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Portability
Customers highly praise the portability of the WD My Passport Essential Portable External Hard Drive, describing it as small, lightweight, and easy to carry around for travel or storage purposes. Some also appreciate its fast transfer speed and no-installation requirement. A few customers have had positive experiences with previous WD products and recommend this one.
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Data Transfer Speed
Customers have mixed opinions on the data transfer speed of the WD My Passport Essential 500GB USB 3.0/2.0 Portable External Hard Drive, with some expressing satisfaction with its solid read/write speeds and others noting that it is not exceptionally fast. Some customers have noted that the drive performs well even on USB 2.0 ports, while others have expressed excitement about using it with USB 3.0 for faster transfer times. Overall, customers appreciate the reliability of Western Digital products and the convenience of having a portable external hard drive for data backup.
Build Quality
Customers have mixed opinions regarding the build quality of the WD My Passport Essential Portable External Hard Drive. While some are pleased with its durability and longevity, others have experienced issues with bad sectors or failure after a few years of use.
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Quality
This is great and exactly what i need to have the files on my desktop backed up continuously in the background without loss of performance.
It works well and works fast, even on a usb 2.
Hopefully i have not erased my data's in my laptop when i noticed that the software doesn't work properly.
0 port in my laptop (asus g53sw) the drive will always disappear in the middle data transfer.
Price
It's a small price to pay to know that your "computerized life" is safe and sound in case of a dying computer or a stolen one.
I have two of these, for the money, the beat memory sticks that always seem to go bad.
Shipping
I received my wd passport last week and moved 120gb over to it from my old hd.
After a week i was having some difficulty with it (which turned out to be operator error) and called western digital's customer service.
Packaging/appearance
0 with backwards compatibility, and all of it packed into a skinny little container that doesn't want to push software at you, ... Read More
Competitiveness
Western digital and seagate are the most reliable drives on the market today.
The backup software is much better than the older dmailer software that the earlier passport drives used.
If you are going to buy a new portable hard drive, i would shop around and compare specs with newer models to see if there have... Read More
But to date it's been just as good as the three western digital's i've owned before it.
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great, little and good. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 582 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 3 2025.
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Many of my friends have lost it all
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
While my last backup drive is still going strong it requires a power supply and is pretty large
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
And i always just have a weird feeling that something bad is going to happen with a backup drive so i bought this new one juuuust in case that old one kicked the bucket
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I dont remember exactly but it took too much of my time and there were no directions
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Simplest solution was to by another one
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I have two of these for the money the beat memory sticks that always seem to go bad
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If you get one get another one to back it up on
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
After a week i was having some difficulty with it which turned out to be operator error and called western digitals customer service
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