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very speedy xfer lots of space

I needed to copy about 6 32 and 64gb flash drives a 3tb drive 4 650gb old hard drives and 2 500gb ssd drives from old computers and dump data off my jammed full lap top. I did not want to loos years of work not to mention the numerous photos my wife takes with her phone. It sucked it all up no issues and fast!

Smallest physical size and biggest capacity.

Light Weight, Transfer speed is good for an external. Price was great.

Good storage size Can still install lots of games

This is no harder to set up than a thumb drive and at a much lower price than a thumb drive of the same storage capacity. And it takes a standard micro-USB to type-A USB cord

This is the unit recommended by our tech support. We had 2 others and needed new ones. Good product for low cost.

-Fast -light weight -extremely portable and slim -inexpensive -USB-C

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.

I needed a very large external HD for a major family project. After extensive research I decided that WD was the logical choice. So far no problems and hope it stays that way.

Low cost for 2TB storage, USB 3.0

Easy to set up, good value

Came undamaged in about 2 days from time of order and it was easy to install and xfer all the games/files i wanted to from my xbox to it. I've been buying stuff from new egg since they were just selling computer parts, and they have still yet to disappoint so I would highly recommend them to anyone looking to build a rig, or just buy anything now that their selection is so vast

Easy installation.

great hard drive being 6tb is better than there 5tb and really not much bigger can hardly tell the difference as photos show 5tb on bottom

It's a fast external drive for backup

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

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

Works as advertised for a reasonable price and it looks great. Have written approximately 500gb to the portable HDD over two file transfer events without issues. Interested in seeing how well it hold up over the coming years. Surprising fast transfer speeds for an HDD over USB 3.0.

I received exactly what was ordered and in a very timely manner. Works fine.