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WD 18TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive, USB 3.0, External HDD with Password Protection and Auto Backup Software - WDBBGB0180HBK-NESN

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Style: Single Drive


Capacity: 18TB


Features

  • Massive capacity, up to 18TB capacity (1 1TB = one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment.).date transfer rate:600.0 megabytes_per_second.Operating temperature: 5C to 35C, Non-op. temperature: 20C to 65C.
  • Includes software for device management and backup with password protection (Download and installation required. Terms and conditions apply. User account registration may be required.)
  • 256-bit AES hardware encryption
  • SuperSpeed USB (5 Gbps); USB 2.0 compatible

Description

The My Book drive is trusted desktop storage designed to complement your personal style with a massive amount of space to store your photos, videos, music and documents. Equipped with social media and cloud storage import, password protection and perfectly paired with WD Backup™ or Time Machine™, My Book desktop storage helps keep your files safe.

Specs & Other Info

SpecificationDetails
Storage Capacity18 TB
InterfaceUSB 3.0
ConnectivityBluetooth
ManufacturerWestern Digital
Key FeatureHardware Encryption
Form Factor3.5 Inches
Drive TypeMechanical Hard Disk
Compatible WithDesktops, MAC
TypeExternal Hard Drive
ColorBlack
Product LineMy Book
Model NumberWDBBGB0180HBK-NESN
Platforms SupportedPC, Mac
Weight2.83 lbs
Dimensions (LxWxH)1.9 x 6.7 x 5.5 inches
Release DateOctober 23, 2020

Frequently asked questions

Setting up the WD 18TB My Book is straightforward. Plug the drive into your computer using the USB 3.0 cable provided, then power on the drive using the AC adapter. Your computer should recognize the drive automatically. To access the full suite of features, including password protection and auto backup, install the WD Discovery software from the included WD installation files.

Yes, the WD My Book 18TB drive is compatible with both Windows and macOS. It comes NTFS formatted for Windows but can be easily reformatted for macOS. Remember to back up your data before reformatting the drive if you switch between operating systems.

Password protection on the WD My Book 18TB helps keep your files secure from unauthorized access. This feature uses 256-bit AES hardware encryption. You can enable and set your password using the WD Security or WD Drive Utilities software. Once set, the drive locks until the correct password is entered.

The auto backup software, available through the WD Backup or WD SmartWare software, allows you to automatically back up photos, videos, music, and documents to your My Book drive. You can schedule backups to run hourly, daily, or monthly, ensuring your files are always up to date without manual intervention. This feature is a huge time-saver for anyone who values data security and convenience.

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🚀 Abunda's Overview

This is our summary and key points to consider based on customer reviews.

This collection of reviews highlights mixed experiences with Western Digital (WD) hard drives, focusing on different models and sizes. Users have shared a range of feedback, from the drives' reliable performance and good capacity for backups to issues related to noise and computer performance. One reviewer regained trust in WD after a previous failure, appreciating the product's delivery and packaging, while others noted the ease of setup and use. Despite some complaints about noise and speed compared to SSDs, the general consensus points towards satisfaction with the storage capacity and functionality for the price.

Pros

  • 🔹 Good capacity for backups and storing various data
  • 🔸 Easy setup and use, with plug-and-play functionality
  • 🔹 Sleek design that fits well in most desktop environments
  • 🔸 Reliable performance for the price point, especially for larger storage needs

Cons

  • 🔻 Some models suffer from a "thumping" noise, which can be annoying
  • 🔻 The external drives can slow down computer performance, impacting tasks like file browsing and system shutdown
  • 🔻 Speed may not match up to SSDs, making it less suitable for users requiring fast data access

Should I Buy It?

If you're in need of high-capacity storage at a reasonable price and can overlook some of the drawbacks like noise and slightly slower performance compared to SSDs, then a WD drive could be a good choice. These hard drives are well-suited for backing up large amounts of data like photos and videos, making them a reliable storage solution for most users.

