WD External Hard Drive
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Setup as EHD on my MacBook Pro in minutes and is working in conjunction with Time Machine software like a charm.
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This WD 500 GB portable hard drive was bought in Spring 2011 and has been working great so far. The reliablility and large storage can ensure to the safety of your important data files. What a great purchase from Amazon!
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It would be really great if an external hard drive enclosure would stay connected.
Is that too much to adk?
Obviously for this device. After about 5 minutes it would lose its connection to my computer.
Time after time after time.
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I have had them all...WD is just the best Hard Drive you can buy.
After 20 units in all my builds, I have not had one faller. I have always bought the Black Models.
I would feel confident with all sizes.
Sata III 64MB gets you pretty fast load up times.
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The small instruction page is clear. Plug it in and it is ready to go. No matter what I did it would not work unless I purchased an upgrade first. My device manager said the drive was there. I tried to back up files, but I opted not to be forced to buy a WD upgrade. Went back to Seagate which has the same instructions and doesn't ask for more money.
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Hello people- you are either being lazy or incompetent. Western Digital's website gives you instructions on how to disable the SmartWare technology (which is, in a word, horrible).  After doing so, the drive operates just like any other external hard drive.  WD should include this information upfront and let the user choose how to configure their HD- clearly an error by their product team.  However, a quick Google search got me where I needed to go.  Drive works great- 2TB for $200.

Link to instructions on how to disable SmartWare:
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I have three WD hard drives, however, this is my first 4TB and I love it. It works like a charm.
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This was bought to support an external HD for my sons Xbox One... I used the  WD Black 5TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drive ... worked flawlessly...  No issues... Powered up and formated with no issues...Turbo USB3 connection lites up on USB 3.... so far no issues...
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Nice quiet drive.  Works well.  Never had a problem with WD.  Did I mention it is quiet?  Did I mention it works well?  Whats with this minimum word count stuff in reviews now?
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WD makes the best drives - PERIOD. This capacity in a portable drive is great. It has some nice utilities included and like all WD products just works. I take one mark off because it doesn't include a carrying case like the 3TB drive I purchased did.
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I have had several external devices from WD.  Each one has more capacity and is faster.  It is easy to use and dependable.
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Western Digital 750GB Black Hard Drive.  Great Quality & Price for this Internal Black Drive.  We only use WD black drives since they have the least issues & are the fasted drive in it's class!
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I've used a lot of WD drives.  I have 3 of these 6TB drives in a Windows parity array.  Seem to be doing well so far.
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THe WD Passport external hard drive is light weight, compact, and easy to carry around. I have other external hard drives but I find myself using this one the most because it is easy.

Thus far I've not had a problem with it getting power through the USB cable but my laptop batteries rarely get run down below 50% reserve. Most of the time my laptop is plugged into an AC outlet.

This is great to store pictures, movies, or any data you don't wish to put on your hard drive or comes from another machine.
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The WD My Passport 1TB Portable External Hard Drive Storage USB 3.0 Blue worked very well when I used it to backup the data on my hard drive.  The Drive was very easy to use as a backup and worked faster than I had expected.
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It's really an excellent external hard drive for back up purpose. the capacity is huge. you can either use seagate's backup tool or find a third party back up tool.
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I have had this external hard drive for a month now, and is the third WD portable external that I own. It is *the* drive I recommend to people. I use it for my business with storing drive images, software repository, and general data. My only issue with it ( and issue is probably too strong a word, as it doesn't stop me from buying or recommending it) is that if the port fails, which hasn't happened to me or anyone I know, when you open the case it doesnt have a sata connector; a choice I'm sure WD made for size reasons. Again never needed it but its a "gee wouldn't it be nice". Nevertheless this is still a 5 star product.