My Passport for Mac

Thanks to all previous buyers who kindly answered my question about the power source for this external hard drive. As the last time I bought a terrabyte hard drive was in 2009 I was pleasantly surprised how compact this WD is. It arrived well packed, a day earlier than anticipated and is now functioning as expected, as my iMac Time Machine backup, replacement. Plug it in --- off it went. First download about four hours, but after this it will be just topping up. Simplicity itself. And quiet. Looks like a very satisfactory piece of kit, but as with all these things, time will tell.

Hooked this up to an IMac via a USB 2 port (even though the USB port on the drive is USB 3, it is backward compatible with USB 2) and it worked perfectly right out of the box. There's a single LED showing drive activity which is located at the back of the drive where you cannot see it. Hmm! Somebody didn't think that through did they. I cannot comment of the speed of the drive when it is connected to a USB 3 port on a Mac since I have it connected to a USB 2 port. What I can say is that copying about 1.8TB of files onto it took about 20 hours. As a backup drive it's superb and it is also pretty quiet. Thoroughly recommended.

I like using these external drives as a backup and archive for my Mac and PC. It is best though, to keep a dedicated WD passport to be used with Time Machine. Also Time Machine does try to back up to one of my other drives, you just need to say no to it, but you do need to re-select Passport again afterwards re-intiate automatic backups. Backup is easy, you just plug the Passport into the Mac and wait. What could be simpler. But always allow backup to complete before doing anything else. The Passports works well with my PC laptop too, when I render films to them. I do keep my Mac and PC drives separate though. I use USB memory sticks to pass files between my PC and Mac. I do stress, I buy the right format Passport drive for my Mac or PC. One most important golden rule; always eject the drive with the computers software before disconnecting. If the drive won't eject, turning off the computer has always worked for me. Over all I well satisfied with the WD Passport drives, and so far have five of them for different purposes and will buy more of them in the future.

Cheap for 4TB at £70 price I paid. Needed reformatting upon arrival but a relatively trivial matter using disc utilities on Mac. If I was completely computer naive I would have been disappointed that it was not 100% plug and play but with warehouse specials I make allowances that it is not going to be completely as a new item might be. To be honest it makes no difference whether external drives are "windows" or "Mac" as once you've got them you just format them for whatever operating system you are using. I have not reinstalled all WD software as Mac Time Machine will take care of back ups if needed. I never rely on one HD back up so I always buy two HD's and just copy everything from one to another weekly. Currently using WD, Seagate and Toshiba! I just can't stand the thought of losing everything so trying to cover all bases! Primary HD failure message in the past has maximised my paranoia..... BTW the case on the current WD Passport HD's are not as rigid as previous models and creak slightly when squeezed... So don't squeeze them.... And don't throw them either.... They're a bit of a fingerprint magnet too but if you store them in a Next sunglasses bag or similar the marks just disappear.... The final endorsement for Western digital is that I have two Compaq Windows machines still running 40 GB system drives that are over 10 years old still operating and an old WD 120 gb passport external drive that's still in service so they've been good for me.

This WD 1TB portable hard drive is fantastic and easy to use as mentioned in the product bescription. Just plug it in and backup is automatic. I’ve backed up my entire MacBook Pro approximately 625GB in roughly1min. It backed up so quickly that I didn’t get to time it properly but I know it couldn’t be over 1mn. The price is fantastic too compared to others of the same capacity. WD is a top brand product so you’re purchasing top quality. I do hope that my review will help others to purchase this product with confidence.

Really good hard drive had good performance write speeds. It's a lot smaller than expected, which is actually a good thing. It makes it very portable and it's also very stylish. Perfect to carry round and made out of solid high quality components.

After initially being recognised by the MacBook Pro laptop and having installed drivers the hard drive worked well and transferred media across quickly and played content as expected. However within 24 hours, having changed no settings nor turned off either device the hard drive could no longer be seen by the laptop and despite routing to the same folder and drive structures remains inoperable. Colleagues have similar problems with this specific model of WD hard drive and the device fails to load currently on other Macs. The device continues to draw power, but is currently only useful as a rather expensive paper weight.

