WD 1TB My Passport USB 3.0 Secure Portable Hard Drive (Orange)
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Ask me again in 10 years
This is a 4 TB USB 3.0 hard drive. It's a commodity item - either it stores my data for 5 to 10 years (ideally longer) or it doesn't. If it suffers a catastrophic failure next week, I'll be able to write a bad review. But if it performs well I won't be able to write a good review for a decade or longer. I've had good luck with other WD drives, but as they say, past performance is no guarantee of future results. My only comment really has nothing ... Show More
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WD MyPassport 4TB Portable External Hard Drive (Yellow)
If Western Digital made in an 8 TB shirt pocket portable external hard drive I could buy at a low enough price, I would. However, currently, it appears that only the 4TB size or capacity My Passport portable external hard drive is available. The current one I got is yellow, because that's the color I want it this time. I like to get different colored portable hard drive so I can more easily distinguish between them, since I keep different c... Show More
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For backup
I recently paid out almost $2500 to recover tens of thousands of image files when two external hard drives failed within a week, and not all of the files were salvageable (about 3500 permanently lost). So I bought enough of these to do double back ups = two of these to store duplicate backups for each working external drive. The program that comes with them permits backup on a schedule = hourly, daily, weekly. I set the six I'm using on a monthly... Show More
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Hard for Me to Use
I use a computer every day, but am not knowledgeable about the workings of computers. The device was not easy for me to use. I did not know terms used in the User Guide, and I was unable to install the device myself. The User Guide stated that the kit included a "quick install guide", but none was included. The User Guide stated to run "WD Discovery.exe." to install the device, but the menu for the device on my computer did not include "WD Discov... Show More
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Solid purchase, no buyer's remorse.
I haven't had a lot of time to get to know the limitations of this product yet, but a lot of times with electronics you can get a feel for the quality within a week or so. The hardware is solid (not solid-state, just sturdy), and it feels very secure, but I would recommend purchasing some kind of case to keep it in, just to protect from drops and for piece of mind when carrying around. The disk is extremely quiet; I usually can't hear it over my ... Show More
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Absolute piece of ...buyer beware
DOWS NOT WORK AND STALLS MY WHOLE MACBOOK OS. Worked for about 2 minutes. I connected to my mbp, which recognized it. Then tried to move some files onto it, upon which process this drive got stuck at certain number of files, and stopped working. Froze my whole operating system. After that the system does not see it, neither in Finder nor in Disk utility, what's more when I run disk utility with this drive plugged in, not even my hard drive shows ... Show More
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Great hard drive, (curable) problems with using it on Mac
This disk became a brick after I re-formatted it for MAC. I returned it in exchange for another disk, and I had the same problem. However, I found a way around this problem. Apparently one should not format these drives by the latest Mac software 10.13 (!!!), only by the older versions 10.12 or older. This is what I did. After that, it works without any problems on my Mac running High Sierra 10.13. Perhaps WD people know it because at their websi... Show More
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Dead after 10 months
I bought TWO of these about 10 days apart (Oct 2018). One was going to be my working drive (I do photography, media, flyers, etc. for a local animal shelter) and the other was going to be my back up drive. The back up drive was written on 5 times only and the 6th time it crashed while backing up, never to recover...replacement is on the way. My working drive at least gave me a chance to copy all of my files to another drive (NOT WD!) before I was... Show More
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3 out of 6 failed
I have purchased three of these 4TB MyPassport units. One of them failed (won't read, write, or format). Luckily I adhere to the rule "two backups is one, and one backup is none" so I had two more identical copies of my photography archive. The one that failed had been now twice "replaced" by WDC under warranty, and it took more work then just buying a new one. I had to wrangle a shipping label, I had to wrangle the second replacement, and n... Show More
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Small and beautiful with plenty of storage.
First off, like all Western Digital Portable Drives, it is small. The orange is beautiful, bright and easy to distinguish between my other portable drives. At 4TB, it has plenty of space for all your media needs. I got it to clone my other drives, just in case because it's inevitable that drives will fail at some time. Reformatting the drive for my iMac was a breeze. I even partitioned it into 2 separate sections..... 1/2 for my GoPro footages an... Show More
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real compact. good quality. but needs protection
I received the item in a very well-protected box. The price I got for mine is just right, compared to the price of the same items here in my country. Upon opening, I was surprised to see that it's much smaller than expected. Cables and accessories also very good quality. The power brick is virtually larger and heavier than the hdd itself. So said it's just 5400rpm and not 7200rpm, but so far the speed is good and never had any hiccups. If there b... Show More
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Perfect for my needs!
I had a couple of goals when purchasing this portable hard drive: 1.) I wanted to use it to store photos while using my MacBook air, due to the fact that the Air has only a 256 GB hard drive. 2.) I also wanted to transfer photos and data from an older Toshiba PC laptop onto this portable drive. 3.) I wanted to set up Time Machine for the Air on this portable drive. A friend showed me how to partition the WD 2TB Portable Hard Drive using t... Show More
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Very satisfactory external HDD.
