Customer Ratings & Reviews

All memory for me before all my pictures on my phone

Used with Dish sat system as external hard drive. Easy to connect, format and use. Adds significant capacity increase.

When I got this drive, initially I was very happy with it. It looked well constructed. It passed all self tests and external-program surface tests with flying colors. Surface tests and full formatting took a normal time for an external drive of such size (about 15 hours for full write/read surface test). However when I started backing up my data to it, it was progressing much slower than expected. Normally it takes from 20 to 30 hours to back up all my data (about 3.5T) to an USB 3 drive. It took more than 100 hours to back up my data to this drive. It looked like each file was being written with a normal speed, but there was a long wait between files, sometimes several minutes, when the drive seemingly was not doing anything. I verified that it was not my computer, or cable, or my USB port - other drives attached to the same port/cable did not experience such problem. The problem stayed consistent throughout the whole backup process. Rebooting computer or changing USB port did not help. The drive did not exhibit unusual noise or vibration, read speed was not affected, and in the end the data were written correctly.

As with all Western Digital products, the Passport is well designed and built. Size makes it easy to use anywhere and the included USB cable is sufficient. Was able to backup all files and folders with no problems. Was not able to get the WD to install but that was not an issue as I use Directory Opus, the most amazing file management software for Windows.

The WD Passport is a rock solid hard drive. I've bought three of them and all are still in use. My oldest Passport drive is 4 years old. As a photographer I use them as field storage when I'm on the road and they perform without a hitch. Easy to use with both Macs and PCs and fast enough to open files directly from the drive with a MacBook Pro, and save them back to the drive.

So far - so good. Works like it should. Small size, lots of storage.

this product was purchased for additional storage, works great so far, compact enough to place away.

highly reliable, fast and compact. Has password security.

The storage is amazing and works very fast. I use this for uploading photos and keeping organized as a self-employed photographer. However, if you are using a Mac you will need set it up for Mac, which is easy, and will need a USB-C cable for ease.

Great product for the price, easy to set up and fast transfer and download of files.

Stable and fast lots of storage. Small foot print and came with needed cable.

Light, USB-powered, easy to use. Slow seek+transfer speeds compared to powered units. I love these drives, but it's hard to edit video direct from the drive because of its slowness. (RAM buffering makes it a lot better, but it's still a bit choppy.)

Needed more storage and this one did the trick!! Good price and quality..

I love how small it is. The amount of storage is great

I bought to replace the one that was broken at my church. And it did the job

So far the drive works well and performs reasonably well on USB3 for a spinning disk. The encryption and security is not as good as I’d like. Not a big fan of how it’s implemented. Basically anyone can see the root directory, but not open anything. Then you have to run the unlocked app from another partition on the disk to gain access. So if you use the encryption from WD you end up using 2 drive letters for this. At least that’s optional.

Great product love it. I would recommend it to anyone

This was well worth the purchase. I needed to back-up my iMac and this has plenty of storage. It was easy to install and start using.

Really Great product. You get 4.8 gigs of storage as it needs to keep its system storage up to date but alot of atorage to keep files on, but do be careful as there is a fan inside and it can be damaged.

Got this on sale for less than the small drives. Works well and easy to set up and use