The stumps on older 2 TB drives were also tiny, but they were semi-spherical, so it was more difficult to feel like they would fall off. The four plastic stumps under the drive to keep it from moving while on a desk are tiny and at times I fear they're going to come off. So please, Western Digital: do something about the design of the case. But when you compare it side by side with an older 2 TB MyPassport drive, the 4 TB drive is actually slighly bigger (or thicker, actually) as you can see in the side by side photo included here. I guess the eye divides the drive into two halves because of the design and one think it's two tiny drives. Still, I have to say the design creates an optical illusion, fooling the eye into thinking the drive is smaller than it really is. The "ruffles" half of the drive is UGLY and serves no purpose whatsoever other than, I guess, trying to avoid consumers getting confused between a WD drive and, say, a Seagate. Usually large drives eat up about half a gig of space, so I suppose an 8 TB drive would be in reality a little over 7 TB.Ģ. The bigger the drive, the more space it will eat up. All external drives eat part of their capacity in order to store the file system. While it is 4 TB, you can only use about 3.6 TB. Compact, easy to carry, and it powers through the USB connection.ġ. So it won't go faster than regular USB 3.ģ. USB 3, so it's really fast if you have a USB 3 port. 4 terabytes of space in NTFS format (though you can reformat the drive for Mac or for FAT).Ģ.
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