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

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.

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.

Although I have 3 other WD standalone drives that have proved reliable, this is the LAST time I will ever buy a drive for the Mac that comes formatted for Windows, and has to be reformatted. Having become accustomed to the cross-platform compatibility of Flash drives that require no reformatting but are plug and play, I had forgotten what it was like to have to do so. I am here to tell you, reformatting this WD quickly turned into a nightmare that required two sessions with telephone help from WD techies who were obviously in Mumbai or thereabouts and should take lessons in speaking more slowly and clearly, and one Apple Care person in between them who provided the critical help, using properly enunciated English. The main problem was an item in the online support the Users Manual sends you to (thru 5 or 6 links) that says if you are using Apples latest OS, High Sierra, there is a WARNING that reads like this: APFS formatted volumes can be read by a macOS High Sierra (10.13), but not by a macOS Sierra (10.12) or earlier. . . . and then there are three other places to go for instructions for systems macOS 10.7.x (Lion) thru macOS 10.12.x (Sierra), which leads one to believe that one format for Mac may not work with ALL Mac systems. Bottom line, I discovered the WARNING was not up to date with High Sierra realities, and was totally misleading. ALSO, the 6 files already on the My Passport drive taking up 546.5 MB, that the first WD techie said were needed for the unit to operate properly, the second techie said NONE of them were. I look forward to having another faithful WD drive at my disposal with which to exchange heavy application and image files of our projects, but next time, rather than reformatting a drive and spending precious time, I will use a collection of Flash drives. Finally, I dont hold WD responsible for my original selection. The thing was, there ARE My Passport drives that come formatted for Mac, but will someone at Amazon explain why I as a Prime member was not offered one of them from which to make my selection?

Well what can I say its amazing so far. Does everything as advertised. Im not sure how protected the HDD is but it feels nice and sturdy. Im not willing to try and find out though. Its really nice to have 1tb of storage from western digital to backup all my data so when the cheap brand hard drive dies in my laptop I still have something to rely on. My laptop hard drive died about a week ago and sadly it was too far gone to create a new backup. but because of this hard drive I havent lost all of my progress from my drawings and can later go back to them

I was amazed that you can get a 1TB hard drive for this price! Western Digital has a good reputation and the hard drive is nice, small and light. Other than downloading some software from the WD web site, there was nothing to install it--just plug it into your PCs USB port. It came in just a few days--without me using any premium shipping. Im very satisfied!!

Great price

An external HDD is most valuable as a backup device. You can backup your data to a device that can be removed and stored in a safe location. I bought this drive for just that reason and because it came with the WD Backup software needed to schedule and create routine incremental backups. The problem I encountered with the drive was that no matter what I did, the WD Backup software refused to recognize the Passport drive as a backup target. I installed, uninstalled, reinstalled and repeated for the better part of a full day with no tangible results. I also spent more than two hours on the phone with two different Level 2 WD techs to no avail. My system is a very straight forward Windows 10 (64bit) HP, so there should have been no problem installing WD Backup. I could add, change or delete any or all the files on the Passport; My computer had no problem recognizing the presence of the WD Passport HDD; The drive passed every test thrown at it, but WD Backup absolutely refused to see it as a backup target. Your mileage may vary, but I spent a lot of time (most of a full day, all told) and accomplished nothing.

The first one I got did not work but when I contacted Amazon they sent me another one right away and it is perfect works awesome I just got a bad product which can happen sometimes the first one I got but thanks to Amazon they really helped me out and this is a great product

I bought this bc i have a couple laptops that have photos/ videos/ projects of mine that i wanted to unload off of there. Few reasons: laptops are older and i need to factory reset them, i want to sell these devices after they are all cleaned off, i also want all of my memories in one location. But i guess i didn’t do enough research on hard drives because i didn’t know that they were only comparable with certain programs, which is really really inconvenient. The laptops i have have older windows programs on them, which the hard drive is not cooperating with. I bought this and still have yet to use it. So I’m really salty(disappointed). It also has to be “reformatted” (whatever that means) to be compatible and operate with Apple devices. I wish i knew all of this before buying but i don’t want to return it- in case there’s actually a way i can use it and just don’t know how yet. So if anyone has any answers, tips, or suggestions on how to fix this issue, please comment or contact me. I’ll REALLY appreciate it.

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.