My book essential 8tb 3.5 usb 3.0 negro

The Bad The drive doesn't support USB-C, is a bit slower than its competitors with a higher price tag and lacks additional features to have it stand apart. Pretty much. Measuring 6. But unlike the portable drive, which is available in six colors, the My Book comes only in black, making it kind of boring. The new external drive does share some of the same features as its smaller brother however, including support for AES encryption, and the preloaded WD Backup software. Sure, it does what it's supposed to do backup your data but is really only useful if you use an older version of Windows. With Windows 10, I'd recommend the native Windows 10 feature, File History for backups, and of course since all Macs have built-in Time Machine, there's little need for any additional backup software there.

Most people these days are accumulating increasingly large amounts of personal data. Housing it on just one computer drive is inadvisable for obvious reasons, so we're drawn to archive this data either to the cloud , NAS storage or external backup drives. As a hard drive manufacturer, Western Digital is keen to support these trends and includes all manner of personal storage solutions in its product range. While not the first firm to build dual-drive storage systems, with the My Book range, Western Digital certainly popularized the idea. Earlier models offered relatively slow USB 2. Now they sport USB 3. The inherent advantage of a dual-drive solution is that you can either have double the capacity or twice the security, depending on how you choose to configure it.