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    WD 4TB White-Gold My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBFKT0040BGD-WESN (Old Generation)

    • 3.0 - White-Gold - WDBFKT0040BGD-WESN.It is an excellent portable external hard drive
    • I would not buy another one, I will go back to Seagate for my next hard drive as their products are easier to use and work on Mac and PC without complex, multi-step formatting and annoying settings that need to be turned off
    • Just what I was looking for in a portable drive.
    • This is a nice little portable hard drive for what I need it for
    • However, none of the WD Utilities would run from the WD 4TB My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive operating as a network drive
    • Great little extended hard drive
    • Make sure you point to the folder on the portable drive first or you will get an HTTP 406 error
    • There's plenty of space on the hard drive for what we need.
    • Very great hard drive
    • Nice hard drive
    • ; it has a lot of capacity, especially for a portable drive; and it's moderately fast, for a platter-based hard drive
    • It performs just as well as an internal hard drive
    • When external hard drives are this affordable and useful, I feel like there is no excuse not to have one and get into a regular routine to back up your files.
    • I’m currently using it as an external hard drive for my PS4 Pro.
    • Drive is good so far, but you should know that the encryption is not secure at all
    • Speeds are very good for a hard drive, and it is very portable and sleek
    • Just load the .exe file for WD Discovery included on the portable drive
    • I love this external hard drive
    • Western Digital is the Cadillac of hard drive, for my money.
    • Portable External Hard Drive -
    • This will open a window in the center of the desktop and select allow, and the hard drive is now available to search folders
    • The music files played without a glitch–just the same as if the drive had been locally attached to the PC.Is this the ultimate test of a hard drive
    • The good thing is, it is easily identifiable compared to the many other hard drives I have laying around.
    • The manual calls the product a "Portable Hard Drive."
    • I love this hard drive
    • Just google "Western Digital hard drive encryption" and you will see what I mean
    • Drive keeps disappearing while copying and I can't format or erase the stupid drive.
    • I tried two separate drives and neither worked with my iMac or MacBook Pro.
    • My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive -
    • A great hard drive
    • Read and write speed are adequate for an external hard drive (compared to an SSD), and from copying data back and froth, I even manage to edit directly from it
    • My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive
    • This is a nice little drive
    • If you're operating a windows based platform this hard drive is plug and play, but a Mac device may require reformatting in order to use
    • I think that's VERY SLOW, and for me the drive is unusable as a main back-up drive
    • The older versions of these cases came with a standard internal SATA hard drive and a small adapter that allowed for power and data to be transferred over to the computer
    • This is a very easy to use, lightweight portable hard drive
    • I have been using WD hard drives for decades .. always trust them
    • My Assistant editor said it is his favorite external hard drive due
    • I would advise that you take precautions and record your password, because as the warning states, there are no means for password recovery!Finally, the hard drive only cost me a little over 100 bucks, for 4 TB of memory
    • This drive runs like a dream
    • The drive works quite well but the WD software on my Max OS 10.12 messes with my system - interfering with my Internet connection and requiring rebooting
    • I use GNU/Linux operating systems on my various computers, I reformatted this drive, erasing the Windows programs which come pre-installed on the drive
    • You can’t ask for much more from a portable hard drive.
    • This review is for the 4 TB WD 4TB My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive -
    • Not really and issue though, pretty much every external USB drive does the same.
    • Transferring data was a little faster in comparison to my old hard drive
    • Everything is good, except the heavy sound of the hard drive.
    • WD 1TB My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive
    • This is a great external hard drive.
    • On one hand, it is small enough to stuff in a shirt pocket which makes it an excellent on-the-go storage solution that’s almost as convenient as a thumb drive
    • This makes the drive truly portable and easy to connect and disconnect when not in use.
    • Drop it one time and say bye to your external hard drive.
    • Others have reported numerous instances where the drive is either dead-on-arrival or stops working shortly afterwards, making data inaccessible
    • This USB cord has a specialty end that fits into the hard drive.
