Ultimately, this is a fast, easy-to-use and versatile portable drive that can effortlessly add a lot more storage, not just to computers but also game consoles and other types of USB-enabled hosts. Also, in my opinion, the Elements is slightly better-looking. While the two drives are very similar in most aspects, the Expansion is faster but the Element is cheaper. The WD Elements Portable drive is an excellent alternative to the Seagate Expansion. Note that the WD Elements also works with USB 2.0 but at much slower speeds in the neighborhood of 30MBps for both writing and reading. But overall, these were average speeds for USB 3.0 portable drives, fast enough for all applications that require external storage, including movie playback, backup and app storage.ĬNET Labs' USB 3.0 external drive performance However, these were some 20MBps slower than those of the Seagate Expansion. Via USB 3.0, it registered a sustained real-world copy speed of more than 95MBps for writing and more than 100MBps for reading. Since the Element houses a low-power internal drive, I didn't expect it to blow me away with its performance, but the drive did quite well in testing nonetheless. The Element also worked well with routers and media network media players. On an Xbox One, the drive was recognized immediately once plugged and once formatted by the game console, I could use it to store games, apps and content for playback. Apart from Windows and Mac computers, where the Elements worked without any issues, I also tried it with a few non-computer hosts it proved to be compatible there as well.
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