WD 1TB Blue My Passport Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBYNN0010BBL-WESN

Got the blue version of this for $10 cheaper than the other colors. It was a little under $50 when I bought it whereas others were more like $59 or slightly under. I already know why it's cheaper in blue - I don't know if anyone remembers this, but waaaay back this little HDD was painted blue and marketed as a PS4 back up drive for a whopping $99 or some similar outrageous price. Due to that price they sat on the shelves and eventually I stopped seeing them on said shelves. That still leaves tons of stock though, which is great for bargain hunters that still want quality like me. For $40-$50 (depending on what sale may or not be happening) with included back up software and password protection, not a bad deal at all. I originally ordered this thinking to use it on my gaming laptop but ended up not needing the extra storage there, but on my measly 500 gb (200 gigs of which were taken up with unknown stuff??) Xbox One console, which with my subscription of Game Pass and use of Bethesda console mods, as well as my using it as my main entertainment center, was quickly running out. I expected it to be much larger for some reason but the small size is certainly a nice bonus. That all said, I unwrapped it (recommend keeping the packaging, makes a nice makeshift holder for this HDD should you need to move it later) and plugged it into the back of my Xbox One. It asked me what to store on it (Games & Apps duh!) and prompted me to format it which took less than 5 minutes. After that it showed up like built in storage which was also pretty nifty. Transferring games (mostly Bethesda games post Creation Club which are upwards of 60 gigs with DLC ffs) took about 10 minutes, only really slowing down on the very last transfer but not enough to be annoying. I will say this much, though I'm not sure if this is the Xbox's fault or WD's fault, do NOT try to use any video streaming apps from this hard drive. It will make the video janky and unwatchable. This may be due to the drive not being a solid state or it may be it not agreeing with the Xbox OS so to speak. Either way when I tried it I ended up having to store said apps back on the default drive, which was annoying as it took a bit of finagling in the Settings. The only thing I have left to add is that I recently moved and stuck this thing back in the packaging to protect it and stuck it in the car with me. It made it through fine and still works great. All in all yeah I'd recommend this drive. In fact I'm planning on getting a second one for my laptop in the near future. :) Ah and I bought it new. Would never recommend buying a mechanical hard drive used FYI.

I needed this from my computer (2015 MacBook Pro). I had over 15,000 photos, countless amounts of edits, documents from school, and hundreds of videos. I’m a YouTuber my 2 channels are called Presence of the unknown and HSFL PARANORMAL. And a lot of my videos are ultra HD 1080 P and higher. Which tends to take a lot of space in the editing process. Plus all of the raw footage is all in 4K or 1080 P. So I needed a place to put them.The thing is with the passport for Mac is you need to rewrite it. Otherwise it won’t work. Super easy to do tons of videos on YouTube showing how to do it. You have to change it in the time machine settings for Mac.Now saying that what I recommend this product to anybody who has a Mac or even windows. Yes! Absolutely I would. It’s a great product works fantastic does what it needs to do and what it was designed to do. The storage is amazing. I look forward to using this product more and more.

I have purchased 5 Passport portable hard drives over the past 5 years and love them! I keep filling them up and then getting another! They do not require an external power supply, and just plug in to your laptop or computer with a provided USB cord. I use them to keep my laptop and our phones cleaned off for optimal performance. They small enough and so convenient to just plug in and use.One warning I would give is, if you use a multi port USB hub with this, use one with a power supply. One of my passports crashed from using a cheap little 4 - port hub (with 2 other passports attached) with no power supply and one of the passports routinely switched from being connected to disconnected to the computer, and that evenutally ruined the device. I was able to get a forensics expert to recover my files, but not everyone has someone they know who does that! Since then, I have purchased a fully powered 7 port hub for home use (Crux 3.0 hub) and can efficiently organize my photos from one passport to another, having 3-4 passports connected with no problems.Another thing, I prefer not getting one over 1 TB. I have purchased a 2-TB, and after it gets about 1/2 full, the speed of transfer is slowed tremendously. I will just spend a little extra and have each of them be 1 TB or less, for efficiency.

very simple and easy for storage...I buy a couple of these a year to backup my photography work. Plus it had one day shipping which is great - except that the Amazon one day shipping is a bunch of bull- every order Ive purchased with one day took an extra day. Waiting on another delivery today by 9pm... I bet it doesnt happen lol

Having already owned a 2tb Black MyPassport (which I use for my ps4) I decided to invest in a 1tb model so that I could use it for backing up my MacBook and gaming PC. Works well!! No issues, ready to use out of the box, although if you plan to use it interchangeably for both Mac and Windows, I recommend formatting it as MS-DOS (aka Fat32). And an FYI, the 1tb is significantly thinner than the bigger sized models, but worth the investment! I used it to backup my MacBook with Time Machine so that I could install an SSD and everything worked perfectly!