    • This portable 4TB hard drive has worked perfectly for me
    • Be aware that it is a bit thicker than what you might expect from a portable hard drive.
    • Im using this Hard drive for the family photos and videos
    • My Passport series lives up to the name as this little drive is very much travel friendly
    • The hard drive is encrypted, from my understanding, and is safe-guarded with a password YOU create
    • Several vibrant colors are available, which help you distinguish between different portable hard drives, if you have more than one
    • There are many well-written reviews here that can describe every technical thing you may want to know about this Passport external hard drive
    • I thought this drive is hard to carry but after I bought, I feel very happy bcz it fits comfortably in the palm of my
    • i have never lost any important files - i feel i'm pretty lucky, but i always practiced safe computing - using UNIX, Apple operating systems and GNU/Linux have also ensured this safety)using this hard drive i'll be able to take more data with me, such as my extensive ebook and music library, and scans of family photos and other documents (videos, such as movies, no longer need to be stored because most of the content is available online)this is a great little drive to keep on hand - i don't know if i'd rely on it for 24/7/365 operation, but for backups and portability it can't be beat!thanks, WD!
    • Constant errors when you try to partition the drive to work on a mac
    • Pauses my computer on its bios, in which case it will not let me proceed the boot process until I unplug the dead drive, mind you
    • I like Western Digital hard drives
    • We picked this up for the express purpose of backing up a 4TB hard drive on the main computer int eh house, and this USB 3.0 drive worked as well as any other external drive
    • This is a sleek and fancy looking hard drive.
    • I can highly recommend this portable external hard drive to anyone who needs a very large portable external hard drive for backing up data, photos, audios, videos, etc
    • The hard drive works as intended
    • The drive failed the reformatting process
    • I am not sure that it is 100% reliable but at least it gives me peace of mind that my data won't be readily accessible to strangers in case the drive gets lost
    • Would highly recommend if your looking for a high capacity external hard drive in a small package.
    • Then, after that click on the top part to connect to that folder you created for Facebook backup on the portable drive
    • The USB port you see on the back of the case is physically built into the hard drive
    • The hard drive works as intended
    • I can highly recommend this portable external hard drive to anyone who needs a very large portable external hard drive for backing up data, photos, audios, videos, etc
    • This is a sleek and fancy looking hard drive.
    • It comes with*usb 3.0 cable*Quick install guideI can trust this drive as much as I
    • We picked this up for the express purpose of backing up a 4TB hard drive on the main computer int eh house, and this USB 3.0 drive worked as well as any other external drive
    • Reviewing external hard drives shortly after installation usually doesn't get a great indication of performance - the more it gets filled, what is the performance
    • It doesn’t have as fast a read write time as compared to a faster drive with a dedicated power supply, but for most tasks besides moving large files often, it is perfect
    • i have never lost any important files - i feel i'm pretty lucky, but i always practiced safe computing - using UNIX, Apple operating systems and GNU/Linux have also ensured this safety)using this hard drive i'll be able to take more data with me, such as my extensive ebook and music library, and scans of family photos and other documents (videos, such as movies, no longer need to be stored because most of the content is available online)this is a great little drive to keep on hand - i don't know if i'd rely on it for 24/7/365 operation, but for backups and portability it can't be beat!thanks, WD!
    • The only thing that I cannot review on this hard drive is its longevity
    • Several vibrant colors are available, which help you distinguish between different portable hard drives, if you have more than one
    • just this weird noise from the hard drive TRYING to work extremely hard!!
    • Metalic finishing is only the half of the hard drive
    • The hard drive includes the software WD Discovery.
    • This portable 4TB hard drive has worked perfectly for me
    • Be aware that it is a bit thicker than what you might expect from a portable hard drive.
    • This is a great external hard drive.
    • WD 1TB My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive
    • This is a good size for use with multiple computers with typical hard drives (1TB or less)
    • I was convinced that id have to get it sent back, when I decided to try a little something.....switching to "better performance" from "quick removal" under the hard drive policies
    • This review is for the 4 TB WD 4TB My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive -
    • You can’t ask for much more from a portable hard drive.
