The external hard drive was used by a family member on a recent international trip... and she had nothing but positive things to say

The Wireless Pro is different than the simple plug-and-play portable hard drives we're used to

Probably just a defective hard drive inside it, but given the device is a portable hard drive this is problematic

Hopefully I can figure out how to secure wipe the drive so I can return it and get my money back.

I have a few hard drives that hook-up through my wireless connection - but most of them have to be hard linked into my router

This is the spinning hard drive version, which you have to be careful with in the field

While this is true the hard drive is only capable of streaming over the same network and is extremely slow

some times it rough to connect the hard drive to your phone wirelessly

My Passport Wireless Pro Portable external Hard Drive - WiFi USB 3.0 - WDBSMT0040BBK-NESNI really loved the idea and all the features of this product

This part always has worked fine, proving that at least this can be a very expensive overengineered USB hard drive

Great Drive.

It's certainly functional primarily as a hard drive, but certainly there are less expensive options for that purpose.

I had really high hopes the Western Digital 2TB My Passport Wireless Portable External Hard Drive as it appeared to be everything that I was looking for with fast transfer speeds, ease of data transfer, and the wireless connectivity through your home network without the need of an internet connection.

But the second test with 130 photos on the SD card transferred to the hard drive in less than 40 seconds

For finding movies or shows in a folder structure of the drive using the WD app the drive works well

But I’m positively surprised to discover that this hard drive does much more than storing files and streaming them wirelessly

For finding movies or shows in a folder structure of the drive using the WD app the drive works well

Love this wireless portable drive

External hard drive, USB3, for your laptop

is a portable My Passport USB drive with wi-fi capability in NAS mode

Please just stop trying to make a killer "suck you into your eco system" and make a good external drive with a wireless media server.

The system is extremely clunky and registering your hard drive is a nightmare

They install Plex on it so you can watch and stream media through the hard drive -

It works equally well and I happen to love that I can bring a wirelessly accessible hard drive with me when we fly.

I use this feature to record multiple streams of content to the Wireless Hard Drive under different directories for sorting purposes

Overall, we would definitely recommend the My Passport Wireless Pro Portable External Hard Drive to others look for a one terabyte hard drive that is conveniently portable.

This hard drive worked exactly as advertised

I suppose that I was thinking solid state and not actual 2.5" format hard drive

I'm using it as a normal hard drive now for backups and would not rely on the wireless capabilities for file transfer.2 stars because I bought a wireless drive that is supposed to transfer files reliably!

Next, take a look at all the options inside this dashboard for ways to customize this hard drive, like changing the Access Point settings, or setting up Wi-Fi security and changing the drive’s Wi-Fi broadcasting name, or Service Set Identifier (SSID).The My Passport Wireless Pro's hardware interface has a power button to turn the

Which leads me to believe that the drive has some definite USB 3 firmware issues

My Passport portable hard drives for about ten years now

Will not even work as a portable drive now (will not mount when plugged-in via USB).

Within that weight I have a dual WiFi source, 1TB hard drive, USB interface, SD card reader, and a battery

This little drive really has made it easier to go from taking photos to backing them up to editing them on my laptop and mobile devices

This drive is useful in that it is self-powered and can transmit data without a USB connection, but unless you need those features much it might not be worth the extra expense

This hard drive is super awesome for photographers videographers or anybody that’s going to need to back up ST cards on the go

The Western Digital hard drive hardly comes with any instructions

At this point I am starting to think, ok, maybe its just buggy, and when the wifi is on, it doesn't auto switch over to USB-mode when plugged in, which is annoying that it takes this much thought to work a hard drive

This comes handy when I want to use the drive as a power bank only, or to connect it to my desktop as a regular hard drive

Literally threw it in the garbage, but thankfully I never threw away my old computer's hard drives, so I will be looking for an external that actually connects over USB so I can get proper storage

The drive works as advertised

Also great for using it as an external hard drive when creating your movies on Gopro Studio, which is a process that would fill up your internal hard drive very rapidly.

A must for your Passport portable hard drive.

It started failing to mount as a hard drive when connected to my mac via USB.The MyCloud iOS app is confusing and opaque

WD is great and this hard drive and this in particular feels sturdy

I have always trusted WD hard drives and have only had one fail out of the ten I own, but this was a whole new level of disappointment

fire".-- Occasionally this second drive will also go into "all lights blinking" mode, but it clears up by itself after a little while.

