WD 4TB My Passport for Mac portable external storage, USB 3.0, Mac Compatible external hard drive, software for device management, backup and password protection, Time Machine Ready, Midnight Blue

Review from a non expert here. Difficult to know which to buy if you don't know anyone who knows about these things. This was my fourth one of these and mostly great. One of them stopped working with the motor going after a few years so I would always have backup copies and probably replace every few years. That being said, I've just purchased 2 more

Compact external hard drive. I bought version set up for iMac. Pretty well plug and play. I use it as Time machine for backup of data on my Mac. It took a bit of time to get this going but probably my fault!

The product itself is excellent, but I had substantial issues getting it to work correctly. In my experience (others may find differently) it was not Time Machine Ready out of the box and required a significant amount of research and experimentation to get it to work. When first connected it backed up 2 or 3 times, then said 'back-up failed'. Googling and experimentation ensued. I downloaded the more comprehensive WD Utilities software and used it to ensure the sleep function was not the cause of the failure. It would then back up once after restarting, and the next backup would fail as the first one still said 'in progress'. Restarting meant it would again back up once, then fail the second time. Further Googling found instructions posted by someone allegedly from Apple Support to use Apple's First Aid function after restarting the computer in Recovery Mode, the object of which was to ensure both drives were in the same state, and fix minor issues in one or other of the drives. The drive was then deleted. I did this twice as it did not work the first time, and the second time I did all the drives on my computer including the WD backup. The problem notification changed to something else, I forget the exact wording, but it still failed after the first backup. Then yet more Googling suggested removing all the WD Utilities (which I downloaded separately as part of problem-solving) and WD Discovery (came pre-installed) software. I searched my hard drive and deleted all WD software. Then restarted the laptop and it backed up flawlessly. It has functioned perfectly ever since, backing up as regular as clockwork. As I said, it's working great now, but it took more than two weeks to sort. I contacted Amazon support and they promptly offered to replace it (great service from Amazon), and that was the point at which I got it working. All in all it is fine now, but the key issue for me is it says 'Time Machine ready' (which is why I bought it) meaning in my book it should be plug and play. In my experience it was not. Still, a happy ending overall. EDIT: after a further two months of working flawlessly the problem returned. I returned it and got a refund.

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I bought this to go with my new IMAC that has a SS HDrive which is only 1TB. I needed to expand the capacity of the computer and this seemed to fit the bill. So, how did it do? Set up was as simple as plugging it in and deciding if I needed to create partitions or not, I decided not to. I’ve now downloaded my music collection to it and “pointed” my iTunes to it thus freeing up my SS hard drive to manage my photos. I can see me buying another one for iPhoto but I’m unsure how to point that software at it. In conclusion, it’s very easy to set up and has been working flawlessly since I bought it over 6 months ago now.

Password protected and huge capacity in something the size of my phone. Fantastic buy at a great price. The instructions for setting up are not written clearly but eventually I got the password set up just fine.

I bought this drive in July 2020. It's worked, more or less, until now, September 2024. The connection within the drive itself, where the cable connects into the drive, has somehow failed. I have 3 different cables (from previous WD passport drives) and it has failed with each one. The problem is not the cable and it's not the port on my Mac. This is not my first WD Passport drive but it will be my last. The others all failed after a few years as well, always in the connection, same problem. Something happens inside the connector within the drive itself. The drive does somehow get power but my Mac will not sense it anymore. It will sense it one moment, sporadicly, then cuts out - and won't complete a full TimeMachine backup. In the 4 years I've had this I've only used just over half of the storage (just over 2 TB) in this drive and now it's useless. BEWARE WD drives!

I have an Apple iMac computer and use the auto back up time machine. My old hard drive which had served me well for many years was starting to play up so began my research for a replacement. I constantly found that the WD drives were highly recommended and although there are cheaper drives about I decided to buy this drive which was Apple ready. I connected it to my machine and was told it needed to format to be ready for time machine as the disc had data pre loaded, I clicked OK and it was ready in seconds. I then had it make a full back up of my computer about 300 GB which it did amazingly in about an hour!! It has been working perfectly ever since. I am extremely pleased with my purchase which was about £95 on Amazon compared to £145 on several well known sites. Yes I recommend this hard drive.

持ち運びに便利です。 今のところ問題なく使用できています。

No te puedes equivocar con Western Digital. Paquete muy pequeño para un almacenamiento enorme. Plug and Play: conecté el cable USB (incluido) y mi computadora lo reconoció de inmediato con un Diseño compacto y elegante. Viene con software incluido para la administración de dispositivos, la copia de seguridad y la protección con contraseña brindan una capa adicional de tranquilidad en cuanto a la integridad de mis datos. La capacidad de establecer una contraseña para el acceso a los archivos también es un plus significativo en términos de privacidad. Nunca uso el software que viene precargado en las unidades, así que no puedo hablar de eso aunque a mucha gente le vendra bien las opciones de backup, contraseña para el disco duro, ficheros etc. No he tenido ningún problema con el fallo de las unidades WD en el pasado ( conservo dos de 1TB cada una comprados en 2015 que siguen funcionando a dia de hoy perfectamente ) así que confío en que esto durará bastante tiempo. Como mencioné antes, no pondría archivos críticos en él a menos que tuviera otra copia de seguridad en alguna parte. Pero para uso general, portabilidad y cantidad de almacenamiento, funciona muy bien.

Idéal pour Time Machine. Je m'en sers que pour ça et il est très bon. Nom de zeus

La verdad escribo la reseña porque vi varias opiniones diciendo no era el anunciado y sí es el modelo especificado, revisen la página oficial de WD. En efecto, la entrada hacia el disco duro es micro-B, pero la salida es USB 3.2 y otro cable con salida tipo-c compatible con Time Machine, así es el modelo para Mac sacado en 2019, si buscan el disco que su entrada es tipo-c y salida tipo-c es el modelo My Passport Ultra (2018), un modelo distinto y más antiguo con adaptador a USB 3.0 no 3.2 como este. Por desempeño no lo he probado, si encuentro detalles al uso, modificare la opinión.

Ich musste Daten von meinem MacBook speichern. Und obwohl ich auf zwei verschiedenen FP mit genug freiem Speicher bzw vollkommen leer alles richtig gemacht habe, die Festplatte korrekt formatiert und alles, hat es einfach nicht geklappt. Ich bin alles, aber kein Nerd. Hatte also keine Idee wie ich weiter verfahren soll und habe dann diese spezielle FP für Mac getestet. Jaaa, das soll Quatsch sein, jede andere tut es auch und tat es bisher auch. Aber nun nichtmehr. Aber: diese tut was sie soll und ich bin sehr happy! Dad hat mvun nun so viele Stunden gekostet, Tutorials, Chat GPT, bla bla, ihr bin nur froh, diese FP gekauft zu haben. Angeschlossen. Backup gemacht. Fertig.