Customer Ratings & Reviews

This ssd is much smaller and lighter than the hard drives. In addition, it's much faster. Totally worth spending the money.

I was very pleased with this product. It’s ultra small, light weight, high performing, and affordable

I purchased this for use with an iMac, so one should keep that in mind wrt my review, as it's formatted for and marketed for Windows machines. I was able to reformat it for High Sierra macOS new APFS filesystem by first using the included WD utility to reformat it to HFS+/Journaled and then the macOS Disk Utility for reformat it to APFS. However, this seemed to offer no advantage and because of possible problems with legacy software I ended up reformatting it again to HFS+/J after which it seems to work fine with macOS, but frankly, even with USB 3.0, it writes slower than my LaCie SSD drive connected via Firewire. Therefore I cannot recommend it for use with a Mac, but should work fine with Windows. Note: the thing is really tiny - about 1 1/2 in by 3 in; it also gets really warm during extended use, probably because of that small size having limited convective surface.

So, after intense research (as in googling lots of things lul) I decided to purchase the My Passport from WD. The other contender was the Samsung T3 which was about 20 dollars more expensive for the exact same thing. Everything else I looked at wasn't as good (according to youtube reputable youtube reviewers) so this is by far one of the best External SSDs you can purchase as of 8/9/17. So that's the simple overview of why I choose to buy this. My purpose for buying this was so I can move my steams games on to it. As well as back up important programs I will be creating as I will be attending College (WIT) in a week. So far it's working great the transfer speeds are fast and most important thing is it doesn't really get "hot" but it does get warm which is normal. I also really like the fact it used USB-C which will be more prevalent into the future when more and more devices and even more phones are starting to adopt this port. The only issue I have with it is the frame it really really really bothers me is the fact the cable when plugged in wobbles and also the more important issue fact there is slight flex of the unit itself I don't plan on being rough with it. So if it breaks I'm really gonna be really really upset somewhere into the future upset. like the thing flex like if I were the forget it was in my back pocket and sit on it would break and I'm a small frame guy. This isn't Best Buy's fault but WD's so I hope this is normal cause the small flexing really stresses me.

SSD is the way to go, its fast small and easy to use. Buy 2 and keep on the safe deposit box.

High capacity storage with incredible speed. Safer than a mechanical HD.

Fast, reliable and fairly small. The best go-to for portable needs.

My son was going to need a little more space for when he starts college so the employee recommended this external drive. So far so good.

The SSD are more expensive than the regular hard drive but the small physical size is a benefit for some applications.

I bought this one because I wanted an SSD external memory drive that won't break. Last one I had (wasn't SSD) broke when I dropped it from the bed to the floor and lost absolutely all my info. I love this one. It's so small too.

The fastest drive I have ever used. Underlying is the M.2 technology. It is not sata. So it s really fast.

I use this with my Alienware 17 R4 with usb type-c to type-c and the transfer rate is insane. I believe the fastest I've transferred from my internal SSD to this external one was up to 300MB/s. I love this external storage and might buy another if I fill it up.

Picked this up to connect to an XboxOneS because the load times were too long in my opinion. This cut all load time roughly in half. It is much faster than the internal drive. Also was smaller than I envisioned. Really happy with it.

Nice little drive. This thing is very light and very fast when connected to thunderbolt 3. Im not a huge fan of the way it looks but it's not bad.

Great little drive. Lots of storage. Fast read and write speeds.

This drive comes complete with backup software that competes with my Two(2) WD passports for transfer speeds.I want the reliability of static drive versus that of the dynamic drives, and this is the one to have.

I was travelling and was limited on portable space, popped on Bestbuy.com, did some reviews and narrowed it down to two - bought this one and very happy. Fast, small and consolidated my 3 or 4 travel fobs into 1!

Working good, is fast and lightweight and small...

Great portable drive. It's small enough to fit anywhere when I travel and really fast when sharing or transferring files. Really like the WD software that keeps my data secure if not connected to my PC.

Great for keeping a complete backup copy of key files. Replicates at over 30 MB/s. Very light and fits in any convenient pocket of a backpack.