Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB External USB 3.0/2.0 Portable Hard Drive - Black Reviews
USB 3.0/2.0 interface - up to 5 Gbps via USB 3.0 and up to 480 Mbps via USB 2.0 - automatic continuous backup
Most Recent Reviews
Crashed
Oct. 25, 2012I had this WD now for over a year. Used it extensively to work with my company files, since the notebook had a small harddisk. In the last days I recognized, that the speed to access files went down, ...
Very reliable
Jul. 27, 2012This is the second 1 Terabyte external hard drive from Western Digital that I have purchased and I am very pleased with the quality and ease of use of this product. This hard drive has a large capacit...
Great
Jul. 25, 2012Worked for what I needed it for - a back up for my laptop. Very fast, works great. No issues so far.
Easy to use. Reliable.
Jul. 18, 2012Easy to use. Small. You only need one small cable to attach the drive to your computer.
Amazing Portable Hard Drive The Best You Will Find
Jun. 26, 2012This is the best Portable Hard Drive on the market! No long annoying set-ups just plug it in and its ready to go... it loads everything from your computer automatically, or you can do it manual. I hav...
This portable hard drive is perfect for backing up
Jun. 22, 2012This is so easy to use just plug it in and start backing up files. I don't think I will ever be able to fill it up. I highly recommend.
Works okay,
May. 9, 2012Overall it is okay. Could be an easy install, but DO NOT use the software that comes with this HD. It is terrible. It does not let you back up what you want exactly. It will back up your music for ins...
Great small product
May. 3, 2012Excellent product for the money and easy to use. Huge storage and very quiet to operate.
Fast, great size, and so far hasn't broken!
May. 2, 2012I use lots of portable hard drives. I need then to be reliable and sturdy. What I like about this one most is that they make a hard shell case that it fits in which keeps it safe. If I drop it, it sti...
Good drive, lousy software
Apr. 18, 2012I really like this drive and had it all hooked up to my pc. The auto backup was a great feature. My PC is getting a bit older and I like the backup to make sure I don't lose any of my work. I started ...
Great for price.
Apr. 11, 2012Use for general back up of personal computers & load movies, games & music. Was on sale & has been great for travel & general use.
works great for backup
Apr. 5, 2012i use this drive for backing up my computers. works fine.
Great storage!
Apr. 4, 2012Backed up all files and photos from PC and Ipad with no problems
Great Product
Mar. 24, 2012Great Product, Great value for the price got a great deal on it. Service at Bestbuy Mt Vernon was terrible but the product is great.
Great backup drive
Mar. 21, 2012Really like the size and weight of this drive. Easy to carry. Fast, efficient.
To easy!
Mar. 21, 2012I am a draftsman at a Architecture firm and have to make backups daily. This product makes it Super easy!
Great Drive
Mar. 12, 2012I have no qualms with this drive. Good transfer rate and reliable. I have this hooked up to the usb port on my Nas drive and so far it's great for what i want to use it for.
Great external drive
Feb. 17, 2012It is fast and it doesn't require a power cord. Data transfer is very fast with USB 3.0.
Not a fan
Jan. 26, 2012I have always used Western Digital portable hard drive products and loved every one of them so far (both quality and price), until this particular model. This was my first 1TB model and I had high exp...
If your in the military or travel alot, no good
Dec. 22, 2011I had bought this brand and this passport product before I went on deployment, I used it two times while I was in Afghanistan. Placed it my bookbag and moved to another location. Went to use it again,...
Great for the price, but a couple issues.
Dec. 18, 2011This drive works perfect, but the backup utility it comes with will back up an entire drive and not specific folders. You also need the included software to extract files from backup. You're better of...
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Exter
Dec. 8, 2011The Western Digital Essential SE 1TB portable hard drive is compact, reliable, and a solid performer. While I was browsing in Best Buy, I noticed that it was on sale for approx. $80, and picked one up...
died in less than a month
Dec. 2, 2011It died in less then one month, luckily Best Buy was good about taking it back and giving me another brand. It also complained about not beeing connected to USB 3.0 when in fact it was, the new Toshib...
