WD 256GB My Passport SSD External Portable Drive, USB 3.1, Up to 540 MB/s - WDBKVX2560PSL-WESN

bought this drive over 2 years ago - very happy with speed, reliability and portability. its very light too. highly recommend it to all

I transferring years and years of videos and photos from disc externals to these WD 2TB SSD’s. Silent. Takes very little USB power (helpful when you have 4 connected at once). No issues with these and I’m about to purchase another one. Seriously, for the size, these must work on pure magic.

Nice and will buy again. I bought three and use them often. great quality. Imp Tru !

(+) The memory is solid state so no moving parts should mean no losses from disk damage. (-) Its always warm to touch indicating continuous standby power consumption but no visible indicator (led) that it is storing data. Also it is roughly the same size as a hard disk drive and I expected it would be smaller in view of current high transistor/diode densities available. I have only been using it for a couple of weeks so no idea on durability.

Got this as an addon drive for my MacBook Pro, I used some Velcro to stick it to the top of the lid and its working great. Im impressed with the speed, real world numbers Im seeing are around 500MB / sec read and 475 MB/s writes, which means moving 10 GB in a little over 20 seconds! As an old timer in computers Im blown away at that, even though I know the newer drives are even much faster. For ebooks, music and movie storage its plenty fast and the same speed as the internal SSD in my last MacBook. My only big complaint is the cable that comes with it, its very stiff and when I attached it to the drive I think it damaged one of my USB ports, even though I pre-bent it into shape. Ive ordered a thinner, more flexible cable with right angle connectors I hope will do a better job.

Got the drive, and waited a day and a half before using due to recent subzero temps. I would always recommend allowing any new devise to come to local temperature before using. I intended for this drive to be dedicated to one heavy data access app. However, when I moved the data for the app to this drive, a 76GByte folder consumed 152 GBytes of a 256GByte drive. It was formatted exFAT with 1024KByte clusters. So a lot of partly filled clusters were being used. Reformatted NTFS, with default 4096 byte clusters and all is well.

I bought this drive on Sept 2019 and immediately connected it to my Raspberry Pi 4. I transferred my root file system to it and made it the root drive from my sd card on the Pi 4. It has worked flawlessly every day. It was powered down less than 5 times since then for hardware maintenance. It does not get hot, reads and writes fast, has never had an error or lost bit. It is used daily. If it does fail, I would buy one again. Very happy with this purchase.

Although portable, I use this mounted to the side of my Mac Mini to add much needed storage for photos and work files. Plug it in and forget about it.

The out of the box formatting is not accepted by apples backup app, Time Machine. I am using the latest, Mac OS X 15.13, Catalina. I reformatted the disc and Time Machine is now working, backing up to this disc. Very slowly I might add. I have 222gig on my mac air and time machine says I have another 20 hours to go. Western Digital wants to take over as your Finder. I mistakenly installed the WD app before I reformatted and now my original 1T external Passport only shows as mounted under the WD app. NOT in the finder. Why cant they keep it simple?

I used this device to record video on my Arlo camera system. It formatted quickly and it was recognized by the system immediately. Not much else to say other than it is somewhat stylish looking and fairly small. I would buy again!