WD 2TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive Short Review

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 When it comes to Western Digital, they make excellent external storage solutions.

 I first bought an Elements drive back in 2010 (640GB), then another one in 2013 (2TB), and now once again at the end of 2017. 

None failed on me yet. 

I've used this drive for a couple weeks now and copied about 1TB of files via USB3. 

I use a Windows 10 Home machine and transfer speeds range from 40-170MB/s depending on the files. My last two Elements drive were USB2 and they max out around 35MB/s, so this is a welcome improvement.

If you are suffering from low transfer rates, here's some advice: 

Try to defrag your source disk (or trim it if it's an SSD).

 I tried this method and having each file in one piece of the disk can help access times to be much quicker.

For those who want to know which HDD is inside my Elements, 

it's a WD Blue 4TB drive (I checked the model number as WD40EZRZ).

 So if anything happens, it could be just the SATA-USB bridge connector and not the drive itself.