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Western Digital My Passport Essential WDBACY5000ABL 500 GB External Hard Drive - Retail WDBACY5000ABL-NESN 1036
Christmas Day Western Digital My Passport Essential 500 GB USB 3.0/2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Pacific Blue) Sale 2011
- Dual USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatibility
- Connectivity today; speed tomorrow
- Up to 3x faster transfer rates with USB 3.0
- Automatic, continuous backup
- Hardware encryption, password protection
Western Digital My Passport Essential 500 GB USB 3.0/2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Pacific Blue) Reviews
| 30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:  Small, fast, high-capacity drive, By This review is from: Western Digital My Passport Essential 500 GB USB 3.0/2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Pacific Blue) (Personal Computers) It was time to create fresh backup of my laptop, so I got this blue, 500GB WD drive because it was one of the cheapest and I know the manufacturer (used their products before). The drive is definitely the smallest 2.5 inch portable drive I have ever seen personally. It was the first USB 3.0 device I have purchased, so discovering new, wider USB 3.0 connector on the drive side was a surprise to me. Please note that that the larger plug on the cable (the one you insert into the computer) is also USB 3.0, but fortunately it fits into any USB socket. If your computer does not have USB 3.0 hardware, you can use regular 'micro-USB' cable to connect: just plug it into the wider of the two sections of the socket in the drive. First backup with the drive was successful, but lengthy as usual. I'm going to buy USB 3.0 express card for my laptop to speed up the process in the future. One note about the software that comes with the drive - it is horrible! While my hardware... Read more 82 of 91 people found the following review helpful: Another Winner from Western Digital, By This review is from: Western Digital My Passport Essential 500 GB USB 3.0/2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Midnight Black) (Personal Computers) Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this?) I recently received this Western Digital My Passport Essential 500 GB USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive WDBACY5000ABK-NESN (Midnight Black) from Amazon Vine and I am very pleased with it. It is the first USB 3.0-capable device I have owned. I am using this, and all of my other external hard drives, as storage units only (in other words, for backing up and storing my document files and folders, my music, my pictures, and my videos, not for backing up the computer itself). It is a nice large portable hard drive, as large or larger in capacity than most laptop computers. It requires no power other than that supplied by the USB port. When it arrived I opened the box and retrieved the drive. Having done that, I gently shook the drive to make certain that nothing was loose inside. Then I physically examined it to... Read more 23 of 24 people found the following review helpful: Very solid entry for Western Digital, By This review is from: Western Digital My Passport Essential 500 GB USB 3.0/2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Midnight Black) (Personal Computers) Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this?) While USB 3.0 devices are slow to trickle out into the mainstream, Western Digital has released this 500GB USB 3.0 (USB 2.0 compatible) drive that works just as you'd expect it to. Transfer speeds are what you'd expect over USB 2.0 (i.e. average), and the drive is very quiet. I suspect it's a 5400rpm drive inside... Some things to note: 1.) The device itself is pretty small. Very, very portable. 2.) It has a plastic coating that scratches very easily, sadly. 3.) I don't see an easy way to open the casing to put in a larger drive in the future... 4.) The USB 3.0 cable is different from your normal USB 2.0 cable, but for USB 2.0 use you can use a standard MicroUSB cable, and I tested this to work perfectly. USB 3.0 is MicroUSB + an additional port next to it for USB 3.0 speeds, but you can just use the MicroUSB part for older systems! Overall, this worked great on my 2009 i7 iMac formatted in HFS, and on Windows 7... Read more |
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