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12TB WD My Book Desktop External Hard Drive $190
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From what I understand My Book hardware proprietary encrypts data, so drive data not accessible if the electronics fail (except via some hacking layer). Elements doesn't.
So, not sure why anyone should buy it over the Elements unless it is significantly discounted over it.
So, not sure why anyone should buy it over the Elements unless it is significantly discounted over it.
I would choose the 3 year warranty and the drive that has the option of encryption. An extra year of warranty coverage is pretty nice IMO...
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From what I understand My Book hardware proprietary encrypts data, so drive data not accessible if the electronics fail (except via some hacking layer). Elements doesn't.
So, not sure why anyone should buy it over the Elements unless it is significantly discounted over it.
The My Book has a three-year warranty vs the Element's two-years, which some might think is worth the $10 difference.
One other difference is that B&H Photo is closed for Passover until Monday, April 5th. If you need a drive shipped this week, go with the My Book from Newegg.
BTW, if you want to shuck a My Book, this is the easiest way [youtube.com].
I would choose the 3 year warranty and the drive that has the option of encryption. An extra year of warranty coverage is pretty nice IMO...
You can use software encryption on all external drives as an option. The only time you need that hardware encryption is that you are worried about access to it from unauthorized machines especially while traveling with it if not encrypted or the machine doing the software encryption is compromised. But you can find reverse engineered scripts for unencrypting these with the key stored in one of the disk blocks. So, this is really not a fool-proof solution for the paranoid scenario.
Possible use cases, for sure, but I would think they are an exception than the norm. Most of these high capacity drives are used for storing media content at home and a small portion of it for home directory backups. Hardware encryption makes a lot more sense for the small capacity external drives you carry around with your laptop.
About the warranty, if the electronics fail OR the disk fails, you can't wipe the disk before sending it back (and whoever has it can always get at the data). So, a lot of people I know wouldn't dream of sending it back under warranty unless it has not totally failed and they can ensure that the disk can be wiped. So, I am not sure, how useful these warranties are in real world scenarios unless you are only keeping data that you don't care if anyone else gets access to it. Two years is more than enough to shake out initial and boundary scenarios for defects.
Seagate external drives are only one year warrantied!
I keep track of SMART data for early detection and phase out use or wait for a threshold for RMA before it completely fails so I can wipe it using a drive's own enhanced security erase.
BTW, if you want to shuck a My Book, this is the easiest way [youtube.com].
Same model is on staples, good for 100% PM as well as using this months' rewards.
About the warranty, if the electronics fail OR the disk fails, you can't wipe the disk before sending it back (and whoever has it can always get at the data). So, a lot of people I know wouldn't dream of sending it back under warranty unless it has not totally failed and they can ensure that the disk can be wiped.
As for the warranty, if the drive fails you are forced to send the drive back with all your funky data regardless if it's encrypted or not. Unless I'm missing something, a broken drive is inaccessible and you can't delete/remove anything from it as it is dead.
Overall, I find external drives to be somewhat unreliable and that they have a high failure rate so a 3 year warranty is a big plus for me.
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As for the warranty, if the drive fails you are forced to send the drive back with all your funky data regardless if it's encrypted or not. Unless I'm missing something, a broken drive is inaccessible and you can't delete/remove anything from it as it is dead.
Overall, I find external drives to be somewhat unreliable and that they have a high failure rate so a 3 year warranty is a big plus for me.
My point about warranty is that many choose not to send disk drives internal or external for warranty at all unless the drive is still functional enough to be securely erased. So, the warranty beyond early failures may not be relevant in such a case.
Personally, I have never had a unit fail and have lasted far beyond any warranty. But this is all for non-portable use. Lugging it around may have different outcomes.
As I have mentioned before, the encryption and warranty are much more relevant to portable use and is a vestige of the smaller capacity drives used as extension to the tiny capacity of earlier laptops.
YMMV.
I just don't see the rationale for WD producing both the Element and My Book and selling at roughly same price. If they want to take the one extra year warranty overhang, then they are compromising on something else to have same margins.
Really wanted 16 TB drives, but this works out really well per TB.
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