WD 2TB Black-Gray My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBFKT0020BGY-WESN

I have the old Passport Ultra and this is the same pretty much except it is more boxy and a tiny bit bigger. I like the aesthetic and the performance is on par with other external hard drives. The reliability is worth the premium over the Seagate, definitely would purchase again.

Im using this drive to store all my customers graphic design work on. The only thing thats been a problem is ejecting it. Its actually a big problem because everytime I want to unplug it, I have to turn off my laptop. Not very convenient. Ive done some research and Im not sure if its a problem with the drive or my computer. In any case, its a pain. Thats why I gave it 3 stars.

I bought this after my Seagate quit working. Hands down, the WD is clearly superior in every way. Cheaper, faster and most of all, very easy to use and understand. Super quite and compact. Able to be transported only if really needed to be, but I bought the Lacdo EVA shockproof carrying case. That is a must have with this external Hard Drive. I love it.

Excellent disk. Compact, light and fast. I bought it to backup my Mac with Time Machine. At first I was unable to format it on MAC although I am not a novice user, so I come to think that the product was defective. I contacted WDs technical support and in a few minutes they helped me solve the problem. Now it works perfect. 100% MAC-compatible

This is the second WD 2 TB Black Passport Portable External Hard drive in the past 6 months. Initially, I thought there was a defect, but with assistance from an IT relative, it works fine now. I highly recommend it. I would purchase it again without hesitation!

In short I returned the Western Digital HD. I originally got this portable HD because of the reputation of Western Digital, as the reviews showed it to be a great HD. Once I received it, I found the website, which as a life lesson I have learned to check out first, to read the manual. I was surprised to find that the security of the Western Digital HD is best described as Security Theater. Yes, the HD can be secured with a password. Great. Although, as I found reading the online manual, if you forget your password, it can be erased along with the contents of the entire drive. Yes, forget your secure password and you or anyone else, can erase the password and the entire contents of the HD. Well then, dont use a password. Then anyone can come in after you and setup a password and lock the HD. Can you say ransom? Yes, this could be done for ransom, but also for spite, or by accident. Which brings us back to the if you forget your password feature. So, dont setup a password and risk one being done for you, or setup a password and anyone can come along later and erase the password along with the entire contents of the HD. Either it is secure or it is not. Anything else is Security Theater.

I have to admit I was a bit skeptical about this one. Over the years, Ive continued to upgrade my trusty, old laptop, swapping out memory, converting from spinning platter to SSDs, etc., so when I thought about back-up storage due to the recent rash of ransomware attacks, my first instinct was to invest in a portable SSD, but theyre still a little steep in terms of price per gigabyte. Therefore, I looked (somewhat reluctantly) into spinning platters. Im glad I did. I got this WD Passport (2TB) for a very reasonable price. OK, there was one hurdle overcome, but what about PERFORMANCE? Well, Im glad you asked. Once I got the drivers loaded on to my laptop so that it could interface with the hard drive, I transferred 65GB of files in one transfer and it took only a few minutes. I double-checked once the transfer was done and everything seems to be intact. Now, you cant treat these as cavalierly as a thumb drive or a pocket SSD, but it seems reasonably well-built and I got a shock-proof carrying case as well. Im quite content now that I have an encrypted vault for my most important files.

Works as it should. Plugged it up to my PS4 and I had 1.84 TB to work with. Only thing they should have mentioned is that it heats up a bit.

I use this as an external HDD to store and work on my raw files with Lightroom in a MacBook Pro 2018. I had to buy a USB-C adapter. So far it works very well, speed its not an issue. I was a little upset when I discover SSD because I didnt bought the last available technology for storage, but for my needs I have the good performance and a save some dollars.

I bought this to sub in for my other external HD with external power supply. So comparing to that, this one is easier to use - plug the USB and thats it. Storage size and speed is OK. When I bought it, 2TB was huge, and USB 3.0 was super fast. But nowadays there are many newer options with SSD. So in general, for a backup solution, this one is good enough.