    • The drive works quite well but the WD software on my Max OS 10.12 messes with my system - interfering with my Internet connection and requiring rebooting
    • Fantastic big (4Tb) small (portable) drive
    • After several months of use, here's what I found out about the WD MyPassport Ultra external USB 3 hard drive
    • My Assistant editor said it is his favorite external hard drive due
    • I have been using WD hard drives for decades .. always trust them
    • But this drive has been both confusing and frustrating
    • We have several WD hard drives
    • This is a very easy to use, lightweight portable hard drive
    • Here you can protect, monitor, and discover things with the portable drive - in other words, manage your portable drive
    • I love Western Digital's 1 terabyte external hard drive
    • My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive
    • This makes me worry a lot less, in the event that something were to malfunction (warranties were also offered at the time of purchase).One of my favorite features of this hard drive, was that it has great security
    • External hard drives have come a long way since I acquired my first one years ago
    • (And according to other reviews I've read, this thing isn't the most durable drive out there, so it could be.
    • A great hard drive
    • she was working on that she had only saved on her hard drive.
    • My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive -
    • External hard drives keep on shrinking in both physical size and price
    • I can navigate to the portable drive using Windows Explorer and see all my photos
    • I love this hard drive
    • The manual calls the product a "Portable Hard Drive."
    • On the other hand, this is a portable drive, and it wouldn't be very nice to have to deal with long cords on the road, either
    • Portable External Hard Drive -
    • This will open a window in the center of the desktop and select allow, and the hard drive is now available to search folders
    • I used to love this series of hard drives.
    • Now, we share this hard drive to back up work that hasn't been finalized.
    • I love this external hard drive
    • Plug and play installation makes this hard drive super easy to use
    • This is a decent drive if you need quick and relatively inexpensive expandable storage
    • When external hard drives are this affordable and useful, I feel like there is no excuse not to have one and get into a regular routine to back up your files.
    • It performs just as well as an internal hard drive
    • the hard drive was not protected other than the box it was in.2
    • This is a fancy looking external drive that performs really well
    • ; it has a lot of capacity, especially for a portable drive; and it's moderately fast, for a platter-based hard drive
    • Nice hard drive
    • Very great hard drive
    • This changed everything.....click sound gone, hard drive faster, and now it just works perfect.
    • If you are a hard drive fashionista, these colors may appeal to you
    • I have a couple of these ext hard drives and working like I need them to
    • If you need a decent backup drive with large capacity and a small footprint, this one is worth consideration.
    • However, none of the WD Utilities would run from the WD 4TB My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive operating as a network drive
    • Working with it, feels as if I am working with my machine's own hard drive
    • This is a nice little portable hard drive for what I need it for
    • This is the worst hard drive I’ve owned.
    • It looks nice but this comes with all sorts of annoying popup windows and reminders that are unnecessary for an external plug and play hard drive
    • I signed into my account on the app, and it started downloading my photos into a folder it automatically creates in the hard drive.
    • 3.0 - White-Gold - WDBFKT0040BGD-WESN.It is an excellent portable external hard drive
    • Aside from its cool look and super small size for a 4TB hard drive, what I am most impressed with is the data transfer speed
    • I have had many portable hard drives over the years and this one is one of the top performers I have seen
    • ULTRA PORTABLE EXTERNAL DRIVE is similar to the device commonly known as a flash drive, thumb drive, or USB
    • Having different colors helps when you have multiple drives and lots of data like me.
    • Both times I was sent a MAC compatible drive, not the Windows version that I ordered
    • This portable drive is broken after only a month
    • They're good drives and good values
    • I found that this hard drive uses a proprietary circuit board built into the hard drive
    • 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
    • I've been using passport portable drives for years
    • This hard drive has been very reliable and worked wonderful the whole time.
