DesMusic wrote: If consider equal price both of these drives (My Book and Essentials) is there some difference except software and password protection?
I was told the only major difference is the My Book features data encryption and smartware features, where as the Elements does not.
I have a 3TB My Book and a few 3TB Elements … Personally speaking, the Elements sound louder than the My Book
(i’m talking “Fan Noise” … the drives themselves are pretty quiet)
But the only thing that kinda freaks me out … if for whatever reason the My Book enclosure goes faulty, you can’t take the HDD out and connect it to your PC and retrieve your data … because the encryption / decryption is on the enclosure controller board.
AFAIK … if the same happens to the Elements, you can remove the HDD and retrieve your data
