The standard hard drives are cheaper for more storage, but the external SSD drives are faster and shock proof if you'll pay extra

G-drives have traditionally been my favorite for my video editing drives, while I use less expensive drives for backups and archive storage

This My Passport Ultra Silver Portable External Hard Drive is small, lightweight, and holds a whopping 1TB of data.

For Mac users, like most other portable hard drives this comes formatted for Windows, but it's a simple matter to use disk utility to reformat it to one of the Mac standards

So far, I haven't had any problems with the drive, which is not surprising as WD has been one of the more reliable hard drive brands in my experience.

It's great to see WD come out with a line of portable USB-C hard drives

Overall it is a good value for a nice, quiet, sturdy drive.

The drive is durable, but can break if you drop it from a short height

This is a great external hard drive that's fast and has a lot of external storage (4TB!!)

But, it's a good hard drive

so I just use straight copies of hard drives using the standard Windows 7 or

The cable is USB-C, but there is an adapter included that let you use your USB 3.0 port if you are not lucky to have newer Mac that sports USB-C.I hae been using WD hard drives like forever

I wouldn't buy any other kind of hard drive but Western Digital.

I highly recommend this hard drive.

I've had several Western Digital external hard drives and they've always been reliable

I've been using WD portable external hard drives for years because I work on a lot of different computers both at home and at

I spent over an hour on the phone to India to format my hard drive.

There are less expensive microUSB 4TB drives

My MBP only has 256 GB flash memory, this 2TB portable external drive comes in handy to store my iTunes movie, tv, and music purchases, as well as all the phones taken from several generations of iPhones.

This is not a super fast drive

The drive is running slightly warm.

DriveI can never have enough backups, and my main hard drive is bumping up against 3TB of

so I don't need the special protection offered by these hard drive companies

I already had a 500 gig WD portable drive

To fix the Read-Only issue I used the WD Drive Utilities app to erase the drive.

all come together to make this portable hard drive a must for any Mac user

It's a hard drive

This is a high capacity external hard drive

WD 2TB My Passport Ultra for Mac Silver Portable External Hard Drive, USB-C

WD makes great external hard drives that are portable

However a 4TB hard drive is much appreciated because I'm doing my own backup to local drives, not counting on some cloud service

As I went through the process of partitioning the hard drive, it started out OK, but then it seemed as if the Mac was seeing a larger than 2 TB size and expanded some of the partitions.

A great little hard drive from Western Digital!

The drive stays relatively cool when in operation and automatically goes off after 30 minutes of non-use.

I've been depending upon portable, external hard drives for years for my system backups and to store large files like videos and hi-res photos

So now your hard drive is not just a hard drive, but an experience

That which I'd really hoped to do with my Mac Mini, but until support for Mojave is added by WD, nothing doing there!This drive is pretty slow when connected via the older connection

I still have USB 2.0 hard drives that is almost 10 years old and still function well

A great drive.

It is not the fastest drive, but it is fast enough for most people.

It's as fast as a spinning disc drive is going to be

WD recommends this drive for Windows 10, 8.1, or 7 (they have a Mac version for Macs, although it is possible to set this drive to use on Macs as well)

For the same price as a couple of 64GB SSD cards, you can have a 1TB portable drive

On the other hand, it's not really ideal as a workhorse desktop drive because

I've been depending upon portable, external hard drives for years for my system backups and to store large files like videos and hi-res photos

A great little hard drive from Western Digital!

However a 4TB hard drive is much appreciated because I'm doing my own backup to local drives, not counting on some cloud service

Yes, you can connect the drive, erase it and write to it, but you cannot use the WD Discovery app and import data from cloud services like Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, and others.

And, even that may be unfair as it could be an iMac issue and not a hard drive issue.

WD 2TB My Passport Ultra for Mac Silver Portable External Hard Drive, USB-C

WD makes great external hard drives that are portable

Drive is compact (about the size of two decks of cards laid side by side) and thin (about 1" thick).3

Great drive.

all come together to make this portable hard drive a must for any Mac user

The drive has tiny little rubber feet that do help to keep the drive from slipping around and scratching desktops.7

But it's a bit of an enigma, because it's small dimensions and modest capacity would seem to make it an ideal portable drive to use with my macbook, but it really isn't suitable for that because it's case is quite flimsy and brittle.

