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About this item
Highlights
- Massive capacity, up to 18TB capacity (1 1TB = one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment.).date transfer rate:600.0 megabytes_per_second.Operating temperature: 5°C to 35°C, Non-op. temperature: –20°C to 65°C.
- Includes software for device management and backup with password protection (Download and installation required. Terms and conditions apply. User account registration may be required.)
- 256-bit AES hardware encryption
- SuperSpeed USB (5 Gbps); USB 2.0 compatible
Description
The WD My Book is a reliable external storage solution that combines compact design with massive storage. With 18 TB of capacity, it allows you to securely store and back up important files such as photos, videos, and music. Designed for ease of use, this hard drive comes ready to go, including essential software for data protection. Furthermore, its robust security features ensure your sensitive content remains safe and accessible.
Dimensions (Overall): 2.6 inches (H) x 8.0 inches (W) x 8.8 inches (D)
Weight: 2.88 pounds
Connection Type: USB
Data storage type: HDD
Data Storage Capacity: 18TB
Model name: My Book
Product Name: WD My Book WDBBGB0180HBK-NESN 18 TB Desktop Hard Drive - External
Warranty: 3 Year Limited Warranty. To obtain a copy of the manufacturer's or supplier's warranty for this item prior to purchasing the item, please call Target Guest Services at 1-800-591-3869
TCIN: 1001288795
UPC: 718037878867
Origin: made in the USA or imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 9.8 inches length x 9 inches width x 3.6 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 3.38 pounds
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4.3 out of 5 stars with 20 reviews
So Far So Good
4 out of 5 stars
David G. Seibold - 6 months ago
originally posted on Western Digital
I have had a ton of WD drives on both Windows and Mac machines, and, for the most part, they have been great. Too early to tell how this WD 18TB My Book will fair. Recently, I had a 10TB drive fail in a MyBook Duo. Did not last near as long as previous drives. Did not replace the drive. Bought an enclosure for the 2nd drive and using it as a single now. Using the MyBook Duo enclosure as a way to route USB cables. :)
Great hardware, poor software
3 out of 5 stars
C J - 1 year ago
originally posted on Western Digital
As usual with WD drives, the hardware is solid. I just hate the archaic lock software on PC. You have no easy way to toggle different computers to auto unlock without password. It's been YEARS and still doesn't work right. You have to remove the password and can only autounlock 1 computer, usually. It should be a simple toggle after typing in the password, and then possible ask for the password again or some second measure per computer. The software needs to be updated. I NEVER buy a WD drive without hardware encryption, but the software behind it lacks, always. WD, HIRE some good people to refresh this and make more options and make it user friendly.
1 reply from SM OLS team - 1 year ago
Hello, We are sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. We will look forward to sharing your feedback and appreciate your time to provide your valuable review. You may also get in touch with our technical support team directly to elaborate on the issue along with error screenshots. You can open a support ticket at (https://support-en.wd.com/app/askweb).
Tons of Capacity and Speed!
5 out of 5 stars
PANDAngles - 1 year ago
originally posted on Western Digital
Super Quick! Our biggest Bottleneck was older HDDs thats couldn't handle the throughput. It's a perfect Archive drive or daily backups. We reformatted it though before use which over a day, which is no big deal, but it gave us an extra 800GB of storage which was a major plus for us. But if you are not familiar with formatting don't go doing that. Anyways 10/10 I will get again for more archive files.
WD 18 TB
5 out of 5 stars
Leonard T - 1 year ago
originally posted on Western Digital
Great drive. have 3 of these drives and always pick my book drives for reliability and storage space.
Easy To Use.
5 out of 5 stars
Timothy Keenan - 3 years ago
originally posted on Western Digital
Easy to use. Attached to PC running Windows 10 and was quickly detected and added to file system. Been adding 1800+ DVD/Blu-Ray movie collection to the drive and data transfer speed has been quite good. Have only had for a couple of weeks so can't say much about the longevity of the unit. Only time will tell ;-).
Fast, reliable so far, super noisy.
3 out of 5 stars
Jeff F - 3 years ago
originally posted on Western Digital
Fast and reliable so far, but loud! The initial spin up sounds like a woodpecker is rattling my desk! Bought three of these and all of them are the same, loud aggressive noise.
