WD Portable Storage
WD - My Passport 4TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Blue
User rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars with 1229 reviews.
4.7(1,229 Reviews)- 47 Answered Questions
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Description

Find the ideal drive for your needs.
Learn more in the Drives and Storage Buying GuideFeatures
4TB storage capacity
Provides ample space for storing documents, photos, music and more.
USB 3.0 interface
Offers an easy-to-use connection to devices. Backward compatible with USB 2.0 for simple connection to your computer. USB-powered.
Social friendly.
Included WD Discovery™ software lets you connect to popular social media and cloud storage services like, Dropbox and Google Drive™
Automatic backup options
The My Passport™ drive comes equipped with WD Backup™ software to help make sure everything you create while on your own life journey - photos, videos, music and documents - doesn’t get lost.
Locked down.
The My Passport™ built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption with password protection helps keep your digital life's contents secure.
Portable design
Lets you take your data on the go.
Free 500GB WD 2Go cloud storage and FILERECOVERY software. Only at Best Buy.
One-year cloud storage and FILERECOVERY license with included WD Discovery software.
*Reformatting is required for Mac OS.
**Features not compatible with Chromebook.
What's Included
- WD My Passport WDBPKJ0040BBL - hard drive
- USB 3.0 cable
- Software
Manuals & Guides
- Quick Start Guide (PDF)
- User Manual (PDF)
Key Specs
- Storage Capacity4000 gigabytes
- Storage Drive TypeHDD
- Form Factor2.5 in.
- Interface(s)Micro-USB Type B
General
- Product NameMy Passport 4TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive
- BrandWD
- Model NumberWDBPKJ0040BBL-WESN
- ColorBlue
- Color CategoryBlue
Capacity
- Storage Capacity4000 gigabytes
Performance
- Storage Drive TypeHDD
Compatibility
- Internal Or ExternalExternal
- External Hard Drive TypePortable
- Form Factor2.5 in.
- Interface(s)Micro-USB Type B
- Minimum System RequirementsWindows 8.1 / 10, Chrome OS; Reformatting required for other operating systems
Features
- Security FeaturesPassword Protection
- Data EncryptionYes
- Encryption Algorithm256-bit AES
- UsageEveryday computing
Memory
- Memory Card TypeNone
Power
- Power SourceUSB port
Dimension
- Product Height0.8 inches
- Product Width2.95 inches
- Product Weight7.4 ounces
Included
- Included SoftwareWD Security, WD Drive Utilities, WD Backup, WD Discovery
Warranty
- Manufacturer's Warranty - Parts3 years
- Manufacturer's Warranty - Labor3 years
Other
- UPC718037870212
Customer reviews
Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars with 1229 reviews
(1,229 customer reviews)Rating by feature
- Value4.6
Rating 4.6 out of 5 stars
- Quality4.7
Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars
- Ease of Use4.7
Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Big Bang for the Buck
|Posted .WD discovery software will only back up to a WD device or cloud service. This is fine if you are just starting out with computers or you decide to buy a large number of WD drives for a project. Within reach, I have seven bus-powered 2.5” external drives, two AC powered 3.5” drives, one 3.5” 4-drive RAID 5 enclosure and a dual-bay 3.5” USB 3.1 drive dock with a stack of 3.5” bare drives. I have a number of other 2.5” bus-powered drives around the house. This is after cleaning house and tossing out old useless drives. ONE of these drives is a WD enclosure. I have no room in my backup toolbox for proprietary software that will only backup to a single brand drive/cloud. The drive is great. I love the size of this drive. All my bus-powered 2.5” drives, including the Passport, are 3” wide. The Passport is just a little shorter and thicker than my other 2.5” enclosures. Overall, looks and feels smaller. This is currently the largest capacity drive I have in this small bus-powered size. Big Bang for the Buck. I promptly reformatted the drive to HFS+, Mac OS Extended. My two windows 10 laptops are covered with several dedicated drives using Macrium Reflect software. I’m shuffling around several other computers/drives and really needed 4GB of pocketable HFS+ storage for Time Machine and SuperDuper. It would have been nice to have a little leatherette sleeve, or a rubber bumper/case included like ALL my other 2.5” enclosures. At first glance I thought there was no activity light on the enclosure, but it is visible when the drive is in use. Unless it is a klunker, a drive is a drive. It works great -until it doesn’t. I can’t speak for longevity of the hardware but I’m really happy with the look and feel of this drive. I skipped the WD Discovery software since it only works with this one drive I own.
This review is from WD - My Passport 4TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Black
I would recommend this to a friendFeatures
Value5 out of 5Quality5 out of 5Ease of Use5 out of 5Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Little black box
||Posted .Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.Uhhhhh, what is there to say about this......it stores......Of course!. It hooks into my computer....Of course! I may never really use it like I thought I did.....of course! Am I glad I have it.....I mean I bought it!
