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Size is great for carrying when going on a trip or just for leaving on the desk at all times without any intrusion. Color goes really well with the 2017 MBP and no more just backing up onto the cloud when there's so much space to put all the pictures and other documents I deal with on a daily basis. While it is formatted for use with Apple products, it can easily be reformatted for use with both or just with Windows-based systems. Adapter included is a nice touch, and something many manufacturers often cheap out on; not this time. Very fast drive for an external solution, the initial 700GB transfer took a while but after that it was snappy transferring <1GB files back and forth between the laptop and the drive. LED indicator is getting a bit outdated but still a nice touch to let you know the drive is doing its job. All in all, a very solid drive that I don't foresee having issue with at any time.

Very well built, durable, good transfer speeds with USB 3.0.

1.Set up was SUPER EASY as it already has the settings to format it. 2.it was quick in the formatting process.

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.

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

Good file space good orange rubber protective layer Love the USB3 cord Love the cross platform use (mostly PC, some Mac)

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

- Light weight - Fast! I was getting around 95MB/s copying to it. - Lots of space - double what my iMac have

Durable. Light Non Gloss surface so labels stick well. Decent transfer speeds. Comes with A USB C to C cable. As well as A USB C to A cable.

I bought this drive for my son as a Christmas present. The drive came well protected and in great shape as I have come to expect from all of my years as a Newegg customer. Install was a simple plug and play.

This thing works great for PC storage drive to transfer files, music, etc. connects with usb 3.0, or usb-C. I use the usb-C connection and it is pretty fast moving files back and forth to it. This drive also works great for playstation 4 to setup as extra drive to hold more games on. Same can be said using it as an extra drive for the xbox one S, gives you more space for apps, games, etc. Portable so you can take it anywhere you might need to bring for files- like work, school.

I would strongly recommend this product for anyone who has a lot of games and applications with not enough storage on their system. It only took about 3 Days to arrive (with Free Shipping!) and was super easy to use and install. The device also came with 2 months of Xbox live Gold!