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High Capacity
Customers are highly satisfied with the high capacity of the WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive, expressing confidence in its performance and longevity.
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Media Storage
Customers have mixed opinions about the WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive's media storage capabilities. While some are pleased with its ample space, quick writing speed, and ease of use, others have encountered issues such as formatting problems, unexpected errors, and broken components, resulting in significant data loss and repair costs.
Dependable Storage
Customers have mixed opinions regarding the dependability of the WD 4TB My Passport Portable Hard Drive. While some praise its reliability and capacity, others report issues with drive failures and data loss.
Transfer Speeds
Customers have mixed opinions regarding the transfer speeds of this portable hard drive. While some are pleased with its impressive speeds, especially when using USB 3.0, others have experienced issues such as slow transfer rates and even failures to connect.
Data Backup
Customers have mixed opinions regarding data backup with this product, while some praise its ease of use and added security features, others express disappointment due to data loss and incompatibility issues with certain operating systems.
Highlights
Quality
The wd 5tb my passport hard drive is an excellent storage solution that delivers both reliability and capacity.
Very lightweight and backup of files is a breeze.
Size is incredibly small and encryption is a plus although there is a small speed/transfer penalty for using encryption.
Install seems to start a couple of processes on mac that must be stopped manually (using mac os process manager) before disk ca... Read More
Price
Now i am looking for more solid state options but for the price it is very functional and can be good for just games.
Packaging/appearance
It was came in a box and good quality
Only drawback was the packaging looked beaten up
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- Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 104020.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 106,179 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 31 2024.
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Install seems to start a couple of processes on mac that must be stopped manually using mac os process manager before disk can be reformatted to newer more efficient format
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
We have 4 or 5 of these that we store music and videos primarily
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
They are accessed on a regular basis some run almost 247 and none have failed knock on wood
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Got really tired of losing information
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I’ve had good luck with this one
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My backup drive died and i needed a new one
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Got this and needed help setting up
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I bought this hard drive to replace a seagate hdd i recently purchased that has started to fail for unknown reasons
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