WD 2TB My Passport Portable Hard Drive Black
Backed Up Make sure everything you create while on your own life journey - photos, videos, music, and documents - doesn’t get lost. The My Passport drive comes equipped with WD Backup software that can be set to run automatically to your schedule. Locked Down Keep your digital life's contents secure with My Passport password protection and built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption. Just activate password protection and set your own personalized password using WD Discovery. Ongoing Confidence There's no telling what's ahead in your own journey. That's why WD builds drives to demanding requirements for durability and long-term reliability. Slim Style Make the most of your journey with style that suits you. The new My Passport has been redesigned to feature a convenient, slim form factor and is available in a range of vibrant colors. Social Friendly Included WD Discovery software lets you connect to popular social media and cloud storage services. Seamlessly import, organize, and share to the My Passport drive to backup your online social life.
Backed Up Make sure everything you create while on your own life journey - photos, videos, music, and documents - doesn’t get lost. The My Passport drive comes equipped with WD Backup software that can be set to run automatically to your schedule. Locked Down Keep your digital life's contents secure with My Passport password protection and built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption. Just activate password protection and set your own personalized password using WD Discovery. Ongoing Confidence There's no telling what's ahead in your own journey. That's why WD builds drives to demanding requirements for durability and long-term reliability. Slim Style Make the most of your journey with style that suits you. The new My Passport has been redesigned to feature a convenient, slim form factor and is available in a range of vibrant colors. Social Friendly Included WD Discovery software lets you connect to popular social media and cloud storage services. Seamlessly import, organize, and share to the My Passport drive to backup your online social life.
Backed Up Make sure everything you create while on your own life journey - photos, videos, music, and documents - doesn’t get lost. The My Passport drive comes equipped with WD Backup software that can be set to run automatically to your schedule. Locked Down Keep your digital life's contents secure with My Passport password protection and built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption. Just activate password protection and set your own personalized password using WD Discovery. Ongoing Confidence There's no telling what's ahead in your own journey. That's why WD builds drives to demanding requirements for durability and long-term reliability. Slim Style Make the most of your journey with style that suits you. The new My Passport has been redesigned to feature a convenient, slim form factor and is available in a range of vibrant colors. Social Friendly Included WD Discovery software lets you connect to popular social media and cloud storage services. Seamlessly import, organize, and share to the My Passport drive to backup your online social life.
Backed Up Make sure everything you create while on your own life journey - photos, videos, music, and documents - doesn’t get lost. The My Passport drive comes equipped with WD Backup software that can be set to run automatically to your schedule. Locked Down Keep your digital life's contents secure with My Passport password protection and built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption. Just activate password protection and set your own personalized password using WD Discovery. Ongoing Confidence There's no telling what's ahead in your own journey. That's why WD builds drives to demanding requirements for durability and long-term reliability. Slim Style Make the most of your journey with style that suits you. The new My Passport has been redesigned to feature a convenient, slim form factor and is available in a range of vibrant colors. Social Friendly Included WD Discovery software lets you connect to popular social media and cloud storage services. Seamlessly import, organize, and share to the My Passport drive to backup your online social life.
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I chose WD because I have a few 1TB and below I’ve used in the past. I loved how they’re products are basically a plug in and easy drag and drop, no hassles storage device. Except this one wasn’t the case. I had to download software for this one which I didn’t mind but was slightly annoyed because again I loved the simple plug in and drag and drop. What really upset me is after doing a test transfer of 1 video and 1 picture it stopped working. I couldn’t get anything else to transfer. Spent hours researching why, changed my wires, made sure drivers and software were up to date, used recommended software, tried single drag and drop, nothing, no success what so ever. Then to make matters worse I wasn’t able to return or exchange it for a different one. When I ... MoreI chose WD because I have a few 1TB and below I’ve used in the past. I loved how they’re products are basically a plug in and easy drag and drop, no hassles storage device. Except this one wasn’t the case. I had to download software for this one which I didn’t mind but was slightly annoyed because again I loved the simple plug in and drag and drop. What really upset me is after doing a test transfer of 1 video and 1 picture it stopped working. I couldn’t get anything else to transfer. Spent hours researching why, changed my wires, made sure drivers and software were up to date, used recommended software, tried single drag and drop, nothing, no success what so ever. Then to make matters worse I wasn’t able to return or exchange it for a different one. When I purchased it online I hadn’t used it right away and by the time I tried to return/exchange it in store they wouldn’t allow it because it was a few days past the return date. So now I have this $100 paper weight….