It also supports File Transfer Protocol (FTP) for those cameras that are compatible, basically transferring the content of the camera into the hard drive directly

There is a USB 2.0 port which can both be used to charge another device, or can interface to another device such as a thumb drive to copy files to the hard drive

The drive could have come with better setup instructions; it works smoothly as a regular external hard drive, but the wireless setup might have some quirks, depending on what you are connecting it with

3.0 - WDBP2P0020BBK-NESN is a good product for those of us who carry portable hard drives to store photos, movies and work related files.

I have used two or three WD brand products in the past including one of their external hard drives.

I always make backups with external hard drives even with high end devices like Western Digital, always recommend at least getting a duplicate or a basic encrypted WD external without the battery/wifi.

My drive is excellent, setting up for personal media hotspot (I think) is kinda off a pain but works as excpected

The rep I had wasn't even correct about some features of this device, including telling me that the battery status lights should be on constantly, not just the two lights in the middle of the face of this drive (WiFi and hard drive lights).

WD Customer Support agent committed to send me the drive with expedited delivery, since this was my second defective drive.

Great portable hard drive

That this has a lot of added features for convenience that makes this not only a hard drive but a convenient secretary when I'm on the move, letting me focus on what I need to focus on without having to fiddle or find what I need.

I wanted to believe that this mighty little contraption would sate my desire for a portable drive with wireless capabilities.

This is a great user friendly Hard Drive that is simple to set up and provides quick, safe in-field backup and editing for both amateur and professional photographers.

When not using on trips can use as portable hard drive.

Nice wifi hard drive

I see cellphones one day making external hard drives obsolete but with cell manufacturers designing products that have limited life to them and forcing data on the cloud - WD will always come out with excellent products like this.

Great portable wireless hard drive and as usual wonderful customer service

Good wifi drive

The drive is imminently portable at just 1.0lb

Automatic hard drive back up failed to run.

My objective was to make WD give me something, anything, in return for all the wasted time with 2 DEAD drives AND the BROKEN COMMITMENT to ship the third drive with expedited shipping.

Then I use my smartphone and Western Digital's My Cloud Android app to view the files on the hard drive to make sure they are there

There is a 60 page manual on the hard drive though, along with a couple of helpful videos

This drive is garbage, stay away.

This hard drive works better and faster if one connects to the My Passport Wireless Pro dashboard to set up the drive, and next uses it as a wireless storage device

I took it for granted that the WD folks would be paying attention to upgrades I would expect in a v2 pro version of a portable hard drive

I can't comment on how well the drive works as I've yet to get a working model

Durability - 1 of 5, dropped this drive (off top of speaker (8 inches) to desk and now it does not workCustomer Service - 5, was easy to Get an RMA (hold put on card if you do an

I love WD drives, but this thing is aggravating.

Overall, the massive hard drive space of the Western Digital 2TB My Passport Wireless Portable External Hard Drive is so overcome by many issues that it renders it more of a burdensome boat anchor than a handy backup drive.

Still a fantastic hard drive and western digital will continue to be my media storage brand of choice, but I feel I was misled about its wireless capabilities.

Sort of sounded like the hard drive head doing a wild swing across the platters, followed by not being able to get in to the web gui

very quickly.the theoretical solution is something like this WD portable drive.

I finally dug deep enough in the help section on their website to find out that I needed to have the hard drive plugged into a power source and turn off everything else to stream

I wanted a 2-5 TB external hard drive simply to get the ungodly amount of photos and Mp3 files my husband has collected over the years off my HP laptop

Still a fantastic hard drive and western digital will continue to be my media storage brand of choice, but I feel I was misled about its wireless capabilities.

Very buggy and inconsistent drive

it is great for capacity but it has trouble staying connected to the ipad, not sure if its an ipad issue or the hard drive,

Overall, the massive hard drive space of the Western Digital 2TB My Passport Wireless Portable External Hard Drive is so overcome by many issues that it renders it more of a burdensome boat anchor than a handy backup drive.

