The hard disk works just fine, but the data cable attached to it is very poor and becomes very loose after just 6 months. Even if the laptop is moved very little the wire becomes loose and whole setup is disturbed

Great for for everyday use, solid and sleek build. Feels stable in your hands.However, despite careful treatment, the disk malfunctioned – it started ticking and was either unable to be detected on my pc, or showed “critical hardware error” in disk manager on windows around an year after the purchase.I use the words “careful treatment” because this is the second time a WD hard disk has failed me. with my previous drive, I thought it was my fault because I had dropped it multiple times. However, I was careful and attentive with this product and it still failed.I had a 3 year warranty so I’m getting it replaced( I would really like the money back instead but that’s not gonna happen :/ )Despite my anger, the hard drive performed well when it worked. However, slow data transfer occurs if you fill it more than 1.4 TB

(Refer Cons for a very important thing to perform on these HDD as soon as you receive them though that test would take about 11-12 Hours but you will be sure your Data is safe)Update: Empty/Brand-New HDD with no data should take only about 4 Hours for test to complete (1 Hour per 1TB), if HDD is completely full(data) then it would take about 11-12 hours to complete the test.Would suggest to run test after filling it up completely.Also, don’t move the HDD while its running and dropping it from height can damage it .. Head could hit the platter leading to Physical Bad Sectors and Data Loss. (Minor Safety Measures)Pros:1. Transfer Rates (About 115 MB/s Reads and about 90-110 MB/s Write Speeds | Also reads/writes depends on how data is on the HDD Fragmented or Defragmented)2. Looks Good from outside3. Capacity of about 3.63 TB Usable.4. Cheapest option in India if you want to store large amount of data at a low price/don’t want an Internal Drives/NAS Drives which you can access anytime, factors why would you prefer this over NAS/Internals: Power outages & you don’t have power backup(assuming you have a laptop), want to save 2-3k INR.(You can buy a number of these)5. 3 years Warranty from the Date of purchase (Make sure to head to the WD website and register you product)Cons:- I wanted to give this My Passport HDD a 2 Star, but cannot let my personal experience to affect this drive…. (But don’t know if its just me with this kind of unfortunate experience)- I Bought two 4TB WD My Passports from Amazon in a span of 2 months…- And it took me about 1 Month 26 Days to fill up 4TB..- After which i realized one of my HDD had Bad Sectors… and i lost about 64GB of data due to it- And then while i was creating a RMA on WD Website…- I thought lets run the SMART Extended Test on my another healthy My Passport HDD and i was suprised my 2nd HDD had Bad Sectors as wellHow to perform this Test which checks for Bad Sectors/Phyically Damaged Sectors:1. Download :Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostic from WD Website2. Install, Connect your My Passport HDD, Launch the program.3. Double click(left click) your My Passport Drive from the list of drives.4. A Menu pops-up, Click Extended Test. Another pop-up will appear Click OK. ( Make sure no program is using your My Passport HDD)5. Let it run would take about 11-12 Hours to complete and if it finds too many Bad Sectors Program will abort with error.(If you have some different error you can google “Data Lifeguard Diagnostics Error Code List” and find what kind of error you are getting..)6. If It aborts you know you need to Return the drive or you need to get it replaced under warranty.

Western Digital 2TB Red NAS Hard Disk Drives (Western Digital20EFRX)I’m writing the review after 1.5 month of usage. The item is not usable anymore. It’s showing bad sector and my Synology NAS Server rejected this disk now. I lost most of my data. It’s really shame to happen a failure in just 1 month.Now I’m wondering how to get the product replaced. The RMA of WD is not supporting my location. I wrote a support case 3 days before and still not reply.Everything working good, I purchased 2 items for my new NAS Server.I’m not really happy, because one of this was not in a sealed pack [Sold By: Appario Retail Private Ltd] . I don’t know is this a used one or not.Anyway I was able to register both product in wd site and the warranty status is showing 3 years.

Awesome Product.. it’s light weight it’s fast it’s awesome! Received on time! Packing was Impressively Good, overall I m happy having WD… Speed on 3.0 is around 60-90mbps & on 2.0 is 10-25mbps

I have a segate 1 TB HDD and i bought WD 2TB HDD . Today WD has been delivered. Its robust. I bought Red color. Quality of WD is much better than segate if we think from durability point of view. Red colour look great. But the data transfer rate in seagate is 18MBPS where as in WD speed is 12-13 MBPS for same sort of data. This is my first review for WD . Let me check some days and update you if any.

I have a segate 1 TB HDD and i bought WD 2TB HDD . Today WD has been delivered. Its robust. I bought Red color. Quality of WD is much better than segate if we think from durability point of view. Red colour look great. But the data transfer rate in seagate is 18MBPS where as in WD speed is 12-13 MBPS for same sort of data. This is my first review for WD . Let me check some days and update you if any.

No doubt hard disk(2tb) is working properly, as it supposed to be. also it was delivered in scheduled time.But I doubt the life of this one ‘latest model’ as the thickness is less compared to old one(2tb) which was available till may-june 2018. Lesser the thickness of the plates inside of the hard disk lesser will be its life. Personally I feel older was much better.

I ordered this item on 10 oct 2018 and delivered it to me on 16 oct 2018.I got this external harddisk at 4500 rs at the time of amazon great indian sale.Look wise it’s great specially the red colour is very attractive.This product is too small beyond my expectation and light weight.You can easily carry this drive on your pocket(prefer to use a hard case).At the time of transfering any data from my laptop to this drive is vibrating more than the regular.Before buying this WD 2TB i was so much confused between WD 2TB my passport and seagate backup plus slim 2TB but finally go for WD 2TB my passport.At the time of research on it i found that the failure rate of the seagate drive is more than WD.but both are a very good company to produced storage drive.Regarding the delivery it was not so good.Amazon delivered this product to me without any airbags in it.They just put the box to a amazon regular pack and without any protection they delivered the product.It can damage your product at the time of transit.

I ordered this item on 10 oct 2018 and delivered it to me on 16 oct 2018.I got this external harddisk at 4500 rs at the time of amazon great indian sale.Look wise it’s great specially the red colour is very attractive.This product is too small beyond my expectation and light weight.You can easily carry this drive on your pocket(prefer to use a hard case).At the time of transfering any data from my laptop to this drive is vibrating more than the regular.Before buying this WD 2TB i was so much confused between WD 2TB my passport and seagate backup plus slim 2TB but finally go for WD 2TB my passport.At the time of research on it i found that the failure rate of the seagate drive is more than WD.but both are a very good company to produced storage drive.Regarding the delivery it was not so good.Amazon delivered this product to me without any airbags in it.They just put the box to a amazon regular pack and without any protection they delivered the product.It can damage your product at the time of transit.

I ordered 2 TB-Blue for Rs 4500 [4999-499(10% instant off, SBI)] The product was eligible for free 1 day delivery from Dankuni warehouse to Dumdum, Kolkata.The product is very compact and light-weight. Maximum available storage is 1863 GB because storage manufacturers consider 1000 byte= 1 kilobyte, 1000 KB= 1 MB etc. (They use 1000 multiplier instead of 1024) The hard disk has 1 partition using the GPT scheme. WD kept about 1 MB unallocated at the beginning and at the end of the primary partition.Always perform the surface test and SMART test after buying a hard disk. I have used lots of tools to benchmark and to check the health of the hard disk.1. Windows Data Lifeguard Diagnostics2. CrystalDiskMark, CrystalDiskInfo3. HD Tune4. Hard Disk Sentinel5. EaseUS partition master6. DiskCheckup, GSmartControlAverage random seek time: 0.76 ms. Read speed/ Write speed depends on a lot of factors. Read speed at areas with data: about 70-80 MBPS, Read speed at empty areas: 220-250 MBPS. The surface test took about 2 Hours 10 Minutes because most of the hard disk was empty. Write speed is about 80-90 MBPS. The temperature was about 44-45 degree Celcius during heavy read-write (atmosphere was about 30 degree Celcius). Please see the attached images for full test results.WD pre-loaded some software for users in the hard disk. WD Discovery, WD backup, and WD drive utilities. The offline installers are outdated and they need to be updated later. Thus, if you have an internet connection, I recommend downloading them directly from the official website. Also, download WD security if you need to password protect your hard disk. WD discovery software doesn’t do much except helping you to install other software. Thus you can skip this one. You need to configure WD backup to enable automatic backup. You can import/export from/to online storages. You can also disable the blinking LED light, enable idle sleeping etc using the software.Register at WD official website to check your warranty status, product manual etc. Warranty is 3 years from the date of invoice (not the date of delivery). Register at UpThere (Parent organization: Western Digital) to get 20 GB free online storage.

I ordered 2 TB-Blue for Rs 4500 [4999-499(10% instant off, SBI)] The product was eligible for free 1 day delivery from Dankuni warehouse to Dumdum, Kolkata.The product is very compact and light-weight. Maximum available storage is 1863 GB because storage manufacturers consider 1000 byte= 1 kilobyte, 1000 KB= 1 MB etc. (They use 1000 multiplier instead of 1024) The hard disk has 1 partition using the GPT scheme. WD kept about 1 MB unallocated at the beginning and at the end of the primary partition.Always perform the surface test and SMART test after buying a hard disk. I have used lots of tools to benchmark and to check the health of the hard disk.1. Windows Data Lifeguard Diagnostics2. CrystalDiskMark, CrystalDiskInfo3. HD Tune4. Hard Disk Sentinel5. EaseUS partition master6. DiskCheckup, GSmartControlAverage random seek time: 0.76 ms. Read speed/ Write speed depends on a lot of factors. Read speed at areas with data: about 70-80 MBPS, Read speed at empty areas: 220-250 MBPS. The surface test took about 2 Hours 10 Minutes because most of the hard disk was empty. Write speed is about 80-90 MBPS. The temperature was about 44-45 degree Celcius during heavy read-write (atmosphere was about 30 degree Celcius). Please see the attached images for full test results.WD pre-loaded some software for users in the hard disk. WD Discovery, WD backup, and WD drive utilities. The offline installers are outdated and they need to be updated later. Thus, if you have an internet connection, I recommend downloading them directly from the official website. Also, download WD security if you need to password protect your hard disk. WD discovery software doesn’t do much except helping you to install other software. Thus you can skip this one. You need to configure WD backup to enable automatic backup. You can import/export from/to online storages. You can also disable the blinking LED light, enable idle sleeping etc using the software.Register at WD official website to check your warranty status, product manual etc. Warranty is 3 years from the date of invoice (not the date of delivery). Register at UpThere (Parent organization: Western Digital) to get 20 GB free online storage. (Upthere home service will be discontinued from March 3, 2020)

Got the SSD. Took me a few days to get a HDD holder to try to clone this drive. SSD was not being recognized by PC when connected to the HDD holder. Needed to isolate the problem. So took out the original HDD from my laptop and tested with the HDD holder – and it was being recognized! So the problem is with the SSD – but not able to return it now because there is no option to return it!!!!!!!!! Help !!!!!!!!!!Amazon told me that manufacturer would be able to help. Called WD and they did an RMA process for me since there is a 3 yr warranty on the SSD. Had to drop off the bad drive at their local center – they tested and confirmed it was bad. A replacement will be mailed to me in a week or so – but it will be a refurbished drive and not a new one!!!!!!!!!!!! Hoping that the replacement comes in working condition.A bitter experience overall – paying retail price to finally get a used drive!!! Thanks Amazon! – for tossing me over to the manufacturer.Update (20 Nov 18)WD sent me a replacement, which looks like a new drive (not refurbished, as I was told by their support team). I cloned my HDD and installed it. laptop working much faster now. I am upgrading the review to a 4 star from a 1 star because of my experience dealing with WD. Despite the early pain, the whole WD replacement experience was rather smooth – I want to show my appreciation for this.

Kudos to amazon again for the delivery. They’re always reliable and take good care of their customers or at least I’m speaking for myself.Then coming to the product itself I’ve 3 hard disks and all three of them are western digital 2TB brought in different years and each single one of them is working fabulously so far. No complaints whatsoever till now. I’d recommend it to my friends.

Performance is nice. Cable provided should be some more long as desktop users face some difficulties. LED light indicator serves its purpose. Faster. 3 years warranty given. Size is so handy.

It is very easy to use. My computer immediately recognised the drive. Registration was a breeze due to wd software. Genuine product sent. Warranty activation from date of registration. Very light weight so just to be safe I’ve ordered the case for it which has a spot to store the cable. Don’t lose its cable as it’s a USB type A cable I think for plugging into the external HHD. Transfer speeds even in USB 2.0 Port is 70mbps can’t wait to try it with a USB 3.0 Port. They claim it’s speed would be in the 100’s of Mbps

It is an awesome Hard Drive with premium finish. it could have easily can get 5 stars but…1. i not used it for too long to test durability so i will give one more star after used it for 2 years.2. the software is too stupid , not working properly and destroys the purpose of external hard drive for backup solutions. am using easeus software as alternative.Go for it, its worth to buy at this price range!–update : no problem with durability. it works like charm, no issues, no problem. giving full star now.

