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Review on 18 TB External HDD Western Digital WD Elements Desktop, USB 3.0, black by Micha Kumicki ᠌

Revainrating 1 out of 5

The product is very low quality, not what you need at all.

I thought that WD had rehabilitated itself for over three months by the time I bought a similar disk with a built-in player, but that disk failed on the same day that my previous two-terabyte drive did, on which I had successfully dumped my entire media collection. I have high hopes that it was not the disk itself that failed, but rather the controller, and that the data has not been completely lost because some of the photographs were saved in a single copy. Indeed, I've been amassing a collection of videos for quite some time. Despite the fact that I had never trusted WD in all of my years of working with computers, I was forced to purchase a disk as soon as possible, and the only brand available in the store was WD. I didn't keep the packaging, so I don't know if Western Digital will honor the guarantee on it. I got rid of it right before the deadline. And yet, for some reason, I wasn't too concerned about whether or not the check is secure; it's possible that there is, but it's also possible that there isn't. I have high hopes that they would agree, particularly with regard to the timing of the media's production. The warranty service is just in a much worse state than it has ever been. They note on the office that if there are any issues, customers SHOULD NOT CONTACT THE STORE but should instead register an application with the company and obtain an RMA number in order to send the problematic disk in the mail. The choice of a distributor is the last step in the registration process, which closes in 2022 without issuing an RMA number. Distributors either do not answer letters and phone calls, or they send them to the store, which is in direct opposition to the information provided on the offsite. Because of this, the hard drive was replaced at the store (without a receipt, they found information on the approximately date of purchase), and the administrator of the store deserves special thanks for this. Nevertheless, you have absolutely no desire to write anything on such a hard disk, with the exception of using it as an additional reserve for data from another disk. Everyone should seriously consider investing in a raid array that has at least two disks that are mirrored. It is painful to experience the loss of information.

Pros
  • silent, huge volume
Cons
  • a power supply located outside the main body. Zdoh after 3 months of work: out of the blue, while recording information, when approaching the limit of 2TB, it simply fell out of the system (there was a message that it was impossible to record) and never returned. Nothing happens after being linked to USB for ten minutes; after that, a disk that is completely empty emerges.