Bought two of the 10TB drives. As per my usual habit, of doing a thorough test/burn of drives when I get them with 'badblocks -wsv -b 4096 /dev/sdX' .. where X is the letter of the device. Then check the SMART stats afterwards. That's using Linux Mint, or MX Linux BTW, both excellent replacements for people who are sick of the drama, painful updates, and slowness of Windows.

These had not a single error after two passes of writing the drives from beginning to end and then reading it all back. The average speed was 150MB/sec.

What's more they never exceeded 42C (108F) during the entire run. Although I did have them on a laptop cooler, that's how I run all my external drives.

10/10, would recommend :)

It boggles my mind when I see bad reviews on WD drives, I've had one or two fail over the years, but usually years after the warranty expired. I currently own these 2 and another 3 dozen WD external drives, some portable and some desktop... all doing great! in 2018. WD has been great for my storage needs.

I recently bought the single drive 10TB and to be honest when i did i was a little concerned about people saying its loud in other reviews.Well it makes a sound but its not loud.at all. To top it all i guess it has a sleep feature because after a while you cant hear it at all. In all honesty you cant have a 24\7 working hard drive without some kind of noise.Hard drives are supposed to make some sort of noise. some are louder some are not. im glad to say this is not one of the loud ones.
It wakes up without delay doesnt get hot writing speed is actually better then i expected. Overall i would recommend it. I will come back and update the review if anything happens but for now nothing bad to say about this. Solid purchase great price

I trust WD because I had already been using one of their 20 TB my book duos for I don't know how long. No, this isn't exactly the same product, and yet at the same time it should theoretically be no different functionally. Truth be told I'm reluctant to give a final opinion at this time. It's working with no issues for now. It's simply the fact that I had it delivered through Amazon that makes me nervous about whether it may have been damaged by shipping.

The reality of the situation is that I bought this specific model at this specific time because it was the most cost efficient option at the time. Truth be told I'd gladly have bought a larger capacity if it was priced the same $ per TB, but I think it's safe to say that the average consumer isn't in the market for these things.

I'm able to preview stored HD videos in realtime while editing and render them without any obvious problem. Seems that everything is being handled about the same as if I had the files stored internally. The USB data transfer is not holding me back.

Is it good for storing and running video games? No idea. I haven't tried, and I won't need to try.

I bought these drives for home media storage. They work great so far (about one month). I have them set up in a RAID 0 configuration on a Windows Storage Pool so my use case is probably a little unique. I had read other reviews mentioning how loud these drives were and I thought, "Eh, how loud could they be?" And boy, they are loud. Loud enough for wife aggro. I had to place some foam underneath them to dampen the thumping noise they make in my media center.

I had a Drobo for a few years. I felt safe in the knowledge that if a drive failed that I wouldn't lose any data. I do regular backups but losing your main drive is still a pain.

So, did a drive fail? Nope. The whole Drobo did. Drobo's solution? Buy a new one and recover your data. This convinced me that RAID is just an expensive, over-complicated mess.

When the Drobo died I didn't lose any data but I decided not to bother with that again. This drive was 1/3rd the price of an EMPTY Drobo. I'm still doing regular backups so my risk is exactly the same as it was before. If it dies, I'll buy another one. I can do it several times before I've spent as much as the Drobo cost.

This drive (10TB) is much smaller physically than I expected it to be. It's not much bigger than the Intel NUC that it's connected to. It's pretty quiet except for vibrations that were getting amplified by the desk I have it on. I solved this by putting some felt circles on each of the rubber feet to isolate it from the desk. I occasionally hear chatter when it's working hard but most of the time you can't hear anything.

I'm using the drive as my NAS connected to an Intel NUC which serves up network shares. There's very little activity on it except when I'm backing up my other computers to it or when it's doing it's own maintenance tasks (backups, etc). The speed is fine since the limiting factor for transfers is the network it's attached to.

I'm only using about 35% of the capacity at the moment so hopefully it lasts a long time.