I have thoroughly tested this external HDD (with WD's software), reformatted it for larger sectors, and bought a high-impact case for it. It will hold all of my photos from Lightroom so that I can easily work on everything using my desktop while at home and on the road with a laptop. I will soon set it up with Bit Locker and find the cheapest way to back it up on the cloud. I wish it had a faster interface, but USB 3.0 will suffice. Please note t... Show More
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Second WD purchase
4TB has plenty of storage. The set up went pretty well. The Drive seams co conflict with my laptop (windows 8.1 with Classic shell) in that an error message on shut down whether I have the drive plugged in or not. It has to be in the set up folders somewhere. Geek Squad blamed it on the Classic Shell. Other small issue was that in the product manual in a "Note" said that whenever the drive is connected to the computer it runs a back up and then r... Show More
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Works for Windows 10 - Difficult to use for Windows XP
I bought this drive to transfer files from my old Windows XP Professional Computer to my new computer running on Windows 10. Since Win XP can only see drives up to 2 Tb, I bought this small 1 Tb drive to make sure the transfer would go without problems. Was I wrong !!! The Windows 10 computer will see the drive without problems. The XP computer recognized the drive, but would not see it, due to the "GPT Protective Partition". Re-formatting the ... Show More
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Affordable backup solution
I purchased two of these 4TB drives to use as backups for my Lightroom files. I have a 3.5 inch 4 TB external hard drive on my desktop and use these compact 2.5 inch hard drives to keep additional backups in other locations (work plus my daughter's home). They work great with Carbon Copy Cloner for making incremental backups periodically. I've tried the cloud storage option (Backblaze) but even with a high speed internet connection it takes weeks... Show More
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Outstanding image quality
No, this is not a gaming monitor. VA panels offer tremendous contrast and you can get very accurate colors, but the pixels don't turn on and off as fast as other technologies. It's phenomenal for photography, and almost as good for video (extremely fast action has some choppiness), but the 3000:1 static contrast ratio is the reason to get this monitor. Benq also offers eye-care backlighting, which does not use flickering to control the intensity ... Show More
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Good capacity drive for extra capacity
The 4TB Passport seems to over good capacity for the money. The product was as described online, although I would have preferred the metal case model (was told it was continued 2 weeks after being on back order.) While the WD backup utilities seem to be doing the job, the interface is lacking as it tends to want to operate in the background and does not give out a good interactive screen so you can see more about what it is actually backing up. I... Show More
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If you use a computer- this drive is very hard to beat !
Priced right and compatible with mac or pc -if you have anything you need backed up- why pay more or look else where? Price- check. Compatibility- check. Reliability- check (I have like 6 and all work perfectly). Speed - check USB 3.0 is as fast as you can expect... if you have photos, video or word docs or even code you need to back up- better to be safe than sorry... I wish I had a back up everything! Back up house. A back up car, a back up gir... Show More
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Serious quality issue
These are the 2 last WD drives I buy although I have to highlight they seem to do the job. However, my previous purchase in Aug 2019 of two similar drives was drastically different as one of the drive had mechanical issues and never worked. WD offered to replace it at the condition I return the defective drive. These drives are relatively cheap and returning a defective one does not make sense. The lessons learned is that you get the quality you ... Show More
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WD 4TB Portable Hard Drive
I have been a fan of WD Drives for some time and this product has continued to impress. The build is sturdy and pleasing to the eye. I use WD drives to carry business and leisure files when I travel and the capacity of this one means I can reduce the weight of carrying two or three lots of storage. I have had no problems with WD drives which seem to be extremely reliable and I believe my new 4TB drive will continue to give me the reliabiity I need. Although slightly more expensive than some other makers' products I still feel they are value for money have already recommended them to friends.
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So far so good.
Bought this for my PS4 (yes, I know there is a PS4 version, it was more expensive and from what I was told this should work too). My PS4 instantly recognized and reconfigured it and it has been working fine. Its nice and small and fits right on top of my PS4 and looks as if you needed to travel with it it would pack very well (and only needs one USB cable to work with a device as it powers through it). Cant say much for reliability as Ive had it for maybe a month if that but so far I really like it :). It was rated one of the best externals to get for the PS4 which is why I got it.
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Great Size Physically and Digitally
I have used prior Passport cases and I was worried that this new case design would not work for my older case, but it still is the same size, despite the new digital size of 4TB. It runs quiet. But I have not been able to test it for long use. I have had older Passports and would use them for about 3 years and they are always rock solid stability. A great external drive for storing pictures on a laptop. I use it with Lightroom and have no problem editing my pictures on USB 3.0. The drive comes in NTFS but you can format it to any format you want such as Journal for Mac.
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Great Size Physically and Digitally
I have used prior Passport cases and I was worried that this new case design would not work for my older case, but it still is the same size, despite the new digital size of 4TB. It runs quiet. But I have not been able to test it for long use. I have had older Passports and would use them for about 3 years and they are always rock solid stability. A great external drive for storing pictures on a laptop. I use it with Lightroom and have no problem editing my pictures on USB 3.0. The drive comes in NTFS but you can format it to any format you want such as Journal for Mac.
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