    • A real lifesaver! Would buy 20 of them if I needed to!!!
Style: Single Drive Capacity: 8TB
I have to give this drive mad props. I've been a My Book fanatic for years. I have rarely if ever had a serious issue with any WD drive in almost 30 years. I just keep buying bigger and bigger ones and they just keep going. I buy new drives and back up everything from the older drives to the newer drives as they continue to get huger and huger in capacity, and as I record and capture more and more data. These My Book and Elements drives have been phenomenally reliable. I have the RAID pair versions, too. Love 'em all! So I'm pretty multiple-backed-up. But here's what I have to tell you about this one... I was house-sitting for a good friend over the 4'd o' Jeely holiday this year. They have an old Weimaraner whose getting up in years, so she's not much trouble, but last Christmas they got a new maltipoo who is CONSTANTLY all over that poor old dog with her ridiculous puppy energy! As usual, I set up my headquarters with my work laptop (much newer and way more powerful than my home laptop) at their dining room table with the power cables for both the computer and the hard drive running over to the wall. It's never been a problem before. Early on in the week, I had an inkling that I might not want to have the power cables hanging off the table like that this time, but I didn't do anything about it right away. Well, the next day in the early evening, I was standing near the table. There was a sudden rustling and the dogs tore between the table and the wall, and I heard a loud, reverberant CRAAAASH!!!! It took a couple seconds for the sound to completely die away in their large, open house. I immediately knew what it was. Sure enough, as I looked at the hardwood floor, it was indeed my hard drive that had slammed against it. I was so P.OOOOOOO.d!! I've had the drive since February, and there was almost 6 Terabytes of data on it, which, as you probably know, represents a significant time investment just in getting that data on there, to say nothing of what was involved in actually collecting and producing said data! But as it is an external USB drive, I knew it was spun down since I hadn't been at the computer for a while, and I fully expected the drive to be functional when I plugged it in. I've dropped drives before. Especially inside a plastic case, not spinning, they can take a VERY HARD drop and still work flawlessly for years. I've done it before. Well, imagine my horror when I didn't even get a drive letter when I plugged it back in! This detail becomes important later. It spun up and made its little chipmunk noises and sounded normal, but it made somewhat of a funny short squeal whenever I torqued it a bit, so I thought some severe damage must have occurred! My heart sank a bit, but I wasn't TOO mortified, because I still had this drive's primary at home. This drive was used as a backup, and it's also the one I take out in the world when I want to have my personal data with me, wrapped securely inside my clothes in a suitcase, or in the backpack I wear as a kind of digital Go Bag that I take to work every day. It was nearing 11 p.m. as I somewhat nervously made my way home about 15 minutes away to pick up the primary. I started thinking about what could go wrong. I could have a car accident. ANYTHING. This pair of drives basically contains the last two years of everything I've recorded (I'm a sound guy and I play the sitar live, sing in my church choir and basically record my entire life, as well as events of friends and others, LITERALLY almost 24/7), all my photos (I'm a photographer and take thousands of photos per month), a videographer, with hours of footage casually captured, and sometimes not-so-casually, and many other collections of data from all over my life. I am a VERY data-intensive person and have been for most of my sentient existence. I'm also a programmer. I've been backing up for a few decades. I have a suitcase full of old hard drives that must weigh at least 100 pounds. Yeah, I don't have a third geographic redundancy for all my data, and I'd be pretty screwed if my house burned down, but hey... I am easily WAY more backed up than 99.999% of people in the world. So as I came home to get the main drive, my biggest worry was just getting it backed up again before something else could happen. I decided to do the backup, using the work laptop, to a new 8 TB My Book drive, which I had already had one-hour rushed to me at my friend's house via Amazon PrimeNow. (I LOVE that service!!!!) This is because the work laptop has USB 3 ports and the copy would go MUCH faster than on my home laptop, the venerable old Qosmio that I've had since 2010. Yep... it's still going strong and I still love it. But sadly, it only has USB 2 ports (until I recently added a PCMCIA USB 3 adapter which you can read about in another of my reviews... yes, I said PCMCIA!!!). I got home and picked up the 6 TB (ALSO WD My Book) hard drive for which the 8 TB drive was the backup. Here's where I will shamefully admit that I