Is the Western Digital Elements usb 3.0 supported on linux mint 17.2 & Ubuntu 15.10?
 

i wanna buy an hdd that supports my linux and windows laptop at an affordable price. I am look at the WD Elements 1TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive. Will it be supported on my linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela and Ubuntu 15.10

Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but USB3 is standard across all operating systems, so I can't see why it wouldn't.
Has anyone had a USB3 storage device not work with a Linux system?

If it is not using USB Mass Storage and instead some custom communication protocol then that might be a problem. Does it need software installed to work? Might say on the box/description.

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i like being accurate so i mentioned the usb 3.0 part. I too know that its not an issue. What i was asking is if the drive is supported by the os.

You mean if you pull the drive out of the housing and stick into your computer?

It's a USB hard drive. So unless Western Digital did something ridiculously stupid with it (which I highly doubt, we've bought several of their drives and they work great) it should be fine.

hdd implies internal or fixed disk. External, not-so-much.

Clarify that discrepancy and perhaps we can help you further.

WD dose HOWEVER!!!!
preinstall Microsoft Software on the Microsoft NTFS formatted drive

you WILL want to reformat it to ext4 using GPT