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I'm 72 yrs old and a still-active newsstand magazine publisher, freelance web designer, and pro photographer and videographer. Trust this: In terms of computers and drives, I've seen and been through it all. I've been using external drives large and portable since the late 1980s, my first being SeatGate, then La iCe (the worst0, and many others. I cannot tell you how angry I was when I lost hundreds of precious family photos that can NEVER be replaced on that SeaGate. I swore I'd never use them again, and I haven't, or those 8 La Cie's I got from the Apple Store (still sitting in a back room for the last 30 years, awaiting the day I can get to them and have the data and photos recovered, if possible). I learned one thing critical to all drives: Back Up, Back Up, ... MoreI'm 72 yrs old and a still-active newsstand magazine publisher, freelance web designer, and pro photographer and videographer. Trust this: In terms of computers and drives, I've seen and been through it all. I've been using external drives large and portable since the late 1980s, my first being SeatGate, then La iCe (the worst0, and many others. I cannot tell you how angry I was when I lost hundreds of precious family photos that can NEVER be replaced on that SeaGate. I swore I'd never use them again, and I haven't, or those 8 La Cie's I got from the Apple Store (still sitting in a back room for the last 30 years, awaiting the day I can get to them and have the data and photos recovered, if possible). I learned one thing critical to all drives: Back Up, Back Up, Back Up. There is no workaround to that. Here's what you may not know and sellers sure as heck don't tell you: Expect your drive (any drive) to last 2-3 yrs, if you're lucky. Maybe 4. Next, if it is, say, a 1-TB drive, if you load it with over 70-75%, it can cause your drive to malfunction at the loss of all your data. And this may not occur immediately. To avoid total loss of your data, ALWAYS buy 2 identical drives so you have everything backed up as I do, especially my precious family photos. Here's what I did 6 years ago when I started with Western Digital. Every week (or right then and there) I would load my latest information and data onto my newly purchased drives (Drive A) and back it all up onto the second drive (Drive B). Every 6 months I would buy 2 new drives (C & D) and put personal and family photos from drives A and B onto the new drives (C & D). Note: I keep all business data and projects on separate drives. To accommodate the growing size of my data/photos, I increase the size of my drives as I need them. With WD, I've gone from their 1TB to now their 5TB portable drives (BTW, the "...for Mac" models are no different, no matter what they tell you, than the significantly cheaper ones used for PCs, you just have to reformat them which is easily done) to store my personal stuff. I also back up ALL this unto two large (18 TB) G-Force desktop drives. So, the lesson here is that ALL drives fail, usually much sooner than later with typically no more than a few years of longevity. Whether a month old or 5 years old, they can go out on you for any number of reasons, including bumping or dropping them or smacking them down on your table unless they are SSDs, but even they can die on you too. If you're backed up to another drive, you're good. If you haven't done that, you're....well, you know. They can also die on you for no apparent reason at all even if you've handle and treated them like a newborn baby. And remember, you can be working on a report, term paper or thesis, website, editing photos, whatever, and have backed up two days earlier. Although you'll be safe with all that back-up date on the second drive, you'll have lost all the stuff you've been working on for the last 2 days that you hadn't backed up if your computer goes out! BACK UP every 30 minutes or so if you're working on very critical "ABSOLUTELY CAN'T LOSE THIS STUFF) data, photos, web projects, etc.). My 27-inch Mac Pro is sitting at a computer repair shop as I write this. The video card went out while I was working on a complex website design project and I hadn't backed up that day yet. Fortunately, the loss of the video card didn't cause the los of my work on the computer. But my work over the last few days is sitting in folders on that computers and I need to continue working. So, I'm taking a brand new Western Digital 5-TB portable drive over to them now to put all my folders sitting on my desktop onto that drive and I'll back up all that to a second drive and continue working but on my laptop. REMEMBER, always buy 2 drives, NOT one. And, to Western Digital's credit, since I started using their products 6 years ago, only a big external drive died on me. I have 16 (8 plus their back ups) of their portable drives and ALL of them still work, even the first two I purchased over 6 years ago. Forgive the length of my message but I hope it will help anyone buying external drives for the first time and remind others what you already know. Back Up, Back Up, Back Up. Western Digital cannot replace the data you lost (don't throw away those drives, have the data recovered by a trusted, professional data recovery service) but you can prevent losing your data and precious memories by BACKING UP your data and buying 2 new external drives every 6 months and transfer data from the old drives to the new ones and keep the olds ones (with their data) too.
