Western Digital Elements (WDE1UBK10000) 1 TB USB 2.0 Hard Drive Review

Bottom-Line: If you want a small footprint, high capacity, affordable external hard drive from a name you can trust, look no further than the Seagate Expansion 1.0TB External HHD.         

Lately it seems I need more, and more hard drive space, or could it be that I just like buying new electronics stuff?   But you can never have enough storage space I say, and with the prices for both internal and external hard drives at an all time low, it was easy to grab an affordable external hard drive for not a lot of green.  My first choice was a Seagate Expansion 1.0 Terabyte (TB) External Hard Drive, but not soon after I started using it (less than 30 days), it decided it no longer wanted to work for me!  Here is the update I wrote to my review of the Seagate drive:

The plug-n-play WD Elements External 1TB Hard Drive is an all black 3.5" external hard drive with very few moving parts and only one small blue LED-in the back of the unit.  The drive (aluminum) enclosure is not too heavy, not too light (3lbs) and is covered in nice feeling black rubbery material in the front and back of the unit. 

The 7200RPM 480 Mb/s 1.0TB Elements drive connects via a USB 2.0 port and can be used with a PC or MAC.        

My Viewpoint                

I bought this drives to serve as storage medium for the preponderance of image files I both download and take with my digital camera, computer scripts, applications, as well as files that I may want to upload, or attach to an email.  And I may want to use the drive to back-up customer files from time to time.  Like I stated at the outset of this review, one can never have too much storage. 

The only indicator that the drive is even on is the small blue LED on the back of the drive; it even pulses slowly when the drive is being accessed.  And the WD Elements External 1TB HHD is silent.  Even when transferring a large number of files to it, I hear nothing, not a whisper, not a sound; amazing!  Amazingly as well is the lack of a power switch on the unit.   

The WD Elements External 1TB HHD is high capacity, reliable (thus far and I don't expect that to change), and transportable (if the need arises).  The small, black, nearly unobtrusive drive warrants serious consideration if you need to backup large quantities of files on a continual basis, or just want to supplement your computers' storage space.