We got an average of 160-175MBps when copying files to it (USB 3.0). Of course, you can use whatever software you are familiar with.įormatting and/or partitioning it takes under 30 seconds and it offers a decent transfer speed. It’s plug-n-play and pre-formatted to the NTFS format right out of the box (as usual) and takes only a few seconds to boot up and become recognized by your computer. WD’s SmartWare software is included on the drive for backup options. Upon opening the box, you find the drive, a USB cable, power adapter and a quick guide. An external drive with plenty of room for most if not all of your backup needs (at least for a majority of consumers).The average harddrive in a new PC or Mac is still around 320GB to 2TB, so for those users, they will be able to make a full backup of their system drive as well as use it as additional storage space for their thousands of baby pictures–or whatever else triggers their shutter button finger (or the other digital content they like to collect, or…or…or). This week we had a chance to really get to know the 6TB My Book by WD (Western Digital). It’s a good thing some of your external options come with a lot of capacity now to do just this. With internal drives growing in size and those who like to upgrade the number of drives in their system, it’s taking a much larger solution to secure it all with. For most users though, activity involves daily projects that span all sorts of hobbies, business and family interests.

Backing up the data on your computer can be a task at times unless you’re really not that active.

Wd my book external hard drive review