1 reply from SM OLS team - 3 years ago
Hello, We're sorry to hear your user experience with the WD My Book Desktop Hard Drive and appreciate your time for providing this review. Best practice is to run diagnostics with WD Drive Utilities when a drive does not perform as expected or is behaving abnormally. We recommend avoiding USB hubs for external hard drives and therefore connect the drive directly to a USB 3.0 port on the computer. We have placed a few helpful links below providing more information for your convenience. "Setting up and using WD Security and WD Drive Utilities": https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/13880 "Western Digital Hard Drive Noise" https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/32906/kw/noise If the test is unfortunately inconclusive and you just purchased the drive then you should be able to return it to the place of purchase. However, if you are past their return policy, you can create an RMA through WD and replace the drive under warranty if necessary. "How to get an RMA to replace a defective product, or obtain a power supply or USB cable for a WD product": https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/10336 All our products must pass our stringent quality standards before leaving our factory to be free from defects in materials and craftsmanship. We stand behind our products throughout the device's factory warranty period. We would appreciate the opportunity to assist you further. You can contact us by phone below and provide your details. Need Help? Please see our "'Contact Us" page for information.
exFAT affects booting on some system; loud
3 out of 5 stars
TMMak - 3 years ago
originally posted on Western Digital
After I plugged this into my target system (Windows 10), the system simply cannot boot up. If I unplugged it during booting and then plug it in afterward, then it works fine. This also boots OK in another system that I tried. Checking the various forum, some suggest to change it from exFAT to NTSC. Once I did that, then it boots fine. It is still a mystery what that disk format make. Anyway, back to the disk, it is certainly loud on booting and disk access. You can hear the clicking even if you are 10 ft away and it is much louder than the 10TB Element that it replaced. Since this is a drive for backup (meaning it is not accessed unless I run the backup software), I can tolerate it. I also put a piece of foam padding underneath to dampen the noise.
1 reply from SM OLS team - 3 years ago
Hello, We're sorry to hear about your user experience with WD My Book Desktop and appreciate your time for providing the review. We would like to directly work with you to gather more details about the issue so that we can provide appropriate resolution or we would request you to open a support ticket with brief query. Please refer to the link mentioned:https://support-en.wd.com/app/ask/session/ All our products must pass our stringent quality standards before leaving our factory to be free from defects in materials and craftsmanship. We stand behind our products throughout the device's factory warranty period. Please contact us via the phone to ensure an overall good experience with Western Digital. We'd be happy to help. Need Help? Please see our "'Contact Us" page for information.
Why i purchased 2- 18 TB WD My Book Ext. drives
5 out of 5 stars
- 3 years ago
originally posted on Western Digital
If you are going to use this device with a Mac, you (may) need to contact WD technical support to guide you through reformatting prior to use. The reformatting process is logical, but can not be installed using the internal Mac disc utilities, you will need to install WD's download and use tech support to help make this a quick and easy process. This device, ( of which i purchased two) an 18TB My Book, will be used here as back up to my 48TB G Raid 4 bay Shuttle. I do not use the cloud for storage and would prefer to house my own back up. My digital life began with an ever increasing number of By Book's in the 1990's, and then migrated everything to G Drive storage. What I have done now, in this purchase is consolidate 12 G drives into, 1 48 TB G 4bay shuttle and 2- 18 TB My Book drives to bring of my storage needs up to date, with space available for adding data for a few years to come. This series of recent purchases represents my continued loyalty and trust in the performance reliability of products from WD for well over two decades.
Good Drive, Just Noisy
4 out of 5 stars
John Patrick Duffy - 3 years ago
originally posted on Western Digital
The external drive was easy to install and connect. The only issue I have with it is that it is noisy when operating. At first I thought that something was wrong, but it was working fine, just making noise.
Extremely underwhelming...
2 out of 5 stars
presrvd - 3 years ago
originally posted on Western Digital
I cannot fathom why anyone would make a USB 3.0 device, then cram a junk 5400rpm drive in it...but here it is. This thing is SO slow. I bought the 18TB model, and actually filled it almost completely up with backup data....only took several days to do so, which is not acceptable for me. This drive is also extremely noisy, and sounds like it is grinding, so it will be for backup only, and not ever hold any critical information. I only bought this drive because it was inexpensive, but I should have known better, so that's on me. On another note, this thing is not compatible with Roku, which only decreases its usefulness that much more. Also runs considerably warmer than my other drives from another vendor...
1 reply from SM OLS team - 3 years ago
Hello, We're sorry to hear about your user experience with the WD My Book Desktop and appreciate your time for providing this review. We were unable to locate you in our system with the information provided in the review therefore we request you give us a call so that we can gather more information to isolate the issue and provide an appropriate resolution. We'd be happy to help. All our products must pass our stringent quality standards before leaving our factory to be free from defects in materials and craftsmanship. We stand behind our products throughout the device's factory warranty period. Please contact us via the phone with reference to the review to ensure an overall good experience with Western Digital. Need Help? Please see our "'Contact Us" page for information.
Back it up
5 out of 5 stars
@GMrDrew - 3 years ago
originally posted on Western Digital
Bought this to help backup my files. So far so good!
Highly recommend
5 out of 5 stars
Doug L. - 3 years ago
originally posted on Western Digital
I found this drive easy to use and have made use of its back-up features quite often. I would highly recommend it to anyone who has a lot of files that need to be backed-up for safety.
