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21.4.2018
This is a review of the "WDBFKT0040BGY-WESN" model of the "My Passport Ultra" 4 TB in the black/grey colour.I bought this portable HDD as it was on special offer (not from Amazon this time!) and I needed a second drive to use as an offsite backup and to keep data with me when working from home. On offer, it was cheaper than the non-Ultra version that I have bought and used previously. I couldn't find much difference in specs between the Ultra and standard versions, except the design of the case and apparently the Ultra comes with some sort of extra software plugin to download photos etc. direct from your social media accounts. I bought it only because it was cheaper than teh standard version at the time.Visual design:Firstly,
18.8.2017
Portable hard drives are a very useful addition to a laptop and even more so for the ultra-compact portables that tend to have storage limited to 128 or 256 GB SSD. Fortunately, most have one or more USB 3.0 ports. Portable hard drives tend to have short cables - 30-45 cm is typical and a short extension cable (not included) may be useful in some situations.Whether used to store current downloads or as a temporary storage for media files to be watched, read or listened to on a journey or on holiday or for a presentation they are very useful. 4 TB is usefully large and allows considerable freedom as how their application. The enclosure feels as if it is all-plastic but is supposedly partly metal to aid cooling.
1.12.2016
Review of the WD 4TB My Passport (2016) model. The photographs show the previous generation (left most in all pictures) beside this new generation of drive (rightmost drive). I'm a long time user of WD passport external usb hard drives. This is the first 4TB I've bought, used for a backup of a NAS.Capacity + Speeds:This is a USB3 hard drive, giving very fast speeds. Attached are screenshots from a benchmark utility, showing 116MB/s read 107MB/s write. For comparison, the previous generation (2TB) got 112MB/s read and 100MB/s write, so a slight improvement.The formatted capacity is 3.63 TB.The enclosure/case:The case is solid. It is a bit more fancy than previous WD My Passports, and a little bigger.
20.9.2017
One of the things that we all run into from time to time is file transfers that are bigger than the tiny thumb drives. I was offered this by Amazon and my initial idea was to use it for larger file transfers that I need to make from time to time with video footage I record with my GH4. For this function it is fantastic! Fast enough to plug in, begin transfer and walk away. 4TB is plenty for what I need.Now some of the issues I have with this.First off I am not using this as a backup like time machine. I did not bother installing any of the software that came with it. Out of the box speeds are good (see the pics). I used USB 3 ports for all of my tests.
30.9.2017
Bought mine from another seller as unfortunately the Amazon delivery was taking too long and I got it a shade cheaper.Just a few early observations:- It's not the most portable drive you'll find on the market, one to put in a coat pocket, though to get 4TB on a portable drive is quite spectacular, can't really complain.- It's a quick drive, not consistent fast speeds compared to the Seagate equivalent, but you get in and around 85MBps - 110MBps transferring video files across, mine was jumping round 30MBps - 40MBps for image files, which brings me too...- Small file speeds... they are very good, something these types of external drives aren't particularly renown for. If I open a folder with images in,
29.8.2018
This is my forth portable HDD in the last few years. My first portable HDD was a 1TB seagate which is nice and compact and still works well, but it is just not spacious enough. Just over a year ago I bought another seagate with 2TB of space. Unfortunately that drive failed a few month later. This spring I bought 2 TB My Passport in plastic enclosure. It was not as fast as seagate (115mb/s vs 130 mb/s) but seamed to be more sturdy. I later decided to buy more spacious 4TB and gave 2TB drive to my sister. I like semi-metal design of the ultra model and I paid $10 more over plastic model merely because of the look. Both metal and plastic models catch fingerprints easily, especially if you use hand lotion.
6.10.2019
UPDATE: After a year's use, I've detected a noticeable lag in heavy games, to the point where I've had to transfer demanding games to the system storage to play them smoothly. I've used crystaldisk to check the hard drive health and says it remains in 'good' health. I'm not sure if this issue is universal or to do with this particular hard drive. In short, an external SSD would be a better option with a PS4.I've been a long-time user of Western Digital Hard Drive and I can safely say this has not let me down. After having bad experiences with Seagate drives, I've been using Western Digital Drives and, knock-on-wood, have had no issues with them since.
