Customer Ratings & Reviews

First time personally using this brand. It feels great and it looks cool. One of what looks like a sticky foot fall off already... Design needs to be improved.

I have used the drive to copy photos from an old notebook

I’ve had this for 6 years and it’s amazing. Speeds are great and very small compared to my console so it’s easy to hide t it

Fair price for hard drive - easy to set up and use

I like these small portable drives because they are small enough to take anywhere, have more than enough storage for most things, and they have low power requirements. I purchased this drive to store my movie collection on so I can take them with me when I travel. 4TB is more than enough for my collection plus music. The drive is fast, it uses USB3.0 so movies never lag, and copying to or from the drive is blazingly fast. It draws power through the USB cable so I didn't have to carry an extra power adapter. And, it fits in any backpack or briefcase computer bag. I prefer Western Digital drives because they are inexpensive and reliable. This one does not disappoint.

I purchased the WD - My Passport 4TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive and couldn't be happier. Photography is my hobby and I needed an external hard drive to store my photos for backup. I've lost photos with a computer crash in the past and don't ever want to lose photos again. I use OS so I had to reformat the hard drive but that was easy to do with the instructions provided. I would recommend this device to any one looking for a large capacity external hard drive. It's fast when looking for photos and compact. The price is right was looking at a smaller size but for $20 more and decided to purchase the 4TB, I'll have more than enough space.

The WD My Passport portable drive has lots of storage space and seems to be running at great levels. I was able to store all my big games on here and they seem to load a little bit quicker. My Seagate ps4 drive broke after 5 months so only time will tell if this WD holds up but so far so good! Would recommend for PS4 external hard drive. It is a little bulky but it’s also quiet so I don’t notice any noise good price for 4tb

I needed an external HDD and trading off options I found this 4TB one at really good price with the best ratio size/buck. It's USB 3.0 so very quick to access to and thanks to its massive storage size I do not have to think where to store bulky applications. It's just there to keep up with everything. So far it's working perfectly fine and allows me to have everything in just one HDD. I totally recommend it.

Speeds top out at about 110MB/s. The size of the drive was larger and heavier than expected. Is not a deal breaker though. Comes with usb cable and has preloaded software on on the drive, but I did a format and trashed the bloated extras. Heat dispersion is comparable to the rest of similar drives and gets hot as expected. If you are looking for something more professional, consider custom enclosered hhd with heat dispersion as this will become hot during continuos use. The price per TB is hard to beat with this model. Affortable alternative to portable ssd's and transfer speeds are satisfactory. I wish a 8TB capacity drive was available, but this is the best 4TB you can get right now.

This model works well with older windows 7 and new windows 10 computers. I personally don't like the look but that's just aesthetics and the price was right - cheaper than BestBuy exclusive WD model "easystore" with same specs but lesser security. No logic to me why Best Buys "Easy Store" model with same specs is MORE money especially since most references say the easy store model actually has less security features and maybe was supposed to be the less expensive model. In any case this one does what it's supposed to do. I use other backup software though because I dont like that wd software does not have "regular" explorer browsing of files. Cobian is still a decent freebie or I use Windows backup if I don't want/ need non-proprietary file access. Its also quite fine to use simply as external storage with or without automated back-up.

i have a youtube channel ( HERVE"S WORLD) and kept filling up my computer hard drive with the sheer amount of data my videos aggregate , so i love the form factor , its highly portable, and holds a lot of content... its a must get if you are a content creator, i have done a review on my channel if you need a better look. don't forget to subscribe..

It's great to see the price coming down on storage. 4 TB drive for a little over $100 is fantastic! I still back things up to the cloud because I know sooner or later one of these babies is gonna die on me or they'll become the floppy disc of days of yore as some other tech comes along and pushes them to the side.

This western digital drive is blazing fast. One would think it was a solid state drive the way this 4TB kicks butt. I'm going to buy another one. This drive comes in different colors so you can put your pictures on one color and music and videos on another. The price is right for this very extreme awesome external drive. Get yourself one now!

I've always trusted Western Digital for my Hard Drive needs. Whether it's an internal drive for a computer or an external HDD. This line of My Passport models are a great solution for digital storage needs. Light and compact, they take up very little space on a desk or traveling in a laptop bag. They can hold as much data as the MY Book models but in a more convenient package for portability and without the need of an additional electrical adapter, as they are powered solely from the USB connector that is simultaneously used for data. They work well as either an occasionally connected external to use for long term storage, or a committed drive that is constantly connected to a main device for backups and often used data, . An overlooked but very useful feature is the variety of fun colors. They don't just make the product look good, they also help in organizing your data with a color coding system. With one quick glance you know by color which drives hold what kind of data, Blue for family photos perhaps, red for legal documents, white for work related data, etc. The series also offers different storage thresholds in various TB amounts for whether you want to store a little, or a lot of data. Price per Passport is also very reasonable in comparison to similar drives from competitors. Particularly when coupled with Western Digital's attention to detail and impressive track record for making dependable, quality products.

Pluged in 3.0 usb port, data transfer is fast, comes with software to lock data and backup software. I have no use for either. I like the large capacity and speed. Reasonable price and more dependable than Seagate. I would have preferred Toshiba but is cost more than I wanted to pay.

I purchased this on Best Buy during a promotion that came with a $25 gift card. I needed an external for my PS4 because we all know 500GB is just not enough space for these next gen systems & games. With a deal like that on a 4TB external I couldn't pass this deal up. This external will work with PS4 but there is 1 annoying little catch. And that is your PS4 does not recognize this external straight out of the box. You will need to format this by other means like hooking it up on your PC or laptop. Once you do that it will work fine with PS4 no problems. I won't deduct a star for that but I wanted to make note of it for any potental buyers. If you feel like that is a inconvience I'd suggest purchasing a Seagate external. My friend has one and it automaticly worked with his PS4 without needing to use a PC to format it. I hope this information helps. Also have to mention the color options for these are nice! I went with white to match my Harley Quinn PS4. ☺ Happy gaming!!!

It's reliable, it's fast, it has a lot of storage space. The USB ports on my external devices (not just my PC) are sufficient to power it. Good value too. I'm amazed how much external storage has come down in price. Highly recommend.

I learned the hard way... What's the old saying? If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I tried a Seagate 4tb external because it was cheaper in price, but returned it a few hours later after experiencing major issues with compatibility to my macbook pro. Got this one instead, and have been very happy with the speed and reliability so far. You just can't beat Western Digital! It could have been a fluke that my Seagate drive was defective, but I have been buying WD for years, and have never had any problems like this. To experience problems my first time getting something different than a WD is just not acceptable. I will only buy WD from here on out when it comes to my external hd needs.

setup was fast and easy, plug and play, and i was able to backup my hard drive,Now at least i dont have to worry about losing all my files. and a update every 2 weeks and i am good, good price, lots of space for my files, small size, whats not to like

Was re-building a media server and needed LOTS of storage to transfer valuable files. This 4TIB drive was just the solution to the problem, and the USB3 transfer speeds really helped move things along. The media server re-build is done, and now I have a very portable high capacity drive that should meet just about any need in the future. For example, right now copying all my cloud drive files (lots of that) to copy to a new computer build to save the time and bandwidth needed to synchronize a mega-big cloud storage system. No telling what will be helped along by this very nice portable drive on down the road. Setup was effortless, although I can do without the bonus cloud storage and backup software included on the drive... already have that covered, but might be handy for some.