WD 2TB Black My Passport Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBS4B0020BBK-WESN

This external is okay. It works on my Mac and the PC Ive been assigned at work. And seems to work okay - now. I had a problem with it not booting at home, on my Mac. It frustrated the heck out of me because it worked okay sometimes, but not all the time. I went to the Help site and the Forums - OMG - theres way too much to sort through there. I absolutely hate to go to the full encyclopedia when Ive got a definable problem; its like going to the grocery store for one item and finding 20 varieties or brands of the same thing. Its overwhelming. But I finally figured it out. The problem was that this drive was not plugged into a USB port that had enough power coming through it to run the drive. It simply could not quite boot up. It would boot up at work but I dont use a multi-port USB adapter there; I had a powered 7-port USB adapter at home but it just didnt have enough juice. I got a new, 10-port powered USB adapter and the problem is solved.

I bought this to use as my primary Time Machine backup for my Mac. First thing I did was reformat, then I ended up partitioning it down the middle, and taking one of the 1 TB partitions and breaking that up into two 500 GB volumes to use as local cloud storage for me and my wife. I connected the hard drive to my Netgear router and it was super simple to mount and setup the remaining 1 TB volume as my Time Machine location. Now, every time my Mac is connected to a power source, Time Machine backs up my machine automatically and I dont have to manually connect an external hard drive like I used to.

I have not had a problem with this drive yet, but since I only had it for a month its hard to say if it will be a good drive. I expect to get at least 3 years out of it before I replace it. Time will tell. Im using it as a back up along with another WD (two drives) to back up a NAS setup so I always have one drive stored somewhere else and hopefully a good back up in case the NAS goes down for some reason. Cons at the moment: 1) I dont like the case they used with the sharp edges, but because I dont transport this drive very often it wont be a problem for me. 2) Also, Im still have problems registering this drive on WD site. WD will not accept the SN#? I have register HDs with WD for at least 20 years and have never had a drive that was not accepted until this one? I only register another WD just a few months ago, one like this one but mod# WBDY, which I thought this one was going to be the same, didnt catch that fact that the MOD# changed to WDBS, So now I have one that looks like a two 1tb (WBDY) and one that is thinner with a single 2tb (WDBS).

By way of introduction, I am a bit of a data snob. Well, maybe more than a bit. Not only is my data incredibly important to me, so is the overall configuration of my computer systems. I know of more than one person who lost everything, including their on-site backups, to theft or fire. Not to mention the loss of finely tweaked and synergistic software. Loss of equipment is one thing, loss of data and their systems quite another. Since I already sent backups of my data up the internet stream for offsite storage, brilliant me decided that I should do the same for the backup images of my computer systems. Well, that lasted for one month, exactly. By the end of the month I was nail-biting as I watched our data usage soar, which ended up passing our limit by a significant margin (grimace). I of all people should have known better. Indeed, my internet provider actually called me (that was a first), wondering if I wanted a better package for downloading HD movies (grin). I tried to explain what happened, but their tone of voice indicated that they did not believe me, not even a little. At any rate, my original idea was immediately scrapped in favor of a much cheaper solution: physical hard drives. (Yes, I had that thought earlier but wanted to save some $$$….) I picked up two WD 2TB My Passport Portable External Hard Drives (what a mouthful) for my off-site backup solution. Disk image backups are placed on one drive, which is then taken off-site with my name neatly (cough) scribbled on it via a post-it note. The second drive lives on-site, gathering the most recent drive images. At the end of the week these drives are then swapped (at least for now). Presto, off-site backups. Purchasing two of the same drive conveniently allowed me to easily swap them, where the network and backup software sees them as essentially identical. Two distinct colors, black and blue, were chosen to help me, the human, keep them straight. In order to further mitigate my propensity for confusion, I picked up two similarly colored cases (an inexpensive Amazon special). As with all hard drives, time will tell regarding the longevity and durability of these. So far so good, and my data usage is back under control. I bought both drives and their carry-cases fair-and-square, and have not participated in the dubious practice of a paid review.

This was exactly what I needed. It was as easy as plug and play and selecting it in the settings on my PS4 Pro. Now I have plenty of space to store games and game data. I don’t know why I waited so long to get this. I’m glad I did.... Finally!

I bought two of these WD Passports. One was to replace my old WD 500 Gig external hard drive. The other I bought to attach to my Playstation 4 for external storage. No instructions were included in the box so had to go to website to download the software to install and configure. My only complaint. The second one for my Playstation 4 was even easier to connect and format. I can now not have to delete old games due to storage needs! Highly recommend!

Just wanted to point out that all of this took place about 2 years ago, but I never got around to writing the review until now. It stopped working after a few months of usage. One day the drive wouldnt let me put anything else on it and everything I had on it could no longer open. I even ended up buying some really expensive recovery software to try to get my data back, but no luck. I then ended up formatting the drive which made me lose everything I had, but it wasnt life or death type of data so I just lived with it hoping that the drive would finally start to work again, but nope. I later contacted the Western Digital support team through their website which was a long and tedious process and tried to get a replacement through warranty. I had to pay to send my drive back and the new drive that got sent to me after a few weeks didnt work either so I honestly just gave up. It was just a painstaking process to go through and I just didnt want to go through it again. I ended up buying an external SSD from PNY instead which was way more expensive, but also way more reliable and has been working great for me for the past 2 years. I heard good things about Western Digital from other people, but because of this experience I wont be buying from Western Digital ever again.

Working IT for decades, I always back up files to Flash/Thumb drives, but use this external drive as a clearing house... Especially while traveling. Laptops are something I go through like paper towels. Mainly, because I dont have the luxury of waiting for them to cool down before throwing them into its case. So, I Save As files onto the My Passport ONLY. Then transfer them (when I have time) onto a digital storage device. FYI, if the name wasnt already taken... they should have called it Timex (takes a licking and keeps on ticking)... Well, a hard drive ticking really isnt a good thing, but you get what I mean.

I purchased this product around 5 weeks ago. Within 4 weeks it was making a beeping sound. I could hear the beep and I could hear the drive spinning but none of the files could be read by my computer. After not very much research I found thousands of people with the same issue. It appears this drive has issues with its heads whatever those are. They appear to be defective. I went though the Amazon website and requested a call to fix the issue. I was connected twice to people with very thick foreign accents that I could barely understand. The first call after wasting my time with troubleshooting I knew wouldnt work the man told me he would send me a ONE TIME COURTESY REPLACEMENT. As if it was my fault WD is selling a faulty and defective item. That person hung on up me without me getting anytime of confirmation of information about the replacement so I had to call back. The second person told me the exact same thing about the one time courtesy replacement which made me mad all over again. But he did confirm a replacement was coming and when to expect it. Since I know now this item has issues what happens if I get another defective item? I suggest not buying this particular WD product.

Buen producto , aunque recomiendo comprar un disco sólido es mejor opción este un día me Pego un auto y pensé que había perdidos todo