have a LOT of stuff on that drive that I never even copied over to the new 8 TB drive, just because I never did, I guess out of sheer laziness. Even when you're slightly paranoid like me, you can get complacent when things just work and work and work for years. So I was a little nervous about all this. I toyed around in my mind with thoughts like "What if I plug it in and it just doesn't work?". NAAAAAAAH! What are the odds? I was just using it the day before. And I've even used it on that work laptop before. Everything's going to be fine! Well, wouldn't you know... I got back to the friend's house with that drive and plugged it into the laptop, and a popup dialog came up with some weird drive letter saying it needed to be formatted to be used!!!!! I almost lost it!!! I brought up the Disk Management app and it looked like it had 3 RAW partitions on it instead of the single 6 TB properly-formatted one that should have been there! Something somewhere had gone VERY wrong!!! To this day, I don't know what happened to that drive. I started asking myself why I didn't simply do the smart thing and fire it up at home and just do the backup there, slowly and safely. But I knew I was stuck at this remote location for a week and would want to babysit the whole process, so that's what drove my decision. This may sound ridiculous to most people, but this situation threw me into a serious existential dilemma. I have spent my entire life capturing recordings of sound, video, photography, EVERYTHING. I'm 51 now. I've been at it for decades. I was facing the possibility of just having lost all my recordings of my church choir for the past two years... all my live sitar performances... two years of amazing photographs from all aspects of my life and places I've been and experiences I've had and people I know and those whom I have randomly met and photographed. Two years of that 24/7 recording of my life I mentioned before. Yes, I literally carry a Sony stereo sound recorder with me everywhere I go and it records my entire life! In that space and time, I started questioning what was the point of my entire life if it was this easy to lose so much data that I had spent so much time and effort capturing and preserving and supposedly backing up. I am fortunate in that I have lived as a somewhat social hermit for most of my life. Even when I was married for seven years (1995-2002), people accused us of just being TWO hermits living together. I like to be alone. There's only so much of being around other people that I can take before I have to retreat back to my fortress of solitude. But that can be very lonely, too. And that's why I love capturing life in so many ways, because I am alone enough that I am amazed to see people and nature and life and the world around me. I feel compelled to record it. Then I can study it and re-live it in microscopic detail when I am alone... a kind of detail that most people don't even know exists. In the past few years, I have returned to a life with faithful Believers around me, after 35 years of having walked away from my faith in God and Christ. Jim, the husband of my church choir director, is a data recovery specialist. (Holy Spirit at work here, right?) I called him and told him my dilemma. I drove the new 8 TB drive and the 6 TB drive over to him. I talked to him and his wife, my great brother and sister, about what if I don't get this data back? I've been having crazy thoughts about why I even do all this? Should I go off and become a monk? Should I pour myself into the sitar and just forget about recording things ever again? Should I call up the girl I've been madly in love with for over two years, who is unable to even fathom a desire for an intimate relationship (think of a female version of Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory) and just propose to her? Did I even want to continue to live??? I was in a crazy kind of way!!!! So Jim tells me not to worry and that he'd look at it. Sometime the next day, he was able to call me up and tell me that all the data was still there, and that he was copying it to the new drive. Incidentally, he only has USB 2 ports on his recovery machine, so it was a several day process!!!! I razzed him about that a bit. But you know... he got all the data off that drive and onto the new one... the new WD My Book 8 TB drive, the PrimeNow page of which I think I'll also post this review to so it will be backed up!! :-) He couldn't figure out why he wasn't able to fix the partition table, even though his software recognized it as a single NTFS partition and was able to fully recover the data without any hiccups. It's still sitting on the floor of my room here. I don't dare reformat it and recopy the data to it until I have fully backed up the data from the new 8 TB drive to yet another drive. (Yes, here I am weeks later and I am just now starting that process! Hence I still have the 6 TB acting as a KIND of backup for now.) So, I mentioned backing this stuff up to yet another drive. "And what drive might that be?" you ask. Why, the OTHER 8 TB WD