    • Save the information into the Passport Ultra document and save the password information for the external hard drive, you do not want to lose the password!.Every time you start the computer, Select search option, select the Passport password option (Key symbol) and double click on it
    • The manual has information on password to protect the hard drive (I have no need for any password), drive erase function, driver installation, connecting to Dropbox, and so on.
    • I really like this drive has capacity for storing all the documents, media, and backups, yet it’s so compact and nice-looking
    • The Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive is a great tool for our office
    • If you’re looking at this product for an external hard drive for your ps4 this will work perfectly for it
    • Excelent drive...
    • Since we needed to back up an older laptop that was starting to fail, this WD 4TB My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive with USB appeared at a perfect time
    • Now I'm sitting here researching the instructions for reformatting an external hard drive
    • But, that also means it is easy to misplace or lose (or have stolen if left unattended).It comes with software that allows you to password-protect the drive which is a nice deterrent in the event that the drive is taken
    • Having an external hard drive is vital, and this one well suits my simple needs.
    • Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0.Blue Screen of Death 4x this morning
    • At this point I've used this external hard drive as a manual backup and plan to use it for mobile storage, replacing an aging unit of only a quarter of this one's capacity
    • It’s a fast external hard drive with an interesting and unique half metal casing
    • I love this external hard drive
    • What I thought I order would be a new Western Digital 4TB My Passport Ultra hard drive makes me wonder if the product will even work.
    • Really great drive and small enough and stylish enough that it looks great sitting out next to my gaming systems.
    • As a bonus, this is a very quiet drive
    • It's tiny, compared to full-size drives; it's a portable drive, so it should withstand some bumps (it's not an SSD, though
    • External hard drives don't live forever any more than do the drives on your computer
    • Great hard drive, performs as expected with very fast speeds.
    • An excellent hard drive.
    • Once I downloaded that, suddenly the drive become un-readable; not even able to create a partition nor erase
    • And other than that problem that the Oppo BDP-93 does not recognize it, this 4 TB drive works extremely well
    • This is a good compact and portable hard drive
    • This is a good compact and portable hard drive
    • You used to have very dependable drives but now they are garbage.
    • The My Passport hard drive has such a small form factor.
    • Yet to receive the external hard drive passport ultra 4 Ts
    • Great external drive with a very cool two-tone look.
    • An excellent hard drive.
    • Great hard drive, performs as expected with very fast speeds.
    • I love this external hard drive
    • What I thought I order would be a new Western Digital 4TB My Passport Ultra hard drive makes me wonder if the product will even work.
    • Works great, not the fastest drive, but for the price, it's awesome for xbox one expansion.
    • Works great, not the fastest drive, but for the price, it's awesome for xbox one expansion.
    • It’s a fast external hard drive with an interesting and unique half metal casing
    • Me, then connect to that folder on the portable drive, then click on the social media type (I choose Facebook)
    • Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0.Blue Screen of Death 4x this morning
    • Since we needed to back up an older laptop that was starting to fail, this WD 4TB My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive with USB appeared at a perfect time
    • I stored my first gig of the year on this hard drive and then randomly the next time I went to back up my footage - the hard drive was no longer reading
    • It seems to be a pretty standard hard drive so far
    • The Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive is a great tool for our office
    • The manual has information on password to protect the hard drive (I have no need for any password), drive erase function, driver installation, connecting to Dropbox, and so on.
    • I purchased this hard drive for storing all my data because it was recommended to me by a friend
    • This hard drive has been very reliable and worked wonderful the whole time.
    • This hard drive has been very reliable and worked wonderful the whole time.
    • 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
    • This portable drive is broken after only a month
    • I transfer the iPhone photos to my HP Envy laptop, then to the portable drive
    • Really slick little backup drive, very impressive.
    • Fast drive for a spinning type drive.
    • I have had many portable hard drives over the years and this one is one of the top performers I have seen
    • The Xbox One X recognizes this issue every time I turn it on and recommends I either swap the cable connecting the HDD or replace the WD entirely
    • It comes with*usb 3.0 cable*Quick install guideI can trust this drive as much as I