WD 1TB Black My Passport Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBYNN0010BBK-WESN

This was an easy set up. Also set up the auto back up which is nice. I use for work and it is easy to access. I use it to store photos and my only comment is i can not scroll through photo after photo (arrow buttons) when i view photos that are stored on this disk. I have to open and close each one. Somewhat of a pain. I can scroll though photos in folders on the C drive no problem. Does not work with photos stored on this disk. I am using windows 10 file manager/viewer. But i still like it and it solved my storage problem.

I purchased and received the WD 1TB Black My Passport Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBYNN0010BBK-WESN directly from amazon, and Ive had no problems overall. My first impression was that this products size is great, seems well built and worked great out of the box with no issues whatsoever. I still have to test the transfer speeds, so I wont talk about that until then. Pros • Well packed • Pocket size • USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatible • Error testing, formatting and configuration with included WD Drive Utilities™ software • Password protection with hardware encryption with included WD Security™ software • Auto backup with included WD Backup™ software • Built by Western Digital, a well trusted and reliable company Cons • Warranty being 2 years • No Linux software Comes with • WD My Passport HDD • USB 3.0 Type A to Micro-B cable • WD Security™, WD Drive Utilities™ and WD Backup™ software for Windows and Mac • Quick installation guide

Im hooked on Western Digital. I have several WD drives and all of them still work. Two of my drives are over ten years old. A co-worker once lamented to me that his WD external drive stopped working. After some questioning, he admitted that he accidentally dropped it on the floor. I thought thats like blaming the glass for breaking and spilling wine on the floor when you let it slip through your fingers. Take care of your equipment and it will take care of you.

Tantos años ya dándole uso me hacen confirmar que fue una gran inversión

Although I have 3 other WD standalone drives that have proved reliable, this is the LAST time I will ever buy a drive for the Mac that comes formatted for Windows, and has to be reformatted. Having become accustomed to the cross-platform compatibility of Flash drives that require no reformatting but are plug and play, I had forgotten what it was like to have to do so. I am here to tell you, reformatting this WD quickly turned into a nightmare that required two sessions with telephone help from WD techies who were obviously in Mumbai or thereabouts and should take lessons in speaking more slowly and clearly, and one Apple Care person in between them who provided the critical help, using properly enunciated English. The main problem was an item in the online support the Users Manual sends you to (thru 5 or 6 links) that says if you are using Apples latest OS, High Sierra, there is a WARNING that reads like this: APFS formatted volumes can be read by a macOS High Sierra (10.13), but not by a macOS Sierra (10.12) or earlier. . . . and then there are three other places to go for instructions for systems macOS 10.7.x (Lion) thru macOS 10.12.x (Sierra), which leads one to believe that one format for Mac may not work with ALL Mac systems. Bottom line, I discovered the WARNING was not up to date with High Sierra realities, and was totally misleading. ALSO, the 6 files already on the My Passport drive taking up 546.5 MB, that the first WD techie said were needed for the unit to operate properly, the second techie said NONE of them were. I look forward to having another faithful WD drive at my disposal with which to exchange heavy application and image files of our projects, but next time, rather than reformatting a drive and spending precious time, I will use a collection of Flash drives. Finally, I dont hold WD responsible for my original selection. The thing was, there ARE My Passport drives that come formatted for Mac, but will someone at Amazon explain why I as a Prime member was not offered one of them from which to make my selection?

It was no longer recognized on my device manager but the light was on the drive is lit, I could hear and feel the disk spinning as it was receiving power from the USB but there was no disk read output... The interesting thing is that it failed once I turned off the Start on Startup option on the WD Discovery software.. Being mildly involved/aware in the world of PC hacking and snooping, that made me suspicious. So I plugged the WD drive into another PC and shazam the auto play fires right up and suggests that I install the WD software... Okay so in my cynical thinking I decide that it could be a registry entry in the software that wont let it read to my PC unless its on line and activated once the software has been installed. So I go back to the PC that it doesnt read on and uninstall the WD software. Plug the drive into the USB and of course its still not reading because of the registry entry/entries, then I plug in another old WD drive that is so old that the system supposedly doesnt recognize and just as I suspected the new drive comes on line when the old drive is also plugged in... Im not going through how it works but if you dont want issues with this drive, dont install the WD software. As far as security on what is on your PC and what you feel important to back up, think about what I have written here. To me it seems more like spy ware... You decide... The drive works fine on auto-play now that all the WD software has been cleaned out...

My old, big and clunky hard drive was crashing, so I bought this little thing, and it was great out of the box. Plug n play, and I easily transferred everything off my old drive to this one, and there hasnt been a problem. Its small and inconspicuous, which I like. Some people complain about the small cable, but I think its perfect. My computer guy suggested this, and Im very pleased with it.

I had to give up my old computer for a new one and get all my data transferred over. I needed a little help since I hadnt restored from My Passport before. A Western Digital tech really helped me out. Now I believe I have the confidence to do it myself next time and feel comfortable about it, so I bought a new one to back up my new computer. I highly recommend My Passport as an external backup.

*EDIT* After a little over a year, I had a partition on this drive fail. WD provides no software or first party support of any kind in terms of data recovery. Luckily I know my way around a computer pretty well and was able to recover my data myself, the average user however will probably have to shell out some money in the case that this happens to them. Also while WD is providing me with a new drive as a replacement, I am having to pay for shipping, which I find to be a little ridiculous. This entire process has been a headache and while Ive purchased two new drives to use as backups, I am reluctant to buy from WD again. Taking a star off because of all of this. *ORIGINAL* This hard drive functions perfectly. Its very light weight and has a very small footprint. By default it comes formatted for Windows (NTFS I believe) and reformatting it to work with my MacBook was a bit challenging, but that was more due to macOS than this drive. Needless to say, after formatting, this drive now functions flawlessly and I use it for Time Machine backups regularly. The only downfall Ive found is that it seems like LED in the back wont completely turn off of the drive is connected to power, even if the computer is off. In my case, this was evident due to the fact that I have it connected to a powered USB hub, so even when my computer is off, the drive still receives power. This however is solved by just unplugging the drive when not in use so it really is just a minor issue, if even one at all. I will definitely go with Western Digital for my next external hard drive purchase

My laptop only has a 256 GB SSD, so this was a great buy for the price. Ive read that I can install another hard drive into my laptop, but I dont feel comfortable doing that. Im a college kid and gamer so 256 GB is literally nothing when you think games like WoW take up 70 ish gigs. I can also store photos and I love that this drive includes a cloud based back up. If/when the drive dies, Ill always have access to my files. This is really a smart purchase if your current system doesnt have enough space and you want to free up space by using a spare drive/cloud back up.