My Book drive that got slammed on the floor! That's the reason for this huge 5-star review. Remember I mentioned that when I plugged it in I didn't even get a drive letter? That really struck me as strange, because the drive letter usually still shows up, even if the drive is completely trashed. It will simply give you a bunch of errors and data failures when you try to access it. It really seemed more like an interface issue than a hard drive issue. Having nothing better to do while I waited for my data to come back, I had disassembled the 8 TB drive from its plastic case, thinking maybe there was some issue with the circuit board that connects the drive and its SATA interface to the outside world with a USB interface. I disconnected the little board and re-seated it to the drive and jiggled the plug in the connector, all to no avail. The drive still didn't come up on the computer. So several days later, the day I was done house-sitting, Jim announced the copy was finished. I picked up the drives. When I finally got home, I plugged the new 8 TB into my laptop and it came up and there was all my data, as promised. What a relief! Next, I took the dropped drive completely out of its enclosure, still not convinced that it was dead. I mean, even the brand new 8 TB drive that I had just bought made that funny little squeal when I torqued it a little bit while it was spinning, so it was a completely normal sound! When you own a ton of drives like I do, you have a lot of bare ones that came out of tower computers, or even some that were taken out of external drive enclosures. They are much easier to manage that way, and take up a lot less space. But you have to have a way to access them, and one way via a hard drive bay. That's a device that lets you plug a bare hard drive into a slot and it interfaces to your computer via USB or maybe eSATA. Well, I halfheartedly plugged the drive into the bay and turned it on, and what do you know... good old Drive P: came right up on the computer as if nothing had ever happened! It's still going like gangbusters. 5-stars, my friend! I lost NOTHING during this calamity. Yeah, I have to admit, I even had a bunch of stuff on this drive that wasn't backed up anywhere else, too. But I consider a lot of that to be expendable because it's more of a time investment than a life investment. It's stuff that can be retrieved again from elsewhere. The moral of this story is this... and I know this full well, of course, as do a great many of you... BUT... ONE BACKUP of important data is NEVER enough! Think about it. If you lose your backup, or your primary for that matter, then you are down to ONE COPY. And if something... ANYTHING... goes wrong with that... you are in the same boat as all those people you have shaken your head about over the years who didn't even bother to have ONE backup and lost everything. The only real backup is AT LEAST TWO backups, and one of those is tucked away in a safe, remote location. That way, your house can burn down and you still don't lose anything, except for the stuff you created since you last updated your remote backup, which you have to do from time to time, of course, preferably not in the presence of the third drive, since you don't want all three of them to be together at the same time. You never knew when disaster will strike, right? Look what almost happened to me!!! This is just a silly review of a hard drive on Amazon, but these drives contain years' worth of the very product of my life. And I am here to tell you that I trust them and I count on them and they have not let me down, even when under extreme duress. What more do you need to know? A quick postscript here... before I went to get my drives back, Jim had asked me to grab some dinner for three at a local Italian restaurant as payment for this service (he usually charges people $500 for this kind of recovery!). His wife had had a foot surgery recently and they were depending on friends to bring them meals for a time. When I got there, they had set up their formal dining room with their best china and a bottle of white wine. We ate like royalty that evening. That's the power of friends and the power of faith! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2017 by Mark C. Lowe
    • WD Works Fine for Me
Style: Single Drive Capacity: 6TB