My drive failed today, 5 months after I bought. 3 YEARS warranty and completely zero physical damage or anything really. Just decided to fail. Let me tell you the horror story that follows:If you go to avail warranty on WD’s site, you’ll realize that it does not say ANYWHERE that they can repair it. Because they can’t. They can only replace it. That’s understandable sure. As long as they recover you data and give it to you on a new drive right?GUESS what. They don’t. If you want to recover your data, you have to pay to do it yourself. Moreover, they have the cheek to first MAKE you fill out a form so that they can APPROVE that you’re doing data recovery, because doing it yourself directly voids your warranty.THEN, you have to somehow scrounge up another completely empty drive to backup your failed drive’s data at whatever third party you go to recover data, pay that service from your own pocket, start an “RMA” process, then ship the bloody failed drive to Bangalore, pay for shipping and wait for them to send you a replacement drive, which they’ll probably take their own sweet time to do.I used to really trust this brand. But it’s pathetic now. I’ll think 10 times before I buy a WD.Western Digital: If your drive fails, save yourself the burden and just kill yourself instead.

My drive failed today, 5 months after I bought. 3 YEARS warranty and completely zero physical damage or anything really. Just decided to fail. Let me tell you the horror story that follows:If you go to avail warranty on WD’s site, you’ll realize that it does not say ANYWHERE that they can repair it. Because they can’t. They can only replace it. That’s understandable sure. As long as they recover you data and give it to you on a new drive right?GUESS what. They don’t. If you want to recover your data, you have to pay to do it yourself. Moreover, they have the cheek to first MAKE you fill out a form so that they can APPROVE that you’re doing data recovery, because doing it yourself directly voids your warranty.THEN, you have to somehow scrounge up another completely empty drive to backup your failed drive’s data at whatever third party you go to recover data, pay that service from your own pocket, start an “RMA” process, then ship the bloody failed drive to Bangalore, pay for shipping and wait for them to send you a replacement drive, which they’ll probably take their own sweet time to do.I used to really trust this brand. But it’s pathetic now. I’ll think 10 times before I buy a WD.Western Digital: If your drive fails, save yourself the burden and just kill yourself instead.

My drive failed today, 5 months after I bought. 3 YEARS warranty and completely zero physical damage or anything really. Just decided to fail. Let me tell you the horror story that follows:If you go to avail warranty on WD’s site, you’ll realize that it does not say ANYWHERE that they can repair it. Because they can’t. They can only replace it. That’s understandable sure. As long as they recover you data and give it to you on a new drive right?GUESS what. They don’t. If you want to recover your data, you have to pay to do it yourself. Moreover, they have the cheek to first MAKE you fill out a form so that they can APPROVE that you’re doing data recovery, because doing it yourself directly voids your warranty.THEN, you have to somehow scrounge up another completely empty drive to backup your failed drive’s data at whatever third party you go to recover data, pay that service from your own pocket, start an “RMA” process, then ship the bloody failed drive to Bangalore, pay for shipping and wait for them to send you a replacement drive, which they’ll probably take their own sweet time to do.I used to really trust this brand. But it’s pathetic now. I’ll think 10 times before I buy a WD.Western Digital: If your drive fails, save yourself the burden and just kill yourself instead.

Worst product. Lost my 400 gb of data saying parameter is in correct .This is second time iam experience in this issue with same company drive. Do not buy this.

If your system do not support M.2 ssdOr you do not have money for 860, definately go for it.Pros:1. Its a SSD thats the biggest plus2. Light weight3. Read/write speeds are awesome specially when upgrading from HDD.CONS:1. Very bad service from local courier.2. Plastic used in body feels cheap comparing to the price.3. Crystal disk benchmark is showingread: 548MB/s (560MB/s promised)write: 507MB/s (530MB/s promised) even after running multiple times. Not a huge deal but even then its not as promised.

This is my 10th Seagate HDD purchase. I really love seagate external hard drives. I have 1 TB, 1.5 TB and 2 TB. A few days ago, when i saw this new model edition and i thought of giving it try. I liked the design but the problem is its in ”exFAT” system format. Usually, most of the drive will be in NTFS which is quite user friendly. But this ”exFAT” has biggest problem with transfer speed. So, i have to format to NTFS and now, transfer speed is good. So, as of now, its better to go for older model than new one. Because full formatting takes hours and it just painful and consumes time. Yes, you can go for quick format but full format identifies bad sectors and it literally completes formatting procedure.Of course, ”exFAT” is advance file system of FAT32. And also it detected with Sony LED TV. But the problem is transfer speed. And also i read the file system formats in Seagate website, especially about ”exFAT” file system, kindly see below:”exFAT: generally compatible with Mac and Windows. exFAT is not a journaled file system which means it can be more susceptible to data corruption when errors occur or the drive is not disconnected properly from the computer”This is not user friendly but you have to format it to NTFS to make it as user friendly. Therefore, i leave it up to you, guys! and its your call for going for this new edition of Seagate.

This is my first WD hard disk…and it’s awesome.Mainly I bought this external hard disk for my Android TV box to Store and play my 100+ movie collection and Backup my mobile data and Photos taken by camera. So, I tried to connect this to my Samsung Note 8 and Samsung A8 Star via OTG. Both two phones are connected usually(Doesn’t need any additional power supply). At first time, Formatting window shows in all three devices. Because, This external HDD in as NTFS File system . Android doesn’t support NTFS file system. So, I formated this HDD in my Android TV Box as exFAT file system. Before formatting and after formatting I checked its file system in my PC. Before formatting PC shows the HDD in NTFS format and after format PC shows in exFat format. It doesn’t heat up and its vibration is too low comparing to other HDD’S.And i also checked this HDD’S OTG compatibility in some other devices. Samsung A6 Plus and Asus Zenfone 3 ZE552KL have supports this HDD without having any use of additional power supply. So this HDD consumes less power and Writing and reading speed is ok for me. Plays 4K videos without buffering in Android TV Box.This HDD’s actual storage capacity is 1862.9GB(Photo attached).Transfer speed 100Mb/s to 131Mb/s on USB 3.0(blue port) and maximum 42Mb/s on USB 2(black port) on pc…In mobile OTG, Speed getting 30Mb/s to 41Mb/s.simple as that… fits in jeans back pocket…Drawback: it’s too delicate. Don’t drop and don’t keep something heavy on it.According to me, It’s a good🤞 deal.I strongly recommend this brand and I should prefer☝️ this brand for my future purchases🤗 regarding these kind of products💗.Anyway its a great value👍 for money💱 purchase.______________________________________________________________👌Well, That’s from me now your Turn☺️👉Last But Not Least Thanks🤝 For Your Precious Time⌚ Reading📖 this Review And I Also Spent Hours’⌛ To Take Pictures🖼️, And i take a lot of times to post the review. ☺️☺️☺️If this review is helpful for you, please hit the 👍 helpful button

 I create YouTube videos for my wife’s cooking channel and storage has been a big want for us. I have a WD MyCloud 2TB with a Seagate 4TB Backup Plus as a backup and both required power, but I need a 4TB portable hard disk and ended up in buying this Western Digital 4TB My Passport Portable hard disk (New Edition) for Rs.8198.————————————————📦 IN THE BOX & HDD CONTENTS————————————————◾ 4TB Blue Portable Harddisk in a bubble case◾ Superspeed USB cable◾ Quick Install Guide◾ WD Discovery software for WD Backup◾ WD Security and WD Drive Utilities—————————————-🗓️ MY USAGE & EXPERIENCE—————————————-The product has been manufactured in Thailand and imported to India and this New Edition WD My Passport is supposed to have lesser failures and supposed to be more robust than the previous version.Upon connecting 3.63TB was free and 297MB was used by the formatting of the disk which stores the disk geometry that allows hard disk to accept, store, and retrieve data. The hard disk was formatted with NTFS.This hard disk fits inside the palm of the hand and is quite small for a 4TB, 10.7cm length, 7.5cm breadth and 1.8cm depth, and is not heavy too.Being a portable hard disk, it doesn’t require any power. I was able to connect it with my Xbox, WD MyCloud, Laptop and Desktop with ease and it detects quite fast.The write speeds were at 110 MB/s in actual and read speeds was around 115 MB/s. The disk reports were also almost similar at 120-127 MB/s. (see attached report). But the speeds changes depending on the free disk space, how much the disk is fragmented and whether there are any bad sectors, etc. This is quite impressive in my opinion.I didn’t see any heating up issues with this new edition and temperature always remained under 37 degree C even under heavy writes in my testing with room temperature around 27- degree C.The WD Discovery software is super cool, it can import files from social media and maintain a backup. Just need to sign into Facebook or Instagram or Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. It can also take a backup from WD MyCloud devices.The WD Security app provides a way to setup a password for the hard disk and contents can be encrypted, so when data is written it’s encrypted and when data is read it’s decrypted when password is used. I haven’t tried any brute force recovery of data on this disk yet but the encryption seems to be good enough for home use. I didn’t set the password as if password is forgotten I can’t recover it back and only way to re-use the disk is by formatting.The hard disk has a small led indicator which can be turned off from the WD Discovery settings if required.I was able to backup all my YouTube video edits with ease and quickly, also was able to back up my Dropbox.I don’t see any cons as of now, and since I haven’t contacted the customer service I can’t comment on that part.————————-💖 WHAT I LIKED————————-◾ 3 years warranty◾ Good looking and light weight◾ Automatic backup, Password protection + 256bit Encryption◾ Fast read and write speeds——————-🥇 OVERALL——————-A great hard disk at a good pricing. This new edition should be more stable and when take care well like not moving the hard disk while it being used, doing a safe eject of the hard disk, not dropping etc. this hard disk should last longer in my perspective, only time will tell. Overall am happy with my purchase as it meets my expectations.

The device works perfectly and can be used on xbox, ps4 pc and Mac however you will not get the full 4tb when I plugged mine in it said that I had 3.6tb available, tried formatting it and still the same, that’s 400gb that I can’t use on the device I understand that some is needed to be used by the system to make it run etc but not nearly half a terabyte

At the heart of the matter, the write speeds are low, in my case virtually “0”. Crystal disk mark for a 64Bit Windows machine is given.Would recommend some other Tier 1 brands instead of this if the drive is used for backup, you need good and sustained speeds, which this drive does not giveOn the positive the product looks good, much nicer than the earlier gen for sure.

 I create YouTube videos for my wife’s cooking channel and storage has been a big want for us. I have a WD MyCloud 2TB with a Seagate 4TB Backup Plus as a backup and both required power, but I need a 4TB portable hard disk and ended up in buying this Western Digital 4TB My Passport Portable hard disk (New Edition) for Rs.8198.————————————————📦 IN THE BOX & HDD CONTENTS————————————————◾ 4TB Blue Portable Harddisk in a bubble case◾ Superspeed USB cable◾ Quick Install Guide◾ WD Discovery software for WD Backup◾ WD Security and WD Drive Utilities—————————————-🗓️ MY USAGE & EXPERIENCE—————————————-The product has been manufactured in Thailand and imported to India and this New Edition WD My Passport is supposed to have lesser failures and supposed to be more robust than the previous version.Upon connecting 3.63TB was free and 297MB was used by the formatting of the disk which stores the disk geometry that allows hard disk to accept, store, and retrieve data. The hard disk was formatted with NTFS.This hard disk fits inside the palm of the hand and is quite small for a 4TB, 10.7cm length, 7.5cm breadth and 1.8cm depth, and is not heavy too.Being a portable hard disk, it doesn’t require any power. I was able to connect it with my Xbox, WD MyCloud, Laptop and Desktop with ease and it detects quite fast.The write speeds were at 110 MB/s in actual and read speeds was around 115 MB/s. The disk reports were also almost similar at 120-127 MB/s. (see attached report). But the speeds changes depending on the free disk space, how much the disk is fragmented and whether there are any bad sectors, etc. This is quite impressive in my opinion.I didn’t see any heating up issues with this new edition and temperature always remained under 37 degree C even under heavy writes in my testing with room temperature around 27- degree C.The WD Discovery software is super cool, it can import files from social media and maintain a backup. Just need to sign into Facebook or Instagram or Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. It can also take a backup from WD MyCloud devices.The WD Security app provides a way to setup a password for the hard disk and contents can be encrypted, so when data is written it’s encrypted and when data is read it’s decrypted when password is used. I haven’t tried any brute force recovery of data on this disk yet but the encryption seems to be good enough for home use. I didn’t set the password as if password is forgotten I can’t recover it back and only way to re-use the disk is by formatting.The hard disk has a small led indicator which can be turned off from the WD Discovery settings if required.I was able to backup all my YouTube video edits with ease and quickly, also was able to back up my Dropbox.I don’t see any cons as of now, and since I haven’t contacted the customer service I can’t comment on that part.————————-💖 WHAT I LIKED————————-◾ 3 years warranty◾ Good looking and light weight◾ Automatic backup, Password protection + 256bit Encryption◾ Fast read and write speeds——————-🥇 OVERALL——————-A great hard disk at a good pricing. This new edition should be more stable and when take care well like not moving the hard disk while it being used, doing a safe eject of the hard disk, not dropping etc. this hard disk should last longer in my perspective, only time will tell. Overall am happy with my purchase as it meets my expectations.

