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Great buy on sale. Works fine on USB 3.0 and USB 2.0! I have found that Western Digital has the fastest and most reliable USB 3.0 interface of all of the external drive manufacturers, with the sometimes cheaper Seagate external drives having the slowest of data transfer rates. In fact, they are about half the write speeds of the Western Digital drives. The brand new square plastic cases of the Western Digital USB 3.0 drives are the fastest yet in write speeds! Great drives!

It worked as advertised. no gotchas, or any issues. This was on a MAC (M4 laptop).

Easy installation.

light weight, easy set up and use. Great option for data protection and storage.

My grandson loves this external hard drive. He uses it to house all his video games. It was affordable and worth the money.

I bought two of the WD 2TB My Passport Portable Storage external hard drives in red. I plan to keep one at home and the other in my safe deposit box. The red color was more expensive, but it makes backing up files more fun to do! These drives are easy to use, and I did not install the software; I just plugged-and-played. These are the smallest external hard drives I've ever had. The shipment arrived quickly. Thank you!

Works well, way quieter than a normal external drive Run pretty cool in temp too

Easy set up, plug and play. Good price!

This isn't the drive I needed but it works well for what I need. I needed expansion for my game console, we'll just say, starts with X (so my review won't be taken down). Well for non techy types like myself, this is not plug and play AT All. And for the people wanting a cheap alternative to all the "x" branded stuff... just format this drive to exfat on the PC and the X will read it.

SUMMARY One of the most cost-efficient per Mb, portable, high-capacity, USB-C powered mechanical drives from the market leader. THE LINE-UP WD has a vast lineup of external hard drives which can sometimes be confusing. I have purchased many of these and still have to go over the various options each time. The “My Passport” series were originally designed to be a certain size (the size of a passport) and have gone through multiple generations. They currently come as “My Passport”, “My Passport for Mac”, “Ultra”, “Ultra for Mac”, “Wireless”, “Wireless SSD”, “SSD”, “Wireless Pro”, and “X”. WD also has a similar, small form factor “Elements” series. The main differentiating feature of the “My Passport Ultra” over the “My Passport” is the USB-C interface with an included cable that can also be set up to be backward compatible to USB-A plugs. The “Ultra” series case has nice heat dissipating shiny metal on top and black plastic on the bottom with tiny rubber feet and an activity LED. I think it looks better than the previous generation metal design. WD tried to be green - using some recycled materials for the case. Everything called “My Passport” has: Option of hardware AES encryption. 3 year warranty Up to 4 TB of storage (though WD doesn’t sell any 2.5 inch 4 TB laptop drives) WD Discovery and WD Backup software SIZE Pretty amazing how something this small can hold 4TB (81.6 x 110 x 20.96 mm). I voided the warranty by taking it apart. One way the case is so small in length is that the USB-C controller is built into the drive. The shock absorption design inside the case is good.The drive inside looks like it likely uses 4 platters and is branded a blue WD drive. Unknown if they had to go SMR or if they still use PMR technology to get this density. The USB-C to USB-C cable has a removable adapter for one end so you can use it for older USB ports. The cable length with adapter is about 20 inches. SOFTWARE I have the “My Passport Ultra”. The root of my drive came with both an “Install Discovery for Windows.exe” and an “Install Discovery for Mac.dmg”. The windows software is designed to easily install and automatically can consolidate data from both online (like Facebook, Google Drive & Dropbox) and local data with the possibility of using AES-256 Encryption. The Encryption software can even add a “return-if-found” message should your drive become lost when travelling. Mine was formatted as NTFS. Natively, this will mount on a Mac as read-only. WD provides a free downloadable version of the Paragon driver that will also let you write to NTFS from macOS - (worth about $20 if you had to buy it yourself). Otherwise, if you wanted to use this on both mac and Win 7+ then you could reformat as exFAT. If you want Mac only then you could re-format as HFS. If you are a mac-only person - buy the “My Passport Ultra for Mac” which has mac software and comes in mac format. PERFORMANCE I don’t believe the drive performance is much of an issue with these mechanical external portables and WD doesn’t even publish specs for them. My testing showed good performance - about 175/165 MB/s R/W attached to a Lenovo P71 laptop with SSD internal drives. Runs cool and quiet.

This was very easy to set up and use.

- works as expected - great for external hard drive with PS4 - large storage

Arrived quick. There's little info online regarding the ACTUAL drive within the case, so here's some info: - Drive model is WD50NDZW-11A8JS1. This should be the same base drive as the WD My Passport 5TB and My Passport Ultra 5TB drives. That said the last 7 letters/numbers might be different on the Ultra, not sure how much difference that makes, maybe some slight differences on the PCB for speed? So if you don't care about the encryption/software on My Passport drives, the Elements is the best deal. - HD Tune Pro error scan (Long version): Full scan all clear, took about 6-7 hours constant 103mb/sec. - HDDScan: Extended SMART test clear. Stats showed drive is new. - HDDScan: 'Verify' test took about 13 hours, all clear - no bad blocks. Sustained 103mb/sec speeds and maxed out at 44C temp (ambient room temp is about 21C). - All tests were done on a USB 3 port with a 3ft USB-3 extension cord, not sure if that affected transfer speeds.

They care about design. When you plug the USB cord into the drive, you notice that etched into the orange rubber casing are the words, "design by neil poulton." I think this is more than just a gimmick. The care that they put into the physical product really makes you take better care of it.

I bought this for backup storage for Pixel phone. It is a great product but not ideal for direct Android backup. -Lots of storage -Fast

Fast shipping. Easy to reformat into 2 volumes for using on my 2018 Mac Mini. Seems fast, hopefully is reliable!