![]() USB is inherently slower that drives directly connected to the M/B. And you (the user) have to set this up, it's not automatic!!! Oh, and as one who actually owns Western My Books (3 in all, and just bought a 12TB drive last week), I can definitively say, your files are NOT encrypted unless you want them to. Speeds vary either way every which way.Īnd have you considered the OP may really want the files on an external drive?Īnyway, I just transferred 300gig of files to my Western Digital 12TB My Book, and it took less than an hour with the USB 3.0 device. It simply depends on transfer speeds of devices, as well as Windows background processes interfering with the transfers speeds. I transfer files all the time from internal to internal, external to internal, external to external. ![]() Please explain to me how this is a problem, cause I wholly disagree. For a project of this magnitude, it's just not worth the risks involved IMO even those risks are only additional or wasted time. Or it may take a good deal of time for an onboard encryption function to plow through encrypting a TB+ of new data that suddenly appears out of nowhere from its perspective. That's the opposite of what we’re potentially talking about here of course.Įven in this case though, what would be done with the "liberated" drive after the copy is complete? Put it back into the original WD housing? That's completely uncharted territory and outside the use case WD intends for the drive+housing. This is an outright threat to accessing your data only if you fill the drive using it normally in its own housing and then subsequently want access to your data with the drive itself physically "liberated" from the housing. Some models of Western Digital external drives have included an automatic built-in encryption function that's controlled from components on the circuit board within the drive housing. I would be very careful considering this idea. You'll then appreciate the WD My Book is merely an elaborate USB disk caddy. ![]() Take the HDD out of the WD enclosure, mount it in your PC, and then do the copy. It would be faster to copy between 2 internal drives than using USB. Now I want to copy the recovered files to a new WD My Book hard Drive via USB 3 ![]()
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