WD 6TB My Passport Portable Hard Drive, Red - WDBR9S0060BRD-WESN

I always choose Western Digital for my backups. My last portable HDD is still going strong after 8 years. But of course, you can never be too careful with your data, which is why I bought this product.WD has a built-in password protect so no one else can access your files. It's easy to install so you don't have to tinker with it for a long time. In addition to that, there's also a program to check your HDD's health. Overall, a nice software inclusion.Speed is serviceable. It's not the fastest considering it's not SSD but it gets the job done.Let's talk exterior. I'm quite surprised since my old HDD is bulkier that houses only 500GB of data. Granted, it's been a while since I bought a new WD HDD. So yeah, great advancement in the design department.Lastly, you can ... MoreI always choose Western Digital for my backups. My last portable HDD is still going strong after 8 years. But of course, you can never be too careful with your data, which is why I bought this product.WD has a built-in password protect so no one else can access your files. It's easy to install so you don't have to tinker with it for a long time. In addition to that, there's also a program to check your HDD's health. Overall, a nice software inclusion.Speed is serviceable. It's not the fastest considering it's not SSD but it gets the job done.Let's talk exterior. I'm quite surprised since my old HDD is bulkier that houses only 500GB of data. Granted, it's been a while since I bought a new WD HDD. So yeah, great advancement in the design department.Lastly, you can register the product on the official WD website. You know you're getting an original product. The seller is also giving a free pouch to house your HDD.Great price and an amazing product. An easy recommendation to give.

It's a nice drive especially for the price

So far the drive itself has been flawless. I used it to back up 2TB of video projects I have for long term storage. This should last a while with 3TB to spare. The only thing I didn't care for was the cable setup.It has a weird cable connection to the drive itself, which I've seen before a couple of times on other devices, but I don't know what the interface is called. On the other end of the cable is a USB A connection which I hate, because it's USB you have to look at which way the cable goes and is generally incompatible with anything else, and kind of introduces an oddball cable into the ecosystem. USB A also rules out the possibility of thunderbolt, but then again I think this is a spinning platter drive so thunderbolt was never going to matter ... MoreSo far the drive itself has been flawless. I used it to back up 2TB of video projects I have for long term storage. This should last a while with 3TB to spare. The only thing I didn't care for was the cable setup.It has a weird cable connection to the drive itself, which I've seen before a couple of times on other devices, but I don't know what the interface is called. On the other end of the cable is a USB A connection which I hate, because it's USB you have to look at which way the cable goes and is generally incompatible with anything else, and kind of introduces an oddball cable into the ecosystem. USB A also rules out the possibility of thunderbolt, but then again I think this is a spinning platter drive so thunderbolt was never going to matter anyway.However an adapter dongle is supplied in the package that converts the USB A to USB C for the last inch to the computer. I just leave it attached to the oddball cable. The setup should be USB C to USB C, Like The Lacie drives I have, but my guess is that these are older designs that they don't want to change for cost reasons. It reminds me of something out of the early 2000's or late 90's as far as the data connection to the computer goes.So bottom line is it works. The drive Backed up 2TB in under 10 minutes, and the price is good. You Could probably even work a project directly off this drive without too much slowdown.I would have given it 5 stars if it weren't for the cable interface which isn't compatible with anything else I have, unless I buy another one of these drives.

NOT WHAT I ORDERED, (store parts search) read iew!