The device works perfectly and can be used on xbox, ps4 pc and Mac however you will not get the full 4tb when I plugged mine in it said that I had 3.6tb available, tried formatting it and still the same, that’s 400gb that I can’t use on the device I understand that some is needed to be used by the system to make it run etc but not nearly half a terabyte

At the heart of the matter, the write speeds are low, in my case virtually “0”. Crystal disk mark for a 64Bit Windows machine is given.Would recommend some other Tier 1 brands instead of this if the drive is used for backup, you need good and sustained speeds, which this drive does not giveOn the positive the product looks good, much nicer than the earlier gen for sure.

 I create YouTube videos for my wife’s cooking channel and storage has been a big want for us. I have a WD MyCloud 2TB with a Seagate 4TB Backup Plus as a backup and both required power, but I need a 4TB portable hard disk and ended up in buying this Western Digital 4TB My Passport Portable hard disk (New Edition) for Rs.8198.————————————————📦 IN THE BOX & HDD CONTENTS————————————————◾ 4TB Blue Portable Harddisk in a bubble case◾ Superspeed USB cable◾ Quick Install Guide◾ WD Discovery software for WD Backup◾ WD Security and WD Drive Utilities—————————————-🗓️ MY USAGE & EXPERIENCE—————————————-The product has been manufactured in Thailand and imported to India and this New Edition WD My Passport is supposed to have lesser failures and supposed to be more robust than the previous version.Upon connecting 3.63TB was free and 297MB was used by the formatting of the disk which stores the disk geometry that allows hard disk to accept, store, and retrieve data. The hard disk was formatted with NTFS.This hard disk fits inside the palm of the hand and is quite small for a 4TB, 10.7cm length, 7.5cm breadth and 1.8cm depth, and is not heavy too.Being a portable hard disk, it doesn’t require any power. I was able to connect it with my Xbox, WD MyCloud, Laptop and Desktop with ease and it detects quite fast.The write speeds were at 110 MB/s in actual and read speeds was around 115 MB/s. The disk reports were also almost similar at 120-127 MB/s. (see attached report). But the speeds changes depending on the free disk space, how much the disk is fragmented and whether there are any bad sectors, etc. This is quite impressive in my opinion.I didn’t see any heating up issues with this new edition and temperature always remained under 37 degree C even under heavy writes in my testing with room temperature around 27- degree C.The WD Discovery software is super cool, it can import files from social media and maintain a backup. Just need to sign into Facebook or Instagram or Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. It can also take a backup from WD MyCloud devices.The WD Security app provides a way to setup a password for the hard disk and contents can be encrypted, so when data is written it’s encrypted and when data is read it’s decrypted when password is used. I haven’t tried any brute force recovery of data on this disk yet but the encryption seems to be good enough for home use. I didn’t set the password as if password is forgotten I can’t recover it back and only way to re-use the disk is by formatting.The hard disk has a small led indicator which can be turned off from the WD Discovery settings if required.I was able to backup all my YouTube video edits with ease and quickly, also was able to back up my Dropbox.I don’t see any cons as of now, and since I haven’t contacted the customer service I can’t comment on that part.————————-💖 WHAT I LIKED————————-◾ 3 years warranty◾ Good looking and light weight◾ Automatic backup, Password protection + 256bit Encryption◾ Fast read and write speeds——————-🥇 OVERALL——————-A great hard disk at a good pricing. This new edition should be more stable and when take care well like not moving the hard disk while it being used, doing a safe eject of the hard disk, not dropping etc. this hard disk should last longer in my perspective, only time will tell. Overall am happy with my purchase as it meets my expectations.

The device works perfectly and can be used on xbox, ps4 pc and Mac however you will not get the full 4tb when I plugged mine in it said that I had 3.6tb available, tried formatting it and still the same, that’s 400gb that I can’t use on the device I understand that some is needed to be used by the system to make it run etc but not nearly half a terabyte

WD is the first option comes in mind while looking for a storage device because of their quality and price to performance ratio with good aesthetics. Here is my extensive opinion about WD My Passport New Edition :FOR :1. Excellent performance2. Complete software package3. Class leading pricing4. Elegant design with variety of colours5. Software + 256 bit hardware encryption6. 3 years of warrantyAGAINST :1. No USB C port2. No hard case or travel bag includedDESIGN :My Passport drive has a nicely angled two-tone black & grey color scheme with one half of the lower scalloped for grip. Matte finish throughout the body helps in better grip. It’s available in multiple cool colours so pick one according to your personality.PERFORMANCE :My Passport HDD has excellent price to performance ratio. It’s delivering stable performance with read & write speed upto 126 MB/s in actual usage.CrystalDiskMark Read Speed : 132 MB/sCrystalDiskMark Write Speed : 126 MB/sActual Read Speed : 124 MB/sActual Write Speed : 118 MB/sBUILD QUALITY :My Passport is completely made out of plastic. I think it can easily survive casual drops but Iwould highly recommend to use a hard case to protect your HDD and most importantly data.Cable quality is pretty excellent.SOFTWARE :HDD comes with a pre loaded WD Discovery software. Storage management, securityencryption and cloud backup settings can be accessed using this software. It supports most of cloud platforms Security encryption is really helpful in keeping confidential data safe.FINAL THOUGHTS :Considering beautiful compact design, performance, stability and 3 years of warranty for peace of mind, WD My Passport New Edition is a perfect storage device for most of the average consumers. Just go for it.I hope this helped you. 🙂

It’s USB 3.0 HDD and not 3.1. I used it with multiple computers with 3.1 ports and it gave almost same speed as USB 3.0 i.e. between 120 to 140mbps.However, for the price, it is extremely good. The mentioned speed for a USB 3.0 HDD is good.Build quality is top class. I had broken my previous HDD because it fell on the floor multiple times. Thanks to the strong build I don’t think this one will experience that.Highly recommended!

I like this deviceThis hardisk has many more featuresLike waterproof technology Triple layer protection Wire holder technology Drop proof from 1.5 metrersDislike-nothingTechnology Jock YouTuber suggested this.Finally this is batman in the hardisk

WD is the first option comes in mind while looking for a storage device because of their quality and price to performance ratio with good aesthetics. Here is my extensive opinion about WD My Passport New Edition :FOR :1. Excellent performance2. Complete software package3. Class leading pricing4. Elegant design with variety of colours5. Software + 256 bit hardware encryption6. 3 years of warrantyAGAINST :1. No USB C port2. No hard case or travel bag includedDESIGN :My Passport drive has a nicely angled two-tone black & grey color scheme with one half of the lower scalloped for grip. Matte finish throughout the body helps in better grip. It’s available in multiple cool colours so pick one according to your personality.PERFORMANCE :My Passport HDD has excellent price to performance ratio. It’s delivering stable performance with read & write speed upto 126 MB/s in actual usage.CrystalDiskMark Read Speed : 132 MB/sCrystalDiskMark Write Speed : 126 MB/sActual Read Speed : 124 MB/sActual Write Speed : 118 MB/sBUILD QUALITY :My Passport is completely made out of plastic. I think it can easily survive casual drops but Iwould highly recommend to use a hard case to protect your HDD and most importantly data.Cable quality is pretty excellent.SOFTWARE :HDD comes with a pre loaded WD Discovery software. Storage management, securityencryption and cloud backup settings can be accessed using this software. It supports most of cloud platforms Security encryption is really helpful in keeping confidential data safe.FINAL THOUGHTS :Considering beautiful compact design, performance, stability and 3 years of warranty for peace of mind, WD My Passport New Edition is a perfect storage device for most of the average consumers. Just go for it.I hope this helped you. 🙂

I just used it twice. 1st tym i put my data into it which was around 800 gb. 2nd tym when I connected it, it’s file system crashed. I had to format my HDD and lost all my data.

Awesome Product.. it’s light weight it’s fast it’s awesome! Received on time! Packing was Impressively Good, overall I m happy having WD… Speed on 3.0 is around 60-90mbps & on 2.0 is 10-25mbps

Good productBut little price up

Not able to detect the drive on Windows 10, 7 even XP. Have gone through several forums and company website. Bought it for the good features like auto backup but strange why company is not able to fix issues like this despite 100s of complaints.

Good packaing and was delivered on time. Simple plug and play. Very good data transfer speeds. I also had a 2TB metal edition, compared to that it does seems a bit flimsy as it is made of plastic. Would not recommend it to use without cover.

WD is the first option comes in mind while looking for a storage device because of their quality and price to performance ratio with good aesthetics. Here is my extensive opinion about WD My Passport New Edition :FOR :1. Excellent performance2. Complete software package3. Class leading pricing4. Elegant design with variety of colours5. Software + 256 bit hardware encryption6. 3 years of warrantyAGAINST :1. No USB C port2. No hard case or travel bag includedDESIGN :My Passport drive has a nicely angled two-tone black & grey color scheme with one half of the lower scalloped for grip. Matte finish throughout the body helps in better grip. It’s available in multiple cool colours so pick one according to your personality.PERFORMANCE :My Passport HDD has excellent price to performance ratio. It’s delivering stable performance with read & write speed upto 126 MB/s in actual usage.CrystalDiskMark Read Speed : 132 MB/sCrystalDiskMark Write Speed : 126 MB/sActual Read Speed : 124 MB/sActual Write Speed : 118 MB/sBUILD QUALITY :My Passport is completely made out of plastic. I think it can easily survive casual drops but Iwould highly recommend to use a hard case to protect your HDD and most importantly data.Cable quality is pretty excellent.SOFTWARE :HDD comes with a pre loaded WD Discovery software. Storage management, securityencryption and cloud backup settings can be accessed using this software. It supports most of cloud platforms Security encryption is really helpful in keeping confidential data safe.FINAL THOUGHTS :Considering beautiful compact design, performance, stability and 3 years of warranty for peace of mind, WD My Passport New Edition is a perfect storage device for most of the average consumers. Just go for it.I hope this helped you. 🙂

My drive failed today, 5 months after I bought. 3 YEARS warranty and completely zero physical damage or anything really. Just decided to fail. Let me tell you the horror story that follows:If you go to avail warranty on WD’s site, you’ll realize that it does not say ANYWHERE that they can repair it. Because they can’t. They can only replace it. That’s understandable sure. As long as they recover you data and give it to you on a new drive right?GUESS what. They don’t. If you want to recover your data, you have to pay to do it yourself. Moreover, they have the cheek to first MAKE you fill out a form so that they can APPROVE that you’re doing data recovery, because doing it yourself directly voids your warranty.THEN, you have to somehow scrounge up another completely empty drive to backup your failed drive’s data at whatever third party you go to recover data, pay that service from your own pocket, start an “RMA” process, then ship the bloody failed drive to Bangalore, pay for shipping and wait for them to send you a replacement drive, which they’ll probably take their own sweet time to do.I used to really trust this brand. But it’s pathetic now. I’ll think 10 times before I buy a WD.Western Digital: If your drive fails, save yourself the burden and just kill yourself instead.

I ordered this item on 10 oct 2018 and delivered it to me on 16 oct 2018.I got this external harddisk at 4500 rs at the time of amazon great indian sale.Look wise it’s great specially the red colour is very attractive.This product is too small beyond my expectation and light weight.You can easily carry this drive on your pocket(prefer to use a hard case).At the time of transfering any data from my laptop to this drive is vibrating more than the regular.Before buying this WD 2TB i was so much confused between WD 2TB my passport and seagate backup plus slim 2TB but finally go for WD 2TB my passport.At the time of research on it i found that the failure rate of the seagate drive is more than WD.but both are a very good company to produced storage drive.Regarding the delivery it was not so good.Amazon delivered this product to me without any airbags in it.They just put the box to a amazon regular pack and without any protection they delivered the product.It can damage your product at the time of transit.

The first thing i liked about this product is its lightweight for the storage of 2TB.I received a genuine product from Amazon at a pretty good deal of ₹4499.The speed test conducted using CrystalDiskMark6 provided me Read speed at 133.6 MB/s and Write speed at 122.7 MB/sLoved it totally!