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DISH TV: This 2TB drive is the is LARGEST capacity drive that is compatible with DISH TV Hoppers. The cord included with the drive works to connect to the USB of the Hopper. Look carefully. One end is unusual and fits in the Passport. Cord is a Super fast USB a, but does work with DISH even though DISH says USB 2 only. Step 1: Turn on TV. Step 2. Click DVR on your remote. Step 3. Click OPTIONS on your remote. Step 4: Click Manage recordings. Step 5: Plug in the Western Digital 2T Passport. TV asks if you want to reformat. Click YES. If you have been using this to backup your computer you will lose everything at this point. You need an external drive dedicated to your DISH Hopper. It will not work unless reformatted. Once reformatted it cannot be used to safe data ... MoreDISH TV: This 2TB drive is the is LARGEST capacity drive that is compatible with DISH TV Hoppers. The cord included with the drive works to connect to the USB of the Hopper. Look carefully. One end is unusual and fits in the Passport. Cord is a Super fast USB a, but does work with DISH even though DISH says USB 2 only. Step 1: Turn on TV. Step 2. Click DVR on your remote. Step 3. Click OPTIONS on your remote. Step 4: Click Manage recordings. Step 5: Plug in the Western Digital 2T Passport. TV asks if you want to reformat. Click YES. If you have been using this to backup your computer you will lose everything at this point. You need an external drive dedicated to your DISH Hopper. It will not work unless reformatted. Once reformatted it cannot be used to safe data from your computer, unless you decommission it from DISH TV use, and reformat it for computer use, at which point you lose all your TV programs. SO: 1 harddrive ONLY for DISH TV. A different storage drive for your computer. Step 6: After reformatting was done, I had to unplug the external Passport harddrive. Step 7: At this point I got a real scare. My Hopper showed me that I ONLY had an external HD, and I had 0 programs so step 7 is unplug Hopper. Wait a few minutes and plug in (external HD NOT attached). Now it will see your DVR programming again. Step 8: Click DVR Step 9: Click Options Step 10: Plug in USB from Passport to Hopper (mine is on the back, but yours may be on front)Step 11: Click OPTIONS Step 12: Click Manage Recordings Step 13: Click "Select ALL" or choose just what you wish to save by clicking each program separately. Step 14: Click Transfer. NOTE: If ANY program is recording, the entire folder with that program WILL NOT TRANSFER! For example: I liked "Mom", and am recording the entire season so I can rewatch in order. The entire Mom folder was skipped because Mom was recording at the time. You then need to go back and repeat starting at Step 8, and select only the programs which were skipped. I initially tried every hard drive in our house, and NONE worked because ALL had larger capacity. I DID manage to record a lot of programs to a 500GB Samsung FlashDrive, but resolution was reduced a lot. I am in the middle of downloading, so I am not positive resolution will be the same as on the Hopper, but I think it will be. DISH TV says : NO FLASHDRIVES. A Flashdrive would likely seem to be the perfect solution because they are now storing more and more data, but I tried a 2TB flashdrive, and reformatted it to DISH and it did not work AT ALL. The Samsung 500GB DID work, and that would have been a usable option, except it was too little data for all my programming and had lower resolution. Resolution was satisfactory for me, though lower, but the capacity not big enough. I am trying to move my programs to an external drive because I am switching to the Hopper 3 on Monday. My current Hopper can record or play on 3 different lines at the same time. The Hopper 3 has 16 lines. My old Hopper stores up to 1200GB. The new 2000GB . I bought this just to transfer my programming, but it will be able to live permanently connected to the new Hopper for an extra 2000GB storage. There is a new box that appears when I click DVR, right at the top. it allows choosing either the Hopper HD or the External HD. If that disappears, unplug the External, and reboot the Hopper by unplugging , waiting, replugging.
