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Western Digital My Passport Portable USB3

Based on 19 reviews

Excellent:

6
Good:

11
Average:

1
Bad:

1

Pros

Top capacity.
Fast performance.
Good-looking.
Sturdy package.
Comes with useful software.
Relatively affordable.

Cons

Included backup software doesn't allow you to back up on a schedule.

By Maximum PC on April 29, 2013

At 2TB, WD’s My Passport is the largest-capacity USB hard drive we’ve ever tested, and its four chunky 500GB platters rotate at 5,400rpm. In the palm it feels about as thick as a huge English muffin with a piece of ham in the middle, or a...

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By Expert Reviews on September 07, 2012

A lot of storage in your pocket for a very reasonable price, plus it's pretty quick,...

100
By Tech2 on August 03, 2012

The high scores of the 2TB My Passport clearly show that Western Digital has used a good USB 3.0 controller. You get a solidly-built device and the bundled software does come in very handy for taking backups. The 2TB variant comes in at a hefty price...

80
By PCWorld New Zealand on August 02, 2012

Western Digital’s pint-sized My Passport external hard drive is a neatly designed unit that packs plenty of storage capacity – 2TB nominally, 1.81TB formatted as NTFS – into a case not much bigger than a mobile phone.No power adapter...

80
By itproportal.com on July 20, 2012

Rather than reinventing the wheel or introducing any ground-breaking innovations to the realm of portable hard drives, the Western Digital My Passport 2TB simply tweaks what already exists. This is not a bad thing – far from it, since most users...

70
By uk.hardware.info on July 12, 2012

An external disk with a high capacity, that is the Western Digital My Passport 2TB in a nutshell. At first glance the price, which currently averages about £175, is a bit steep. However, a quick bit of math shows that comes down to about 9p a...

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By APC Magazine on July 12, 2012

It used to be the case that if you wanted an external hard drive big enough to back up your entire system, you had to look to mains-powered desktop solutions. Not anymore. WD's new 2TB portable has more capacity than most existing internal drives...

90
By Photo Answers on July 11, 2012

The Western Digital My Passport is a small, portable hard drive with a huge capacity – 2TB to be precise (that’s 2000GB). No larger than a standard Passport drive with...

100
By HEXUS.net on July 05, 2012

Review: Western Digital My Passport 2TB USB 3.0by Tarinder Sandhu on 5 July 2012, 09:49 4.0 Tags: Western Digital (NYSE:WDC) Quick Link: HEXUS.net/qabi45 Add to My Vault: Ever-tumbling prices of solid-state disks (SSDs) make them tasty propositions...

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By Legit Reviews on June 11, 2012

Western Digital brings consumers peace of mind by allowing you to backup a ton of data in a small compact device that will fit in your pocket with the My Passport 2TB USB 3.0 portable external drive! ...

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