 I create YouTube videos for my wife’s cooking channel and storage has been a big want for us. I have a WD MyCloud 2TB with a Seagate 4TB Backup Plus as a backup and both required power, but I need a 4TB portable hard disk and ended up in buying this Western Digital 4TB My Passport Portable hard disk (New Edition) for Rs.8198.————————————————📦 IN THE BOX & HDD CONTENTS————————————————◾ 4TB Blue Portable Harddisk in a bubble case◾ Superspeed USB cable◾ Quick Install Guide◾ WD Discovery software for WD Backup◾ WD Security and WD Drive Utilities—————————————-🗓️ MY USAGE & EXPERIENCE—————————————-The product has been manufactured in Thailand and imported to India and this New Edition WD My Passport is supposed to have lesser failures and supposed to be more robust than the previous version.Upon connecting 3.63TB was free and 297MB was used by the formatting of the disk which stores the disk geometry that allows hard disk to accept, store, and retrieve data. The hard disk was formatted with NTFS.This hard disk fits inside the palm of the hand and is quite small for a 4TB, 10.7cm length, 7.5cm breadth and 1.8cm depth, and is not heavy too.Being a portable hard disk, it doesn’t require any power. I was able to connect it with my Xbox, WD MyCloud, Laptop and Desktop with ease and it detects quite fast.The write speeds were at 110 MB/s in actual and read speeds was around 115 MB/s. The disk reports were also almost similar at 120-127 MB/s. (see attached report). But the speeds changes depending on the free disk space, how much the disk is fragmented and whether there are any bad sectors, etc. This is quite impressive in my opinion.I didn’t see any heating up issues with this new edition and temperature always remained under 37 degree C even under heavy writes in my testing with room temperature around 27- degree C.The WD Discovery software is super cool, it can import files from social media and maintain a backup. Just need to sign into Facebook or Instagram or Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. It can also take a backup from WD MyCloud devices.The WD Security app provides a way to setup a password for the hard disk and contents can be encrypted, so when data is written it’s encrypted and when data is read it’s decrypted when password is used. I haven’t tried any brute force recovery of data on this disk yet but the encryption seems to be good enough for home use. I didn’t set the password as if password is forgotten I can’t recover it back and only way to re-use the disk is by formatting.The hard disk has a small led indicator which can be turned off from the WD Discovery settings if required.I was able to backup all my YouTube video edits with ease and quickly, also was able to back up my Dropbox.I don’t see any cons as of now, and since I haven’t contacted the customer service I can’t comment on that part.————————-💖 WHAT I LIKED————————-◾ 3 years warranty◾ Good looking and light weight◾ Automatic backup, Password protection + 256bit Encryption◾ Fast read and write speeds——————-🥇 OVERALL——————-A great hard disk at a good pricing. This new edition should be more stable and when take care well like not moving the hard disk while it being used, doing a safe eject of the hard disk, not dropping etc. this hard disk should last longer in my perspective, only time will tell. Overall am happy with my purchase as it meets my expectations.

Empieza a ser habitual que los fabricantes de tecnología saquen al mercado nuevas versiones de productos bajando su calidad y prestaciones. Incluso se han eliminado las patas de goma que siempre han llevado los modelos superiores de este fabricante, lo que conlleva que transmita más facilmente las vibraciones al girar y que se deslice con demasiada facilidad.Este es el caso de este nuevo disco de Western Digital, que ha bajado en tamaño físico,-lo que está muy bien-, aumentado en capacidad,-que también esta bien-, pero bajando las prestaciones, lo que ya no está tan bien; nada bien, en realidad.Respecto de la serie anterior, el rendimiento es entre un 25% y un 35% inferior. Esto se traduce en que, al copiar contenido, donde la versión anterior mantenía unos dignos 80-90 MB/s ahora se obtienen 50-60MB/s. En mi opinión, esto es inaceptable. Por poner un ejemplo, para copiar 4 TB necesitarás más de 36 horas, 12 horas más que con la serie anterior. Y hablando de Teras, ya sabréis que la industria juega a manipular los datos sobre capacidades hablando de teras no informaticos (base 10) en vez de los que cualquier usuario espera (base 8). No os extrañe por tanto comprobar que vuestro PC informe que el disco tiene una capacidad de 4,54 TB en vez de los 5 TB anunciados. Me parece poco ético que utilicen una medición fuera del ámbito PC y más propios de la industria de las telecomunicaciones.Por todo ello, y en mi opinión, no es un producto recomendable.Añado que es mucho más ruidoso que la serie anterior. Yo creo que es debido al fino plástico de la carcasa que hace de caja de resonancia cuando gira.

Good productBut little price up

My drive failed today, 5 months after I bought. 3 YEARS warranty and completely zero physical damage or anything really. Just decided to fail. Let me tell you the horror story that follows:If you go to avail warranty on WD’s site, you’ll realize that it does not say ANYWHERE that they can repair it. Because they can’t. They can only replace it. That’s understandable sure. As long as they recover you data and give it to you on a new drive right?GUESS what. They don’t. If you want to recover your data, you have to pay to do it yourself. Moreover, they have the cheek to first MAKE you fill out a form so that they can APPROVE that you’re doing data recovery, because doing it yourself directly voids your warranty.THEN, you have to somehow scrounge up another completely empty drive to backup your failed drive’s data at whatever third party you go to recover data, pay that service from your own pocket, start an “RMA” process, then ship the bloody failed drive to Bangalore, pay for shipping and wait for them to send you a replacement drive, which they’ll probably take their own sweet time to do.I used to really trust this brand. But it’s pathetic now. I’ll think 10 times before I buy a WD.Western Digital: If your drive fails, save yourself the burden and just kill yourself instead.

I ordered this item on 10 oct 2018 and delivered it to me on 16 oct 2018.I got this external harddisk at 4500 rs at the time of amazon great indian sale.Look wise it’s great specially the red colour is very attractive.This product is too small beyond my expectation and light weight.You can easily carry this drive on your pocket(prefer to use a hard case).At the time of transfering any data from my laptop to this drive is vibrating more than the regular.Before buying this WD 2TB i was so much confused between WD 2TB my passport and seagate backup plus slim 2TB but finally go for WD 2TB my passport.At the time of research on it i found that the failure rate of the seagate drive is more than WD.but both are a very good company to produced storage drive.Regarding the delivery it was not so good.Amazon delivered this product to me without any airbags in it.They just put the box to a amazon regular pack and without any protection they delivered the product.It can damage your product at the time of transit.

The first thing i liked about this product is its lightweight for the storage of 2TB.I received a genuine product from Amazon at a pretty good deal of ₹4499.The speed test conducted using CrystalDiskMark6 provided me Read speed at 133.6 MB/s and Write speed at 122.7 MB/sLoved it totally!

 I create YouTube videos for my wife’s cooking channel and storage has been a big want for us. I have a WD MyCloud 2TB with a Seagate 4TB Backup Plus as a backup and both required power, but I need a 4TB portable hard disk and ended up in buying this Western Digital 4TB My Passport Portable hard disk (New Edition) for Rs.8198.————————————————📦 IN THE BOX & HDD CONTENTS————————————————◾ 4TB Blue Portable Harddisk in a bubble case◾ Superspeed USB cable◾ Quick Install Guide◾ WD Discovery software for WD Backup◾ WD Security and WD Drive Utilities—————————————-🗓️ MY USAGE & EXPERIENCE—————————————-The product has been manufactured in Thailand and imported to India and this New Edition WD My Passport is supposed to have lesser failures and supposed to be more robust than the previous version.Upon connecting 3.63TB was free and 297MB was used by the formatting of the disk which stores the disk geometry that allows hard disk to accept, store, and retrieve data. The hard disk was formatted with NTFS.This hard disk fits inside the palm of the hand and is quite small for a 4TB, 10.7cm length, 7.5cm breadth and 1.8cm depth, and is not heavy too.Being a portable hard disk, it doesn’t require any power. I was able to connect it with my Xbox, WD MyCloud, Laptop and Desktop with ease and it detects quite fast.The write speeds were at 110 MB/s in actual and read speeds was around 115 MB/s. The disk reports were also almost similar at 120-127 MB/s. (see attached report). But the speeds changes depending on the free disk space, how much the disk is fragmented and whether there are any bad sectors, etc. This is quite impressive in my opinion.I didn’t see any heating up issues with this new edition and temperature always remained under 37 degree C even under heavy writes in my testing with room temperature around 27- degree C.The WD Discovery software is super cool, it can import files from social media and maintain a backup. Just need to sign into Facebook or Instagram or Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. It can also take a backup from WD MyCloud devices.The WD Security app provides a way to setup a password for the hard disk and contents can be encrypted, so when data is written it’s encrypted and when data is read it’s decrypted when password is used. I haven’t tried any brute force recovery of data on this disk yet but the encryption seems to be good enough for home use. I didn’t set the password as if password is forgotten I can’t recover it back and only way to re-use the disk is by formatting.The hard disk has a small led indicator which can be turned off from the WD Discovery settings if required.I was able to backup all my YouTube video edits with ease and quickly, also was able to back up my Dropbox.I don’t see any cons as of now, and since I haven’t contacted the customer service I can’t comment on that part.————————-💖 WHAT I LIKED————————-◾ 3 years warranty◾ Good looking and light weight◾ Automatic backup, Password protection + 256bit Encryption◾ Fast read and write speeds——————-🥇 OVERALL——————-A great hard disk at a good pricing. This new edition should be more stable and when take care well like not moving the hard disk while it being used, doing a safe eject of the hard disk, not dropping etc. this hard disk should last longer in my perspective, only time will tell. Overall am happy with my purchase as it meets my expectations.

Empieza a ser habitual que los fabricantes de tecnología saquen al mercado nuevas versiones de productos bajando su calidad y prestaciones. Incluso se han eliminado las patas de goma que siempre han llevado los modelos superiores de este fabricante, lo que conlleva que transmita más facilmente las vibraciones al girar y que se deslice con demasiada facilidad.Este es el caso de este nuevo disco de Western Digital, que ha bajado en tamaño físico,-lo que está muy bien-, aumentado en capacidad,-que también esta bien-, pero bajando las prestaciones, lo que ya no está tan bien; nada bien, en realidad.Respecto de la serie anterior, el rendimiento es entre un 25% y un 35% inferior. Esto se traduce en que, al copiar contenido, donde la versión anterior mantenía unos dignos 80-90 MB/s ahora se obtienen 50-60MB/s. En mi opinión, esto es inaceptable. Por poner un ejemplo, para copiar 4 TB necesitarás más de 36 horas, 12 horas más que con la serie anterior. Y hablando de Teras, ya sabréis que la industria juega a manipular los datos sobre capacidades hablando de teras no informaticos (base 10) en vez de los que cualquier usuario espera (base 8). No os extrañe por tanto comprobar que vuestro PC informe que el disco tiene una capacidad de 4,54 TB en vez de los 5 TB anunciados. Me parece poco ético que utilicen una medición fuera del ámbito PC y más propios de la industria de las telecomunicaciones.Por todo ello, y en mi opinión, no es un producto recomendable.Añado que es mucho más ruidoso que la serie anterior. Yo creo que es debido al fino plástico de la carcasa que hace de caja de resonancia cuando gira.

Good productBut little price up

Not able to detect the drive on Windows 10, 7 even XP. Have gone through several forums and company website. Bought it for the good features like auto backup but strange why company is not able to fix issues like this despite 100s of complaints.

Good packaing and was delivered on time. Simple plug and play. Very good data transfer speeds. I also had a 2TB metal edition, compared to that it does seems a bit flimsy as it is made of plastic. Would not recommend it to use without cover.

WD is the first option comes in mind while looking for a storage device because of their quality and price to performance ratio with good aesthetics. Here is my extensive opinion about WD My Passport New Edition :FOR :1. Excellent performance2. Complete software package3. Class leading pricing4. Elegant design with variety of colours5. Software + 256 bit hardware encryption6. 3 years of warrantyAGAINST :1. No USB C port2. No hard case or travel bag includedDESIGN :My Passport drive has a nicely angled two-tone black & grey color scheme with one half of the lower scalloped for grip. Matte finish throughout the body helps in better grip. It’s available in multiple cool colours so pick one according to your personality.PERFORMANCE :My Passport HDD has excellent price to performance ratio. It’s delivering stable performance with read & write speed upto 126 MB/s in actual usage.CrystalDiskMark Read Speed : 132 MB/sCrystalDiskMark Write Speed : 126 MB/sActual Read Speed : 124 MB/sActual Write Speed : 118 MB/sBUILD QUALITY :My Passport is completely made out of plastic. I think it can easily survive casual drops but Iwould highly recommend to use a hard case to protect your HDD and most importantly data.Cable quality is pretty excellent.SOFTWARE :HDD comes with a pre loaded WD Discovery software. Storage management, securityencryption and cloud backup settings can be accessed using this software. It supports most of cloud platforms Security encryption is really helpful in keeping confidential data safe.FINAL THOUGHTS :Considering beautiful compact design, performance, stability and 3 years of warranty for peace of mind, WD My Passport New Edition is a perfect storage device for most of the average consumers. Just go for it.I hope this helped you. 🙂

I bought this case for the SSD unit. I took it to Iceland to back-up my images. At times in the vehicle I was in it got so cold that the drinking water bottles froze. The SSD still worked though and the case protected if from all the knocks that such things get during travelling. There wasn’t any signs of damage after 9 days and it protected the SSD throughout the whole trip. It is simply a very sturdy case that offers great protection. 5-star rating from me.

ottima custodia per il mio WD passport da 4TB. mi trovo benissimo anche se la cerniera non mi sembra solidissima

The first thing i liked about this product is its lightweight for the storage of 2TB.I received a genuine product from Amazon at a pretty good deal of ₹4499.The speed test conducted using CrystalDiskMark6 provided me Read speed at 133.6 MB/s and Write speed at 122.7 MB/sLoved it totally!

