WD 1TB Black My Passport Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBYNN0010BBK-WESN

Ive had this external hard drive for about 2 and half months now and everything is fine so far. Its size makes it easy to store and very portable. I use it to backup files for school and to free up memory on my laptop. The only con Ive experience is the software needed to use the hard drive. Unfortunately Im unable to use it at school because it needs a special program in order to function and downloading programs on campus computer isnt permitted. Therefore Im limited to using it on my personal devices.

A little difficult to format in such a way that would accept both Linux files and windows files at the same time, but got it working without more than a couple hours of googling. Overall very fast and does what it needs to do. For those wondering, I used this to transfer files from a Linux computer (mint 18.3) to a Windows 10 one, and it worked after formatting it a certain way (I forget which way)

I bought this back in 2018 didnt even use but maybe a couple of times - it sat around for years and then thought yeah Im going to move all my vids and pics to it. Well it doesnt work. It will not initialize, computer doesnt recognize it. Do a search on the web for My Passport has fatal error - there is no help other then to say try a different computer of coarse by a new cable did that and some other check disk stuff, no way around it. There is no way out of this error. Wasted Money.

My laptop only has a 256 GB SSD, so this was a great buy for the price. Ive read that I can install another hard drive into my laptop, but I dont feel comfortable doing that. Im a college kid and gamer so 256 GB is literally nothing when you think games like WoW take up 70 ish gigs. I can also store photos and I love that this drive includes a cloud based back up. If/when the drive dies, Ill always have access to my files. This is really a smart purchase if your current system doesnt have enough space and you want to free up space by using a spare drive/cloud back up.

I like the size and reliability. Its not a stick that can get lost or misplaced. I would warn this drive is delicate and shouldnt be moved around a lot as it has moving/spinning parts inside. Would recommend getting a longer USB cable (model specific).

Im using this for additional ps4 memory. Ive only had it for 2 weeks now, but just wanted to say how easy it is to set up. I dont have a ton of games, so a 1tb external drive was enough of an upgrade to my original 500gb. Like most of you, Ive read reviews about how these things die prematurely. Ill keep my fingers crossed, but so far so good.

This portable HDD drive worked exactly as we needed it to. Great for backing up a computer or transferring files. I bought a new computer and needed to transfer all my photos and documents from the old to the new, and this served the purpose perfectly. It will also be used to keep another computer backed up. Happy with it stationary storage, but I will be getting an SSD for portable storage because it is more durable and can handle being dropped better than this HDD drive will be able to. An SSD is also three times the cost for the same size, so this old-school drive, though slower, was worth it. And it wasnt slow, per se. I didnt feel like I was waiting around forever for it to finish. Just slower than an SSD would be.

Works as expected and simple to use. Use with Time machine- The truth will be how long does it last. Had two Seagate drives fail in short periods of time, less than a year. Hopefully WD will last at least 3-5 yrs.

I just got this because it was a cheap external drive with a lot of capacity. It did come pre-installed with WD backup software that may be useful if thats what you bought this for, but I personally had no need. I hooked this up, formatted it, and used it to create images of my two drives for backup purposes using Macrium Reflect. Didnt take super long to do despite the size of my drives, so this guy seems to be pretty speedy at least. Dont otherwise really have anything to complain about.

I had no trouble installing this disk drive. Also, it is quite fast at backing up my data. In reading other product reviews of external disk drives (not just WD), I have noticed a concern about the relatively high failure rate of disk drives in general -- though, according to product reviews and evaluations, Western Digitals drives seem to fare a little better than Seagates. But to help with this problem, if you purchase a WD, you will notice that the disk comes with some third-party software that allows you to thoroughly check the health of the disk, sector by sector, whenever you like. It can take a few hours, but you can always let it run in the background. It is among the apps called WD Drive Utilities. By running this app every now and then, you can lessen the possibility of a nasty surprise later.