
I picked that because it’s literally what I had lying around.Ī Amazon.

Introduction: I have been planning to buy an external hard drive for some time and after some market study, I finally chose this model. SSDs are very low power consumption so I’m not using external power. The WD Easystore 4TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive is a great solution for backing up all your data as it is fast and has a great software interface to help you with all your back up problems. For the moment I’m using a USB adapter with a Sandisk SSD drive. On a Tablo with 4 tuners your drive will get hammered and you could lose a lot of recording. I do use a small USB thumb drive for my Roku TV to allow the pause function built into those TVs but I consider it disposable because worst case I lose 15 minutes of a show and thumb drives are dirt cheap. Easystore 4TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Black WD,Black WD Easystore 4TB External USB 3. They never seem to really get the performance they promise (except in short bursts) on any platform. It comes with some pieces of pre-installed utility software. Just from personal experience thumb drives have short lives when used heavily. The black external USB 3.0 WD from Western securely stores files on an EasyStore 4TB hard drive. I happen to have a better and stable experience with USB Stick Style compare to pocket-size style.

I know some pocket-size usb drives seem to drop its connectivity during data transfer. Either I use USB Stick Style, Thumb Drive Style, or External Drive Style it should not be matter. Help me understand this, if Table support USB 2.0, read/write speed should be 60 MB/s.