 I create YouTube videos for my wife’s cooking channel and storage has been a big want for us. I have a WD MyCloud 2TB with a Seagate 4TB Backup Plus as a backup and both required power, but I need a 4TB portable hard disk and ended up in buying this Western Digital 4TB My Passport Portable hard disk (New Edition) for Rs.8198.————————————————📦 IN THE BOX & HDD CONTENTS————————————————◾ 4TB Blue Portable Harddisk in a bubble case◾ Superspeed USB cable◾ Quick Install Guide◾ WD Discovery software for WD Backup◾ WD Security and WD Drive Utilities—————————————-🗓️ MY USAGE & EXPERIENCE—————————————-The product has been manufactured in Thailand and imported to India and this New Edition WD My Passport is supposed to have lesser failures and supposed to be more robust than the previous version.Upon connecting 3.63TB was free and 297MB was used by the formatting of the disk which stores the disk geometry that allows hard disk to accept, store, and retrieve data. The hard disk was formatted with NTFS.This hard disk fits inside the palm of the hand and is quite small for a 4TB, 10.7cm length, 7.5cm breadth and 1.8cm depth, and is not heavy too.Being a portable hard disk, it doesn’t require any power. I was able to connect it with my Xbox, WD MyCloud, Laptop and Desktop with ease and it detects quite fast.The write speeds were at 110 MB/s in actual and read speeds was around 115 MB/s. The disk reports were also almost similar at 120-127 MB/s. (see attached report). But the speeds changes depending on the free disk space, how much the disk is fragmented and whether there are any bad sectors, etc. This is quite impressive in my opinion.I didn’t see any heating up issues with this new edition and temperature always remained under 37 degree C even under heavy writes in my testing with room temperature around 27- degree C.The WD Discovery software is super cool, it can import files from social media and maintain a backup. Just need to sign into Facebook or Instagram or Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. It can also take a backup from WD MyCloud devices.The WD Security app provides a way to setup a password for the hard disk and contents can be encrypted, so when data is written it’s encrypted and when data is read it’s decrypted when password is used. I haven’t tried any brute force recovery of data on this disk yet but the encryption seems to be good enough for home use. I didn’t set the password as if password is forgotten I can’t recover it back and only way to re-use the disk is by formatting.The hard disk has a small led indicator which can be turned off from the WD Discovery settings if required.I was able to backup all my YouTube video edits with ease and quickly, also was able to back up my Dropbox.I don’t see any cons as of now, and since I haven’t contacted the customer service I can’t comment on that part.————————-💖 WHAT I LIKED————————-◾ 3 years warranty◾ Good looking and light weight◾ Automatic backup, Password protection + 256bit Encryption◾ Fast read and write speeds——————-🥇 OVERALL——————-A great hard disk at a good pricing. This new edition should be more stable and when take care well like not moving the hard disk while it being used, doing a safe eject of the hard disk, not dropping etc. this hard disk should last longer in my perspective, only time will tell. Overall am happy with my purchase as it meets my expectations.

Empieza a ser habitual que los fabricantes de tecnología saquen al mercado nuevas versiones de productos bajando su calidad y prestaciones. Incluso se han eliminado las patas de goma que siempre han llevado los modelos superiores de este fabricante, lo que conlleva que transmita más facilmente las vibraciones al girar y que se deslice con demasiada facilidad.Este es el caso de este nuevo disco de Western Digital, que ha bajado en tamaño físico,-lo que está muy bien-, aumentado en capacidad,-que también esta bien-, pero bajando las prestaciones, lo que ya no está tan bien; nada bien, en realidad.Respecto de la serie anterior, el rendimiento es entre un 25% y un 35% inferior. Esto se traduce en que, al copiar contenido, donde la versión anterior mantenía unos dignos 80-90 MB/s ahora se obtienen 50-60MB/s. En mi opinión, esto es inaceptable. Por poner un ejemplo, para copiar 4 TB necesitarás más de 36 horas, 12 horas más que con la serie anterior. Y hablando de Teras, ya sabréis que la industria juega a manipular los datos sobre capacidades hablando de teras no informaticos (base 10) en vez de los que cualquier usuario espera (base 8). No os extrañe por tanto comprobar que vuestro PC informe que el disco tiene una capacidad de 4,54 TB en vez de los 5 TB anunciados. Me parece poco ético que utilicen una medición fuera del ámbito PC y más propios de la industria de las telecomunicaciones.Por todo ello, y en mi opinión, no es un producto recomendable.Añado que es mucho más ruidoso que la serie anterior. Yo creo que es debido al fino plástico de la carcasa que hace de caja de resonancia cuando gira.

Good productBut little price up

I bought this case for the SSD unit. I took it to Iceland to back-up my images. At times in the vehicle I was in it got so cold that the drinking water bottles froze. The SSD still worked though and the case protected if from all the knocks that such things get during travelling. There wasn’t any signs of damage after 9 days and it protected the SSD throughout the whole trip. It is simply a very sturdy case that offers great protection. 5-star rating from me.

ottima custodia per il mio WD passport da 4TB. mi trovo benissimo anche se la cerniera non mi sembra solidissima

The first thing i liked about this product is its lightweight for the storage of 2TB.I received a genuine product from Amazon at a pretty good deal of ₹4499.The speed test conducted using CrystalDiskMark6 provided me Read speed at 133.6 MB/s and Write speed at 122.7 MB/sLoved it totally!

 I create YouTube videos for my wife’s cooking channel and storage has been a big want for us. I have a WD MyCloud 2TB with a Seagate 4TB Backup Plus as a backup and both required power, but I need a 4TB portable hard disk and ended up in buying this Western Digital 4TB My Passport Portable hard disk (New Edition) for Rs.8198.————————————————📦 IN THE BOX & HDD CONTENTS————————————————◾ 4TB Blue Portable Harddisk in a bubble case◾ Superspeed USB cable◾ Quick Install Guide◾ WD Discovery software for WD Backup◾ WD Security and WD Drive Utilities—————————————-🗓️ MY USAGE & EXPERIENCE—————————————-The product has been manufactured in Thailand and imported to India and this New Edition WD My Passport is supposed to have lesser failures and supposed to be more robust than the previous version.Upon connecting 3.63TB was free and 297MB was used by the formatting of the disk which stores the disk geometry that allows hard disk to accept, store, and retrieve data. The hard disk was formatted with NTFS.This hard disk fits inside the palm of the hand and is quite small for a 4TB, 10.7cm length, 7.5cm breadth and 1.8cm depth, and is not heavy too.Being a portable hard disk, it doesn’t require any power. I was able to connect it with my Xbox, WD MyCloud, Laptop and Desktop with ease and it detects quite fast.The write speeds were at 110 MB/s in actual and read speeds was around 115 MB/s. The disk reports were also almost similar at 120-127 MB/s. (see attached report). But the speeds changes depending on the free disk space, how much the disk is fragmented and whether there are any bad sectors, etc. This is quite impressive in my opinion.I didn’t see any heating up issues with this new edition and temperature always remained under 37 degree C even under heavy writes in my testing with room temperature around 27- degree C.The WD Discovery software is super cool, it can import files from social media and maintain a backup. Just need to sign into Facebook or Instagram or Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. It can also take a backup from WD MyCloud devices.The WD Security app provides a way to setup a password for the hard disk and contents can be encrypted, so when data is written it’s encrypted and when data is read it’s decrypted when password is used. I haven’t tried any brute force recovery of data on this disk yet but the encryption seems to be good enough for home use. I didn’t set the password as if password is forgotten I can’t recover it back and only way to re-use the disk is by formatting.The hard disk has a small led indicator which can be turned off from the WD Discovery settings if required.I was able to backup all my YouTube video edits with ease and quickly, also was able to back up my Dropbox.I don’t see any cons as of now, and since I haven’t contacted the customer service I can’t comment on that part.————————-💖 WHAT I LIKED————————-◾ 3 years warranty◾ Good looking and light weight◾ Automatic backup, Password protection + 256bit Encryption◾ Fast read and write speeds——————-🥇 OVERALL——————-A great hard disk at a good pricing. This new edition should be more stable and when take care well like not moving the hard disk while it being used, doing a safe eject of the hard disk, not dropping etc. this hard disk should last longer in my perspective, only time will tell. Overall am happy with my purchase as it meets my expectations.

Empieza a ser habitual que los fabricantes de tecnología saquen al mercado nuevas versiones de productos bajando su calidad y prestaciones. Incluso se han eliminado las patas de goma que siempre han llevado los modelos superiores de este fabricante, lo que conlleva que transmita más facilmente las vibraciones al girar y que se deslice con demasiada facilidad.Este es el caso de este nuevo disco de Western Digital, que ha bajado en tamaño físico,-lo que está muy bien-, aumentado en capacidad,-que también esta bien-, pero bajando las prestaciones, lo que ya no está tan bien; nada bien, en realidad.Respecto de la serie anterior, el rendimiento es entre un 25% y un 35% inferior. Esto se traduce en que, al copiar contenido, donde la versión anterior mantenía unos dignos 80-90 MB/s ahora se obtienen 50-60MB/s. En mi opinión, esto es inaceptable. Por poner un ejemplo, para copiar 4 TB necesitarás más de 36 horas, 12 horas más que con la serie anterior. Y hablando de Teras, ya sabréis que la industria juega a manipular los datos sobre capacidades hablando de teras no informaticos (base 10) en vez de los que cualquier usuario espera (base 8). No os extrañe por tanto comprobar que vuestro PC informe que el disco tiene una capacidad de 4,54 TB en vez de los 5 TB anunciados. Me parece poco ético que utilicen una medición fuera del ámbito PC y más propios de la industria de las telecomunicaciones.Por todo ello, y en mi opinión, no es un producto recomendable.Añado que es mucho más ruidoso que la serie anterior. Yo creo que es debido al fino plástico de la carcasa que hace de caja de resonancia cuando gira.

Brilliant

 I create YouTube videos for my wife’s cooking channel and storage has been a big want for us. I have a WD MyCloud 2TB with a Seagate 4TB Backup Plus as a backup and both required power, but I need a 4TB portable hard disk and ended up in buying this Western Digital 4TB My Passport Portable hard disk (New Edition) for Rs.8198.————————————————📦 IN THE BOX & HDD CONTENTS————————————————◾ 4TB Blue Portable Harddisk in a bubble case◾ Superspeed USB cable◾ Quick Install Guide◾ WD Discovery software for WD Backup◾ WD Security and WD Drive Utilities—————————————-🗓️ MY USAGE & EXPERIENCE—————————————-The product has been manufactured in Thailand and imported to India and this New Edition WD My Passport is supposed to have lesser failures and supposed to be more robust than the previous version.Upon connecting 3.63TB was free and 297MB was used by the formatting of the disk which stores the disk geometry that allows hard disk to accept, store, and retrieve data. The hard disk was formatted with NTFS.This hard disk fits inside the palm of the hand and is quite small for a 4TB, 10.7cm length, 7.5cm breadth and 1.8cm depth, and is not heavy too.Being a portable hard disk, it doesn’t require any power. I was able to connect it with my Xbox, WD MyCloud, Laptop and Desktop with ease and it detects quite fast.The write speeds were at 110 MB/s in actual and read speeds was around 115 MB/s. The disk reports were also almost similar at 120-127 MB/s. (see attached report). But the speeds changes depending on the free disk space, how much the disk is fragmented and whether there are any bad sectors, etc. This is quite impressive in my opinion.I didn’t see any heating up issues with this new edition and temperature always remained under 37 degree C even under heavy writes in my testing with room temperature around 27- degree C.The WD Discovery software is super cool, it can import files from social media and maintain a backup. Just need to sign into Facebook or Instagram or Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. It can also take a backup from WD MyCloud devices.The WD Security app provides a way to setup a password for the hard disk and contents can be encrypted, so when data is written it’s encrypted and when data is read it’s decrypted when password is used. I haven’t tried any brute force recovery of data on this disk yet but the encryption seems to be good enough for home use. I didn’t set the password as if password is forgotten I can’t recover it back and only way to re-use the disk is by formatting.The hard disk has a small led indicator which can be turned off from the WD Discovery settings if required.I was able to backup all my YouTube video edits with ease and quickly, also was able to back up my Dropbox.I don’t see any cons as of now, and since I haven’t contacted the customer service I can’t comment on that part.————————-💖 WHAT I LIKED————————-◾ 3 years warranty◾ Good looking and light weight◾ Automatic backup, Password protection + 256bit Encryption◾ Fast read and write speeds——————-🥇 OVERALL——————-A great hard disk at a good pricing. This new edition should be more stable and when take care well like not moving the hard disk while it being used, doing a safe eject of the hard disk, not dropping etc. this hard disk should last longer in my perspective, only time will tell. Overall am happy with my purchase as it meets my expectations.

