Western Digital My Book 8TB Review
Western Digital My Book offers a powerful external hard drive with a competitive price, decent storage, and other power-packed features worth your money.
Product details
My Book comes with fully equipped WD Backup software for Windows and Apple Time Machine. My Book desktop hard drive can be used to backup photos, videos, documents, and more. My Book comes with a 256-bit AES hardware encryption to keep your content safe and private. You can also add an extra layer of protection by setting your own personalized password. My Book is designed for durability, shock tolerance, long-term reliability, and comes with a three-year limited warranty. Along with massive storage, it also allows you to connect to popular social media platforms like Facebook and cloud storage services like Dropbox and Google Drive.
Product Specifications
- Capacity – 4 TB
- Interface – USB 3.0/USB 2.0
- Compatibility – Formatted exFAT for out-of-the-box compatibility with Windows and Mac
- Operating System – Windows® 10, Windows 8.1/ macOS 10.13+ (May require reformatting for other operating systems)
- Dimensions (L X W X H) – 5.48″ x 1.93″ x 6.72″
- In The Box – Desktop hard drive /USB 3.0 cable/ AC adapter/ WD Discovery™ software with WD Backup™, WD Security™, and WD Drive Utilities™/Quick install guide
Advantages:
- It comes with a backup utility and encryption tool.
- It comes with password protection, and you can store a massive amount of data.
- It processes your data very fast with zero errors.
Disadvantages:
- It requires external power.
- No portability.
Final Verdict
For Windows and Mac users, My Book is straightforward to set up. All you need to do is just plug in the power cable and wire the USB Type-A to USB micro type B from the drive to your computer, and you are all set. The WD Discovery lets you see the available hard drive space and also enables you to set passwords and other WD utilities. The password you will set will be tied to your device, which allows you to login easily without any need to re-enter the password again. However, if you access it on any other machine, you have to re-enter the password. This functionality will make sure that if your drive gets stolen, nobody can access your data. It also enables you to import data from a cloud backup.
You can also install other WD utilities which include a backup tool, a security tool, and a general utility tool that can be used to perform various functions including RAID configurations. My Book is straightforward to use and configure. However, it comes with two significant downfalls which are redundancy and securing live data.
Backing up your data in one device has never been an ideal choice as the physical mechanisms of these drives can go wrong. So, always try to store your data in two places. Another disadvantage is the lack of a live backup solution. Other than these two disadvantages, My Book is an excellent buy to store 8TB of data at this price range.
Avery Smith is a McAfee product expert and has been working in the technology industry since 2002. As a technical expert, Avery has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as mcafee.com/activate.
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