This review is from WD - My Passport 4TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Black
Features
Value5 out of 5Quality5 out of 5Ease of Use5 out of 5I would recommend this to a friend- Pros mentioned:Backup, Ease of use, Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great for XBOX and Windows 10 Back-Up
|Posted .I have been building computers for the last twenty five years. WD hard drives have always been the most consistent and stable drives. (I love the new Black SN750.... Really can't say enough good things about that NVME drive...) And I love this My Passport, too. It's not as fast as the ultra options. I know I get slightly faster transfer times from the Seagate Back-Up Plus Ultra Touch. But, that drive also crashed on me a few times and, so far, the My Passport hasn't. It's stable, reliable, and fast enough. For reference, I was able to transfer a 2.5gb file from my desktop hard drive to the back-up in under 5 seconds at an average speed of 117MB/S. My older drives from WD and Seagate performed under 100MB/S, so I definitely feel like this is an upgrade in speed as well as size. The new big feature with this Passport is the AES-256 hardware encryption. I feel like that's a pretty standard feature these days. The software has been updated. It's all very user friendly and the base software is included on the drive or you can download the software from western digital directly. I also tested this drive on an XBOX ONE as an external storage solution, and that may be how I use this drive. My 2 TB Passport was pretty full and this drive works great with the XBOX. All-in-all, I think this is a good drive. It does what it sets out to do well. I haven't had any problems and it's very easy to recommend if you are needing a back-up for work, media, or even as an external drive for an XBOX.
This review is from WD - My Passport 4TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Black
I would recommend this to a friend Features
Value1 out of 5Quality1 out of 5Ease of Use5 out of 5Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Really slow
||Posted .I received the 4 TB drive today. I plugged it into a windows 10 laptop and saw the drive formatted NTFS. Great. I copied a few large folders to the drive and watched performance. The transfers rates are between 2 MB/s to 60 MB/s, which is 16 to 180 mps, far below the advertised 3 gbs. I performed a quick ntfs format of the drive and started another copy. Same thing. This is way too slow compared to my previous 2 TB WD drive. Not sure what is going on. No instructions. Nothing in the installed software to set anything. I shouldn't need to set anything. I will give WD chat support a try before returning to BB.
This review is from WD - My Passport 4TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Black
Features
Value1 out of 5Quality1 out of 5Ease of Use5 out of 5No, I would not recommend this to a friend- Pros mentioned:SpeedCons mentioned:Software
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Good drive, but not blown away...
|Posted .This is a good drive and the transfer speed is only slightly better than last years version. Simply put, for 2019, this drive underwhelms in features. You lose a transfer light and it is still the same USB 3.0 interface. They did change the outside to get rid of the finger print magnet of the previous model. I am a WD fan but feel that more could have been done to deliver a new product for this year. Essentially the only real difference is the software is updated, you lose the LED light, and the outside is just a little smaller and does not attract finger prints. You can download the newer software from the WD website.
This review is from WD - My Passport 4TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Black
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Backup, Ease of use, PortableCons mentioned:Cord
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
An effective, if imperfect, backup solution.
|Posted .Backing up your computer is a little like brushing your teeth after eating lunch. Everyone knows it’s a good idea. Just about everyone has the means of doing it. And yet it’s just enough of an inconvenience that virtually no one does. The WD Passport series seeks to use a combination of cost-effective hardware and user friendly software to reduce that inconvenience to one that most people will be willing to improve their bad habits, and this one is no exception. As far as the hardware goes, it’s solid but doesn’t do much to really stand out regarding what you get. Inside the fairly rugged (and heavy) case is a standard 2.5” drive of the same sort you’d find in a laptop plugged into a USB 3.0 interface. I can’t see any evidence of additional shock or vibration protection being used to help combat the problems mechanical drives usually experience when being taken on the go, so a padded carrying case may not be a bad idea if you plan to use it like that. While they get marks for not requiring an external power brick and using a replaceable, non-proprietary cable they lose some ground here for using the Micro B connector to connect the drive rather than the more durable (and ubiquitous) USB-C connection standard. This is particularly annoying for a portable device, as finding one of these cables out in the wild is borderline impossible in most places, so if you lose it your only option will be to substitute a much slower (and less robust) standard micro USB cable in its place. Also, as is typical in these devices, while the interface may be fast the drive it’s connected to is not. Don’t get me wrong, speeds can be pretty good under the right conditions where the drive’s expanded cache can come into play, but at the end of the day you’ve still got a mechanical laptop drive in there. As such it’s probably not a device I’d recommend for uses where a high transfer speed is essential, such as a portable media vault. Fortunately, the unit fares a LOT better when it comes to software. Preloaded on the drive is a pair of install wrappers for Western Digital’s Discovery dashboard – one for Windows and one for Mac. Running them should, ideally, download the latest version of the utility from the internet and install it on your machine (though in my case I found I needed to go to Western Digital’s support website and download it from there before it would actually work.) This then lets you install 3 basic apps: one for backups, another for security management, and one for maintenance and health monitoring of the drive. The utilities aren’t likely to blow anyone away with their feature set, but they’re very simple to use and offer more than the barebones functionality you’ll get with a lot of manufacturers. Once each of these optional programs have been installed you’ll be walked through setting up the most basic features of each such as establishing a backup schedule, setting a password for the drive’s encryption (which is hardware based so as to remove a potential bottleneck created by software encryption utilities), and renaming the primary volume. There’s also an option for turning off the status LED for the drive – something that more backup devices could stand to implement given that usually the best time to pull a backup is at night when the computer’s not in use. There’s also an option to save backups to a cloud service such a Dropbox so you don’t have to worry about bringing the drive with you everywhere. Ultimately, the word I keep coming back to in my head when trying to describe this drive is “effective.” It’s not as rugged or fast as an SSD. It’s not as feature rich or sophisticated as a desktop RAID array or small scale NAS appliance. And it’s not as automatic as a cloud backup service that’s constantly running in the background. But it is inexpensive, easy to use, and big enough to take just about anything you might throw at it. And for most people, that should be enough to meet their needs.