Empieza a ser habitual que los fabricantes de tecnología saquen al mercado nuevas versiones de productos bajando su calidad y prestaciones. Incluso se han eliminado las patas de goma que siempre han llevado los modelos superiores de este fabricante, lo que conlleva que transmita más facilmente las vibraciones al girar y que se deslice con demasiada facilidad.Este es el caso de este nuevo disco de Western Digital, que ha bajado en tamaño físico,-lo que está muy bien-, aumentado en capacidad,-que también esta bien-, pero bajando las prestaciones, lo que ya no está tan bien; nada bien, en realidad.Respecto de la serie anterior, el rendimiento es entre un 25% y un 35% inferior. Esto se traduce en que, al copiar contenido, donde la versión anterior mantenía unos dignos 80-90 MB/s ahora se obtienen 50-60MB/s. En mi opinión, esto es inaceptable. Por poner un ejemplo, para copiar 4 TB necesitarás más de 36 horas, 12 horas más que con la serie anterior. Y hablando de Teras, ya sabréis que la industria juega a manipular los datos sobre capacidades hablando de teras no informaticos (base 10) en vez de los que cualquier usuario espera (base 8). No os extrañe por tanto comprobar que vuestro PC informe que el disco tiene una capacidad de 4,54 TB en vez de los 5 TB anunciados. Me parece poco ético que utilicen una medición fuera del ámbito PC y más propios de la industria de las telecomunicaciones.Por todo ello, y en mi opinión, no es un producto recomendable.Añado que es mucho más ruidoso que la serie anterior. Yo creo que es debido al fino plástico de la carcasa que hace de caja de resonancia cuando gira.

Received this HDD on time as usual. Good quality. I feel its better compared to the last gen model which was a bit heavy & thick. This one feels good to use. Easily works on Mac with MyPassport softwares & password lock. The data transfer speeds are also very good. Surely recommended.

I just used it twice. 1st tym i put my data into it which was around 800 gb. 2nd tym when I connected it, it’s file system crashed. I had to format my HDD and lost all my data.

Awesome Product.. it’s light weight it’s fast it’s awesome! Received on time! Packing was Impressively Good, overall I m happy having WD… Speed on 3.0 is around 60-90mbps & on 2.0 is 10-25mbps

Note this certainly -A hard drive can fail. No matter which one – internal/external/SSD/whatever. The chances of failing however varies from products to product.The good news is WD is amazing when it comes to a replacement within a warranty period. No questions asked!About this product, I was surprised to see WD reduce the thickness to nearly half the previous one I had!Hard drives are very, very, sensitive. Just take good care, don’t plug/unplug too much, take regular backups and you’re good to go.

 I create YouTube videos for my wife’s cooking channel and storage has been a big want for us. I have a WD MyCloud 2TB with a Seagate 4TB Backup Plus as a backup and both required power, but I need a 4TB portable hard disk and ended up in buying this Western Digital 4TB My Passport Portable hard disk (New Edition) for Rs.8198.————————————————📦 IN THE BOX & HDD CONTENTS————————————————◾ 4TB Blue Portable Harddisk in a bubble case◾ Superspeed USB cable◾ Quick Install Guide◾ WD Discovery software for WD Backup◾ WD Security and WD Drive Utilities—————————————-🗓️ MY USAGE & EXPERIENCE—————————————-The product has been manufactured in Thailand and imported to India and this New Edition WD My Passport is supposed to have lesser failures and supposed to be more robust than the previous version.Upon connecting 3.63TB was free and 297MB was used by the formatting of the disk which stores the disk geometry that allows hard disk to accept, store, and retrieve data. The hard disk was formatted with NTFS.This hard disk fits inside the palm of the hand and is quite small for a 4TB, 10.7cm length, 7.5cm breadth and 1.8cm depth, and is not heavy too.Being a portable hard disk, it doesn’t require any power. I was able to connect it with my Xbox, WD MyCloud, Laptop and Desktop with ease and it detects quite fast.The write speeds were at 110 MB/s in actual and read speeds was around 115 MB/s. The disk reports were also almost similar at 120-127 MB/s. (see attached report). But the speeds changes depending on the free disk space, how much the disk is fragmented and whether there are any bad sectors, etc. This is quite impressive in my opinion.I didn’t see any heating up issues with this new edition and temperature always remained under 37 degree C even under heavy writes in my testing with room temperature around 27- degree C.The WD Discovery software is super cool, it can import files from social media and maintain a backup. Just need to sign into Facebook or Instagram or Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. It can also take a backup from WD MyCloud devices.The WD Security app provides a way to setup a password for the hard disk and contents can be encrypted, so when data is written it’s encrypted and when data is read it’s decrypted when password is used. I haven’t tried any brute force recovery of data on this disk yet but the encryption seems to be good enough for home use. I didn’t set the password as if password is forgotten I can’t recover it back and only way to re-use the disk is by formatting.The hard disk has a small led indicator which can be turned off from the WD Discovery settings if required.I was able to backup all my YouTube video edits with ease and quickly, also was able to back up my Dropbox.I don’t see any cons as of now, and since I haven’t contacted the customer service I can’t comment on that part.————————-💖 WHAT I LIKED————————-◾ 3 years warranty◾ Good looking and light weight◾ Automatic backup, Password protection + 256bit Encryption◾ Fast read and write speeds——————-🥇 OVERALL——————-A great hard disk at a good pricing. This new edition should be more stable and when take care well like not moving the hard disk while it being used, doing a safe eject of the hard disk, not dropping etc. this hard disk should last longer in my perspective, only time will tell. Overall am happy with my purchase as it meets my expectations.

Empieza a ser habitual que los fabricantes de tecnología saquen al mercado nuevas versiones de productos bajando su calidad y prestaciones. Incluso se han eliminado las patas de goma que siempre han llevado los modelos superiores de este fabricante, lo que conlleva que transmita más facilmente las vibraciones al girar y que se deslice con demasiada facilidad.Este es el caso de este nuevo disco de Western Digital, que ha bajado en tamaño físico,-lo que está muy bien-, aumentado en capacidad,-que también esta bien-, pero bajando las prestaciones, lo que ya no está tan bien; nada bien, en realidad.Respecto de la serie anterior, el rendimiento es entre un 25% y un 35% inferior. Esto se traduce en que, al copiar contenido, donde la versión anterior mantenía unos dignos 80-90 MB/s ahora se obtienen 50-60MB/s. En mi opinión, esto es inaceptable. Por poner un ejemplo, para copiar 4 TB necesitarás más de 36 horas, 12 horas más que con la serie anterior. Y hablando de Teras, ya sabréis que la industria juega a manipular los datos sobre capacidades hablando de teras no informaticos (base 10) en vez de los que cualquier usuario espera (base 8). No os extrañe por tanto comprobar que vuestro PC informe que el disco tiene una capacidad de 4,54 TB en vez de los 5 TB anunciados. Me parece poco ético que utilicen una medición fuera del ámbito PC y más propios de la industria de las telecomunicaciones.Por todo ello, y en mi opinión, no es un producto recomendable.Añado que es mucho más ruidoso que la serie anterior. Yo creo que es debido al fino plástico de la carcasa que hace de caja de resonancia cuando gira.

Received this HDD on time as usual. Good quality. I feel its better compared to the last gen model which was a bit heavy & thick. This one feels good to use. Easily works on Mac with MyPassport softwares & password lock. The data transfer speeds are also very good. Surely recommended.

I bought this case for the SSD unit. I took it to Iceland to back-up my images. At times in the vehicle I was in it got so cold that the drinking water bottles froze. The SSD still worked though and the case protected if from all the knocks that such things get during travelling. There wasn’t any signs of damage after 9 days and it protected the SSD throughout the whole trip. It is simply a very sturdy case that offers great protection. 5-star rating from me.

ottima custodia per il mio WD passport da 4TB. mi trovo benissimo anche se la cerniera non mi sembra solidissima

 I create YouTube videos for my wife’s cooking channel and storage has been a big want for us. I have a WD MyCloud 2TB with a Seagate 4TB Backup Plus as a backup and both required power, but I need a 4TB portable hard disk and ended up in buying this Western Digital 4TB My Passport Portable hard disk (New Edition) for Rs.8198.————————————————📦 IN THE BOX & HDD CONTENTS————————————————◾ 4TB Blue Portable Harddisk in a bubble case◾ Superspeed USB cable◾ Quick Install Guide◾ WD Discovery software for WD Backup◾ WD Security and WD Drive Utilities—————————————-🗓️ MY USAGE & EXPERIENCE—————————————-The product has been manufactured in Thailand and imported to India and this New Edition WD My Passport is supposed to have lesser failures and supposed to be more robust than the previous version.Upon connecting 3.63TB was free and 297MB was used by the formatting of the disk which stores the disk geometry that allows hard disk to accept, store, and retrieve data. The hard disk was formatted with NTFS.This hard disk fits inside the palm of the hand and is quite small for a 4TB, 10.7cm length, 7.5cm breadth and 1.8cm depth, and is not heavy too.Being a portable hard disk, it doesn’t require any power. I was able to connect it with my Xbox, WD MyCloud, Laptop and Desktop with ease and it detects quite fast.The write speeds were at 110 MB/s in actual and read speeds was around 115 MB/s. The disk reports were also almost similar at 120-127 MB/s. (see attached report). But the speeds changes depending on the free disk space, how much the disk is fragmented and whether there are any bad sectors, etc. This is quite impressive in my opinion.I didn’t see any heating up issues with this new edition and temperature always remained under 37 degree C even under heavy writes in my testing with room temperature around 27- degree C.The WD Discovery software is super cool, it can import files from social media and maintain a backup. Just need to sign into Facebook or Instagram or Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. It can also take a backup from WD MyCloud devices.The WD Security app provides a way to setup a password for the hard disk and contents can be encrypted, so when data is written it’s encrypted and when data is read it’s decrypted when password is used. I haven’t tried any brute force recovery of data on this disk yet but the encryption seems to be good enough for home use. I didn’t set the password as if password is forgotten I can’t recover it back and only way to re-use the disk is by formatting.The hard disk has a small led indicator which can be turned off from the WD Discovery settings if required.I was able to backup all my YouTube video edits with ease and quickly, also was able to back up my Dropbox.I don’t see any cons as of now, and since I haven’t contacted the customer service I can’t comment on that part.————————-💖 WHAT I LIKED————————-◾ 3 years warranty◾ Good looking and light weight◾ Automatic backup, Password protection + 256bit Encryption◾ Fast read and write speeds——————-🥇 OVERALL——————-A great hard disk at a good pricing. This new edition should be more stable and when take care well like not moving the hard disk while it being used, doing a safe eject of the hard disk, not dropping etc. this hard disk should last longer in my perspective, only time will tell. Overall am happy with my purchase as it meets my expectations.

This is my 10th Seagate HDD purchase. I really love seagate external hard drives. I have 1 TB, 1.5 TB and 2 TB. A few days ago, when i saw this new model edition and i thought of giving it try. I liked the design but the problem is its in ”exFAT” system format. Usually, most of the drive will be in NTFS which is quite user friendly. But this ”exFAT” has biggest problem with transfer speed. So, i have to format to NTFS and now, transfer speed is good. So, as of now, its better to go for older model than new one. Because full formatting takes hours and it just painful and consumes time. Yes, you can go for quick format but full format identifies bad sectors and it literally completes formatting procedure.Of course, ”exFAT” is advance file system of FAT32. And also it detected with Sony LED TV. But the problem is transfer speed. And also i read the file system formats in Seagate website, especially about ”exFAT” file system, kindly see below:”exFAT: generally compatible with Mac and Windows. exFAT is not a journaled file system which means it can be more susceptible to data corruption when errors occur or the drive is not disconnected properly from the computer”This is not user friendly but you have to format it to NTFS to make it as user friendly. Therefore, i leave it up to you, guys! and its your call for going for this new edition of Seagate.

NOTE: All are tested on windows 10 with USB 3.0 compatible port & cable.writing speed: I got maximum of 109MB/s for *.zip file avg 50MB/s for some *.mkv files to exFAT & NTFS formatreading Speed: avg 100MB/s for same *.zip file maximum 110MB/s for *.mkv file I am facing heating issue while transferring files & connected standby.

