Portable External Hard Drive Can’t Boot From Here.I have it since March. Very small, light and the shape is rounded, which means no edges or hurting borders. I use it a lot to store my home videos. I just don’t know how to profit from the sofwares which are included. They seem useless for me. The cable for USB 3 is a lttle bit harder so you have to take care not to drop it. The USB 3 connection looks more easy to break than the regular USB2. You should always work with this HD on any flat surface. But this applies for ANY USB 3 port. The speed is better than the regular one.
Not mac friendly. Wanted to have portable bootable backups for my macs, so I bought this. Bad choice. It is formatted for windows and the mac formating kept failing. I had to go to the 4th level of tech support before anyone had a clue about hard drives. While waiting during one of the support calls, I finally got it to partition, but was then told by level 4 that partitions aren’t supported, and in a case of failure, the encryption (non-removable) would make data recovery impossible. Drag and drop maybe, but not bootable.
Edit- Just got a call from Western Digital customer relations who explained to me that I had been given misinformation and because of my poor tech support experience, they offered to comp me a hard drive that is suitable for my purposes.
Amazing… a terabyte in that small package. It’s fast. It’s huge… and it’s small. For the money, this is the best way to increase storage space for pictures and video for a desktop, and especially a laptop. I am sure it will be obsolete soon, but for now it is a great buy.
I just got my drive today and I was disappointed when it wouldn’t connect to my computer. I have to hold the drive in weird positions to stretch out the cable for it to work. I am not sure if it’s the connection on the hard drive or the cable that came with it.
I spoke to tech support who offered to send me a free cable. However, if something was wrong with the drive, that I would need to pay return shipping to get it fixed, even under the warranty.
I’m not going to take the chance of trying their cable or buying another on my own. I paid $120 for this and I expect it to work 100% of the time.
I got a WD passport and after a year it simply stopped working. It could no longer be seen in Windows Explorer suddenly one day for no reason. If you look this problem up on the web you’ll see that it happens to lots of people with this product. WD customer service said there was nothing I could do about it. They gave me the number for a third party data recovery service that would charge to get the data off the drive. This product is COMPLETELY UNRELIABLE as a source for back up data that you don’t want to lose!!!
