Reddit mentions of WD 4TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive, USB 3.0 - WDBU6Y0040BBK-WESN

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This is a good lil drive if you're looking for portable.

And honestly wait till black Friday/cyber Monday you can probably find for much cheaper

Amazon has the 4TB Elements for the same price, but it has a 2 year warranty instead of 1 year...

4TB Elements

Western Digital 4TB on sale for $99:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0713WPGLL/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_4vvVCbWTWPA3F

Here you go: https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBU6Y0040BBK-WESN/dp/B0713WPGLL/

7200 RPM doesn't really provide an extra benefit on the One X compared to the internal like it did with the One S and OG One. Something like this should be fine: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0713WPGLL

WD 4TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBU6Y0040BBK-WESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0713WPGLL/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_qOBfAbSW1Z04H

It's on sale for 99 right now.. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0713WPGLL?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

You can get a 4tb hard drive for $100. Even better.

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBU6Y0040BBK-WESN/dp/B0713WPGLL/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1519504907&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=western+digital+external+hard+drive+4tb&psc=1

Here you go! It's $99 (I think it was a couple dollars cheaper when I bought it) but it's great. Powered by the PS4's USB, and I just have all my PSN games download directly to it in power save mode and play directly from it. No lag at all. You can use any external as long as it's USB 3 I believe and format it through the PS4.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0713WPGLL/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I just picked this up yesterday for $99 and it's 4TB. Looks easily shuckable too if I weren't using it as a backup.

I'd also check out /r/buildapcsales for good deals on quality hard drives.

I got the oculus go for $200 because I only have a cheap laptop and with that you don't need a computer. If you have a good PC then Idk, you should ask in /r/oculusnsfw . Everyone is saying nowadays that the current best headset is the Pixmax 8k which goes for $900, but you need a good PC for that one. Obviously paying for the best one you can afford is what you want to do because there is really a huge difference in quality.

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I also recommend getting a 4TB external harddrive. This one is $100.

You realize they have slim external drives now that has 4TB capacity? (I did not until...last year or so, I have not kept up with external drives) What kind of data transfer speed do you require? USB3 is 5GB/s, USB-C is 10GB/s, so depending on your file sizes, the difference may or may not be a lot for a file that's 50GB, versus actually all 4TB. (that's seconds vs minutes of differences)

You also gotta remember - I remember looking at this years ago, not sure all the tech is all caught up - with a disc-based drive they can only spin so fast, hence so much transfer speed, so they might not even be able to meet the advertised transfer speed of the cable. For example, at the extreme (not that it's common now) if you have a 5600rpm drive and not 10k rpm drive, it's not going to make any different if you have a USB3.1 cable.

WD 4TB external drive: https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBU6Y0040BBK-WESN/dp/B0713WPGLL/ref=sr_1_sc_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1521825478&sr=1-2-spell&keywords=4tb+harddricve+external

You can get a 4tb hard drive for $100.
WD 4TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0713WPGLL/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_MVAVDbBGEWBY4

I’ve been using the 4TB version of this since March with no issues. Of course, you can get a smaller one for cheaper if it better fits your needs.

No. I don't like Seagates because I personally think they're unreliable, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

Just an example: Seagate makes an "official" external drive for the Xbox One, and if you look up reviews on that on Amazon, you'll see that a large portion of buyers complained that it randomly stopped working after 1-3 months: https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Game-Drive-External-Portable/product-reviews/B01065S79E

That is just one example, but I have had a seagate drive for 2 years and it died on me randomly too.

I'm sure every external drive has its pros and cons, though, and I'm sure some drives that I like may not work out for others, but that's just my 2 cents. I've had a different WD external drive for my PS4 for over a year, and it's been working great. I have this one if you're wondering. I just bought another WD for my new Xbox One X, too.

If you are after a 4TB drive these are better options:

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Your best USB-powered external hard drive option is the WD 4TB Elements for $99.

Western Digital 4TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBU6Y0040BBK-WESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0713WPGLL

Seagate has a 5Tb usb powered external but seagates reliability is more questionable so I’d go with the WD.

All external drives bigger than that are not USB powered and require an AC adapter be plugged into a separate power source.

May I suggest you spend more money for a 4 TB drive? Really, it's double the price, but you'd be getting four times the space, and you're really gonna want that extra space given the size of the games and all of the freebies via Games with Gold.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0713WPGLL/

If you're on a strict budget, then $50 for 1 GB is about right. I'd still go WD myself do to trust issues.

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I mean, it does fit the bill and is surprisingly affordable..

I got a 4tb external for $100 off amazon. Loading speeds are pretty great too!

