WD 1 TB WDBFKF0010BBK-WESN My Passport for Mac Portable Hard Drive - Black

I like using these external drives as a backup and archive for my Mac and PC. It is best though, to keep a dedicated WD passport to be used with Time Machine. Also Time Machine does try to back up to one of my other drives, you just need to say no to it, but you do need to re-select Passport again afterwards re-intiate automatic backups. Backup is easy, you just plug the Passport into the Mac and wait. What could be simpler. But always allow backup to complete before doing anything else.The Passports works well with my PC laptop too, when I render films to them. I do keep my Mac and PC drives separate though. I use USB memory sticks to pass files between my PC and Mac.I do stress, I buy the right format Passport drive for my Mac or PC.One most important golden rule; always eject the drive with the computers software before disconnecting. If the drive won't eject, turning off the computer has always worked for me.Over all I well satisfied with the WD Passport drives, and so far have five of them for different purposes and will buy more of them in the future.

Thanks to all previous buyers who kindly answered my question about the power source for this external hard drive.As the last time I bought a terrabyte hard drive was in 2009 I was pleasantly surprised how compact this WD is. It arrived well packed, a day earlier than anticipated and is now functioning as expected, as my iMac Time Machine backup, replacement. Plug it in --- off it went. First download about four hours, but after this it will be just topping up. Simplicity itself. And quiet. Looks like a very satisfactory piece of kit, but as with all these things, time will tell.

Hooked this up to an IMac via a USB 2 port (even though the USB port on the drive is USB 3, it is backward compatible with USB 2) and it worked perfectly right out of the box. There's a single LED showing drive activity which is located at the back of the drive where you cannot see it. Hmm! Somebody didn't think that through did they. I cannot comment of the speed of the drive when it is connected to a USB 3 port on a Mac since I have it connected to a USB 2 port. What I can say is that copying about 1.8TB of files onto it took about 20 hours. As a backup drive it's superb and it is also pretty quiet. Thoroughly recommended.

Initial review in 2017: it was so easy to set up. in fact there ws nothing I had to do except plug in the USB cable to my Apple iMac and the portable hard drive. Allowing Time Machine to go to work was also effortless and good to see working smoothly for the first back-up. I have one concern. The USB connecting the HDD does not fully push into the socket and is at a slightly downward angle as though it has been bent.5 years later: it stopped working! The backing up procedure was with Time Machine and start working and continued for 5 years. Could I expect a longer life, I don't know. The previous WD device (the exact same model) lasted just over 12 months and I wasn't so pleased about that. So in 6 years I've had two of these; maybe I will look at other storage devices and research some more before buying this again.

I've been a fan of the My Passport range for years and have loved their looks, performance and portability. I needed another back up disk because my current laptop's hard drive is larger and I have more data to back up. This 2 TB hard drive is portable and stylish and speedy enough for me when it comes to file transfers and the like. I got the Mac version but it could be reformatted if required.

Really good hard drive had good performance write speeds. It's a lot smaller than expected, which is actually a good thing. It makes it very portable and it's also very stylish. Perfect to carry round and made out of solid high quality components.

Small, lightweight, compact, perfect for carrying back and forth to uni. Great memory size and backup is a weight lifted off my shoulders as there's much less worry about losing anything. I use with my mac and it's very fast. Also one of the best prices I can find - definitely go with something like this rather than a cheaper option, it may seem pricey but its reliable and are ten-fold less likely to lose any of your work/files!!

After initially being recognised by the MacBook Pro laptop and having installed drivers the hard drive worked well and transferred media across quickly and played content as expected. However within 24 hours, having changed no settings nor turned off either device the hard drive could no longer be seen by the laptop and despite routing to the same folder and drive structures remains inoperable. Colleagues have similar problems with this specific model of WD hard drive and the device fails to load currently on other Macs. The device continues to draw power, but is currently only useful as a rather expensive paper weight.