This review is from WD - My Passport 4TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Black
I would recommend this to a friend Features
Value5 out of 5Quality5 out of 5Ease of Use5 out of 5Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Perfect for PS4 (Playstation 4)
||Posted .Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.Other reviews were correct, that this is great as an external hard drive for PS4. Just plug in and use. I plugged it in, and it asked if I wanted it to format it for PS4 use. Just click yes and it's done. All of the Call of Duty games and updates are so big, that I keep saying it's like being in a real possessive relationship. When you have have those games on your hard drive, you can't have any other games since they take up all the space and time. This external hard drive feels like I got my PS4 back with all of the old games I was able to reload. Also just takes pressure off the system since I was always maxed on data usage.
This review is from WD - My Passport 4TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Black
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Value5 out of 5Quality5 out of 5Ease of Use5 out of 5I would recommend this to a friendFeatures
Value5 out of 5Quality5 out of 5Ease of Use5 out of 5Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Good capacity, reliable so far.
||Posted .Owned for 1 month when reviewed.Working well so far. Should be fine until 80% full, then fragmentation takes over and it will slow way down. I keep it in it's packaging when moving it between work and home. I have the 5 GB version too and this smaller drive seems more responsive.
This review is from WD - My Passport 4TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Red
Features
Value5 out of 5Quality5 out of 5Ease of Use5 out of 5I would recommend this to a friend
Q: QuestionIs it Mac and Pc compatible?
Asked by Cosmicwiz.
- A:Answer Hi Cosmicwiz, The WD My Passport external hard drive comes pre-formatted for Windows OS. The hard drive can be reformatted to be used on a Mac OS. If you want to use this hard drive on Windows and Mac OS then the drive needs to be reformatted in ExFAT filesystem. Please refer to the link mentioned below for more information: How to Format a WD hard drive to exFAT or FAT32 File System: https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20821/kw/exfat Need Help? Please see our "'Contact Us" page for information
Answered by Western Digital Team
Q: QuestionIs it wireless?
Asked by george.
- A:Answer Hi george, Please be informed that the WD My Passport drive is a plug and play external portable hard drive that comes with a SuperSpeed USB cable. To know more about the drive please refer to the link: http://products.wdc.com/library/AAG/ENG/4078-705155.pdf -Need Help? Please see our "'Contact Us" page for information.
Answered by Western Digital Team
Q: QuestionWould this work on a PlayStation 5 and if so how do you set it up?
Asked by Anonymous.
- A:Answer Yes it works. Basically, plug the drive into your playstation. Go into settings, and format the drive. Once done, you can transfer games to it.
Answered by NKorriban
Q: QuestionCan you store Xbox games AND Playstation games on one drive or would you need a separate one for each system? I understand he couldn't play the xbox games on the playstation, I'm just needing to know does he need one 4TB or two 2TB drives?
Asked by nana.
- A:Answer No... one or the other. I tried it and had to erase the Xbox content so I could use it on my sons ps 4
Answered by Kerls
Q: QuestionI am still running MS Windows 7 on laptop. "Minimum" requirements lists MSW 8.1-10. Has anyone used this device successfully with Windows 7? Thank you!
Asked by Armagosa.
- A:Answer Hi Armagosa, It will work, but we do not recommend as the Windows 7 is EOL from Microsoft. For more information you can contact to Microsoft. Need Help? Please see our "'Contact Us" page for information
Answered by Western Digital Team
Q: QuestionWill this work with Windows 10 (latest versions) if I want to back up docs and pics?
Asked by Jim.
- A:Answer Yes, the drive works great with my Windows 10. It is loaded with pictures and no problem. So far I'm very pleased and would recommend this HD.
Answered by Seabee