$40 off currently.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0713WPGLL?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

I have two of these one for my PS4 and another for my PC and I love them. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0713WPGLL/

I've had two; they're effectively plug and play when purchased new. I had a big fat Seagate that failed on me after two years, but it's had a few drops so I don't blame it. I upgraded to this one about five months ago, no complaints.

TL;DR: I'd suggest you get a 4TB USB3 external 2.5" for about $110.

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I have used the heck out of these machines for work; really liked 'em. Was the server model, though, and have upgraded both the HDDs in these many times. Running the OS off an SDD and sticking a big second drive in (and maxing the RAM to 16GB) made for just an awesome Windows 7 machine. In addition to four USB2 ports, it also sports a FW800 port and a Lightning port, but I'm ignoring these (to keep my answer shorter).

I'd break your question down into PLEX and non-PLEX questions.

The big PLEX question, I think, is performance. This is the last model of Mac Mini that had USB2. You say yours currently, "runs great throughout the house." It sounds like you use multiple clients? But do any of them run concurrently? As u/RX-Zero pointed out, you should get ~30MB/s throughput via USB2 (the HDD itself supports more but USB2 is the choke-point here). This is a marked step down in speed from any internal storage, but is it enough? We'll, it theoretically supports dozens of 1080p streams, so it will probably reveal a different choke-point before proving to be one itself.

The second PLEX question I might ask is one of portability; does your storage being portable make a difference for usability and/or recovery, for you? If you wanna take (rather than stream—for whatever reason) your content on the road with you, an external is easy. If your Mac mini fails, you could move your content to a replacement machine more quickly/easily. Mirrored backups are easier too.

The non-PLEX questions include cost, complexity, capacity and location. By location I mean location of the external storage. Do you have the space for an external HDD? Maybe a 2.5" with a short cable is easy. Maybe a single 3.5" will fit (don't forget that additional power socket though!). Maybe space isn't an issue? What about how it looks? Would adding an external upset the aesthetic?

By complexity I mean this (or this if you have a server model). I've changed the drives in these machines many times but I take it nice 'n' easy, every ... single ... time. ;)

Your capacity is limited by the 9.5mm tall (2.5") space, internally. You can fit a 2TB HDD in there (heck, even a 4TB SDD if money is no object) but that's it. Externally you can attach a 5TB 2.5" HDD or a bazillion-PB RAID enclosure. My point simply being that going external is unlimited.

Oh, cost. The good news? Storage is always getting cheaper. And, keeping it simple, it's a similar cost to go internal versus external (for the same storage capacity).

These two. I own both and I love both. The hub obviously for home and the small one for when I go to a buddy's place.

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Drive-Storage-Ports-STGG8000400/dp/B072QH2JCL/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1520528499&sr=8-2-fkmr1&keywords=xbox+external+hard+drive+8th


https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBU6Y0020BBK-WESN/dp/B0713WPGLL/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1520528609&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=western%2Bdigital%2Bexternal%2Bhard%2Bdrive%2B5tb&th=1

No need to spend that much money. Those drives are expensive because of branding, and that's all.

One of these WD drives make a fine backup disk:

https://smile.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBU6Y0040BBK-WESN/dp/B0713WPGLL

Just format it for your Mac when you get it and you'll be good to go.

In my own experience, yes you can use pretty much any external hard drive with the Xbox one. I’m personally not a fan of Seagate, but I had 3 models from them that stopped working so I’m a tad biased there.
I would also agree with the previous poster try to avoid ones with separate power supplies.
Personally after hunting around for a second external for my Xbox one, I decided that the official versions are to drum up profit but have less storage than non-official similarly priced externals.
Last external I went with was this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBU6Y0040BBK-WESN/dp/B0713WPGLL
So far it’s served me well, it re-formatted correctly, is decently priced for the storage space, and thus far (almost a year-ish of use) hasn’t had any problems with the drive heating up nor any other problems.

Does this also work with the 2.5" WD passport like this? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0713WPGLL/

Just bought this one:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0713WPGLL/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_ap1ODb3CMSS7W

Thanks again!

Wanting to go "digital" and am converting my VHS tapes so I will need a storage device. I will also be putting my DVR shows and recordings of gameplay on the drive. Should I get a harddrive with an enclosure or an external harddrive if I plan on accessing the files somewhat frequently? I'm guessing I need at least 2GB but more would be best, as long as it is reliable and can be left on for easy access.

Thanks for these answers, but I guess I didn't make it clear what what needed. Basically their main computer has either a massive SATA drive or just uses external hard drives connected via USB (my guess would be large external hard drives), while the DJ computers are all laptops that have very little data actually stored on them, and pull all songs/videos from the external hard drives that should all be updated weekly, and they have a lot of these external hard drives.

From what you linked those look like great solutions for cloning internal drives but a)I don't think the owners would be comfortable removing the internal drives and b) we're talking about over 4 TB of data and I don't know of many laptops that have that type of internal storage.

