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

Got this as a gift for my husband because we kept running out of space on our Playstation and it works great! It was really easy to hook up and everything runs great off it. Im interested in taking over to a friends house and seeing if I can play my games that I have stored on it on their machine but have yet to try it. :)

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?

I love it! I use it for my PS4 and the added storage is great! Put 4 large memory games on this thing (The Witcher, Uncharted 4, Batman: Arkham Knight, Final Fantasy 15) and The YouTube app, which surprisingly took up a ton of space on my PS4 this and it didnt even get half way on the memory! This external hard drive is great and was easy to install. Best purchase I have mafe in a long while.

Works fine with my aftermarket USB 3.0 PCI card and Dell XP420 Windows 10. Just plugged it in and started using. Didnt bother to reformat. Speedtest shows nearly as fast as my internal HDs and (surprisingly) faster than a Class 10 Ultra USB 3.0 memory stick. Running 24/7 for several months now. UPDATE: 01/2019: Drive failed after just a year and a half. Not a good record there. Still under warranty, but anything on the external drive was lost. (mostly lots of backups of multiple computers but some archival storage.)

Let me start by saying that I was ready return this hd (or chuck it against the wall) after multiple unsuccessful amateur troubleshooting and reformatting attempts. Im running MacOS High Sierra 10.13, which is not included on the WD support page. Their instructions sound simple - open Disk Utility, erase, reformat in exFat. If your computer is like mine, it gives you an error message when you attempt to erase and reformat. Thats when I was ready to whip it against the wall and call it a day. Reluctantly, I decided to call WD tech support. I spoke to a very nice man from another country who was able to help. **To reformat for MacOS High Sierra 10.13** -Go to support.wdc.com, then scroll down to Software for Mac and click WD Drive Utilities for Mac to download. -Once all is downloaded, open WD Drive Utilities. -Make sure your hd is plugged in, then select it at the top of the page (mine shows an image of My Passport Ultra). -Click Drive Erase, make sure Format is HFS+J, select the check box, then Erase Drive. -Your hd should now show up on your desktop ready for files to drop. Now that its reformatted, its working as expected. (Photo note: slightest bit of oil on your hands will change the color of your hd...)

We received a replacement drive on a Friday and it was in the trash Saturday. It was a refurbished one, not in the original packaging, wrapped in something similar to Saran Wrap and placed in a box. We wasted a lot of time trying to get these things to work, to no avail. We Googled this, Googled that, looked at YouTube videos, read this, read that, got on their Website, got nowhere. We never saw the icon on the desktop, went to finder and spotlight looking for the execution file, nothing. Meanwhile the reviews, in general, are good so the thinking must be, these are two dummies. Well dummy suggests that you buy this locally, keep your receipt, return it if it fails you, get yourself a refund. We are out $76.50 ($59 for unit, $7 for the suggested cable that wasn’t needed and $7.50 to return the first one we received). I have to assume that these WD Drives usually work well; we just happened to luck out. So buy it if it’s the one you want but do it locally if possible. The irony is the little SanDisk flash drive we bought in October, 2015 for a measly $11 still works. We wanted something better because we plan to buy a new Mac, a costly idea.

Use it to play 4k movies and tv shows on my sony tv. Works great. No issues so far, 4 months and counting. Will update review accordingly in the future. Edit: Made original review in 2017. Its now September of 2021. Still using this drive hooked up to my tv. No issues with transferring or playing file whatsoever four years later.

This had lots of storage space to get all my pictures off of camera and phones and get them in 1 place.

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.

The best portable drive on the market. After 30+ years of servicing computers for a living - and 14 years of doing data recovery in the Dallas, Texas area, the only brand of hard drive I use / sell is Western Digital. They have the best performance and reliability. Period. While these pre-built mobile drives are not the high end of the WD range, they are reliable and reasonably priced. You can only do better if you buy the Black drives and put them in your own enclosure, which is a lot more expensive.