This hard drive works better and faster if one connects to the My Passport Wireless Pro dashboard to set up the drive, and next uses it as a wireless storage device

I took it for granted that the WD folks would be paying attention to upgrades I would expect in a v2 pro version of a portable hard drive

I plugged the drive into Ac power and left it that way all week Accessing Music and videos from the Plex media server in both cabins... at one point we had 5 different devices access Plex from this great little wifi drive

Great portable wireless hard drive and as usual wonderful customer service

The problem with that is it is extremely difficult to get it to mount as just a regular hard drive.

i kept loosing signal even when my laptop and hard drive were no more then 5 feet apart

I often work in a group and we have no way of exchanging large files except to continuously swap a portable drive

When not using on trips can use as portable hard drive.

This is a good drive but it can be improved.

This is a great user friendly Hard Drive that is simple to set up and provides quick, safe in-field backup and editing for both amateur and professional photographers.

Great portable hard drive

I put this review under the case...... however this drive is excellent to carry around and it's fast.... had some kid videos on there for the kids on a vacation we just had and it worked

The drive fails constantly, specially when used as an USB external drive...

3.0 - WDBP2P0020BBK-NESN is a good product for those of us who carry portable hard drives to store photos, movies and work related files.

This is an amazing portable backup drive

The drive could have come with better setup instructions; it works smoothly as a regular external hard drive, but the wireless setup might have some quirks, depending on what you are connecting it with

I have always trusted WD hard drives and have only had one fail out of the ten I own, but this was a whole new level of disappointment

Ok - so I just transfer files like its a normal hard drive?

This drive is pretty easy to set up and use

WD is great and this hard drive and this in particular feels sturdy

If you need a device to backup your photos and your workflow resembles mine, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this drive for your needs.

Can't afford to tell clients "sorry, my drive failed" again.

I transferred the photos to the hard drive, renamed, and organized them

A must for your Passport portable hard drive.

Make sure to elevate the drive up on something like a laptop.

The first time backing up an SD card failed, and the drive has been virtually unusable ever since

At this point I am starting to think, ok, maybe its just buggy, and when the wifi is on, it doesn't auto switch over to USB-mode when plugged in, which is annoying that it takes this much thought to work a hard drive

So this does not fit my needs as a wireless hard drive router.

Then, I plugged it into my PC at work, and received a message saying the drive was corrupt

Old hard drives are high consuming on batteries and cycle time can be reduced drastically.

It would no longer function as a wireless or wired hard drive

This hard drive is super awesome for photographers videographers or anybody that’s going to need to back up ST cards on the go

Connecting the drive to your PC works well enough, and can be used like any external drive if need be.

(wait, how much did I just pay for what is essentially a hard drive?)

I'm not the most technologically savvy person, but despite that, I've had my fair share of external hard drives and this has been the worst

I wanted to like this drive

A few weeks later, like clockwork, I could no longer access the drive via Windows Explorer in any manner

i do like the compact size of the device and the fact that i can use this as wireless storage for my devices makes me want to keep it but at $249 for what is basically just a 3tb hard drive, i'am not sure it is really worth it

Figured 2T of storage should help with downloading the GoPro as well as our cameras and cell phone pictures to this hard drive.

Will not even work as a portable drive now (will not mount when plugged-in via USB).

I suppose that I was thinking solid state and not actual 2.5" format hard drive

Next, take a look at all the options inside this dashboard for ways to customize this hard drive, like changing the Access Point settings, or setting up Wi-Fi security and changing the drive’s Wi-Fi broadcasting name, or Service Set Identifier (SSID).The My Passport Wireless Pro's hardware interface has a power button to turn the

This hard drive worked exactly as advertised

My purpose in purchasing this hard drive is to eliminate my need for iCloud storage.

My Passport portable hard drives for about ten years now

It works equally well and I happen to love that I can bring a wirelessly accessible hard drive with me when we fly.

Overall, we would definitely recommend the My Passport Wireless Pro Portable External Hard Drive to others look for a one terabyte hard drive that is conveniently portable.

Great Decision!This portable external 1 TB Hard Drive is proving to be perfect for my photo outings.

At best, it is a regular hard drive that you need to plug in to use

I had my Seagate 1 terabyte hard drive for 7 years and even when the power source died, the case came off, and I was using a sata to connect it... still worked

I don't use it has a typical external hard drive

Right out of the box and with amazingly minimal set up, this wireless hard drive worked exactly as I'd hoped

One of the worst external hard drive I purchased

I really like this drive and plan to use it a lot!

