WD 256GB My Passport SSD External Portable Drive, USB 3.1, Up to 540 MB/s - WDBKVX2560PSL-WESN

Got the drive, and waited a day and a half before using due to recent subzero temps. I would always recommend allowing any new devise to come to local temperature before using. I intended for this drive to be dedicated to one heavy data access app. However, when I moved the data for the app to this drive, a 76GByte folder consumed 152 GBytes of a 256GByte drive. It was formatted exFAT with 1024KByte clusters. So a lot of partly filled clusters were being used. Reformatted NTFS, with default 4096 byte clusters and all is well.

Just started using it. It warms way-up. Could be a hand-warmer.

I have this hooked up as an external for my MB Pro 2018, and was hoping to use this consistently with reads/writes. The problem is any time I do any substantial work (software dev, not even image/movie editing) the drive tries to overheat on me. Ive gotten corruption twice already in the month Ive been using it. Id be surprised if it lasted a year before it bricked.

bought this drive over 2 years ago - very happy with speed, reliability and portability. its very light too. highly recommend it to all

So far, no dislikes. The speed is probably the feature most will like the most, it reads and writes ridiculously fast and its very easy to use. I just copied over 500GB of files in less than 12 minutes with ease on my old macbook pro, so far, I recommend it.

Its perfect for storing data.

All works fine, only thing is that it just doesnt get to the max speed listed in the specs, not real life proof... There are some lexar SSDs that go up to 900mbps... This one is listed as 540mbps but it often works at 300 or so... Yet I give it 4 stars because who needs that stupid high speed, it works fine.

Works great right out of the box. My only complaint with the product is with the USB-C cable + USB A adapter. It has a groove on both the adapter and cable allowing it to plug in only one way which is a bit annoying. Other than that this is a superb product

I use this to transfer files form a windows work computer to my Arch system at home. Works fine, my only 2 gripes are the case is a tad bulky but more important, the cable they give you is maybe 6 inches long. Would recommend just buying a new cable or this will dangle from just about any USB port you plug it into.

Seems to work just fine. Definitely gets warm (hot) if you leave it plugged to computer long.