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. :)

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.)

i used this an an additional media server on my network and it also servers as a backup server for my pc files with a batch migrate file. whih for those who dont know is a file that copies all windows files and folders and organizes them in folders on destination drive auyomatically. i did a time machine backup and restore on my mac. i had to clone my existing time machine drive and copy it to the new one to get it to work as a time machine drive. the diso uility app on macbook did not work on this drive.

The drive itself may be OK but installation is a problem. Since the purchase provides software/installation help free of charge for 30 days, I call the help phone line. With verbal instructions, I was able to install. The difference was that when I first went to the service site and downloads, it asked for the SN or Model number and I clicked Ok. It downloaded some software and installed but, when I tried to back up my system it would not work. The verbal info I received was to go to the site but dont type in the SN as requested. Just go down and select downloads then software. That way you get the latest software version. Ok so that was done. It then did seem to work and I backed up my complete computer. Then my computer was repaired (video problem - lap top) which required a new motherboard and clean installation of Windows 7 then update to Windows 10. All that worked fine. So then I went back to the WD web site and followed the latest instructions previously given. It installed the WD drive and I could see on the drive that there was a file indicating the initial backup. So, I told it to restore my computer. It started and said it was backing up. Well, about 1.5 hours later it quit and I rebooted the computer. The computer was not restored. I saw the file still on the WD drive so again I call the telephone number. Well that guy, I allowed him to control my computer and he deleted my previous download and did the download and install (just exactly how I had done it previously. It would not restore the computer. He then said the problem was that I had to do a backup before it would restore. So he did a backup. We then saw both files on the WD drive. So, then he started the restore of my original backup (the one before the computer repair). It started to work and said it was restoring. The technician got off the phone as he said it would take a while but when it finished the computer would have rebooted several times (maybe) but in the end I would reboot and the computer would be restored. Well, I let it alone and about 2 hours and it did as he said but when it stopped running the destop was void oa anything. It was blank and I could do nothing to cause anything to happen. So, I pulled out the external power supply cable and removed the battery and let it set. About 30 minutes later I installed the battery and external power and started the boot up. It was strange but it finally came up but the desktop was blank as before and nothing worked at all. So I repeated the power supply and battery thing and then I called Dell (my computer is a Dell with service contract. He saw the problem and said I had to start all over. We uninstalled the WD drive and booted from the Win 7 disk then updated to Win 10. I then went to WD and did the download of the program to make the WD drive work. It worked and installed but now when I went to look at files on the WD drive, it was blank. No files. So I contacted WD again and then said yes, something went wrong and I lost all my data and there was nothing that would be done. I will make it a point to never buy another item from WD. I really dont know if the problem was the WD drive itself or the software or the technician that tried to help me but the bottom line is that I have now lost everything, most of which can never be regenerated. I will try to return the drive and get my money back but likely that will not happen as the total fiasco that happened to a month and I am sure I am now out of time. I would advise again buying from WD.

I am a gamer and I was actually going to extend my memory internally because the 500GB PlayStation does not allow you to keep adding games to your system. Normally you have to delete and reinstall the games each time you wanna play them. The save data is still there, just not the game its self. I watched a few youtube vids and saw that the external memory is actually a better idea, because down the line if I wanted to use the external memory for something else, I could... I think this makes for a great extension to the memory for PlayStation. I got the 1TB one because I only have a total of 9 games at the moment.

Unless you are archiving movies and/or other MB consumptive data, a Terabyte is a vast amount of space. To make it portable, and the size of my smartphone is nothing short of astonishing to this old schooler who started off on a Timex Sinclair. Ill use this to store my data during a change of operating systems, selectively restore some, scrub the rest and use for backup from then on.

Bought this 2 years ago to have the drive to keep footage Im editing on. I havent stopped using it and I dont plan to. It has maintained a constant speed and has never had any issue with crashing or corrupted files like many other drives iv seen.

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

Ive bought at least 10 of these portable USB drives over the years and my experience has been: (1) If you have a setup where it never moves, then you can get many years out of it (2) If you actually move the drive around (i.e., portable), then at best you get 2 years out of it before the famous clicking sound kicks in (the drives were not dropped). Overall for portability, these drives durability has not improved much if at all over the last 10 years. Moving to SSD will eliminate the mechanical issue but as of 2020, portable SSD drives are still pretty expensive (at least 2x the cost). However, I found the Pioneer 3D NAND External SSD (960 GB) which is under $100 per TB and that compares well to what some of the WD portable drives cost. (as of 2020 a WD 1TB costs around $65 to $99). At least for my portable scenario, I am going with the Pioneer SSD purely to eliminate the inevitable mechanical failure that comes with the non-WD drive. Speed is not an issue - I am just need reliable storage.

Just received my 1T Passport External Drive from Amazon today. Very slow on my Lenovo Windows 10 laptop. Still waiting for it to finish backing up 78 GB. Only 1.5 GB completed in over 90 minutes. Also, I setup folders for each of my 3 computers so that I could backup each one into its own folder. The software does not allow you to specify a folder on the drive or maybe I somehow missed it. Not very excited about this purchase. Next time Ill invest a bit more money for an SSD.