Western Digital WD 4TB My Passport Ultra Portable Hard Disk Metal Drive, USB-C & USB 3.1 with Automatic Backup,Password Protection, Compatible with…

Es un disco duro pequeño (2,5″) pero de gran capacidad que utilizo para guardar copias de seguridad de mis fotos y vídeos. No es especialmente rápido escribiendo datos pero tampoco es una prioridad, para mi lo más importante es la fiabilidad y eso nunca se tiene la seguridad al 100% así que toca tener otro disco con un duplicado del backup por si se estropea, me lo roban, etc. Toda precaución es poca.

 Getting it out of the way first, the main reason speeds are low on this HDD out of the box is not because HDD is defective or of low quality but the provided cable! WD’s USB-C cable is pathetic & please don’t use it at all (it’s loose and doesn’t provide USB-3.0 Speeds). Using that, I was only able to get upto 40mbps max on this drive.Most people return the HDD then & there believing that it’s a poor quality product and give 1 star reviews showing poor data transfer speeds.
But I did some research and found out that drive is perfectly modern and high quality with support upto 120mbps+ speeds, you just need to use USB 3.1 Gen 2 cable (see the video I uploaded) to extract most out of this HDD.

So rest assured, everything else is great, premium build (top feels like metal), compact size for 5TB HDD, doesn’t heat up much, modern USB-C connectivity (especially useful for USB-C only Macs).
It doesn’t have a rubber casing to protect itself from shocks/drops, etc, so do use a hard case to protect it at all times as HDDs have mechanical/moving parts which can damage if bumped/dropped.
Apart from that pricing is great (I mean ₹10k for 5TB means you are getting ₹2k per 1 TB, what else one can want)! Go for it without hesitation.
For MAC/iPad users, format the drive to exFAT to use it properly with your device (out of the box, it comes with NTFS, which is for windows only).
Also, I’m reducing 1 star from the review as WD should have provided better USB cable out of the box, but now buyers have to spend another ₹500-600 just to buy the Gen 2 cable to extract proper speeds out of this thing. Otherwise it’s a great product and you can buy it no issues.

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I bought this because my old external drive was really old, and Wirecutter liked this one the best. I have decades of experience with computers, PCs originally at home and work, but Macs for the past ten years. I loaded the drivers, but it would not mount. I finally went to the Apple Support blog, and was helped all the way through. I had to erase the new drive, and select a different alphabet soup type of set up. It wasn’t hard – a little scary – but quick once I knew what to do.
So far, it has been efficient and speedy.z I hope to get many years of solid Time Machine happiness from it. BTW, I did not even try calling the support line of the company, because I figured I could tell the blog people what I knew and what AI didn’t know, they’d get me. Support lines irritate me because they start at “here’s how to turn on your computer”. I suppose they have to. No!

Good

Fast speed with great quality

I bought this because it had a USB-C connector and wanted to take advantage of the increased speed. It works like a champ. I use it as a permanently-connected backup drive so it never moves, but it’s a nice small size that would be easy to move between computers.

I read all the negative reviews that were all due to the same thing. These apparently come with a very poor quality cable, so I just ordered an Anker USB-C cable at the same time, and didn’t even try the one that came with the drive. That added a few dollars to the cost of this drive but it’s still a lot of storage for the money.