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Pros and cons

According to our external hard drive HDD expert

  • With 12TB of storage space, you have enough space for more than 250 HD movies or 1.2 million photos of 10MB.
  • Thanks to the USB 3.0 connector, the drive works up to ten times faster than with USB 2.0.
  • This drive is plug and play, so it will work as soon as you connect it to your Windows device.
  • This hard drive doesn't have hardware encryption with password security.
  • The hard drive isn't powered via the USB cable, but via an extra power cable.

Description

Store all your precious photos, documents, and media files with the WD Elements Desktop 12TB. Thanks to its slim design, this 3.5-inch external hard drive takes up little space on your desk. The Elements Desktop is specially designed for Windows computers, but you can also use it with Apple devices if you format the drive. You can back up your entire PC without installation, or transfer your movie collection and vacation photos so they're safely stored. Data is transferred via USB 3.0, which is up to 10x faster than USB 2.0. The drive includes a USB 3.0 cable. In addition, the drive is shockproof. So if it happens to fall off the table, your files remain undamaged.

This is what you get

  • Manual(2.16 MB)
  • Power cable
  • Micro USB to USB-C cable

Key specs

Total storage capacity

12 TB

Hard drive type

3.5 inches

Color

Black

Type of USB port

Micro USB-B (3.0 form)

Formatted for operating system

Windows

Backup feature

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Rating

  • 5 stars

    36

  • 4 stars

    18

  • 3 stars

    3

  • 2 stars

    1

  • 1 star

    0

Most helpful reviews

6,5/10 ()

Time will tell if he likes it

You can't say anything about reliability after a week.. I've had WD HD's that gave up after a month and a year, but also that have still been soliciting happily for 11 years.. What immediately struck me was the considerable vibration of the box. I already have a foam rubber mat under it .. very disturbing. Furthermore, it jumps into sleep mode really quickly and of course it takes a few seconds to get out (long enough to call it disturbing) It is connected to a Mac (in hindsight I would have preferred to have it attached to my Linux server with EXT filesystem) but re-installing 8tb... you don't just do that! Mac has been having a hard time with Samba shares for quite some time now .. so accessing remotely is possible but with a bit of nonsense (not WD's fault) Ultimately, I'm afraid this disc won't last long. Vibration is not a positive property of a hard disk.

  • Roel Koster

  • 12 March 2021

  • Automatic translation off Dutch

10/10 ()

it feels good to have so much space

  • fast
  • large storage
  • price

Large storage space and speed and reliability

  • Fouad Zanaki

  • 24 December 2020

  • Automatic translation off Dutch

9,0/10 ()

Excellent backup medium with one annoying feature

  • How the on/off button works

Hard drives are unambiguous things about which little can be said when they work properly. First of all: this WD Elements 8TB is an excellent hard drive: you can barely hear it and with its USB3 connection it is nice and fast (depending on the port to which it is connected, of course). The reason why I give it three stars for reliability is the fact that I have not used it for too long to say anything meaningful about it. In any case, it passed a stress test – writing a whopping 5 tB in one go – with flying colors. All in all, I'm happy with it. However, it has one small annoying characteristic: the operation of the on/off switch. Its presence was the deciding factor in my choice of this particular HD, which I purchased as a backup for a large number of files of an average of 2 to 3 GB that are very important to me. It goes without saying that you only connect the appropriate backup medium when you need it. However, once I connected it to my desktop PC, it turned out that it is enabled by default when the PC starts up. So now I have to press that button for five seconds after every startup to switch it off, which of course I forget half the time (you can switch it on by briefly pressing the button). At first I thought I had done something wrong, but when I checked on the WD site it turned out that they had deliberately added that automatic switch-on, apparently assuming that the customer would appreciate it. So this has not been carefully thought through; In any case, they have not done me any favors... And so I have no choice but to plug the adapter into the wall socket when I want to update my backup. But, as previously noted: otherwise it's a very good thing that I'm happy with.

  • Erik

  • 12 July 2024

  • Automatic translation off Dutch

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Specifications

Product

Product number

858169

Manufacturer code

WDBWLG0120HBK-EESN

Brand

Western Digital

Warranty

2 years

Processing of your defect

Via Coolblue

Memory properties

Total storage capacity

12 TB

Cache memory

64 MB

Hard drive type

3.5 inches

Formatted for operating system

Windows

Safety class

High-end

Functions

Shockproof

Dustproof

On/off switch

Backup feature

Protected memory (USB)

Physical properties

Width

4,8 cm

Depth

13,5 cm

Height

16,6 cm

Weight

1 kg

Color

Black

Material

Plastic

Build quality

Basic

Other properties

Energy-efficient

Power supply type

Power grid

Connectors and connections

USB port

Type of USB port

Micro USB-B (3.0 form)

Thunderbolt connector

FireWire