I'm not happy with (Parts Search), a Best Buy Marketplace Seller.Purchased a passport hardrive, Ad said (SSD) hardrive refurbished, good condition.I recieved a (HDD) passport hardrive, (Older technology) not what the ad said. Also when putting things on the hardrive, disc space always said the same amount. Aswell as not steady transfering speeds, I dont have transferring speeds problem with my other hardrive from Amazon and the ad from (parts search) said there hardrive is good, (thats not good). Also physical condition of the hardrive, they could have atleast wiped down the hardrive as it was noticable dirty!When reaching out to best buy, nothing was done but to wait from (Parts Search) to reach out to me.Parts search reached out via email, conclusion ... MoreI'm not happy with (Parts Search), a Best Buy Marketplace Seller.Purchased a passport hardrive, Ad said (SSD) hardrive refurbished, good condition.I recieved a (HDD) passport hardrive, (Older technology) not what the ad said. Also when putting things on the hardrive, disc space always said the same amount. Aswell as not steady transfering speeds, I dont have transferring speeds problem with my other hardrive from Amazon and the ad from (parts search) said there hardrive is good, (thats not good). Also physical condition of the hardrive, they could have atleast wiped down the hardrive as it was noticable dirty!When reaching out to best buy, nothing was done but to wait from (Parts Search) to reach out to me.Parts search reached out via email, conclusion nothing was done to make this a good purchase!I'm not saying everyone's experience is like this but going by my experience, I would not purchase from them again!

Quality is not what it used to be.

I buy a lot of WD hard drives for my company. I have some that are up to 12 years old that still work great. Unfortunately, the newer ones that I have purchased in the past few years are failing regularly. I have four dead drives sitting on my bench right now that are all under 2 years old. This one lasted four hours and died. I lost a lot of valuable information. I contacted WD about it and had to provide information about what was written to the hard drive and why it could not be returned to the Wal-Mart for replacement or refund. WD sent me the exact model as expected so I appreciate the customer service. Shortly after getting the new drive, another one failed. I won't bother trying another warranty replacement as it is not worth the time. I always considered WD ... MoreI buy a lot of WD hard drives for my company. I have some that are up to 12 years old that still work great. Unfortunately, the newer ones that I have purchased in the past few years are failing regularly. I have four dead drives sitting on my bench right now that are all under 2 years old. This one lasted four hours and died. I lost a lot of valuable information. I contacted WD about it and had to provide information about what was written to the hard drive and why it could not be returned to the Wal-Mart for replacement or refund. WD sent me the exact model as expected so I appreciate the customer service. Shortly after getting the new drive, another one failed. I won't bother trying another warranty replacement as it is not worth the time. I always considered WD the top-of-the-line hard drives with the least number of failures. I will be trying other brands going forward.

This SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!!

If you do not understand technology the quote by the manufacture should be illegal"Up to 5,000Mb/s data transfer speeds move even large files in a flash, so you spend less time waiting"They are probably describing the transfer technology (usb) being used not the speed the drive inside the enclosure is capable of.First Mb/s should not be confused for MB/s.Mb/s is generally used for network speed measurementsMB/s is generally used for THIS PRODUCTS use case.The Harddrive inside this external drive is only capable of 888Mb/s888 Mb/s = 111 MB/s5000 Mb/s = 625MB/sThat is a x5.6 speed disparity in advertising.To imply to a customer in anyway their product can do this is borderline criminal.The price disparity between this WD drive and other technologies ... MoreIf you do not understand technology the quote by the manufacture should be illegal"Up to 5,000Mb/s data transfer speeds move even large files in a flash, so you spend less time waiting"They are probably describing the transfer technology (usb) being used not the speed the drive inside the enclosure is capable of.First Mb/s should not be confused for MB/s.Mb/s is generally used for network speed measurementsMB/s is generally used for THIS PRODUCTS use case.The Harddrive inside this external drive is only capable of 888Mb/s888 Mb/s = 111 MB/s5000 Mb/s = 625MB/sThat is a x5.6 speed disparity in advertising.To imply to a customer in anyway their product can do this is borderline criminal.The price disparity between this WD drive and other technologies (Sata SSD/m.2) which can come close to saturating the speeds WD advertises is more than x2 to x3 the price WD sells for (from non-reputable manufactures which is another can of worms to deal with). Let alone no single drive of that technology is 5TB in size.If you understand the TRUE technology behind the WD drive (as of the date this review went up) the pricing for it is perfectly fine and reasonable for what the technology can do.I am extremely tired of how far past the line of "questionable understanding" large tech manufactures have been pushing and getting away with over the last half decade.It is creating too much e-waste, distortion and negative understanding of value for casual tech user pushing increasingly absurd justifications for price manipulations for every increasing needs for profit.

