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Brand | WD |
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Series | My Passport |
Model | WDBPKJ0040BBL-WESN |
Color | Blue |
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Interface | USB 3.2 Gen 1 |
Capacity | 4TB |
Features | Slim style. The new My Passport drive has been redesigned for you to make the most of your own journey. It features a convenient, slim form factor and is available in a range of vibrant colors. Locked down. The My Passport drive's password protection and built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption helps keep your digital life's contents secure. Just activate password protection and set your own personalized password using WD Discovery. Social friendly. Included WD Discovery software lets you connect to popular social media and cloud storage services like Facebook, Dropbox and Google Drive. Seamlessly import, organise and share your photos, videos and docs to the My Passport drive to backup your online social life. WD Discovery can also manage your drive through WD Drive Utilities. Backed up. The My Passport drive comes equipped with WD Backup software to help make sure everything you create while on your own life journey - photos, videos, music, and documents - doesn't get lost. You can set it to run automatically to your schedule. Just pick the time and frequency to back up important files from your system onto your My Passport drive. Super easy. My Passport portable storage is ready right out of the box including all necessary cables. And with SuperSpeed USB, you can quickly start backing up everything in your life and keep driving forward. 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. |
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System Requirements | Windows 10 or Windows 8.1 Chrome OS Requires reformatting for other operating systems. |
Dimensions | 0.75" x 2.95" x 4.22" |
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Weight | 0.46 lb. |
Package Contents | Portable hard drive SuperSpeed USB cable WD Discovery software (Windows only) Quick install guide |
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Date First Available | September 30, 2019 |
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Pros: Works as intended. I bought this product for home personal cloud storage and I guess it will work well.
Cons: I suggest to remove cable from the device after finishing using it, because that connector which is connected to the device doesn't look so strong.
Overall Review: I have a friend who travels a lot and he used this portable passport for years.
Pros: + small footprint for a larger capacity drive. fits in most of my drive cases + seems fast, although I have not tested the actual read/write speed + nice case design
Cons: + it did not come with the encryption software, so I had to download it from WD my previous passports came with it, which was very convenient
Overall Review: I have had great luck with WD Passports. I have 3 and the others are pretty old and have been used a lot, with no issues.
Pros: All you have to do is set it up( which is easy) and it does what it needs to do!
Overall Review: A good drive because I have internal ones in my past computers, never had a problem.
Pros: Easily connects to all my computers and works very well!
Cons: Will not connect to my Samsung TV which is one of the reasons I purchased it.
Overall Review: Overall, great for data storage.
Pros: This is the unit recommended by our tech support. We had 2 others and needed new ones. Good product for low cost.
Overall Review: Yes, I would recommend this...installed on work and home laptops.
Pros: large storage space price size no corruption
Cons: The transfer rate is horrible. I was getting fluctuations between 10-25MB/s for large file transfers. It is USB 3, but it can't even transfer at USB 2 speeds. This is definitely not a drive for short-term storage since it takes so long to transfer to/from.
Overall Review: If you want a lot of space at a good price and speed doesn't matter much then get this drive.
Pros: - Will make you more careful when shopping around for gear. - Will make you distrustful of marketing departments. - Will make you distrustful of version numbers.
Cons: - The actual USB version of this drive is "USB 3.0", so its speed is 5Gbps. - The "marketing" USB version of this drive is "USB 3.2 Gen 1". - "USB 3.2" tells you *nothing*. It could be 3.0, 3.1, or 3.2. - USB 3.0 is now called "USB 3.2 Gen 1" - USB 3.1 is now called "USB 3.2 Gen 2" - USB 3.2 is now called "USB 3.2 Gen 2x2" - Yeah, so "USB 3.2" can mean "USB 3.0" or "USB 3.1" or "USB 3.2"
Overall Review: I am so angry at marketing tricks like this. I thought I was buying a bonified USB 3.2 20Gbps drive. Nope. Because USB 3.2 might not actually mean USB 3.2. It might mean USB 3.0 (5Gbps) or it might mean USB 3.1 (10Gbps). In this drive's case, "USB 3.2" means USB 3.0 (5Gbps). Do a Google search for "USB 3.2 explained: Making sense of current and confusing USB standards" and keep yourself informed.
Pros: Read/write is noticeably fast, but I havent truly clocked the top speeds. It runs quiet. It has held up to some prolonged, large uploads/downloads and is still kicking...BUT it needed some support. Getting to that in the Cons section.
Cons: It is big (thick) for a portable drive, but I expected some trade off for 5Tb. It is not very at aesthetic or nice to look at. The big downfall is lack of adequate cooling. It gets HOT if you are transferring large chunks of data. In fact, it gets so hot that it turns off abruptly and without warning. Im not sure if this is a self-protection feature or if it is outright crashing. It would reach this disabling temp at about 20Gb writing at around 10-15Mb/sec (internet download speed). The have to run a mini USB desk fan pointed right at the drive to keep it cool enough to prevent shutting down. Also set it on top of a plastic soda bottle cap to give it some more surface area for the fan to blow across. It has never crashed or had an issue with the fan on it.
Overall Review: TL;DR: Dont expect it to perform (or run continuously) without some external cooling support. It overheats during large/long file transfers, even at average speeds.