Customer Ratings & Reviews

This External Hard drive has surpassed what I thought it could do. Also wasn’t exactly sure what I needed. Was upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and didn’t want to lose programs, pictures etc off of my computer while doing the upgrade. There was a Geek Squad team member out on the floor helping people. She was very nice and knowledgeable. Helped me immensely. I am not a spring chicken anymore and a lot of things to do with computers and smart phones I am Clueless. Thank You. Britt

I bought this to replace a SSD. So far, it has been very good. I have not had any issues with its performance or being read by multiple devices.

Western Digital Passport 2 TB portable hard drive External USB 3.0 works quite well. They are a very reliable product from a very good company.

When I was looking for external hard drives on best buys website, I had used the filter tab to select solid state drives. This was listed in that category. However, no where on the item description did it say it was a sdd, and that is my fault for not being more careful. Ended up buying it and when I first used it to my surprise it was just a traditional hard disk drive. It wasnt a massive let down being as this is fairly affordable and again I should have noticed for the price it was too good to be true. Now to the actual product; it works pretty well for a 2.5" drive. It loaded my games fairly fast and read/write was fairly decent as well. The built in software works great too... During the covid 19 crisis and everyone working from home, portable storage is almost impossible to find locally which was also a battle to find one in stock anywhere. All in all I would recommend this to anyone who is looking for affordable storage on a budget.

Works great! Very impressed by the potential transfer speed of 6 GBPS, though real world results are always lower. Even on a mid range laptop however I was achieving 200-300 MBPS on average. When plugged into my phone transfer speed shot up to 1.2 GBPS so that was great as well. Love the storage and the price is right for such a large portable storage. The one drawback is the fractured and at times redundant WD drive software(s). There are multiple programs to install and manage your drive. it would be much easier to include everything in one program. They are moving in that direction with the new EdgeRover software- that's a must try if you have multiple storage modes and means and things are... less than perfectly organized.

This little red summah bleeeeep werks good mmmmhmmmm. Pretty durable too. I knocked it off the table all drunk one night and dang ol that thang dang ol still worked like a charm.

My laptop crashed. I bought this passport to try and get my saved items from my laptop. I am a 63 year old grandma. I was able to use this and salvage everything from my laptop! It is great!!!

As usual, these WD Passport HDs are fantastic. I buy a pair every December to use in the next calendar year.

As with anyone who travels or just likes to take photos; I back up my photos in at least 3 places. I have cloud backup, smaller devices for travel, but since I am "old school" I do not put all my eggs in one basket. I use portable and dependable passports for my photos and videos. This was my latest purchase and I used it to back up over 20 years of photos and videos from a computer that needed to be replaced. Many of the photos have been displayed at local art shows and sold as cards and I find this product to be easy to work with.

Works well, no issues encountered at this point. I use it for my gaming laptop and I am satisfied with the product.

as advertised easy to use good capacity proven reliable smart to make them different colours for coding what is on them because no one ever puts a label slot on a hard drive for reference

I purchased this to put music on for my dad. It works like a charm. Would purchase again if needed.

A worthy investment. Most of my drives have been WD over the years, and my longest external lasted over 6 years. Take advantage of the price here as you are getting quality to boot.

I bought this unit for my wife and hope it will last her long enough to serve her needs for several years. She's only had it for a month and seems quite happy with its performance.

Got this to replace a failed external drive used for Time Machine. The WD drive has been reliable and takes up less space than the previous drive. Very satisfied.

This external hard drive has a lot of space and it functions smoothly. I can easily transfer files to or from my desktop computer. Large files can still be transferred, but that takes more time.

Most inexpensive option for getting terabytes of storage in a small form factor. I bought this for data storage with a new Mac Mini I configured as a home server for music and photos. The Mini had a small internal SSD so I went with this to get plenty of data storage. My Itunes and iphoto media reside in it. I really like the USB 3 port because it matches the USB3 on the mini and gets me maximum bandwidth for fast access. So easy to set up. Just format with Disk Utility, then instant up and running. No special drivers required! Very happy, would easily buy again.

I have used WD passports for a long time. I always wait to get them on sale. I use a ton for backing up my data and have found them the most reliable for me.

I had just purchased a new MacPro and needed a new back-up. The Passport couples with the Mac. No steps to activate. Plug the Passport in and it starts backing up!

This external hard drive does everything I needed for transferring files from an 11-year old PC computer to a brand new PC computer. I was pleased with how fast it transferred my files and it worked with both computers as the technology on my old computer didn't always function well. I appreciate the portable size as well. There is more to this external hard drive than I understand. It looks like there is some sort of cloud storage offered with it as well. At this time, I did not take advantage of the cloud storage because I already have a cloud storage system that I use and didn't want to have my documents, photos, videos, etc. in so many different places. I also did not install any additional software provided. The next best thing was it was on sale!