 I create YouTube videos for my wife’s cooking channel and storage has been a big want for us. I have a WD MyCloud 2TB with a Seagate 4TB Backup Plus as a backup and both required power, but I need a 4TB portable hard disk and ended up in buying this Western Digital 4TB My Passport Portable hard disk (New Edition) for Rs.8198.————————————————📦 IN THE BOX & HDD CONTENTS————————————————◾ 4TB Blue Portable Harddisk in a bubble case◾ Superspeed USB cable◾ Quick Install Guide◾ WD Discovery software for WD Backup◾ WD Security and WD Drive Utilities—————————————-🗓️ MY USAGE & EXPERIENCE—————————————-The product has been manufactured in Thailand and imported to India and this New Edition WD My Passport is supposed to have lesser failures and supposed to be more robust than the previous version.Upon connecting 3.63TB was free and 297MB was used by the formatting of the disk which stores the disk geometry that allows hard disk to accept, store, and retrieve data. The hard disk was formatted with NTFS.This hard disk fits inside the palm of the hand and is quite small for a 4TB, 10.7cm length, 7.5cm breadth and 1.8cm depth, and is not heavy too.Being a portable hard disk, it doesn’t require any power. I was able to connect it with my Xbox, WD MyCloud, Laptop and Desktop with ease and it detects quite fast.The write speeds were at 110 MB/s in actual and read speeds was around 115 MB/s. The disk reports were also almost similar at 120-127 MB/s. (see attached report). But the speeds changes depending on the free disk space, how much the disk is fragmented and whether there are any bad sectors, etc. This is quite impressive in my opinion.I didn’t see any heating up issues with this new edition and temperature always remained under 37 degree C even under heavy writes in my testing with room temperature around 27- degree C.The WD Discovery software is super cool, it can import files from social media and maintain a backup. Just need to sign into Facebook or Instagram or Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. It can also take a backup from WD MyCloud devices.The WD Security app provides a way to setup a password for the hard disk and contents can be encrypted, so when data is written it’s encrypted and when data is read it’s decrypted when password is used. I haven’t tried any brute force recovery of data on this disk yet but the encryption seems to be good enough for home use. I didn’t set the password as if password is forgotten I can’t recover it back and only way to re-use the disk is by formatting.The hard disk has a small led indicator which can be turned off from the WD Discovery settings if required.I was able to backup all my YouTube video edits with ease and quickly, also was able to back up my Dropbox.I don’t see any cons as of now, and since I haven’t contacted the customer service I can’t comment on that part.————————-💖 WHAT I LIKED————————-◾ 3 years warranty◾ Good looking and light weight◾ Automatic backup, Password protection + 256bit Encryption◾ Fast read and write speeds——————-🥇 OVERALL——————-A great hard disk at a good pricing. This new edition should be more stable and when take care well like not moving the hard disk while it being used, doing a safe eject of the hard disk, not dropping etc. this hard disk should last longer in my perspective, only time will tell. Overall am happy with my purchase as it meets my expectations.

This is my 10th Seagate HDD purchase. I really love seagate external hard drives. I have 1 TB, 1.5 TB and 2 TB. A few days ago, when i saw this new model edition and i thought of giving it try. I liked the design but the problem is its in ”exFAT” system format. Usually, most of the drive will be in NTFS which is quite user friendly. But this ”exFAT” has biggest problem with transfer speed. So, i have to format to NTFS and now, transfer speed is good. So, as of now, its better to go for older model than new one. Because full formatting takes hours and it just painful and consumes time. Yes, you can go for quick format but full format identifies bad sectors and it literally completes formatting procedure.Of course, ”exFAT” is advance file system of FAT32. And also it detected with Sony LED TV. But the problem is transfer speed. And also i read the file system formats in Seagate website, especially about ”exFAT” file system, kindly see below:”exFAT: generally compatible with Mac and Windows. exFAT is not a journaled file system which means it can be more susceptible to data corruption when errors occur or the drive is not disconnected properly from the computer”This is not user friendly but you have to format it to NTFS to make it as user friendly. Therefore, i leave it up to you, guys! and its your call for going for this new edition of Seagate.

NOTE: All are tested on windows 10 with USB 3.0 compatible port & cable.writing speed: I got maximum of 109MB/s for *.zip file avg 50MB/s for some *.mkv files to exFAT & NTFS formatreading Speed: avg 100MB/s for same *.zip file maximum 110MB/s for *.mkv file I am facing heating issue while transferring files & connected standby.

 I create YouTube videos for my wife’s cooking channel and storage has been a big want for us. I have a WD MyCloud 2TB with a Seagate 4TB Backup Plus as a backup and both required power, but I need a 4TB portable hard disk and ended up in buying this Western Digital 4TB My Passport Portable hard disk (New Edition) for Rs.8198.————————————————📦 IN THE BOX & HDD CONTENTS————————————————◾ 4TB Blue Portable Harddisk in a bubble case◾ Superspeed USB cable◾ Quick Install Guide◾ WD Discovery software for WD Backup◾ WD Security and WD Drive Utilities—————————————-🗓️ MY USAGE & EXPERIENCE—————————————-The product has been manufactured in Thailand and imported to India and this New Edition WD My Passport is supposed to have lesser failures and supposed to be more robust than the previous version.Upon connecting 3.63TB was free and 297MB was used by the formatting of the disk which stores the disk geometry that allows hard disk to accept, store, and retrieve data. The hard disk was formatted with NTFS.This hard disk fits inside the palm of the hand and is quite small for a 4TB, 10.7cm length, 7.5cm breadth and 1.8cm depth, and is not heavy too.Being a portable hard disk, it doesn’t require any power. I was able to connect it with my Xbox, WD MyCloud, Laptop and Desktop with ease and it detects quite fast.The write speeds were at 110 MB/s in actual and read speeds was around 115 MB/s. The disk reports were also almost similar at 120-127 MB/s. (see attached report). But the speeds changes depending on the free disk space, how much the disk is fragmented and whether there are any bad sectors, etc. This is quite impressive in my opinion.I didn’t see any heating up issues with this new edition and temperature always remained under 37 degree C even under heavy writes in my testing with room temperature around 27- degree C.The WD Discovery software is super cool, it can import files from social media and maintain a backup. Just need to sign into Facebook or Instagram or Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. It can also take a backup from WD MyCloud devices.The WD Security app provides a way to setup a password for the hard disk and contents can be encrypted, so when data is written it’s encrypted and when data is read it’s decrypted when password is used. I haven’t tried any brute force recovery of data on this disk yet but the encryption seems to be good enough for home use. I didn’t set the password as if password is forgotten I can’t recover it back and only way to re-use the disk is by formatting.The hard disk has a small led indicator which can be turned off from the WD Discovery settings if required.I was able to backup all my YouTube video edits with ease and quickly, also was able to back up my Dropbox.I don’t see any cons as of now, and since I haven’t contacted the customer service I can’t comment on that part.————————-💖 WHAT I LIKED————————-◾ 3 years warranty◾ Good looking and light weight◾ Automatic backup, Password protection + 256bit Encryption◾ Fast read and write speeds——————-🥇 OVERALL——————-A great hard disk at a good pricing. This new edition should be more stable and when take care well like not moving the hard disk while it being used, doing a safe eject of the hard disk, not dropping etc. this hard disk should last longer in my perspective, only time will tell. Overall am happy with my purchase as it meets my expectations.

I just used it twice. 1st tym i put my data into it which was around 800 gb. 2nd tym when I connected it, it’s file system crashed. I had to format my HDD and lost all my data.

Awesome Product.. it’s light weight it’s fast it’s awesome! Received on time! Packing was Impressively Good, overall I m happy having WD… Speed on 3.0 is around 60-90mbps & on 2.0 is 10-25mbps

 I create YouTube videos for my wife’s cooking channel and storage has been a big want for us. I have a WD MyCloud 2TB with a Seagate 4TB Backup Plus as a backup and both required power, but I need a 4TB portable hard disk and ended up in buying this Western Digital 4TB My Passport Portable hard disk (New Edition) for Rs.8198.————————————————📦 IN THE BOX & HDD CONTENTS————————————————◾ 4TB Blue Portable Harddisk in a bubble case◾ Superspeed USB cable◾ Quick Install Guide◾ WD Discovery software for WD Backup◾ WD Security and WD Drive Utilities—————————————-🗓️ MY USAGE & EXPERIENCE—————————————-The product has been manufactured in Thailand and imported to India and this New Edition WD My Passport is supposed to have lesser failures and supposed to be more robust than the previous version.Upon connecting 3.63TB was free and 297MB was used by the formatting of the disk which stores the disk geometry that allows hard disk to accept, store, and retrieve data. The hard disk was formatted with NTFS.This hard disk fits inside the palm of the hand and is quite small for a 4TB, 10.7cm length, 7.5cm breadth and 1.8cm depth, and is not heavy too.Being a portable hard disk, it doesn’t require any power. I was able to connect it with my Xbox, WD MyCloud, Laptop and Desktop with ease and it detects quite fast.The write speeds were at 110 MB/s in actual and read speeds was around 115 MB/s. The disk reports were also almost similar at 120-127 MB/s. (see attached report). But the speeds changes depending on the free disk space, how much the disk is fragmented and whether there are any bad sectors, etc. This is quite impressive in my opinion.I didn’t see any heating up issues with this new edition and temperature always remained under 37 degree C even under heavy writes in my testing with room temperature around 27- degree C.The WD Discovery software is super cool, it can import files from social media and maintain a backup. Just need to sign into Facebook or Instagram or Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. It can also take a backup from WD MyCloud devices.The WD Security app provides a way to setup a password for the hard disk and contents can be encrypted, so when data is written it’s encrypted and when data is read it’s decrypted when password is used. I haven’t tried any brute force recovery of data on this disk yet but the encryption seems to be good enough for home use. I didn’t set the password as if password is forgotten I can’t recover it back and only way to re-use the disk is by formatting.The hard disk has a small led indicator which can be turned off from the WD Discovery settings if required.I was able to backup all my YouTube video edits with ease and quickly, also was able to back up my Dropbox.I don’t see any cons as of now, and since I haven’t contacted the customer service I can’t comment on that part.————————-💖 WHAT I LIKED————————-◾ 3 years warranty◾ Good looking and light weight◾ Automatic backup, Password protection + 256bit Encryption◾ Fast read and write speeds——————-🥇 OVERALL——————-A great hard disk at a good pricing. This new edition should be more stable and when take care well like not moving the hard disk while it being used, doing a safe eject of the hard disk, not dropping etc. this hard disk should last longer in my perspective, only time will tell. Overall am happy with my purchase as it meets my expectations.

This is my 10th Seagate HDD purchase. I really love seagate external hard drives. I have 1 TB, 1.5 TB and 2 TB. A few days ago, when i saw this new model edition and i thought of giving it try. I liked the design but the problem is its in ”exFAT” system format. Usually, most of the drive will be in NTFS which is quite user friendly. But this ”exFAT” has biggest problem with transfer speed. So, i have to format to NTFS and now, transfer speed is good. So, as of now, its better to go for older model than new one. Because full formatting takes hours and it just painful and consumes time. Yes, you can go for quick format but full format identifies bad sectors and it literally completes formatting procedure.Of course, ”exFAT” is advance file system of FAT32. And also it detected with Sony LED TV. But the problem is transfer speed. And also i read the file system formats in Seagate website, especially about ”exFAT” file system, kindly see below:”exFAT: generally compatible with Mac and Windows. exFAT is not a journaled file system which means it can be more susceptible to data corruption when errors occur or the drive is not disconnected properly from the computer”This is not user friendly but you have to format it to NTFS to make it as user friendly. Therefore, i leave it up to you, guys! and its your call for going for this new edition of Seagate.

NOTE: All are tested on windows 10 with USB 3.0 compatible port & cable.writing speed: I got maximum of 109MB/s for *.zip file avg 50MB/s for some *.mkv files to exFAT & NTFS formatreading Speed: avg 100MB/s for same *.zip file maximum 110MB/s for *.mkv file I am facing heating issue while transferring files & connected standby.

 I create YouTube videos for my wife’s cooking channel and storage has been a big want for us. I have a WD MyCloud 2TB with a Seagate 4TB Backup Plus as a backup and both required power, but I need a 4TB portable hard disk and ended up in buying this Western Digital 4TB My Passport Portable hard disk (New Edition) for Rs.8198.————————————————📦 IN THE BOX & HDD CONTENTS————————————————◾ 4TB Blue Portable Harddisk in a bubble case◾ Superspeed USB cable◾ Quick Install Guide◾ WD Discovery software for WD Backup◾ WD Security and WD Drive Utilities—————————————-🗓️ MY USAGE & EXPERIENCE—————————————-The product has been manufactured in Thailand and imported to India and this New Edition WD My Passport is supposed to have lesser failures and supposed to be more robust than the previous version.Upon connecting 3.63TB was free and 297MB was used by the formatting of the disk which stores the disk geometry that allows hard disk to accept, store, and retrieve data. The hard disk was formatted with NTFS.This hard disk fits inside the palm of the hand and is quite small for a 4TB, 10.7cm length, 7.5cm breadth and 1.8cm depth, and is not heavy too.Being a portable hard disk, it doesn’t require any power. I was able to connect it with my Xbox, WD MyCloud, Laptop and Desktop with ease and it detects quite fast.The write speeds were at 110 MB/s in actual and read speeds was around 115 MB/s. The disk reports were also almost similar at 120-127 MB/s. (see attached report). But the speeds changes depending on the free disk space, how much the disk is fragmented and whether there are any bad sectors, etc. This is quite impressive in my opinion.I didn’t see any heating up issues with this new edition and temperature always remained under 37 degree C even under heavy writes in my testing with room temperature around 27- degree C.The WD Discovery software is super cool, it can import files from social media and maintain a backup. Just need to sign into Facebook or Instagram or Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. It can also take a backup from WD MyCloud devices.The WD Security app provides a way to setup a password for the hard disk and contents can be encrypted, so when data is written it’s encrypted and when data is read it’s decrypted when password is used. I haven’t tried any brute force recovery of data on this disk yet but the encryption seems to be good enough for home use. I didn’t set the password as if password is forgotten I can’t recover it back and only way to re-use the disk is by formatting.The hard disk has a small led indicator which can be turned off from the WD Discovery settings if required.I was able to backup all my YouTube video edits with ease and quickly, also was able to back up my Dropbox.I don’t see any cons as of now, and since I haven’t contacted the customer service I can’t comment on that part.————————-💖 WHAT I LIKED————————-◾ 3 years warranty◾ Good looking and light weight◾ Automatic backup, Password protection + 256bit Encryption◾ Fast read and write speeds——————-🥇 OVERALL——————-A great hard disk at a good pricing. This new edition should be more stable and when take care well like not moving the hard disk while it being used, doing a safe eject of the hard disk, not dropping etc. this hard disk should last longer in my perspective, only time will tell. Overall am happy with my purchase as it meets my expectations.