22.4.2019
Many don't know the WD brand name today but I do. WD is still one of the best manufacturers of Hard Disk Staorage. Before the rebranding, WD was known as "Western Digital" and sadly they weren't very good at other computer hardware and that is where they faced problems. However, when it came to Hard Disk Drives, Western Digital were one of the best known (and the most expensive). Due to WD not getting ahead in other areas and still being costly to buy, even during the last recession (credit crunch / economic crisis) they lost a lot of market share. They then rebranded and wisely reviewed their prices thus WD today are now competitively priced and still have the reputation of their reliability.
24.4.2017
I've only been using this for a few days, so I can't vouch for its reliability but first impressions are good.Although I buy all my internal drives from WD, I've never really liked their external USB offerings. What initially attracted me to this version (4TB/RED) was the price, it being one of the lower priced 4TB USB3 drives. It came already formatted as NTFS (although I've just realised that I neglected to check the cluster size...DOH!) and was ready to go.So far, I've copied about 2.5TB to this drive without any dramas whatsoever. Copying from another USB3 source, overall transfer speeds ranged from 75-95MBps, which is pretty much what I'd expect.Physically, it's awful.
25.9.2017
portable hard drives keep getting smaller, lower-powered, and higher in capacity along with lower pricesthis is a win-win for the consumerthis 4TB drive formatted in less than a minute under OS X Sierra using the HFS journaled file system, and i was able to copy 24,000 files via my Macbook Air's USB 3.0 port in less than 25 minutesi keep backups of important data on 128GB thumb drives down here in hurricane country, and generally just evacuate and leave the computers behind, as there is no important data on the internal filesystems - of course, i also keep tertiary backups in my briefcase of important documents(in more than 40 years of using personal computers and writing nearly two dozen books i have never lost any important files - i feel i'm pretty lucky,
13.10.2017
This is a sleek and fancy looking hard drive. It works with USB 3.0, but is also compatible with 2.0. Using 3.0, I get really good speeds, and photos and documents transfer at a fast rate. The hard drive includes the software WD Discovery. The software allows you to back up photos from Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, etc. by logging into your account via the app. It works pretty good when I tried with Amazon. I signed into my account on the app, and it started downloading my photos into a folder it automatically creates in the hard drive. I have a ton of photos so it seems to take forever to pull from the cloud, but I just let it do its thing and walk away. It didn't work for Google Photos,
20.5.2017
This has served its purpose well already. Was unsure as to whether to buy it given some negative reviews but I found that all the drives had similar levels of some negatives. [they just don't make 'em like they used to any more I guess]. I plumped for this because my son has one of the older versions and it has served him very well for years. One of the scathing reviews said the older ones are better and that these new ones are not as reliable.I bought this just to have a proper Time Machine backup. Had to format the drive for Mac use. There was no obvious instructions on how to do this so I did contact Western Digital. They sent me a link to the instructions online.
23.2.2019
I have a NAS which has two drives inside and set in a raid formation to save the data if one disc fails. I started to realise its more likely the whole NAS could be damaged by energy surge, water damage or being dropped than the drive corrupting. I decided on getting this drive as my NAS has two WD red drives and I think it's the best company to trust with hard drives.Synology wants you to use their backup feature called hyper drive but it means you can't access the files without using synology software. I didn't like this so simply plugged this drive in to the NAS and copied all files a folder at a time to the hard drive. The transfer rate was really speedy and I got 2TB copied in a few hours (doing it a top level folder at a time).
20.11.2016
The Western Digital passport range of portable hard drives comes back year after year with slight improvements on the classic device. But in a world where ever expandable cloud storage reigns supreme, is there still a space for this classic product?While the storage may have expanded, most other things remain the same about the passport range. The build quality of the item is solid, the drive itself compact and only a small feeling of movement when you connect to your computer. No particularly fancy features here, as it's just a classic plug in and load files from your computer, games console or similar. As with previous models there is also some software included on the drive for backing up,
9.12.2019
I have purchased many of these drives over the years. Of these, only two have failed on me. One of which was not a “My Passport” Drive but a “My Book” desktop Drive. It is my opinion that that dive simply died due to its age. The other, I cannot say because I have Passport Drives that were older than that one and are still working well. Perhaps that one was, somehow, not constructed or manufactured as well.I once heard it said… don’t free up space, just buy more. Now, as drive capacity becomes larger and larger, while such is necessary as file sizes are also increasing at a seemingly comparable rate, it does, nevertheless, appear that is now the ebb and flow…. buy more space (finances permitting of course).