I'm writing this review for the rest of us common-folk who might be using external storage for the first time since it's annoying seeing either lazy users or ones whose knowledge may as well be written in Cuneiform (but at least the super techy ones are useful for like-minded users, just not for me; the lazy are just useless period). I've had the 4TB model of this product since 2017, and after I did some general hardware research, I learned that it's wise to replace any external hard drive after 3-4 years since even the best can experience errors, and thus got this 6TB model on May 15, 2020. It seems odd for external drives to have a shorter lifespan considering that my 2013 iMac managed to keep its stored data safe for 7+ years now, but eh, that's an entire computer. Plus, the government steals more of my money through useless car-tag renewals every year, so paying for something every few years that helps preserve my memories and data is worthwhile. It was a bit unnerving to see a mix of good and bad reviews here, but then the other brands had those, too, so unfortunately it does appear to be a gamble with Dead-on-Arrivals (DOAs). The box this model came in did have a dent on one of the corners, which I recorded in case this thing does a peace-out on me way too early, so just be wary of how your package arrives because we all know that delivery companies aren't foolproof, and all hardware still maintains some level of fragility. Just like the 4TB model, this 6TB model came ready-to-go with an exFAT file system (I don't rightly know the difference between file systems other than compatibility). I didn't bother utilizing the two resources that are stored on the drive (one to set up for Windows and one for Mac). I imagine that those who cannot use this between macOS and Windows is because they formatted it specifically for the macOS file system, and you'd lose your data if you were to re-format it. I'm on Windows 10, but I was on macOS Mojave for the 4TB one before also using it on Windows; I've not yet used this 6TB model on Mac, though I'd be surprised if suddenly it's an issue. I also don't use the encryption feature. I don't know why some say it's the default because it's not present on this or the 4TB one; you may need to use the appropriate, aforementioned resources to activate it. Still, I don't like the encryption because ... well it just doesn't seem worthwhile with the potential issues it can cause. Honestly, if you have truly sensitive info, print or record the info physically and keep it locked away, old-school style, and that's coming from a 25 year-old y'all; that's the best security you'll ever get in modernity. The Sleep Mode can be an oof. Annoying at best for me since I'm using this drive purely for backups, so having to wait a few moments to access files isn't the biggest deal for me. Understandably, I've seen gamers plagued more heavily by the Sleep Mode; for them, I'd recommend getting an external drive without its own power source and just with the USB connection. Now, the data-transfer/writing-speed for this (and the 4TB) model can vary. When transferring larger files (1GB or more), it averaged at 150 MB/s. When transferring smaller files, especially ones that were under a few MBs, then I'm guessing it's around 60-80 files per second (it would display in KB/s at this point), so it takes individual sizes/file types into account (which is fine for me since I want it to be transferring my large-sized video files at its maximum writing speed). My computer is pretty solid, but not a beast; I also just quit-out all background apps that I can (even disconnecting my WiFi) to help the computer focus just on the transfer since I had around 3.5 TBs to transfer and it still took a few hours. I personally did it main-folder-by-main-folder as opposed to all-at-once, but the largest folder was 1.2 TBs and it took a little over an hour, so I guess you can think of this drive as 1TB/hr. It's intended physical orientation is vertical, not horizontal, otherwise it may heat up more easily; the rubber-soles at the base tell you that it should be kept that way. It has its own power source that requires an available outlet, you can't just connect the USB and begin using it. If you ever need to move it to another computer or a far-enough location, eject the drive from your computer first. On Mac, right-click on the drive's icon and select "Eject" or eject it from Finder. On Windows 10, there should be an icon in the "Show hidden Icons" category (upward-arrow symbol next to the Internet, Volume and Time in the lower-left corner) that says "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" and select the appropriate drive. Once the drive's ejected, disconnect the USB from the computer, wait for a few moments (usually when it stops singing the song of its people), then unplug the power cord and gently move it over yonder. Then, plug the power source back in, then the USB to begin using again. During its usage, leave it alone, keep it cool and clean (I'd cover it up whenever I'd vacuum/dust so that it wouldn't dirty the interior as much) and away from other mayhem. It's essentially your digital baby. I'm hopeful that this thing lasts for the same 3-4 years as the 4TB did; if not, I'll update the review here. I'm certainly gonna baby this thing a lot more than I did the poor 4TB one since I did experience some data loss as a result of dropping it 3-feet down onto carpet (the USB was detached in the process and thus wasn't ejected properly), but I was able to get R-Studio's data recovery software and recover most of what I wanted (mainly a few dozen video files, all else remained intact). C'est la vie, that data loss was just an accident. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2020 by Melissa

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