Customer Ratings & Reviews

This external has a great amount of storage and runs fairly quickly all for a pretty decent price point.

These drives are a good value for archiving data. They are inexpensive enough to securely create permanent backups rather than relying on some outside source with your data.

I love how small it is and that it holds so much..

This is a great backup drive. Works great for that purpose but I would recommend their desktop drives for daily use due to fast higher performance. This drive is more for travel and media storage or backups rather than heavy writing.

I would highly recommend this item. I use it to store many of my movies and photos. Great deal and a lot of memory.

This is my second purchase of a portable hard drive by passport. I love how small and compact and easy to use it is!

Five stars for external design (can be slipped into the breast pocket of a jacket), connections (a short USB 3.0 cord is provided but no need for a separate power supply), and immediate use (if Windows, it's just plug and play). Minus two stars for failure to include promised "quick install guide" (only the user agreement is in the packaging), the failure of WD's support site to provide download for instructions, the incompatibility of this drive with Bitlocker (I wanted to use Windows Pro's security to be consistent with my other external drives, but it won't work with this drive), and glitches when installing the WD utilities (had to force the install when it claimed it couldn't find its own EXE files). That said, it's a very handy little device. I wound up using the WD encryption utility and then tried it on a different computer that didn't have the WD utilities. Plugging it in automatically triggered a request to launch the unlock utility and it worked just fine on the new PC. Recommended if you aren't planning on using Bitlocker for drive encryption. Nick in Palm Springs

After my older,larger sized drive failed, I got this, more gigs, a fraction of the size and even faster. No complaints

Better for Laptop backup or mobile photo backup. Currently also offering 500 GB WD cloud storage subscription for 1 year. Also provides recovery software with 1 year license. You need to buy type B to type cable separately if want to use in Mac.

Works great for transferring data from one PC to another.

Easy to use, works great. Good value, good price for 5 tb.

large capacity storage, easy to access and use as a backup. Transferred material to another new computer well.

This is the perfect drive for portability and for the size of the drive. Always have great luck with WD products!

Good amount of storage for a portable, easy to use. Happy so far!

i had a little trouble figuring out how to get it to work, but once i did, it seems to work great.

Excellent product, I'd buy it againreally very good and useful for my use

I love the product. I'm an avid gamer and need more space for storage due to larger game files. I would recommend this external drive for Xbox series and PS5 game systems. Not a bad price for HDD and more storage space versus 2 TB SSD.

This is the biggest you can get. Easy to hook-up and easy to use. It’s going to be hard to fill this hard drive up.

Its a hard drive, good price, it works. Only draw back is that its mechanical.

Aside from being much more compact than my 500gb drive it's easier to handle, use and stores more.