[Rewarded Review] Maybe if you're a tech person

If you want to solve a riddle every six months to have access to your data, then this external hard drive is for you.But the most I can do is reboot the tv and download my nana's photos from the cloud onto her computer.This hard drive has been so incredibly frustrating to use. When I first got it, it didn't show up in my devices when I first plugged it in. I had to go into the disk manager and create the new volume myself, but for real this thing was fighting me every second of the way. I'm usually pretty good at just figuring it out through tutorials online but the steps they were telling me to take were just not possible. I couldn't click on create simple volume. I couldn't click on anything except the properties menu. I eventually, and I couldn't tell you ... MoreIf you want to solve a riddle every six months to have access to your data, then this external hard drive is for you.But the most I can do is reboot the tv and download my nana's photos from the cloud onto her computer.This hard drive has been so incredibly frustrating to use. When I first got it, it didn't show up in my devices when I first plugged it in. I had to go into the disk manager and create the new volume myself, but for real this thing was fighting me every second of the way. I'm usually pretty good at just figuring it out through tutorials online but the steps they were telling me to take were just not possible. I couldn't click on create simple volume. I couldn't click on anything except the properties menu. I eventually, and I couldn't tell you how, was able to finally name the volume without getting an error message and it was working just fine. For months it worked just fine.Then, a few days ago, out of no where, it just wasn't showing up. I restarted my computer, plug and unplug, I even went back to try to do whatever magic I did before to add the volume. Randomly, it just decides to show up again! Hurray! All my files were corrupted but it's fine, I have backups. As I am about to hopefully fix it, POOF! It just disappears again. Nothing came unplugged, I checked and double checked. It just disappeared like hey! I see you're about to fix me, wouldn't it be funny if I just-Anyway, this external hard drive sucks, it's not worth the effort. I was using these cheap ones before, sure they didn't have a ton of storage and the cable was loose so it would fall out all the time but at least it was storing my data instead of holding it hostage.

[Rewarded Review] More Broken than a McDonald's Ice Cream Machine

I bought two of these drives within the last year or so, and one that was 10 months old just had sectors fail a few days ago (on a Friday for reference), and then another one that was about 14 months old had a catastrophic sector failure tonight (lowering hard drive health from 100% to 66.5%, measurements courtesy of DriveDx). I have already been in contact with WD Support about the first one, but they're about useless when it comes to helping customers, as they'd rather give you the choice to either cough up the hard disk space to back it up to a drive you own yourself, or pay them $25 to get a replacement drive while in possession of your original drive, all while paying shipping either way. Prior to this, I had a SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD fail on me, and they took ... MoreI bought two of these drives within the last year or so, and one that was 10 months old just had sectors fail a few days ago (on a Friday for reference), and then another one that was about 14 months old had a catastrophic sector failure tonight (lowering hard drive health from 100% to 66.5%, measurements courtesy of DriveDx). I have already been in contact with WD Support about the first one, but they're about useless when it comes to helping customers, as they'd rather give you the choice to either cough up the hard disk space to back it up to a drive you own yourself, or pay them $25 to get a replacement drive while in possession of your original drive, all while paying shipping either way. Prior to this, I had a SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD fail on me, and they took months to rectify that situation so it'll be interesting to see what WD Support does here. All i know is that it's no wonder why they had a class action lawsuit filed against them in August for their faulty products. It's sad because they used to be a good company and I've been using their drives for almost a decade now, I still have my first one and it's still in working order all these years later. So it is with that I say that it is unacceptable a drive of theirs can't even make it more than a year before dying, and that I could never recommend this product to a friend. Heck, I could never even recommend it to my worst enemy. My advice: save up your money and buy a LaCie or Samsung drive, they'll actually last and aren't much more than WD charges you for their terrible product.

