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

I purchased this WD 1TB Black My Passport HD to use a long with a digital tuner for the purpose of recording antenna TV. It`s a great Hard Drive. My wallet is bigger and thicker then this Hard Drive. You have to see it to believe it. It`s not just for TV use as it states. I have five episodes of Empire on it, to watch when ever I want. How can you beat that. So, for my use of recording TV, it`s fantastic. Size, price, and multi use, I`m happy.

It is an external hard drive so there is not much to rate, lol. It transfers quickly as advertised. I have not ever dropped it and I rarely use it, only transferring from a safe to my laptop bag on an unusual occasion. One thing that is not at all a deal breaker but kind of frustrating is that, after using lightly only a handful of times, one of the four rubber grippers on the corner of the bottom fell off. For a top producer of a mid-grade external hard drive, youd think that Western Digital would at least use glue on those pads that would properly secure them... but they apparently did not. Its now only a matter of time till they fall off and it slides around on the desk/unevenly rocks from a pad or two missing; perhaps I will superglue them myself.

Its a hard drive and works. My complaint and its a big one is if you have a wireless mouse/keyboard then prepare for issues. The hard drive gives off interference and first plug in of hard drive and mouse wouldnt work. For reference it seems to affect frequencys in the 2.4ghz range. Theres no mention of this anywhere. WD advice was to cover the hard drive and cord in tin foil, WOW what a professional answer. Finally after many tries and searching the internet I had to move my USB dongle for the mouse/keyboard to the front on the computer and move the hard drive as far away as possible from the computer. If I knew this before hand I would have never bought it.

Works great with my xbox, super easy to hook up. Worst case scenario, there are a bunch of YouTube videos that can tell you what to do. My only issue is that it has a blinking light on it, and since my xbox is in my room it was quite annoying. Nothing a little opaque tape cant fix, though. Very compact, doesnt take up much space.

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.

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.

I have several 1 terr USB 3.0 so I thought I would save a few bucks and get a warehouse return. There was a good reason it was returned in the first place. Not sure Amazon checks them when returned. Basically DOA. Would not do a long format. Tried to move a large 260 gig file and it sat for an hour. Then it would not reformat and stalled my computer until I unplugged it. Returned it and instead got a new non-refurbished and it is loading a 760 gig folder with no problem. I do pretty good on warehouse items but will avoid returned electronics in the future.

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.

This portable HDD drive worked exactly as we needed it to. Great for backing up a computer or transferring files. I bought a new computer and needed to transfer all my photos and documents from the old to the new, and this served the purpose perfectly. It will also be used to keep another computer backed up. Happy with it stationary storage, but I will be getting an SSD for portable storage because it is more durable and can handle being dropped better than this HDD drive will be able to. An SSD is also three times the cost for the same size, so this old-school drive, though slower, was worth it. And it wasnt slow, per se. I didnt feel like I was waiting around forever for it to finish. Just slower than an SSD would be.