| General | |
| Device Type | Hard drive - external (portable) |
| Capacity | 2 TB |
| Hardware Encryption | Yes |
| Encryption Algorithm | 256-bit AES |
Western Digital 1TB Black My Passport Portable Hard Drive - USB3.0 - WDBYNN0010BBK-WESN
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I chose WD because I have a few 1TB and below I’ve used in the past. I loved how they’re products are basically a plug in and easy drag and drop, no hassles storage device. Except this one wasn’t the case. I had to download software for this one which I didn’t mind but was slightly annoyed because again I loved the simple plug in and drag and drop. What really upset me is after doing a test transfer of 1 video and 1 picture it stopped working. I couldn’t get anything else to transfer. Spent hours researching why, changed my wires, made sure drivers and software were up to date, used recommended software, tried single drag and drop, nothing, no success what so ever. Then to make matters worse I wasn’t able to return or exchange it for a different one. When I ... MoreI chose WD because I have a few 1TB and below I’ve used in the past. I loved how they’re products are basically a plug in and easy drag and drop, no hassles storage device. Except this one wasn’t the case. I had to download software for this one which I didn’t mind but was slightly annoyed because again I loved the simple plug in and drag and drop. What really upset me is after doing a test transfer of 1 video and 1 picture it stopped working. I couldn’t get anything else to transfer. Spent hours researching why, changed my wires, made sure drivers and software were up to date, used recommended software, tried single drag and drop, nothing, no success what so ever. Then to make matters worse I wasn’t able to return or exchange it for a different one. When I purchased it online I hadn’t used it right away and by the time I tried to return/exchange it in store they wouldn’t allow it because it was a few days past the return date. So now I have this $100 paper weight….
I'm 72 yrs old and a still-active newsstand magazine publisher, freelance web designer, and pro photographer and videographer. Trust this: In terms of computers and drives, I've seen and been through it all. I've been using external drives large and portable since the late 1980s, my first being SeatGate, then La iCe (the worst0, and many others. I cannot tell you how angry I was when I lost hundreds of precious family photos that can NEVER be replaced on that SeaGate. I swore I'd never use them again, and I haven't, or those 8 La Cie's I got from the Apple Store (still sitting in a back room for the last 30 years, awaiting the day I can get to them and have the data and photos recovered, if possible). I learned one thing critical to all drives: Back Up, Back Up, ... MoreI'm 72 yrs old and a still-active newsstand magazine publisher, freelance web designer, and pro photographer and videographer. Trust this: In terms of computers and drives, I've seen and been through it all. I've been using external drives large and portable since the late 1980s, my first being SeatGate, then La iCe (the worst0, and many others. I cannot tell you how angry I was when I lost hundreds of precious family photos that can NEVER be replaced on that SeaGate. I swore I'd never use them again, and I haven't, or those 8 La Cie's I got from the Apple Store (still sitting in a back room for the last 30 years, awaiting the day I can get to them and have the data and photos recovered, if possible). I learned one thing critical to all drives: Back Up, Back Up, Back Up. There is no workaround to that. Here's what you may not know and sellers sure as heck don't tell you: Expect your drive (any drive) to last 2-3 yrs, if you're lucky. Maybe 4. Next, if it is, say, a 1-TB drive, if you load it with over 70-75%, it can cause your drive to malfunction at the loss of all your data. And this may not occur immediately. To avoid total loss of your data, ALWAYS buy 2 identical drives so you have everything backed up as I do, especially my precious family photos. Here's what I did 6 years ago when I started with Western Digital. Every week (or right then and there) I would load my latest information and data onto my newly purchased drives (Drive A) and back it all up onto the second drive (Drive B). Every 6 months I would buy 2 new drives (C & D) and put personal and family photos from drives A and B onto the new drives (C & D). Note: I keep all business data and projects on separate