If I was reading those products incorrectly please let me know but it seemed like they wouldn't work for a typical external hard drive cloning. Like WD 4TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBU6Y0040BBK-WESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0713WPGLL/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_wuiJBb4Z7FANR is the most common way they transport the music to the venues. Then the plug it into the laptop and it's good to go.

Wanting to go "digital" and am converting my VHS tapes so I will need a storage device. I will also be putting my DVR shows and recordings of gameplay on the drive. Should I get a harddrive with an enclosure or an external harddrive if I plan on accessing the files somewhat frequently? I'm guessing I need at least 2GB but more would be best, as long as it is reliable and can be left on for easy access.

There is also a 2.5" bus powered version of the WD Elements 4TB.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-Elements-Portable-Hard-Drive/dp/B0713WPGLL

You could use a third party driver for Windows 10 to copy files from the Mac External drives to an inexpensive 4tb external formatted for NTFS.
Here’s a link explaining that portion below.

https://www.howtogeek.com/252111/how-to-read-a-mac-formatted-drive-on-a-windows-pc/amp/

Link for affordable 4tb external drive.

WD 4TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBU6Y0040BBK-WESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0713WPGLL/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_hxFCCbT3X45TE


Then once you have one of your Mac Drives empty format it for NTFS and copy data from other Mac Drives to newly formatted NTFS drive.

Rinse and Repeat until all Data is on Windows NTFS formatted drives.

This solution option will only cost you 99.00 for new external drive and cost of Windows Laptop.

You should still be well in the Black on cost vs. a new MacBook Pro.

Hope this helps.

Ok so, either you can buy a ready to go external hard drive or you can use a standard hard drive + a little sata to usb adapter

Since the computers at your school are Apple you would need to install the macos version of C4D on the drive, but it's still doable.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0713WPGLL/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_G0dEAbYFK1S6X

Perforce had "obliterate" as an operation, but Subversion does not.

I've not intention of worrying about history - biiiiiig hard drives are cheap - https://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Elements-Portable-External/dp/B0713WPGLL

External is more expensive, if you want to keep it cheap and don't mind somewhat longer loadtime in games use a external HDD, but a good one such as Western Digital Black, also not all External HDD are the same there are Desktop grade drives which use faster ones that spin at 7500RPM and then the smaller ones that run at 5400RPM, the bigger ones need external power from wall.

Anyway here are some options:

• Samsung SATA 1TB M.2 is about $285
  
  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LYOKOJI/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=
  
  
• Samsung SSD uses Type C, up to 540MB/s read:
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-T5-Portable-SSD-MU-PA1T0B/dp/B073H552FJ/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1511396127&sr=1-1&keywords=external+ssd&refinements=p_n_feature_three_browse-bin%3A6797521011%2Cp_n_condition-type%3A2224371011
  
  
  
• Sandisk (cheaper, but slower and uses normal USB 3.0)
  
  https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-500-Portable-SDSSDEXT-1T00-G25/dp/B01MZI4Y51/ref=sr_1_5?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1511396127&sr=1-5&keywords=external+ssd&refinements=p_n_feature_three_browse-bin%3A6797521011%2Cp_n_condition-type%3A2224371011
  
  
• Western Digital Black 4TB Portable HDD
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Desktop-Hard-Drive-WDBWLG0040HBK-NESN/dp/B0713WPGLL/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1511396681&sr=8-17&keywords=western%2Bdigital%2Bblack%2Bexternal%2Bhard%2Bdrive&th=1

Yeah that always does help although the pricing may seem expensive the more space you want and since the Surface is $1,000 it might be a good investment to get either an external hard drive like one of these examples below.

2TB Toshiba HDTB420XK3AA Canvio Basics 2TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0, Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079D3D8NR/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_nT0jDb7N8CP62

3TB Toshiba Canvio Connect II 3TB Portable Hard Drive, Red (HDTC830XR3C1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SY4LEYA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_wS0jDbXZ8QMGN

4TB Western Digital 4TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBU6Y0040BBK-WESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0713WPGLL/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_BR0jDb8C2EGC3

5TB Seagate Backup Plus Portable 5TB External Hard Drive HDD - Red USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac, 2 Months Adobe CC Photography (STDR5000103) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LWRN7Y1/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_fQ0jDb0AVRPSK

You can also find other external HDD at stores like Best Buy, Staples, Amazon, and any local electronic store wherever you live.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0713WPGLL

And there are cheaper models if you don't need as much space.

Aren't photographs very cheap to store? What makes MicroSD cheaper or better than a traditional external hard drive?

Edit: I mean, you can get four 8TB units for the same price. A cradle for the hard drive would be 20-40 bucks at most.

Edit2: Better yet.