Instead, after loading a terabyte of data the hard drive failed

I also bought the hard case for this hard drive since we'll be traveling with it.

I had really high hopes the Western Digital 2TB My Passport Wireless Portable External Hard Drive as it appeared to be everything that I was looking for with fast transfer speeds, ease of data transfer, and the wireless connectivity through your home network without the need of an internet connection.

My Passport Wireless Pro Portable external Hard Drive - WiFi USB 3.0 - WDBSMT0040BBK-NESNI really loved the idea and all the features of this product

The NeutralThis drive behaves like any other NAS, which is great, as it just shows as a network drive

Western Digital hard drives provide quality data storage solutions and I have relied on them over the years

I had only one goal in mind when getting this hard drive, and that was PLEX in the car and on vacation when we did not have a connection to wifi

I ended up going back to just using my laptop with this plugged in as an external hard drive

Firstly, it's a regular 'platter' hard drive, not an SSD, so if you're carrying it around you need to be careful.

While this is true the hard drive is only capable of streaming over the same network and is extremely slow

This drive comes ExFAT formatted and the faster way to copy files into this hard drive is to connect it directly to a computer using the USB 3.0 port

I ordered this My Passport Wireless Pro hard drive to store my family’s extensive multimedia collection

Probably just a defective hard drive inside it, but given the device is a portable hard drive this is problematic

The Wireless Pro is different than the simple plug-and-play portable hard drives we're used to

no problems, really.if you are working in a 'remote basecamp' situation - especially where you have relaible access to power and where the drive can be reasonably assured to be out of weather and rough handling, then i think this is a good solution, though i see no point whatsoever in going for the 1tb version that i got free as a demo.

Its 2018 haven't we evolved to something better on travel hard drives

This a fantastic portable drive

It works great as an external usb drive

The drive that I initially received was "Dead On Arrival".

I must admit, I'm not an expert on the My Passport Wireless Pro Portable External Hard Drive (wow, that's a long product name)

It's a bit larger than other portable hard drives, but it does a lot more

Second the front end interface with the hard drive is terrible and nigh useless.

This hard drive is awesome

My long history with Western Digital products and their reliable service prompted me to order the WD 1 TB My Passport Pro Portable external Hard Drive WiFi USB 3.0 to add to my photo equipment.

Honestly I couldn't ask for a lot more out of a backup hard drive.

So if all else fails, it does work as a normal external hard drive

All these files are stored inside other external hard drives, I keep a few backups of all of them, which I update every time we buy more stuff

1TB hard drive, other models have even more.- SD card fully inserts so nothing protrudes to be damaged.\- Automatic copy/move of all data from an SD card to the hard drive.- Automatic copy/move of all data from a USB device such as a thumb drive.- Can charge another device from the WD drive- Battery charge indicator

I love this drive it works great once set up adding new media is a bit clunky because of the need to optimize the files but once done it is great

My new drive arrived and it worked for the first time

The WD 2TB My Passport Wireless Pro Portable External Hard Drive - WIFI

In short Inuse the MyCloud app everyday but its interface with the portable hard drive is problematic

Plug it directly into a USB port of a computer and it behaves like a standard hard drive

I loaded the software on to the pc and plugged in the USB cable to mount it as an external hard drive

This drive will not transcode like your home PLEX media server

Seems to work just fine as a USB external drive,

I have watched so many reviews on YouTube saying how great this drive is and they all seem to be sponsored by WD

Not as thin as typical portable hard drives, but with the wireless function and auto backup options - it’s worth the size

It worked exactly as advertised, but the app still needs some working on, it is a bit confusing at the moment navigating the menu and switching the viewable drive (from USB to SD to Phone to Drive.

Sure, it's an external hard drive, but it has its own built-in battery, you can save the contents of an SD card by a single button push, you can move files to/from the cloud and to/from a laptop by USB cable, and more.

WD 1TB Passport Wireless Pro Portable External Hard Drive died

SD card data transfer to the hard drive is only 65MB/s so a little on the slow side

High quality item that protects your hard drive during travel.