drives. To accommodate the growing size of my data/photos, I increase the size of my drives as I need them. With WD, I've gone from their 1TB to now their 5TB portable drives (BTW, the "...for Mac" models are no different, no matter what they tell you, than the significantly cheaper ones used for PCs, you just have to reformat them which is easily done) to store my personal stuff. I also back up ALL this unto two large (18 TB) G-Force desktop drives. So, the lesson here is that ALL drives fail, usually much sooner than later with typically no more than a few years of longevity. Whether a month old or 5 years old, they can go out on you for any number of reasons, including bumping or dropping them or smacking them down on your table unless they are SSDs, but even they can die on you too. If you're backed up to another drive, you're good. If you haven't done that, you're....well, you know. They can also die on you for no apparent reason at all even if you've handle and treated them like a newborn baby. And remember, you can be working on a report, term paper or thesis, website, editing photos, whatever, and have backed up two days earlier. Although you'll be safe with all that back-up date on the second drive, you'll have lost all the stuff you've been working on for the last 2 days that you hadn't backed up if your computer goes out! BACK UP every 30 minutes or so if you're working on very critical "ABSOLUTELY CAN'T LOSE THIS STUFF) data, photos, web projects, etc.). My 27-inch Mac Pro is sitting at a computer repair shop as I write this. The video card went out while I was working on a complex website design project and I hadn't backed up that day yet. Fortunately, the loss of the video card didn't cause the los of my work on the computer. But my work over the last few days is sitting in folders on that computers and I need to continue working. So, I'm taking a brand new Western Digital 5-TB portable drive over to them now to put all my folders sitting on my desktop onto that drive and I'll back up all that to a second drive and continue working but on my laptop. REMEMBER, always buy 2 drives, NOT one. And, to Western Digital's credit, since I started using their products 6 years ago, only a big external drive died on me. I have 16 (8 plus their back ups) of their portable drives and ALL of them still work, even the first two I purchased over 6 years ago. Forgive the length of my message but I hope it will help anyone buying external drives for the first time and remind others what you already know. Back Up, Back Up, Back Up. Western Digital cannot replace the data you lost (don't throw away those drives, have the data recovered by a trusted, professional data recovery service) but you can prevent losing your data and precious memories by BACKING UP your data and buying 2 new external drives every 6 months and transfer data from the old drives to the new ones and keep the olds ones (with their data) too.
DISH TV: This 2TB drive is the is LARGEST capacity drive that is compatible with DISH TV Hoppers. The cord included with the drive works to connect to the USB of the Hopper. Look carefully. One end is unusual and fits in the Passport. Cord is a Super fast USB a, but does work with DISH even though DISH says USB 2 only. Step 1: Turn on TV. Step 2. Click DVR on your remote. Step 3. Click OPTIONS on your remote. Step 4: Click Manage recordings. Step 5: Plug in the Western Digital 2T Passport. TV asks if you want to reformat. Click YES. If you have been using this to backup your computer you will lose everything at this point. You need an external drive dedicated to your DISH Hopper. It will not work unless reformatted. Once reformatted it cannot be used to safe data ... MoreDISH TV: This 2TB drive is the is LARGEST capacity drive that is compatible with DISH TV Hoppers. The cord included with the drive works to connect to the USB of the Hopper. Look carefully. One end is unusual and fits in the Passport. Cord is a Super fast USB a, but does work with DISH even though DISH says USB 2 only. Step 1: Turn on TV. Step 2. Click DVR on your remote. Step 3. Click OPTIONS on your remote. Step 4: Click Manage recordings. Step 5: Plug in the Western Digital 2T Passport. TV asks if you want to reformat. Click YES. If you have been using this to backup your computer you will lose everything at this point. You need an external drive dedicated to your DISH Hopper. It will not work unless reformatted. Once reformatted it cannot be used to safe data from your computer, unless