[Rewarded Review] Not as good as I expected it to be

This drive worked perfectly at first, then began malfunctioning same day I got it. It works some days and other days my computer won't recognize the drive. I would format it but that would mean deleting some very important files. I got this so the photos for my photography class won't take up too much space on my laptop (plus I'm a graphic design major so space is already limited as is), but this drive is already malfunctioning. How am I supposed to have clear memory space when this drive can't be recognizable by my laptop?? I've tried everything, even bought new USBs to see if the USB that came with the drive was the problem but NOPE. From the looks of it, I doubt I can get some of the files I already have in the drive back and transferred into a different drive ... MoreThis drive worked perfectly at first, then began malfunctioning same day I got it. It works some days and other days my computer won't recognize the drive. I would format it but that would mean deleting some very important files. I got this so the photos for my photography class won't take up too much space on my laptop (plus I'm a graphic design major so space is already limited as is), but this drive is already malfunctioning. How am I supposed to have clear memory space when this drive can't be recognizable by my laptop?? I've tried everything, even bought new USBs to see if the USB that came with the drive was the problem but NOPE. From the looks of it, I doubt I can get some of the files I already have in the drive back and transferred into a different drive and I don't want to potentially spend so much money on getting these files back, college is already as expensive as it is. Very disappointed, will start looking into different brands of external hard drives.

[Rewarded Review] Simple, Reliable, Convenient, %26 Inexpensive

I bought the WD 4TB Passport as a replacement for my 1TB Passport, which has performed flawlessly and invisibly for years; I required more storage space, so I've moved the old 1TB Passport to a different PC, where I expect to get many more years of service from it. The 4TB (like the 1TB) is plug %26 play, and after giving it a few seconds for system recognition, you essentially have another hard drive. At $94.99 the 4TB Passport was over $20 cheaper through Walmart than most competitors' prices.Both of my Passports are USB Type-A devices, so that is the only speed to which I can speak. The 4TB model seem to be very responsive and fairly quick. Because my PC solid-state hard drive space is limited, I keep most of my music collection on the Passport. I make the ... MoreI bought the WD 4TB Passport as a replacement for my 1TB Passport, which has performed flawlessly and invisibly for years; I required more storage space, so I've moved the old 1TB Passport to a different PC, where I expect to get many more years of service from it. The 4TB (like the 1TB) is plug %26 play, and after giving it a few seconds for system recognition, you essentially have another hard drive. At $94.99 the 4TB Passport was over $20 cheaper through Walmart than most competitors' prices.Both of my Passports are USB Type-A devices, so that is the only speed to which I can speak. The 4TB model seem to be very responsive and fairly quick. Because my PC solid-state hard drive space is limited, I keep most of my music collection on the Passport. I make the libraries accessible to Windows Media Player, and when I click on a song selection, there is only the slightest hesitation before the music begins.Regarding PC backups with this Passport, the weak point for me is again the included WD Acronis True Image software (although this is easily remedied). As I recall, it backed up a copy of your chosen libraries to your Passport, and then overwrote that backup (with any changed files) on your next backup. Personally, I rarely realize I need to recover a file within the 24-hour period between scheduled backups - it's usually 2 or 3 days down the road when I realize my mistakes. Luckily there are many free alternative backup apps available for one to download (I chose P*r*gon Free, which allows one to create multiple generations of backups on the Passport). Knowing one have over 3 days' worth of backups lets one sleep a little better at night.After relying on the Passport brand for years, I really can't recommend them highly enough - and I haven't even begun to explore their potential, because mine stay attached to my computer. Their portability would allow one to transport massive amounts of data to work, school, parties, etc. As for myself, the 4TB Passport has given me a convenient daily disk drive and a reliable nightly file backup process, and Walmart gave me an unbeatable price. I couldn't be happier with my purchase.