Customer Ratings & Reviews

Before purchase I had an Element backup and earlier model Passport. The new Passport incorporates both in one. Works great but in the new Passport Ultra the backup information was lousy!!!

Thia thing works exactly as it should. Fast, reliable, and plenty of space. I moved my media library for Plex off of two internal hard drives and onto here and it all runs great. No speed issues or buffering at all. Perfect way to clear up space in my case.

Western Digital has become my disk supplier of choice. WD has established the disk storage standard. Sure, it is still rotating storage but can you image 4 Terabytes of hardware encrypted storage for about $100. I've been in IT for about 50 years and remember when a single megabyte of storage was more than $100.

I was able to effectively use this newer version of an external hard drive like normal in some sort of faster process to transfer my files back and forth in a secure way.

Great drive. I bought this drive for my wife to store her work product. She is a published author with about 30 books on Amazon. The drive has plenty of room for manuscripts, PDFs, cover art, audio book files, etc.

good amount of storage for a reasonable price.

Good stuff! Works great! Meets and exceeds all my expectations. I wanted to purchase the 5T model, but they were out of stock. However, this one is perfect for my use.

I liked my original so much I bought a second one. You can never have too much backup protection and I don’t like the cloud. I like to keep my files duplicated on a backup drive but sometimes the drives will fail, so I like having a backup of my backup.

Works good for storing movie files from GoPro and drone.

I love this hard drive because it’s convenient. I can slip it into my photography bag or even a small backpack or pocket and I take a lot of pictures and it has been my best friend so far.

Great little external HD that is easy to use and fits all my backup needs. Only thing is it should be the same price aa all the other colors. But it is more expensive.

needed a new back up hard drive as my computer's motherboard fried. Fortunately my tech guy was able to pull the 800GB of data off of it and store it on this. It has plenty of room, fairly fast connection to the data. I also have a WD cloud that works great, this will just make my life that much easier.

Easy to install and worked very well. Like the ability to set up auto backups.

This was a great price, I like that you can set a password and it's plenty of space and you can partition if you like. You can format it for whatever you like. I choose FAT32 format becuase I don't need to save files over 4GB but I do need to use it for both my mac and pc.

So far so good. It was easy to plug in and transfer all of my pictures. I have about 150,000 photos and several videos and I STILL have room for more!

WD makes the best portable hard drives - this is my 4th external HDD from them, and all 3 of my prior drives are still working fine. I needed something larger to backup all the backups and it's doing the job fine. Fast enough for a non-SSD, plus it's a pretty red color.

Works great as external hard drive for Xbox to store all the games without crashing or exceeding storage space. Definitely would buy again

Works how it should. Easy to install and use. Fast USB 3.0 transfer speed. Nice color, stands out compared to black and grays that are the norm. Light and easy to carry and transport. Would recommend for anyone looking for a portable drive.

Not too much to say about these. It's a great, (relatively) fast, reliable portable hard drive. The newer Plus models have USB-C and a metal body, but these (plastic) Passport drives come in brighter colors which are great for identifying individual drives at a glance. The red color is bright and bold.

This drive is pretty good if all you really need is an affordable way to do cold or maybe even warm backups, but it isn't terribly fast on my systems. All that being said i'm very satisfied with the capacity and the modest reasonable write/read speeds.