The WD 16TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive is for people who are tired of getting messages that their storage is full and of having to manage multiple small drives. It has 16TB of storage in a single desktop unit, so you can store large photo collections, home movies, installed games, and working files all in one place. After plugging in the hard drive with the provided USB cable and connecting the provided power cord, it simply appears on your computer as another hard drive where you can drag and drop your files.
An expansive hard drive for you to store all your additional files
The WD 16TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive does one thing really well: add extra storage space for you to use immediately. Once it is hooked up to a Windows PC, it is ready to go immediately and doesn’t require any special software. You can begin copying over big groups of files from a busy internal drive. To use it with a Mac, you will need to format the drive using Apple’s Disk Utility. Then you can treat it like any other external drive. No matter how you use it, you will now have one place to store all your files at full resolution, including large video files and older games that no longer fit on your primary storage.
Large file transfers happen much quicker thanks to the drive’s USB 3.0 connection. Large groups of photos, movie files, and game saves are transferred faster because newer technology provides higher bandwidth.
The WD 16TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive can be used as a backup drive to help keep your important files safe and reduce reliance on cloud services. You can also use your OS’s built-in backup utilities, like File History on Windows or Time Machine on Mac, to use the drive and automatically back up your files in the background.
The design of the WD 16TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive is intentionally simple so that it won’t draw attention to itself and blend in with your other equipment. The standing case is smaller than you’d think for how much storage it contains and fits comfortably on your desk while still providing a large-capacity desktop drive. At a sale price of $318, compared to the standard price of $360, the WD 16TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive is a simple, affordable solution for giving your computer a lot of additional storage for files, backups, and media.