you decommission it from DISH TV use, and reformat it for computer use, at which point you lose all your TV programs. SO: 1 harddrive ONLY for DISH TV. A different storage drive for your computer. Step 6: After reformatting was done, I had to unplug the external Passport harddrive. Step 7: At this point I got a real scare. My Hopper showed me that I ONLY had an external HD, and I had 0 programs so step 7 is unplug Hopper. Wait a few minutes and plug in (external HD NOT attached). Now it will see your DVR programming again. Step 8: Click DVR Step 9: Click Options Step 10: Plug in USB from Passport to Hopper (mine is on the back, but yours may be on front)Step 11: Click OPTIONS Step 12: Click Manage Recordings Step 13: Click "Select ALL" or choose just what you wish to save by clicking each program separately. Step 14: Click Transfer. NOTE: If ANY program is recording, the entire folder with that program WILL NOT TRANSFER! For example: I liked "Mom", and am recording the entire season so I can rewatch in order. The entire Mom folder was skipped because Mom was recording at the time. You then need to go back and repeat starting at Step 8, and select only the programs which were skipped. I initially tried every hard drive in our house, and NONE worked because ALL had larger capacity. I DID manage to record a lot of programs to a 500GB Samsung FlashDrive, but resolution was reduced a lot. I am in the middle of downloading, so I am not positive resolution will be the same as on the Hopper, but I think it will be. DISH TV says : NO FLASHDRIVES. A Flashdrive would likely seem to be the perfect solution because they are now storing more and more data, but I tried a 2TB flashdrive, and reformatted it to DISH and it did not work AT ALL. The Samsung 500GB DID work, and that would have been a usable option, except it was too little data for all my programming and had lower resolution. Resolution was satisfactory for me, though lower, but the capacity not big enough. I am trying to move my programs to an external drive because I am switching to the Hopper 3 on Monday. My current Hopper can record or play on 3 different lines at the same time. The Hopper 3 has 16 lines. My old Hopper stores up to 1200GB. The new 2000GB . I bought this just to transfer my programming, but it will be able to live permanently connected to the new Hopper for an extra 2000GB storage. There is a new box that appears when I click DVR, right at the top. it allows choosing either the Hopper HD or the External HD. If that disappears, unplug the External, and reboot the Hopper by unplugging , waiting, replugging.
It really is the perfect product for tricking someone into destroying their data.It worked flawlessly for approximately 3 months while doing data backups and archiving, just long enough to inspire confidence. Then a click, a grinding noise, and death, out of the clear blue sky. Classic case of head failure. Was told the data was effectively toasted unless I paid an exorbitant fee to have the platters spun manually, wiping 10 years of extremely importantand sentimental data from existence.While its true I should've kept the backups, I had every indiciation that this was a reliable product up until the point where it just ripped its own guts out. To say I'm mad about this would be an understatement.This device was never dropped, never knocked, kept on a desk, ... MoreIt really is the perfect product for tricking someone into destroying their data.It worked flawlessly for approximately 3 months while doing data backups and archiving, just long enough to inspire confidence. Then a click, a grinding noise, and death, out of the clear blue sky. Classic case of head failure. Was told the data was effectively toasted unless I paid an exorbitant fee to have the platters spun manually, wiping 10 years of extremely importantand sentimental data from existence.While its true I should've kept the backups, I had every indiciation that this was a reliable product up until the point where it just ripped its own guts out. To say I'm mad about this would be an understatement.This device was never dropped, never knocked, kept on a desk, and babied its whole, short life. The most it moved was when it was put in a laptop bag during a recent vacation, which is where it stayed the whole time. I've never owned a drive that died this quickly in my 20 years of using computers. It's worse than trash, it actively fooled me into losing nearly 1TB of data.I will never own another WD product as long as I live.