This drive works great

a great, portable Plex server and backup drive has become a very frustrating experience and product.

If you are looking for a good wirelessly accessed hard drive that can copy your SD cards without needing extra power and also provides power from its own battery pack then you may have found what you are looking for

The WD 2TB My Passport Wireless Pro Portable External Hard Drive is your typical hard drive from My Passport - but has the added function of wireless set-up

My first impression when opening the box with the hard drive is it is heavy

The only thing that it worked for me as was as an actual wired hard drive.

Great portable drive for storing media

I shouldn't be afraid that I am going to damage my drive and data because the device turns on when i am moving around

There are other reviews that I think are not giving this drive enough respect

As a hard drive?

I am still working my way through the capabilities of this portable hard drive and fully expect to gain more facility with practice

If you market a portable hard drive, I feel like v2 should improve on the things that make it portable.

Evenutally, my second drive failed too, though this seems like a different type of failure

If you market a portable hard drive, I feel like v2 should improve on the things that make it portable.

Here is a scenario (some would call it a Use Case):I'm traveling with a smartphone, DSLR camera, and this WD hard drive

I am still working my way through the capabilities of this portable hard drive and fully expect to gain more facility with practice

I connected to my macbook via USB just to make sure it was still readable and all the moving hadn't damaged the drive, much to my dismay it wasn't popping up on my screen

I do recommend this drive and I'm glad I have it.

I bought this drive primarily for the WiFi capabilities but extremely disappointed with the speeds

This has to be the worst hard drive I've ever owned

One big drawback is the user manual is on the hard drive, so you won't know that WD recommends that you fully charge before use until after you've gotten into the drive and read the manual

This is an excellent drive that does so many useful things

I've long been a fan of Western Digital hard drives over the years, and have seldom had any problems

If someone has a wireless hard drive they can recommend that

- It does not workYou must be connected to the internet to use any of the wireless plex functionality which in ,my opinion completely defeats the object of buying a portable plex drive

The WD 2TB My Passport Wireless Pro Portable External Hard Drive is your typical hard drive from My Passport - but has the added function of wireless set-up

Getting files into the drive using the SD Card reader was perfect but then started failing copyng the from the SD Cards until the drive turned SLOW and unusable..

Love this drive!

High quality item that protects your hard drive during travel.

If you are looking for a good wirelessly accessed hard drive that can copy your SD cards without needing extra power and also provides power from its own battery pack then you may have found what you are looking for

WD 1TB Passport Wireless Pro Portable External Hard Drive died

I bought this product because I thought it would be a useful 4 terabyte external drive that I could access via wifi if I couldn't have it connected directly to my computer

It will only allow you to connect over wifi, which is a horrid, ugly process that barely works to begin with (I got months ago, set it up to store all the hard drives off of my old computer, then when I wanted to access it this morning, it was such a clunky, ugly process that I never got it to work

Not as thin as typical portable hard drives, but with the wireless function and auto backup options - it’s worth the size

In short Inuse the MyCloud app everyday but its interface with the portable hard drive is problematic

The WD 2TB My Passport Wireless Pro Portable External Hard Drive - WIFI

I have several Western Digital external hard drives and have always been more than satisfied with their products.

However because it is not a NAS Drive but rather a portable wireless drive, it does not integrate well with the existing system

The drive was easy to setup and is working as expected.

This drive seemed to struggle to serve a single HD feed.

So if all else fails, it does work as a normal external hard drive

I use the hard drive with my GoPro when I travel.

My long history with Western Digital products and their reliable service prompted me to order the WD 1 TB My Passport Pro Portable external Hard Drive WiFi USB 3.0 to add to my photo equipment.

This drive was sent to me from WD after my 1TB Passport failed.

I love my WD Passport wireless drive.

This hard drive is awesome

I must admit, I'm not an expert on the My Passport Wireless Pro Portable External Hard Drive (wow, that's a long product name)

It's a bit larger than other portable hard drives, but it does a lot more

Yes, it says it's a "wireless" hard drive

well i opened it up anyway and to my disappointment the product was scratched like deep gouges down the side of the product and also had smug marks all over it

And looking at the options if I purchase one (and I very well may) will go for the 4T version as the price differential for another 3T is not that much.

In fact I disabled 2.4ghz to eliminate the slower band all together