Send me a 4TB. . lmao jkI had a WDC Elements some years ago but found the WDC My Book has served me better, have 2 x 4TB 3.5" drives with their own power connected USB 3 to Win11 Desktop. For portability I use a WDC My Passport 1TB, fits in a pocket, has a 2.5" HDD in it, powered from the USB 3. I also have some cases for the 2.5" drives I've salvaged, most are single-cable USB 3 but have 1 for USB 2 that uses a Y-cable for data and extra power. For access from any computer I can Map a NAS drive on my Router with 2 x 2TB drives set as RAID 1 for 2TB total space.
One caveat I encountered, the 4TB drives packages were marked as for PC and Macintosh, since I no longer have a Mac I wiped them then formatted as NTFS. The only times I had an external drive fail, and an older NAS drive, it was the interface in the case that failed, drives were still good but data lost, couldn't be read. I reformatted in a drive dock and used to store backups.
When checking the Properties of the drives the format will show as what the computer uses, PC/Windows as NTFS, Mac OS X as HPFS and on the older ones connected to Linux as ext4.
My Computers
System One System Two
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- OS
- Windows 11 Pro x64 v22621.2215
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Built Myself in 2013
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 1800X 8-Core @ 3.60GHz
- Motherboard
- Asus Crosshair VI Hero
- Memory
- 16GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB Series
- Graphics Card(s)
- AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5
- Sound Card
- On Board
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Samsung 27" & PLANAR 22"
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 X 1080
- Hard Drives
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~ P34A60 512GB NVMe PCIe Gen3x4 M.2
~ 3TB WD Red HDD (extra storage)
~ SanDisk 250GB SSD
~ 2 X 1TB HDD
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- PSU
- Corsair RM850 Fully Modular (850watts)
- Case
- NZXT Phantom 630 CA-PH630-W1
- Cooling
- CORSAIR iCUE H100i RGB PRO XT
- Keyboard
- Logitech K860
- Mouse
- Logitech MX Master
- Internet Speed
- 752Mbps (Download) / 537Mbps (Upload)
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- Malwarebytes
- Other Info
- *This is my Main Computer That I use*
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- Operating System
- Windows 10 Pro x64
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Asus
- CPU
- AMD A10-5700 APU @ 3.40Ghz
- Motherboard
- Asus CM1745
- Memory
- 8GB
- Graphics card(s)
- AMD Radeon R7 350x GDDR5 4 GB
- Sound Card
- On Board
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dual Monitor Setup ONN 22" Monitors
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 X 1080
- Hard Drives
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250GB SSD
500GB HDD
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- PSU
- 350Watt PSU
- Cooling
- Air Cooling
- Mouse
- MX Master
- Keyboard
- Microsoft Ergonomic 4000
- Internet Speed
- 752Mbps (Download) / 537Mbps (Upload)
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- Malwarebytes
- Other Info
- *Computer for Weather Software*