I own a Dell Aurora gaming PC that I purchased about 3 years ago from MicroCenter. I had upgraded the Windows 10 OS to Windows 11 and had been having multiple problems with it afterwards. So I brought the computer in to MicroCenter to have the OS reloaded. I had copied all my important files to the data hard drive on the computer (I had had MicroCenter install the second hard drive a few years ago). The MicroCenter technician notified me that since the OS and data hard drives were in RAID configuration all files on the data drive could be wiped out in an OS reinstall on the OS hard drive. When the second hard drive was installed I did not request a RAID configuration nor was I asked if I had wanted one. The Technician at MicroCenter informed me that the geeks at ... MoreI own a Dell Aurora gaming PC that I purchased about 3 years ago from MicroCenter. I had upgraded the Windows 10 OS to Windows 11 and had been having multiple problems with it afterwards. So I brought the computer in to MicroCenter to have the OS reloaded. I had copied all my important files to the data hard drive on the computer (I had had MicroCenter install the second hard drive a few years ago). The MicroCenter technician notified me that since the OS and data hard drives were in RAID configuration all files on the data drive could be wiped out in an OS reinstall on the OS hard drive. When the second hard drive was installed I did not request a RAID configuration nor was I asked if I had wanted one. The Technician at MicroCenter informed me that the geeks at Dell computers, in their infinite wisdom, had programmed the BIOS to put the second hard drive into a RAID configuration automatically. So in order to ensure that my important data was not wiped, I had to pay $220 for a new external hard drive and data migration. I must say that this "WD My Passport 5TB USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A) 2.5" Portable External Hard Drive - Black" holds my data well. I had 6 external hard drives. Now I have 7. I can honestly state that of all the external hard drives I own, this is one of them.
I have been happy with my passport for mac 5gb since I got it in february as it was fast and perfect for a tiome machine, so I thought. So, I have 2 external HD just to make sure I am safe in case the other one stops working or I get robbed. I bought this one on amazon from the US to deliver to Indonesia as the procucts I have been buying here have not been working. Anyway, a few days ago I did a backup to my old disk, a WD too but older, then when that was done I unplugged the old one and plugged the new one. All was going well and I could see it was copying the files but at a certain point, about 1 minute before finished it started to really slow down until it unmounted by itself and could not complete the task. I tried again and again to remount it but could not. ... MoreI have been happy with my passport for mac 5gb since I got it in february as it was fast and perfect for a tiome machine, so I thought. So, I have 2 external HD just to make sure I am safe in case the other one stops working or I get robbed. I bought this one on amazon from the US to deliver to Indonesia as the procucts I have been buying here have not been working. Anyway, a few days ago I did a backup to my old disk, a WD too but older, then when that was done I unplugged the old one and plugged the new one. All was going well and I could see it was copying the files but at a certain point, about 1 minute before finished it started to really slow down until it unmounted by itself and could not complete the task. I tried again and again to remount it but could not. Ithen tried in another mac I have and it would not mount either. The system doesnt find it in any computer. I have changed cables and tried with other disks and everything works well except this one.Anything I can do to fix? I have gone through everything and it is just not being seen by the computer, as if there was nothing there
I bought a Seagate Expansion 5T and it looks very similar to this one, right down to the packaging. That's where the similarities end! Running a benchmark in Linux, I was only getting around 80MBps. Also, as the graph line drew across, it dropped lower and lower. I have an older Seagate 4T and it was the same with both of them. The 4T is okay for semi-permanent storage; but I wouldn't want to have to use it for any heavy file operations. I exchanged the Seagate for the WD today (after only having it three days). I returned home, plugged the WD into a 3.2 Gen2 port and ran the benchmark. It clocked in at 430MBps. That's as fast as some internal SSD's! I definitely made the right decision there! The bottom line is that for a 5T external drive this fast, you can't go ... MoreI bought a Seagate Expansion 5T and it looks very similar to this one, right down to the packaging. That's where the similarities end! Running a benchmark in Linux, I was only getting around 80MBps. Also, as the graph line drew across, it dropped lower and lower. I have an older Seagate 4T and it was the same with both of them. The 4T is okay for semi-permanent storage; but I wouldn't want to have to use it for any heavy file operations. I exchanged the Seagate for the WD today (after only having it three days). I returned home, plugged the WD into a 3.2 Gen2 port and ran the benchmark. It clocked in at 430MBps. That's as fast as some internal SSD's! I definitely made the right decision there! The bottom line is that for a 5T external drive this fast, you can't go wrong with this one.My ports are quite full; although, I'm going to switch a drive that I have plugged into a Gen1 with the WD. I'm sure that the "details" said the cable was Gen1, so I should expect the same throughput. With my 2 desktops and 2 laptops, I probably now have over 25TB of storage space (I like to future proof). This is a nice addition to my family of drives!