I've been using WD portable external hard drives for years because I work on a lot of different computers both at home and at

I suppose if one didn't have much capacity needs, it could function as a capable cost-effective backup drive for a desktop, or for a laptop that doesn't travel much.

I highly recommend this hard drive.

This is a great external hard drive that's fast and has a lot of external storage (4TB!!)

But, it's a good hard drive

The drive is durable, but can break if you drop it from a short height

The cable is USB-C, but there is an adapter included that let you use your USB 3.0 port if you are not lucky to have newer Mac that sports USB-C.I hae been using WD hard drives like forever

It's great to see WD come out with a line of portable USB-C hard drives

For Mac users, like most other portable hard drives this comes formatted for Windows, but it's a simple matter to use disk utility to reformat it to one of the Mac standards

So far, I haven't had any problems with the drive, which is not surprising as WD has been one of the more reliable hard drive brands in my experience.

This My Passport Ultra Silver Portable External Hard Drive is small, lightweight, and holds a whopping 1TB of data.

G-drives have traditionally been my favorite for my video editing drives, while I use less expensive drives for backups and archive storage

This hard drive is easy to use and set up

The drive itself is about the same size as every other USB hard drive

It completed quickly, and the drive was only mildly warm to the touch - not hot

I also accidentally bumped the drive (it fell off of my computer lap desk) and it did not interrupt the copying procedure

I have found the upload and download speeds to be fantastic and honestly - I couldn’t find any down sides to this portable hard drive

The drive was fast and responsive when migrating 1.5tb of photo/video to it, and was quick when I was in Adobe Lightroom and referencing the original files

My Passport Ultra Silver Portable External Hard Drive, USB-C from Western Digital gives me plenty of space at an affordable price - especially if you look for it on sale

Shoot a ton of video on site, transfer it to this portable hard drive, and then take it back to my desktop for editing.

Solid little drives with a good history.

This is our second hard drive from WD and we’ve been pleased with their products so far.

Very convenient, and maintains the free space on my desktop's hard drive

My Passport Ultra Silver portable external hard drive has a USB-C to USB-C cable, and an adapter that fits on one end to convert it for USB-A use (the connector only seats fully if you line up the arrows on the cable/connector, so pay attention when you insert it!)

The drive is an active hard drive (not SSD), powered through the USB cable; no additional power cable is required

My Passport Ultra Silver portable external hard drive has a USB-C to USB-C cable, and an adapter that fits on one end to convert it for USB-A use (the connector only seats fully if you line up the arrows on the cable/connector, so pay attention when you insert it!)

I've been using Western Digital all the way back to 10 meg hard drives

(Other hard drives need to be reformatted for the Mac, this wasn’t the case on this hard drive)I highly recommend this.

Shoot a ton of video on site, transfer it to this portable hard drive, and then take it back to my desktop for editing.

Still, not the experience I was expecting or hoping for and it may be a hard drive problem.

The WD website has software for transferring files from this Mac formatted drive to a Windows (NTSF) machine, so if you have both this drive will play well with them.

My Passport Ultra Silver Portable External Hard Drive, USB-C from Western Digital gives me plenty of space at an affordable price - especially if you look for it on sale

For an external hard drive, the speed is pretty fast, 130MB/s read and

Compared to hard drives just five years ago, they've gotten a lot faster

This is a great drive from an established company

I had an odd experience with this hard drive and I can't figure out whether the issue originated from the hard drive or from my iMac.

Seems like the drive is working

I have found the upload and download speeds to be fantastic and honestly - I couldn’t find any down sides to this portable hard drive

I also accidentally bumped the drive (it fell off of my computer lap desk) and it did not interrupt the copying procedure

This hard drive is easy to use and set up

It's basically a big flash drive in terms of how simple it is to connect and use, but it is actually a hard drive.

This is an excellent little drive