rápido em passar os arquivos do Computador/Notebook para eles vale apena!!
Mike B –
So like heres the deal…if youve ever heard “size doesnt matter” then yes, this time they are right. This thing is quite small, about the size of 6 gerbal tails or 15 mice tails in width. You say thats a strange way of measuring? I got my system, you go have yours! It weighs next to nothing. About the weight of 4 trix crackers or half a pen. Its super fast (thats what she said) and it has worked perfectly since I got it, unlike my uncle Gerrard that can keep work if his life depended on it. Its priced well, and is super compact. Its NOT waterproof or water resistant as I found out trying to load home movies onto it while showering. Ruined both my computer and this…I thought…but I let it dry to a fortnight and it worked just fine. If you are looking for something small, capable and priced well, my uncle gerrard is available. This also fits that description.