WD 2TB Black My Passport Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBS4B0020BBK-WESN

Just wanted to point out that all of this took place about 2 years ago, but I never got around to writing the review until now. It stopped working after a few months of usage. One day the drive wouldnt let me put anything else on it and everything I had on it could no longer open. I even ended up buying some really expensive recovery software to try to get my data back, but no luck. I then ended up formatting the drive which made me lose everything I had, but it wasnt life or death type of data so I just lived with it hoping that the drive would finally start to work again, but nope. I later contacted the Western Digital support team through their website which was a long and tedious process and tried to get a replacement through warranty. I had to pay to send my drive back and the new drive that got sent to me after a few weeks didnt work either so I honestly just gave up. It was just a painstaking process to go through and I just didnt want to go through it again. I ended up buying an external SSD from PNY instead which was way more expensive, but also way more reliable and has been working great for me for the past 2 years. I heard good things about Western Digital from other people, but because of this experience I wont be buying from Western Digital ever again.

This was exactly what I needed. It was as easy as plug and play and selecting it in the settings on my PS4 Pro. Now I have plenty of space to store games and game data. I don’t know why I waited so long to get this. I’m glad I did.... Finally!

This is a great buy for casual gamers, especially those who have just enough games but not enough space on the standard console. I use this in combination with a standard PS4. It is very easy to set up for storage and contains enough space (2TB) to keep you happily gaming (and saving) for awhile.

Great portable HDD. Im using it as backup to network so it is always attached and cant speak to its portability though it is quite small. After formatting for my particular needs and getting the longer cables for my install location it is working out great. Great to have tons of storage space.

I would like to have a 2 TB Solid State Drive, but for the money this is the next best product. This has the USB 3.0 interface which should be faster older USB 2.0 drives. I am processing Video Captures from HDMI devices so 2 GB files still take a long time to transfer.

This Hard Drive is a nice piece of equipment. I purchased it for the price. Although many had said theyve had no problems with theirs, I did. At first, I got it to work on one laptop that used Windows 8.1. It wouldnt work on other laptop that used Windows 10. My tech guy had to show me how to assign it a drive letter. But Ive had to do that every time I plugged it in. This is the only reason Im giving it 3 stars... I wanted something much easier to work with.

I would keep the WD Passport on your desk. Mine survived several falls, but considering it has moving parts, it could only take so many hits before breaking. This is my own fault, and I own up to my mistakes. Its a great drive for a great price. I recommend being careful with it for the sake of its longevity. After all, no hard drive is immune to falls.

This is an easy to use hard drive. Simply plug it in and go. I use it as a backup to a backup drive. Daily I back up my data to another Passport hard drive and weekly I back up to this one. Yeah, I know I can use the Cloud, but I dont know who can look at my data on the Cloud. This suits me fine.

When plugged the Hard Drive into the Xbox, it quickly asked me to format it if was going to be used for game storage. I have used the Hard Drive for some time now and I can say that I have had no issues at all. I have downloaded a considerably large amount of games on the Hard Drive and nothing has gone wrong and speed is to be expected from a Hard Drive. Its not the speed of a SSD but better then the hard drive inside my Xbox that is full. If your are going to use it as a hard drive for a computer and your moving your hard drive a lot, then I cant answer if this is good for the purpose. But if your going to use it as a Xbox One HDD, then you shouldnt have anything to worry about.

I purchased a MintBox Mini 2 Pro Linux computer, and the new Mint Linux likes to use the Timeshift app to make snapshots of the main disk for backup purposes. I bought this USB disk to keep snapshots on as well as to store other files. This disk worked great with Linux right out of the box, but Timeshift requires an ext4 disk. So, I used good ol’ gparted to re-format this disk to ext4, and in just a few minutes I had a very very fast USB disk. Works great; recommended.