This morning my WD My Passport 2TB Red just stopped working. It is only 11 months old. It stays in my office safe and has never been dropped or been hit by another object On this disk are ongoing projects, contracts, supply sources, accounting spreadsheets and a countless number of documents, films and photos. Tried several other External HDD cables, to no avail. Tried flushing all USB Data Device drivers on my laptop and reconnecting with different cables, to no avail. Tried to connect it on other computers several times with different cables, to no avail. Tried Data Recovery Software, to no avail. This disk is dead, not even a taskbar icon when connected. A disappointing experience to say the least.
When I got this drive, initially I was very happy with it. It looked well constructed. It passed all self tests and external-program surface tests with flying colors. Surface tests and full formatting took a normal time for an external drive of such size (about 15 hours for full write/read surface test). However when I started backing up my data to it, it was progressing much slower than expected. Normally it takes from 20 to 30 hours to back up all my data (about 3.5T) to an USB 3 drive. It took more than 100 hours to back up my data to this drive. It looked like each file was being written with a normal speed, but there was a long wait between files, sometimes several minutes, when the drive seemingly was not doing anything. I verified that it was not my computer, ... MoreWhen I got this drive, initially I was very happy with it. It looked well constructed. It passed all self tests and external-program surface tests with flying colors. Surface tests and full formatting took a normal time for an external drive of such size (about 15 hours for full write/read surface test). However when I started backing up my data to it, it was progressing much slower than expected. Normally it takes from 20 to 30 hours to back up all my data (about 3.5T) to an USB 3 drive. It took more than 100 hours to back up my data to this drive. It looked like each file was being written with a normal speed, but there was a long wait between files, sometimes several minutes, when the drive seemingly was not doing anything. I verified that it was not my computer, or cable, or my USB port - other drives attached to the same port/cable did not experience such problem. The problem stayed consistent throughout the whole backup process. Rebooting computer or changing USB port did not help. The drive did not exhibit unusual noise or vibration, read speed was not affected, and in the end the data were written correctly.
The device itself is fine. I strongly recommend against using the software that is lying in wait on the device when you take possession of it. I installed it. It's called Acronis. It's a backup utility. I found it a bit awkward to use. But I might have stuck with it if it weren't for a couple of shortcomings. First, I tried to do a backup of a rather large bit of data that I was pretty sure would not fit in the space remaining on the drive. I wondered if the compression would be good enough to make it fit. If not, I wondered if it would fill up the drive & tell me that, but then prompt me to let it continue the backup on a second device. Turns out the compression could make up for only so much. And after a day of furiously writing the backup, it simply failed ... MoreThe device itself is fine. I strongly recommend against using the software that is lying in wait on the device when you take possession of it. I installed it. It's called Acronis. It's a backup utility. I found it a bit awkward to use. But I might have stuck with it if it weren't for a couple of shortcomings. First, I tried to do a backup of a rather large bit of data that I was pretty sure would not fit in the space remaining on the drive. I wondered if the compression would be good enough to make it fit. If not, I wondered if it would fill up the drive & tell me that, but then prompt me to let it continue the backup on a second device. Turns out the compression could make up for only so much. And after a day of furiously writing the backup, it simply failed without letting me provide more space elsewhere. It would have been nice if it had told me from the outset that what I wanted to back up wouldn't fit. I suppose due to the on-the-fly compression, that really isn't possible. But it's kind of poor that it can't split a backup across multiple target devices.But worse than that, the product put a steady 100,000 bytes per second of load on my Internet connection. Steady. 24x7. It was like a virus. I have no idea what it could possibly have been doing. I don't think it was malicious, just wasteful. I uninstalled the software & moved on to another product.So the disk drive works quite acceptably, but I recommend you just format the thing as soon as you get it. Don't bother executing the installer that is taking up an admittedly insignificant amount of space on the drive.
| General | |
| Device Type | Hard drive - external (portable) |
| Capacity | 2 TB |
| Hardware Encryption | Yes |
| Encryption Algorithm | 256-bit AES |
