WD Elements 500GB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive

High Storage Capacity, Maximum Transfer Rate

Simplify your storage needs with the WD Elements 1TB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive. The lightweight hard drive comes with 1 TB storage capacity, enabling you to store all your favourite movies, TV shows, games, music, videos and more at one place. With its USB 3.0 connectivity, the hard drive ensures speedy file transfers. Apart from the USB 3.0 devices, the WD 1TB hard drive establishes backward compatibility with USB 2.0 devices as well.

Backup Software Free Trial, Improved Performance

WD elements enables you to try WD SmartWare Pro backup software before you purchase it, allowing you to back up files to the cloud storage using your drop box account. This external hard drive does not let your PC slowdown even when it’s running out of space. You can easily free up the space by transferring the data to WD elements portable storage and get your laptop’s storage uncluttered again.

Durability and Compatibility

The WD elements storage device assures long-term reliability and is designed with shock tolerance technique. The device is also protected with a durable enclosure feature, which shields the device externally. This WD hard drive has a formatted NTFS and is compatible with Windows8, Windows7, Windows Vista and XP.WD Elements portable storage comes with a trial version of WD SmartWare Pro backup software, which allows you to back up your files to your WD Elements drive or to the cloud using your DropBox account.This review talks about 3 harddisks: WD My Passport, WD Elements, Seagate Expansion. Passport is 2 years old, Expansion is 1 year old and I bought the Elements yesterday.
For Elements people complained about heating and vibration. I copied 252GB from Expansion to Elements in one go and I found the heating.