WD used to be in my view the leaders in storage solutions. They produced fantastic looking external hard drive enclosures and each year i would get a new one in their range. This latest hard drive - well, its not very aesthetically pleasing. The prior generation Mac WD HDD was much nicer in a silver-ish sleek enclosure. IN terms of speed, i can't fault it as how much faster do you really expect your HDD to run in terms of read write speed. The device gets hot with frequent and large file transfer use and isn't the quietest device i own. Since the inception of the Sandisk Extreme SSD and the Samsung T5, I have switched all my external storage devices to SSD. This HDD from WD, is no longer a match in any way to these devices.

Für unsere umfangreiche Sammlung an Fotos und Videos war ich auf der Suche nach einer zusätzlichen Back-Up Festplatte mit ausreichender Speicherkapazität, die ohne Probleme und umformulieren mit dem MAC kompatibel ist. Lieferumfang • WD My Passport Festplatte • USB-Kabel • Schnellstartanleitung Design & Verarbeitung Die rechteckige Festplatte kommt mit den Maßen 11 x 8,2 x 2,2 Zentimeter daher und ist dabei sehr handlich. Dank ihres Formfaktors von 2,5 Zoll und einem Gewicht von 245 Gramm lässt sie sich leicht transportieren und im Rucksack oder der Handtasche verstauen, ist aber dicker als z.B 1 oder 2 TB Speicher. Design: Die obere Fläche ist in Hochglanzkunststoff gehalten und weist das eingebettete WD-Logo auf. Sie scheint jedoch recht anfällig für Kratzer zu sein. Die untere Hälfte ist hingegen geriffelt und sorgt für mehr Griffigkeit. Auf der Rückseite der Festplatte bringt WD in jeder der vier Ecken winzige viereckige Gummifüße an. Diese verhindern, dass die Festplatte auf dem Tisch ins Rutschen gerät. Insgesamt ist die Platte sehr hochwertig verarbeitet. Funktionsumfang Auf der WD My Passport befinden sich bereits die Installationsdateien für WD Backup und WD Security. Mit WD Backup lassen sich unkompliziert und in wenigen Schritten Backups vom Rechner beziehungsweise von einzelnen Laufwerken und Verzeichnissen anlegen. Der Anwender kann auswählen, ob die Dateien stündlich, täglich oder monatlich gesichert werden sollen. Zudem können die Backups auf Wunsch auch direkt in der Dropbox gespeichert werden. Damit unbefugte Dritte keinen Zugriff auf die WD My Passport erhalten, kann mit der WD Security Software ein Passwort festgelegt werden. Fortan kann nur noch gegen Eingabe des Passworts auf die externe Festplatte zugegriffen werden. Leistungstest Die Festplatte wurde mit den Programmen CrystalDiskMark getestet: Beim CrystalDiskMark Test erreicht die externe WD Festplatte beim Lesen einen Wert von 115 MByte pro Sekunde. Beim Schreiben im gleichnamigen Programm kam die My Passport auf 111 MB/s. Damit kommt die WD My Passport auf gute Werte im Leistungstest. Fazit: Pro: sehr gute Verarbeitung schnelle Transferraten dank USB 3.0 Passwortschutz unhörbar leise! komfortabel in der Handhabung (z.B. lassen sich LED ausschalten) Contra: glänzende Kunststoffseite anfällig für Kratzer. Insgesamt sehr gutes Preis-/ Leistungsverhältnis

