There are certainly faster disks than this, but she had a complete offering a good price / performance ratio and in researching over other external drives that better housing concept. Unfortunately, often 7200 plates are fitted at the competition namely, the under load are generally warmer and are then built into a housing that can hardly provide a meaningful cooling. Even in metal housings, the plate is usually installed so that no thermal contact with the housing is. Thus the closed housing hardly helps when transporting the heat. If you use such discs frequently for backup, they usually run at temperatures above 50 ° C, which is rather negative for the life in the long run. The cooler, the better. This was for example. one reason why I have Seagate avoided, in spite of the better price / GB. The Seagate housing is made of plastic, but without any ventilation. In the reviews we find then also often times reports on deceased plates and the temperature development.
In this regard, the WD Elements convinced housing: It is situated at right angles and has adequate space and ventilation slots so that a chimney effect for the plate ensteht. The plate sebst is a 5400 board, which also produces less heat. The plate itself is relative. often in the standby mode, I have not tried it yet, if you can influence this, it did not bother me so far. The course also contributes to a non-excessive heating. Unfortunately, this case is not even slightly open, but that's now almost all external drives like that.
Permanent transfer rates of 80MB / s are normal, but in many small files it naturally breaks as each plate.
In conclusion remains for me to say that it is a solid, external storage solution.