Great drives and GREAT price.
5 out of 5 stars
Sys64738 - 3 years ago
originally posted on Western Digital
Got 3 18TB mybooks for a crazy low price each from the wd store (dunno how I got that price, maybe the store was screwed up that day but I jumped). They are simple to plug in, fast, and you can disable sleep mode. The only thing about the 18TB versions are they are LOUD. They do click/make a noise every 5 seconds (one is a click when the drive does it's 5 second access because something in the case is lose and you can tell it's the top plastic piece making the click). All of the mybooks are designed to make a noise every 5 seconds to "lubricate" stuff according to the faq here. The extra warranty making them have a 4 year warranty was even better. OH and these are 7200RPM drives in the case, probably white label red's. I also have 4 14's and one of those is 7200 (the rest are 5400) so i would guess it's a crap shoot what they decide to slap in there but my 18's are 7200 and fast over usb 3.1. If I see the low offer show up again I'm going to get one more and max out my drive letters. I find these more reliable than the brand that starts with see and ends with gate (the warranty on those is a year and they stuff in enterprise class drives where if you bought them bare you get a 3 year warranty and they wont honor the drive S/N, just the chassis SN). I don't know how WD handles shucked drives (none of mine are shucked) but I read that they dont complain and replace them. I'll stick with WD, never had much trouble with them. Again, they're fast, long warranty and the only complaint is they're noisy but what can you do. You can't go wrong with the brand, quality or price.
Big boy storage
5 out of 5 stars
Pdotc - 3 years ago
originally posted on Western Digital
Perfect companion for those who need lots of storage for backups.
Perfect for Backups
5 out of 5 stars
Jerry B - 3 years ago
originally posted on Western Digital
My current drive I was using for backups, the WD 14 TB drive, was running out of space. So, I wanted an additional 18TB drive for backups. Works perfectly for what I need. Using it in a studio, I wouldn't have picked this drive if I needed to use it daily for my work. (I currently use 10 external drives) I am not really sure of its speed. It is strange that WD does not advertise the speed of the drive and data flow. They leave it out of their specs. I assume they do that purposely. I also could not find the specs anywhere on the internet. Anyway, for my purpose (backups), it is perfect. Also, pricing it along side other competitor drives, it was significantly cheaper, at least 30% cheaper. For the price point, I couldn't pass is up.
My favorite option!
5 out of 5 stars
Sharon Robson - 3 years ago
originally posted on Western Digital
I like the mybook. When attached to the desktop it adds volumes of storage! I have a spare that I back up to on a regular basis!
Good drive
4 out of 5 stars
Stevej - 3 years ago
originally posted on Western Digital
Works well. Make a lot of noise and vibrates. Priced well
WD 18TB My Book Desktop - Very Noisy
2 out of 5 stars
VJF0 - 4 years ago
originally posted on Western Digital
Have had good experiences with WD products in the past. This one is very noisy and constantly making a clicking noise which is very distracting. Not sure if this is normal. I'm concerned that the unit is not functioning properly and will eventually fail when it is out of warranty. Somewhat disappointed with this purchase.
1 reply from SM OLS Team team - 4 years ago
Hi VJF0, We are sorry to hear that the WD My Book Desktop External Hard Drive is not working as expected and thank you for bringing this concern to our attention. Please know that the external drive makes noise during normal drive operation. The type and volume of noise are dependent on whether the is drive performing a read/write operation or idle with the heads parked. The environment where the drive is functioning may also influence noise. It is important to recognize which noises indicate trouble or normal drive operation. If the drive is not getting an uninterrupted power supply from the adapter then it could cause the drive to make noise. Please refer to the WD support page to know more. "How To Tell If The Noise or Sound An Internal Drive Makes is Normal": Search for knowledge base article: 16309 "A Western Digital hard drive makes a repeated clicking noise every 5 seconds": Search for knowledge base article: 14842 The best practice is to run diagnostics with WD Drive Utilities when a drive does not perform as expected or is behaving abnormally. We recommend avoiding USB hubs for external hard drives and therefore connect the drive directly to a USB 3.0 port on the computer. Please refer to the WD support page to know more. "Setting up and using WD Security and WD Drive Utilities": Search for knowledge base article:13880 We would like to follow up with you to help discover the root cause of your drive’s abnormal behavior. We suggest you contact our Support team by phone with reference to this review to ensure an overall good experience with Western Digital. We'd be happy to help. Need Help? Please see our "'Contact Us" page for information
Quality Product
5 out of 5 stars
NaZ S. - 4 years ago
originally posted on Western Digital
Excellent product. For the needed storage, this external hard drive works really.
Works as expected
5 out of 5 stars
ATB2 - 4 years ago
originally posted on Western Digital
amazing product I will always buy from them. great stuff.01