Ottimo hard disk, acquistato per archiviare foto, musica, file video e documenti vari. Adesso lo suo collegandolo al router e credano un media server DLNA e FTP, così da poter accedere ai file archiviati da tutti i dispositivi di casa a fare streaming di film e serie tv su smart tv, tablet e cellulare, oltre a poter accedere alle foto e ai documenti da remoto quando non sono a casa. Lo uso quasi esclusivamente su windows, nonostante sia specificato che questa versione sia per MAC, basta riformattarlo in un file system riconosciuto da windows e il gioco è fatto. Appena collegato l'hard disk al pc non viene riconosciuto, ovviamente e quindi non viene visualizzato nella finestra dove usualmente trovate tutte le vostre periferiche di archiviazione (hard disk esterni, interni, pennette usb ecc); cosa fare? basta aprire l'applicativo "gestione dischi" o "disk managment" se il vostro sistema operativo è in lingua inglese (se non sapete dove trovarla basta inserire il nome dell'applicativo nella casella di ricerca di windows posta vicino al menù home, in basso a sinistra sullo schermo) e lo troverete subito. rimane solo da selezionare il drive appena acquistato e cliccare col tasto destro sulla partizione libera e formattarla in NTFS (a me dava circa 3,64 TB..e 200MB riservati al sistema, ma credo sia normale..). ci tengo a precisare che tutti i supporti di archiviazione non vi permottono mai di usare la capacità effettiva scritta sulla scatola, quindi hard disk da 1TB vi renderanno disponibili 900MB circa, da 2TB 1.8TB, da 3TB 2.8TB e via dicendo...è tutto normale non scrivete nelle recensioni "ho acquistato un hard disk e la capacità è inferiore a quella dichiarata...sono tutti così. Fatto! pronto all'uso su windows. la domanda spontanea? perchè non comprare il modello già pronto per windows? beh...perchè costava circa 30 euro in più (quasi 190 euro contro i 157 che ho pagato io per questo) e siccome a me i soldi non li regala nessuno perdo volentieri 5 minuti per riformattare il drive. Alla fine l'unica cosa che rimane è la dicitura "MAC" sulla scocca dell'hard disk...ma chi se ne frega no? basta che poi il tutto funzioni. Funzionare funziona, e bene secondo me. non mi metto a postare gli screen shots dei benchmark perchè mi pare superfluo e perchè di sicuro qualcun'altro lo farà...vi basti sapere che le velocità dichiarate dal produttore si avvicinano a quelle effettive raggiunte dal drive, i trasferimenti sono veloci e non c'è nessuno problema: ho fatto un back up del mio intero sistema e o trasferito circa 1.7 TB sul drive esterno a una velocità mai inferiore ai 90MB/sec. perciò non credo ci si possa lamentare. nessun tipo di rumore o ronzio durante l'utilizzo. WD di solito non tradisce da questo punto di vista, e infatti anche l'assemblaggio risulta solido e robusto, il drive è carino anche dal punto di vista estetico ed è compatto senza ingombrare. il led di attività non è abbagliante come su altri modelli, quindi anche usandolo di notte o in stanze buie non darà fastidio, il cavo per connettere l'hard disk al pc è ben fatto, un pò rigido all'inizio ma si allenta con l'utilizzo. unico neo? beh...la parte lucida della scocca si graffia a guardarla e è un magnete per impronte digitali, e unto...quindi non illudetevi di tenerla bella lucida e pulita come appena aperta la scatola. Io solo strusciandola con la manica del maglione ho notato i primi graffi (% minuti dopo averlo spacchettato) personalmente l'avrei fatto tutto di plastica opaca, come nella parte superiore...ma insomma un difettuccio ci sta...specie se non incide per niente sulle prestazioni e sull'utilizzo. Straconsigliato. non buttate soldi in più, prendete questo e riformattatelo. qualsiasi tutorial di 3 minuti su youtube può dirvi come fare. fate acquisti intelligenti, di questi tempi non si buttano i soldi dalla finestra.

Muchas gracias, llegaron en tiempo y forma!!! Súper bien el producto, de muy buena calidad y muy bien el precio!!!

Ottimo prodotto, ho un Mac e stavo per acquistare l'hard disk Apple ma poi mi hanno consigliato questo e devo dire che avevano proprio ragione! Appena collegato al pc mi ha chiesto di effettuare automaticamente il backup e la velocità con cui vengono trasferiti i dati è notevole, per non parlare del prezzo ottimo su Amazon, per lo stesso prodotto, modello meno recente e meno giga, al negozio,mi hanno chiesto circa 60 euro in più, insomma un ottimo acquisto garantito sempre da straordinari servizi Amazon !

Tuve otro anterior de 1TB durante varios años que, al final, dejó de funcionar. No lo dudé a la hora de cambiarlo. WD me resulta muy fiable. En esta ocasión adquirí uno de 2TB para guardar documentos de trabajo, archivos de fotos, videos y música. Funciona (de momento) a la perfección. Lo más atractivo para mi es la facilidad de uso. Conectarlo al iMac y ¡a funcionar!. Sin hacer ninguna conversión de sistemas de archivos. Cierto es que no he podido utilizarlo con un SO distinto al de Mac. Por lo que he podido leer, acaso no sea compatible con otros sistemas, por ejemplo Windows. Pero lo utilizo exclusivamente como disco de copia de seguridad de documentos creados y guardados en Mac.