Lots of space
Dec. 2, 2011Good storage device, works plug-n-play, very portable
Big Storage, Small in Size
Dec. 2, 2011Outstanding storage capability on the go. Easy to install and operate. Life saver on the road. Laptop goes bad, plug into another laptop and keep on working.
great--easy to use
Nov. 23, 2011great for portability..wishn they sold a 2 terrabyte
Another nice backup device
Nov. 17, 2011YEt another nice backup device for your laptop.Why bother uloading files, or burning over slow media... just pulg in this puppie and backup your file..Nice transfer rates even over USB 2.0
Not a product for non tech person
Nov. 16, 2011There were no instructions with the device for installation. After a most frustrating time, my wife and I had to call Western Digital Customer service to have an agent down load drivers for the drive ...
great stuff
Nov. 16, 2011....for pretty good price....when on sale :) so, wait for sale!
Outstanding product
Nov. 16, 2011This is an amazing product. It is very light and portable for the amount of storage space it offers. I have not tried to preinstalled backup software. Instead, I formatted the drive to work with Apple...
As advertised
Nov. 16, 2011I travel frequently so backing up my laptop is critical for my business. With the size of this drive, I can back up my laptop and still have room to back up my digital library. After that, it goes int...
Excellent
Nov. 14, 2011Very nice product. Plug and Play worked like a charm
Good product...
Nov. 9, 2011Found it to be very helpful in backing up my hard drive with all my documents and pictures.....
Great Product
Nov. 9, 2011I really like the size and the price that I got this for. The only thing that I wish it came with was a longer USB 3.0 cable.
easy to use, fast, great value
Nov. 7, 2011Great brand reliability for price- I got twenty bucks off regular price for a TB. Easy to install, much faster than USB 2.0. Very pleased with purchase
WD is the best, easy to use
Oct. 24, 2011Large capacity holds a lot of files. USB 3.0 is very fast. Installs itself in minutes. I use it for backup and storing music and movies. Fits in a shirt pocket so i can take it to work or a friends ho...
much faster.
Oct. 21, 2011works great and USB 3 is so much faster. love it....
Can't go wrong with WD
Oct. 21, 2011I own 4 WD passports all of varying capacity and I love love love each and every one. They all work each and every time I plug them in and I have no issues at all with them. Don't pay extra for the MA...
Portable Hard Drive
Oct. 21, 2011This is a neat little unit.I like it. It does everything it says it should. My one dig on this is the software that runs it. It's not intuitive as to where to find your backed up files - have to searc...
Does everything I needed it to do
Oct. 20, 2011Loads and opens on all my computers with no problems
Just what I needed
Oct. 18, 2011Very light, fast, and of course lots of space for music and movies.
Thank you reliable additional storage
Oct. 16, 2011I took a friend's advice in purchasing this brand of product. I got 1TB of storage on sale for $79. My computer's memory is only 250MB and was completely full with my music and movie collection. I pur...
Great Prodct
Oct. 12, 2011The price for this Passport was reasonable, small size, large capacity and the transfer rate was fast enough. I'm not using USB 3.0 yet, but I was planning ahead. Great to travel with a netbook and ha...
Nice product with annoying software
Oct. 8, 2011It's a good piece of hardware with "SmartWare" software Western Digital intention was good but the result were not so pleasant to me. SmartWare is a burden to my computer
lots of space for what I brought it for.
Oct. 8, 2011but I can't use it for what I brought it for. my laptop was getting over crowded with digtal movies, and running slow. lI was told to move them to my passport which I had, but not one large enough.I l...
Great backup drive.
Oct. 7, 2011Unit was purchased over a month ago. Used for system backup. Pros: Quiet. USB 3. Cons: None.
After ist failure, the 2nd drive not bad
Oct. 7, 2011I picked up a 1Tb drive today, returned home, it would not work, it should have started plug and play. My computer is win 7 , the drive was not recognized in my computer, but a window would open sayin...
Early Failure
Oct. 7, 2011Product worked great but failed after only 2 years. It sat on my desk and was only used as a small external drive so never experienced getting knocked around or dropped as would be expected of a porta...
Great Product
Oct. 5, 2011I always read the reviews before buying anything (doing my homework) It helped to gleen information from other customers. I didn't want to use the pre-installed software so I reformatted the drive as ...
Love it!
Oct. 5, 2011This external hard drive is easy to setup and works great. I love the auto backup feature.
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