WD 3TB Black My Passport Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBYFT0030BBK-WESN

If you're like me, maybe you have several computers or do some public speaking and need your larger projects in one portable resource.That's exactly how I'm using this WD 3TB Black My Passport. It's so quiet that you may not be sure it's running at all, but it does, and just with power through the USB-3 pigtail that comes with it.So much less expensive than a comparable SSD, that you can get several of these and have backups.I also have a Red Version so that I can find it quickly in my camera bag. When I have to travel and collect a lot of video data, this is part of my redundant backup regimen. I save the CF cards from my camera bodies and also backup all RAW data to my Passport Portable drives. it's very inexpensive peace of mind.FAST, I don't have a method, or I'm not tech savvy enough to "clock-the-drive", but I can share that I can edit and work on a video in Adobe Premiere Pro at 1080p at 60 fps with no lag problems. But I primarily import the data to the computer and then back-up the work on the Passport drive.I did a recent presentation and had large video files that I needed to share with my audience. Again, 1080p files at 60 fps played perfectly with no glitches. Very convenient to be able to use this drive as a portable video presentation resource.It has a solid feel, sits in one spot without much concern with sliding around as it has four soft rubber pads when laying flat, though it seems to perform equally well at any angle.I did get the zippered case with it and highly recommend some sort of protective enclosure for the drive. Even when I'm really loading or unloading the drive, it doesn't seem to get very hot? No visible venting and no internal fan.I also use these drives to mail my data to other creatives. The drive (without the pigtail) weighs exactly 8.5/8 ounces and you can ship it First Class Mail. Well under the First Class Postal Limit for weight.I'm very pleased, performance, form, housing, and weight. I would definitely recommend the WD 3TB Black My Passport as a working extra drive.

I love this little drive. I bought the 3 terabyte drive as a "back up to my backups". I connected it directly to my Dlink 890DL router via the USB 3.0 port on the router. It acts as a network connected drive, and is accessible from all of my computers (Mac and Windows machines). I have 2 primary backup drives (WD My Book 2 Terabyte, and an Apple Time Capsule 1 Terabyte) connected directly to my MAC. My family dumps pictures and music to the Apple and WD all day long. I back both of those "primary" backup" drives up to this "secondary backup" drive. You can never have to many backups:) The connectivity was fairly easy. The router connected to the drive right away. My Windows machine was easy to map to the drive, but the MAC was a bit more clumsy. I had to install an App on the MAC for it to see the drive (drive is Windows format). I believe newer Mac OS will see Windows drives, don't quote me on that. To access the drive from the MAC is still a bit clumsy, but it works. Overall a good experience, and I simply drag the entire contents of my primary backups to this secondary backup drive. The drive gets it's power from the USB port, so only one cable to worry about.

USB drives are hard to tell who is the bottleneck, the drive or the computer its connected too. I'm no computer geek anymore, and I don't really care. I set this little drive up to backup one of the computers and I go to bed. I get up and it's done. It was the odd size that intrigued me. 3 TB. Not 2, not 4, but 3. Perfect. It's small, its light, its black and it holds a lot. I know some of the backups were done on USB 2 instead of USB 3 and I'm sure that is part of the speed. But it worked regardless. Don't use this as an active drive, but great for backups.

Great Hard drive faster than my old WD elementup to 119 Mbps speed double my old WD elementSolid design Better than my old WD elementBut there is some consit is heavier than older model and bulkerand the cable is upside downand I cant for the life of me figure out the WD apps that comes with the Hard driveGreat step forward , not just the physical elements *see what I did there*

Working great so far. I plug it into a 3.0 USB port and the transfer speeds are nice (about 110 to 115 MB/s transfer speeds), at least in comparison to my previous portable drive haha. This review my change down the road if it has any issues but so far I'm enjoying this immensely and would definitely recommend it.Cosmetically I'm not a fan of the sharp box-like edges but it's not bad enough for me to remove the star, it's not hideous or anything. The flawless performance is all I care about.