WD My Passport externe Festplatte 5 TB (mobiler Speicher, schlankes Design, herunterladbare Software, automatische Backups, Passwortschutz) Schwarz - auch kompatibel mit PC, Xbox und PS4

Good Build Quality, But Speed is a Major Letdown

I like the sleek, portable design. It is compact and lightweight, and hardly makes any noise. For the time being, 6 TB of HDD storage is all I need for my data archival needs. Some people complain about WD software, but you don't need any 3rd party software to use external drives. Use the tools provided by your operating system to format the drive to a supported format (NTFS, exFAT or APFS) and add your own partitions or volumes as needed. It's easy. On the surface, it seems like a solid option. I am yet to discover any reliability issues over time. However, the transfer speed is extremely disappointing. The unit comes with a USB-C to USB-C 30V VW-1 Superspeed USB 3.1 Cable as well as a USB-C to USB-A adapter. Despite directly connecting it to a Thunderbolt port of my Mac using the supplied cable, I’m consistently getting around 40-80 MB/s for smaller file transfers and about 30-40 MB/s for large file transfers — well below the advertised speeds. This is unacceptable for a drive marketed as high-speed. For comparison, other drives (e.g. from Seagate) I’ve used manage much faster speeds. Moreover, SMART status is not supported either in this unit. Since I purchased it at a discount during the Black Friday sale, and it seems to work fine so far except this speed issue, I am reluctantly keeping it with my fingers crossed.