- WESTERN DIGITAL 1TB MY PASSPORT SE FOR MAC REVIEW PORTABLE
- WESTERN DIGITAL 1TB MY PASSPORT SE FOR MAC REVIEW SOFTWARE
- WESTERN DIGITAL 1TB MY PASSPORT SE FOR MAC REVIEW PASSWORD
- WESTERN DIGITAL 1TB MY PASSPORT SE FOR MAC REVIEW WINDOWS
I was disappointed, because I have had great success WD Black internal drives in the past.WD today introduced its new one terabyte (TB) and 750 gigabyte (GB) capacity My Passport™ SE for Mac® portable USB drives. It has been less than a year so they might honor it. Was working 60-80 weeks at the time, I did not take the time to contact WD, to see if I could get a replacement drive. I did not take the time to register the product beforehand and had thrown our or misplaced the packaging, so I am not sure if WD would replace it. It did not go through any blunt force in my care. Overall Review: The drive sat on my desk for a few weeks in a safe well cooled location before it failed.
WESTERN DIGITAL 1TB MY PASSPORT SE FOR MAC REVIEW SOFTWARE
I opened the WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE on my primary computer and tried to engage the drive to see if it would recognize it, but my entire computer froze. I check the drive on several computers and it was not recognized. When the drive failed, the drive made a slight harsh fan/humming noise. It was plugged into my desktop and working one day.
WESTERN DIGITAL 1TB MY PASSPORT SE FOR MAC REVIEW PASSWORD
I set a password up, because it seemed like a good idea (my roommates computer was recently stolen). The software for the drive is a not entirely plug and play. Just enough time to start trusting the drive and lose a lot of data. There are great aftermarket cases for the product.Ĭons: It failed after a month, with no warning. Helped me organize my overloaded internal drives before it failed.
Western Digital's warranty policy isn't exactly the friendliest either with hard drive prices the way they are, they should be doing everything to keep their customers happy (offering to reimburse for RMA shipping, no questions asked policy, etc.) I should have done my research better - the random formatting into RAW and disconnecting/reconnecting seems to be a relatively common issue with this drive. Western Digital needs to go back to the drawing board with this drive.
WESTERN DIGITAL 1TB MY PASSPORT SE FOR MAC REVIEW WINDOWS
This only cause me trouble during a file transfer once, and it was while I was copying 100gb of files (the disconnect locked up Teracopy, which crippled Windows Explorer, which prevented me from properly shutting down Windows 7).
The drive would occasionally disconnect and reconnect a split second later (after which, my anti-virus would scan it).
Overall Review: This is something that I only noticed every now and again, and only because I had my anti-virus set to scan any removable media upon detection. I've tried everything short of an electromagnet to zero-out the drive, not even DBan can zero out the drive. But the random, reformatting, and the refusal to format into any other file structure - Fat, Fat32, NTFS, something other than RAW (which is literally useless, by the way) - has made me no longer trust Western Digital for external drives. I was very impressed with the drive initially, and recommended it to all my friends. No separate power supply is needed.Ĭons: Six months in, and it formatted itself into RAW and won't even zero out. USB PoweredLightweight, stylish and easy to carry, the Western Digital My Passport Essential SE with massive capacity is powered directly from the USB port on your PC.Password ProtectionThe Western Digital My Passport Essential SE provides password protection and encryption for securing your data from unauthorized access or theft.And if you prefer, you can choose not to use the software at all. In addition, the software lets you customize your backup, set drive security, run diagnostics, manage the power settings and more. WD SmartWare SoftwareThe Western Digital My Passport Essential SE offers the WD SmartWare software that provides automatic, continuous backup and data retrieve through a visual control center.When connected to a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 port, the drive lets you access and save files up to 3 times faster than USB 2.0. USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 CompatibilityWestern Digital’s My Passport Essential SE features universal compatibility with widely-used USB 2.0 and next-generation SuperSpeed USB 3.0.
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