I just used it twice. 1st tym i put my data into it which was around 800 gb. 2nd tym when I connected it, it’s file system crashed. I had to format my HDD and lost all my data.

Awesome Product.. it’s light weight it’s fast it’s awesome! Received on time! Packing was Impressively Good, overall I m happy having WD… Speed on 3.0 is around 60-90mbps & on 2.0 is 10-25mbps

At the heart of the matter, the write speeds are low, in my case virtually “0”. Crystal disk mark for a 64Bit Windows machine is given.Would recommend some other Tier 1 brands instead of this if the drive is used for backup, you need good and sustained speeds, which this drive does not giveOn the positive the product looks good, much nicer than the earlier gen for sure.

 ☝️A PREVIEW TO PURCHASE :***********************************I like to keep backups of backups of my lifetime collected data & thus have over 15 TB of external harddisks in my arsenal with a dominant share of Western digital disks( both passport & elements ) & few others like Transcend , Samsung SSD & a seagate ( old usb 2.0 ).🔶️ Now , whenever we opt to go for a new external Disk purchase, the following challenges are encountered & if you are planning to invest thousands in purchase – my detailed review, even though a bit lengthy is worth reading.👉 HDDs vs SSDs :**********************While none of the mechanical HDDs can reach the blazing fast speeds of SSDs in excess of 500 MB/s R/W, The HDDs definitely offer a better value for money per MB of storage.Also if data is corrupted in a SSD its almost never retrievable while in a HDD , there is always a hope depending upon extent of damage.🔷️ So for majority bulk backup – HDD are a better option to costlier SSDs.👉 WD vs Seagate :*********************This is again a topmost struggle making a decision.🔸️Now both are giant reputed american storage brands & preference is mostly based upon personal usage experiences.🔸️I read somewhere that seagate offers better speeds& WD better reliability but i dont feel its true as speeds depend upon type of files being transferred & reliability upon manufacturing processes , which is hard to doubt for both brands.🔸️ Regarding price WD is a bit costlier to seagate for same capacity.🔸️ Both offer same warranties of 3 years.I had a wd failure & my friend had seagate failure – yet we both got replacements with data restored from their service centres.🔸️ Regarding inbuilt software , i suppose WD is better as it comes with WD discovery that can link with all your social portals for backup too.🔷️ So you can go for any of these brands – WD being my personal favourite.🔷️ To ensure failsafe operation , testing for bad sectors before use ( using WD utility or any other HDD inspection software like HD sentinel etc ) is always a good idea.🔷️ Store these drives horizontally in a dry case & not vertically or inclined , as in latter case the heads and platters tend to deform & get stuck.I learnt it the hard way.💝 I bought the latest 2019 4 TB passport drive and 3.63 TB of usable space was available in it.🔸️ The packing as usual was good enough with an instruction manual & 8 inches of connecting cable.5/5 ⭐🔸️ The HD enclosure is premium ABS plastic which can surely withstand few non- severe slips & falls.A periphery cushioning or base padding with shock absorbent rubber would additionaly be great.4.2 /5 ⭐🔸️ The design & looks of this new drive aren’t as elegant & classy, as previous passports & elements as my personal opinion.2/5 ⭐🔸️ The drive is very compact, sturdy & light weight too.5/5 ⭐🔸️ It was formatted in NTFS mode with 4096 bytes of allocation unit size.ExFat is another option & you can play with allocation size also for better speeds but a bit less space.5/5 ⭐🔸️ With a mixed media & software file folder transfer of 5 GB , i registered – a write speed of 112 MB /s & a read speed of 160 MB /s on my HP omen core i7 configuration , which i suppose is fair enough for a mechanical Hard drive.5/5 ⭐🔸️ The new Hard disk has softwares for mac & windows backup both.5/5 ⭐🔸️ The HD has a very small point like white led indication for status & won’t bother much in dark rooms.5/5 ⭐🔸️ The HD is very silent during operation & doesn’t heat much even after few hours of backup.5/5 ⭐🔸️ Warranty offered is 3 years which is contemporary to industry standards & similar to seagate.As already quoted earlier , i had one harddisk replaced & data restored in warranty like 6 years back by WD.So no issues there, noone is going to offer pick & drop at home – be assured.🤏 Final Verdict :**********************All in all , I have always been a WD guy & this new 2019 version further restores my faith in the same.

Empieza a ser habitual que los fabricantes de tecnología saquen al mercado nuevas versiones de productos bajando su calidad y prestaciones. Incluso se han eliminado las patas de goma que siempre han llevado los modelos superiores de este fabricante, lo que conlleva que transmita más facilmente las vibraciones al girar y que se deslice con demasiada facilidad.Este es el caso de este nuevo disco de Western Digital, que ha bajado en tamaño físico,-lo que está muy bien-, aumentado en capacidad,-que también esta bien-, pero bajando las prestaciones, lo que ya no está tan bien; nada bien, en realidad.Respecto de la serie anterior, el rendimiento es entre un 25% y un 35% inferior. Esto se traduce en que, al copiar contenido, donde la versión anterior mantenía unos dignos 80-90 MB/s ahora se obtienen 50-60MB/s. En mi opinión, esto es inaceptable. Por poner un ejemplo, para copiar 4 TB necesitarás más de 36 horas, 12 horas más que con la serie anterior. Y hablando de Teras, ya sabréis que la industria juega a manipular los datos sobre capacidades hablando de teras no informaticos (base 10) en vez de los que cualquier usuario espera (base 8). No os extrañe por tanto comprobar que vuestro PC informe que el disco tiene una capacidad de 4,54 TB en vez de los 5 TB anunciados. Me parece poco ético que utilicen una medición fuera del ámbito PC y más propios de la industria de las telecomunicaciones.Por todo ello, y en mi opinión, no es un producto recomendable.Añado que es mucho más ruidoso que la serie anterior. Yo creo que es debido al fino plástico de la carcasa que hace de caja de resonancia cuando gira.

At the heart of the matter, the write speeds are low, in my case virtually “0”. Crystal disk mark for a 64Bit Windows machine is given.Would recommend some other Tier 1 brands instead of this if the drive is used for backup, you need good and sustained speeds, which this drive does not giveOn the positive the product looks good, much nicer than the earlier gen for sure.

 ☝️A PREVIEW TO PURCHASE :***********************************I like to keep backups of backups of my lifetime collected data & thus have over 15 TB of external harddisks in my arsenal with a dominant share of Western digital disks( both passport & elements ) & few others like Transcend , Samsung SSD & a seagate ( old usb 2.0 ).🔶️ Now , whenever we opt to go for a new external Disk purchase, the following challenges are encountered & if you are planning to invest thousands in purchase – my detailed review, even though a bit lengthy is worth reading.👉 HDDs vs SSDs :**********************While none of the mechanical HDDs can reach the blazing fast speeds of SSDs in excess of 500 MB/s R/W, The HDDs definitely offer a better value for money per MB of storage.Also if data is corrupted in a SSD its almost never retrievable while in a HDD , there is always a hope depending upon extent of damage.🔷️ So for majority bulk backup – HDD are a better option to costlier SSDs.👉 WD vs Seagate :*********************This is again a topmost struggle making a decision.🔸️Now both are giant reputed american storage brands & preference is mostly based upon personal usage experiences.🔸️I read somewhere that seagate offers better speeds& WD better reliability but i dont feel its true as speeds depend upon type of files being transferred & reliability upon manufacturing processes , which is hard to doubt for both brands.🔸️ Regarding price WD is a bit costlier to seagate for same capacity.🔸️ Both offer same warranties of 3 years.I had a wd failure & my friend had seagate failure – yet we both got replacements with data restored from their service centres.🔸️ Regarding inbuilt software , i suppose WD is better as it comes with WD discovery that can link with all your social portals for backup too.🔷️ So you can go for any of these brands – WD being my personal favourite.🔷️ To ensure failsafe operation , testing for bad sectors before use ( using WD utility or any other HDD inspection software like HD sentinel etc ) is always a good idea.🔷️ Store these drives horizontally in a dry case & not vertically or inclined , as in latter case the heads and platters tend to deform & get stuck.I learnt it the hard way.💝 I bought the latest 2019 4 TB passport drive and 3.63 TB of usable space was available in it.🔸️ The packing as usual was good enough with an instruction manual & 8 inches of connecting cable.5/5 ⭐🔸️ The HD enclosure is premium ABS plastic which can surely withstand few non- severe slips & falls.A periphery cushioning or base padding with shock absorbent rubber would additionaly be great.4.2 /5 ⭐🔸️ The design & looks of this new drive aren’t as elegant & classy, as previous passports & elements as my personal opinion.2/5 ⭐🔸️ The drive is very compact, sturdy & light weight too.5/5 ⭐🔸️ It was formatted in NTFS mode with 4096 bytes of allocation unit size.ExFat is another option & you can play with allocation size also for better speeds but a bit less space.5/5 ⭐🔸️ With a mixed media & software file folder transfer of 5 GB , i registered – a write speed of 112 MB /s & a read speed of 160 MB /s on my HP omen core i7 configuration , which i suppose is fair enough for a mechanical Hard drive.5/5 ⭐🔸️ The new Hard disk has softwares for mac & windows backup both.5/5 ⭐🔸️ The HD has a very small point like white led indication for status & won’t bother much in dark rooms.5/5 ⭐🔸️ The HD is very silent during operation & doesn’t heat much even after few hours of backup.5/5 ⭐🔸️ Warranty offered is 3 years which is contemporary to industry standards & similar to seagate.As already quoted earlier , i had one harddisk replaced & data restored in warranty like 6 years back by WD.So no issues there, noone is going to offer pick & drop at home – be assured.🤏 Final Verdict :**********************All in all , I have always been a WD guy & this new 2019 version further restores my faith in the same.

Empieza a ser habitual que los fabricantes de tecnología saquen al mercado nuevas versiones de productos bajando su calidad y prestaciones. Incluso se han eliminado las patas de goma que siempre han llevado los modelos superiores de este fabricante, lo que conlleva que transmita más facilmente las vibraciones al girar y que se deslice con demasiada facilidad.Este es el caso de este nuevo disco de Western Digital, que ha bajado en tamaño físico,-lo que está muy bien-, aumentado en capacidad,-que también esta bien-, pero bajando las prestaciones, lo que ya no está tan bien; nada bien, en realidad.Respecto de la serie anterior, el rendimiento es entre un 25% y un 35% inferior. Esto se traduce en que, al copiar contenido, donde la versión anterior mantenía unos dignos 80-90 MB/s ahora se obtienen 50-60MB/s. En mi opinión, esto es inaceptable. Por poner un ejemplo, para copiar 4 TB necesitarás más de 36 horas, 12 horas más que con la serie anterior. Y hablando de Teras, ya sabréis que la industria juega a manipular los datos sobre capacidades hablando de teras no informaticos (base 10) en vez de los que cualquier usuario espera (base 8). No os extrañe por tanto comprobar que vuestro PC informe que el disco tiene una capacidad de 4,54 TB en vez de los 5 TB anunciados. Me parece poco ético que utilicen una medición fuera del ámbito PC y más propios de la industria de las telecomunicaciones.Por todo ello, y en mi opinión, no es un producto recomendable.Añado que es mucho más ruidoso que la serie anterior. Yo creo que es debido al fino plástico de la carcasa que hace de caja de resonancia cuando gira.

very poor product… hard drive did not even detected in my PC. I tried in o4 other PCs also… but same result…I m very much disappointed with Amazon as I have gifted this hard disk to my sister on occasion of Rakhi . I will suggest not to buy this from amazon.