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The same is the case with the WD My Passport 4TB drive, which weighs around 210 grams and is only 0.75 inches thick.

#WD MY BOOK 3TB REVIEW PORTABLE#

Most portable hard drives feature pocketable and lightweight design. If 4TB is not enough storage, then you should check out the Seagate STGY80000 External Hard Drive that offers 8TB of storage space. The hard drive uses a USB 3.2 Gen 1 interface and comes with SuperSpeed USB cable. However, the random write and read speeds will be slower depending on file, interface, and other factors. It can offer up to 130MB/s of sequential read and 124MB/s of sequential read. The WD My Passport 4TB portable drive offers fast sequential write and read speeds, which makes it easy to transfer large files.

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This is ok for backups and large file storage, but it's not something you'd want to use as an application drive. The move to USB 3 adds about a 3+ ms latency penalty compared to the internal drive. The variable performance also isn't consistent between runs or benchmarks

You'll notice that I didn't see these problems with the internal drive, which leads me to believe that this is either a problem with my review sample or with the USB 3 to SATA bridge in the My Book Essential itself. The problem mostly resolved itself after further passes, although there were always some strange performance blips aross various LBAs: Here’s a shot of the first sequential read pass on the drive: The only problem I had in testing the My Book Essential was very erratic read performance at the beginning of my testing. As an external drive, you’re more likely to be writing to the My Book Essential sequentially rather than throwing a more random workload at it. Random performance is significantly lower, presumably because of the translation that happens at the USB controller level. There’s very little sequential performance difference between the 3TB My Book Essential and the desktop Caviar Green. USB 3.0 continues to be a great interface for external storage. Western Digital My Book Essential 3TB (USB 2.0) Western Digital My Book Essential 3TB (USB 3.0) I’d say the tradeoff is worth it given the tremendous difference in heat however. Seagate is over 25% faster for sequential reads and writes over USB 3.0. The performance of the My Book Essential isn’t nearly as good as what we saw with the GoFlex Desk.

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WD’s SmartWare utility does let you seamlessly lock and unlock the drive across both Windows and OS X however.

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Western Digital doesn’t bundle a NTFS Mac driver so you’ll need to reformat the NTFS formatted drive for write use on a Mac (or supply your own NTFS driver for OS X).

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Like Seagate, Western Digital supplies software with the drive to manage the drive and backups. Here’s the drive at idle and after over an hour of use: A pair of rubber feet prop the drive up a few millimeters off of the ground to allow air in from below.The ventilation story is a lot better than what I encountered with the GoFlex Desk.Īs a result, temperature is a non-issue. To make sure the drive never gets too hot Western Digital has a grate that runs along the top, spine and bottom of the My Book Essential. Remember the Caviar Green is a 4 platter sub-6000 RPM drive compared to the 5-platter 7200 RPM design in the GoFlex Desk, so temperatures should inherently be lower. The first thing I wanted to test with the My Book Essential was how well it kept the drive cool. Obviously USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 on the host connector side. Unlike Seagate’s GoFlex Desk, the My Book Essential doesn’t have an option for interfaces: USB 3.0 is all you get. Western Digital also sent along the My Book Essential, an external version of the 3TB Caviar Green.