Western Digital - WDBACW0040HBK - 4TB My Book Essential

I have to make a complete backup of our NAS and Desktop PC so I bought this external HDD. Disc used by WD is Hitachi HDS5C404ALE630 - MPAOA3B0.


This HDD will be kept 'off-site'.

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