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# USB 3.0 blazing transfer speeds 6TB ultra-high capacity 256-bit AES hardware encryption My Passport

**Brand:** western digital
**Price:** € 403.78
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## Summary

> 💼 Elevate your data game with the ultimate portable powerhouse!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** My Passport by western digital
- **How much does it cost?** € 403.78 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Why This Product

- Trusted western digital brand quality
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## Key Features

- • **Eco-Conscious Build:** Crafted with over 50% recycled materials because style should be sustainable.
- • **Massive 6TB Storage:** Carry your entire digital life effortlessly with industry-leading capacity.
- • **Rock-Solid Security:** Protect your files with built-in 256-bit AES encryption and password lock.
- • **Lightning-Fast USB 3.0:** Experience seamless data transfers up to 5 Gbps—no more waiting around.
- • **Sleek & Portable Design:** Slim, durable, and lightweight—your perfect on-the-go data companion.

## Overview

The WD 6TB My Passport is a sleek, portable external hard drive featuring massive 6TB capacity, USB 3.0 connectivity for fast data transfer, and robust 256-bit AES hardware encryption. Designed for professionals on the move, it offers scheduled backups with included software, password protection, and a durable eco-friendly enclosure made from recycled materials. Compatible with PC, Xbox, and PlayStation, it combines high performance with peace of mind backed by a 3-year warranty.

## Description

Store up to 6TB of your photos, videos, music, and important files on this slim, durable portable hard drive with built-in backup and password protection features.

Review: Highest capacity bus powered external harddrive - I need high capacity external drives for a third backup of about 10Tb of data. I back up in real time with dedicated external drives that are permanently connected to my PC and NAS devices but I also wanted to have drives that are bus powered for easy removal, not permanently connected to guard against devious ransomware that might manage to get on my system despite the extensive security. This drive seemed like a good, reasonably priced high capacity drive that I could use with FreeFileSync open source backup and sync software and it has turned out to be perfect. I have divided my data into two divisions and I mirror sync one division to one drive and the other division to a second identical drive, both roughly weekly so the most I could lose if malware managed to get onto my PC, my permanenly connected external bakcup drives and my two Asustor NAS would be up to a week's work that had not yet been synced to one of the MyPassport drives which would be a bit inconvenient but not a disaster. The drives are compact, smaller than a Seagate 4Tb drive I was using before I bought the MyPassport, virtually silent with a very small pin prick blue light that illuminates when the drive is connected and flashes when the drive is being written or read. It gets warm when a lot of data is being transferred but not hot and the transfer speed is good, as you would expect from a USB 3.0 device. One thing that might be an issue with how often I attach and detach the drive from its cable is that the connector at the drive end is USB-B, the type with the flattened 8 shaped connector. I am concerned the connector inside the drive may become detached from the drive inside the case. A more firmly attached USB-C connector might have been a better choice. Also, with it being bus powered, the cable from a USB-A 3.0 socket on the PC to the drive can't be longer than 50cm or the drive periodically disconnects due to power fluctuations. I need a longer cable so I can leave it plugged into the tower of my PC under the desk and have some spare to leave on top of my desk so I can easily attach the drives when running the back up without have to grope around on the floor. The only way to do this is to have a powered USB 3.0 hub connected to one of the USB 3.0 sockets on the PC and then attach a longer cable from the hub to the drive. Doing it this way has enabled me to use a 2m cable from the hub to the drive without any disconnections. This would be necessay with any bus powered device - that's why the cable included in the box is so short and only usable to connect to a laptop with the drive right next to it. I will see how reliable the drives are and how durable the connector socket on the drive turns out to be after plugging in and unplugging twice a week but sofar, so good and I can recommend this drive.
Review: Seems very good, so far... - This review is for the My Passport 2 TB standard version (not Ultra) - I just got this drive yesterday, and I'm a bit wary of writing such a positive review so early on, but I know if I don't do it now then I never will and I'll forget all the details. I'll definitely update it if I do start to have any problems with it later though. Be warned - this review might be very long, but there don't seem to be that many reviews of this particular model so I'd like to cover everything that would have been useful to me in case any of it helps anyone else. The reason I went for this particular drive is that I needed a portable drive of at least 2 TB, but wanted it to be as small and light as possible, so while 4 TB would have been nice, those seem quite a bit bigger and heavier and the reviews for them seem worse in terms of both performance and reliability, so decided to stick with 2 TB. All the drives I could find to have plenty of reports of them failing etc in the reviews, but the WD ones *seemed* to have less, and I get the impression that most knowledgeable people on other forums etc with experience of different drives tend to favour WD for reliability over other manufacturers these days. I almost went for the Ultra version, as my new laptop has USB-C and it does seem nicer than the extra-wide MicroUSB 3 connector, but I didn't particularly want it to be made of metal (it's just extra weight for me), and my laptop's USB-C ports are usually taken up by the charger and a hub anyway. Plus lots of reviews say the USB-C cable that comes with it is really bad, and I didn't like the choice of colours. So when I realised the standard version was £20 cheaper, available in black, and doesn't seem to have any real drawbacks apart from the wider connector (maybe the performance is slightly worse, but I'm not sure because that's not really mentioned anywhere) I decided to go for that one instead. desertcart's packaging of it wasn't great - I saw other reviews saying to order other items at the same time as a hard drive so that they get packed around it in the box, so I did, but unfortunately that didn't help because the packaging consisted of one small strip of the large air bubble type stuff placed on top of all the items, which left literally half the outer box empty for everything slide around in. Just picking up the box after it was delivered, everything loudly slid over and thudded into the other side of the box. It seems to have survived ok though (and of course it was in its own retail box which I would hope provided some protection). From looking into it I've found people saying that hard drives these days can survive huge forces as long as they're not turned on at the time, so anything that was enough to damage it in transit would have caused visible damage to the casing too (in this case even the cardboard retail box it was in doesn't have any signs of damage), and that it would be likely to not work properly at all straight away rather than just failing later. So I think it's fine. I currently have two similar-style drives - an older WD My Passport (Essential SE, apparently) 1 TB from sometime around 2010 which has a MicroUSB 2 connector, and a slightly newer Samsung M3 1 TB with MicroUSB 3 (same as this drive), so it's interesting to see how this compares to those. The first thing I noticed when unboxing it was that it is considerably smaller than either of those (about half the height, despite having double the capacity), and also noticeably lighter. So I am impressed and pleased with that - it looks very sleek, and the casing feels solid, so definitely no complaints about the plastic of the drive itself from me. When plugged in and spinning, it is slightly noisier than my Samsung M3, but still pleasantly quiet (no noticeable seeking noises at all so far, just the constant spin). And this is with a Razer Blade Stealth (late 2019) laptop which is almost completely silent when not doing much, and the drive in front of it at the moment, so I probably wouldn't be able to hear it at all if I wasn't in such a quiet environment. The cable that came with it seems to be working fine so far, but possibly is of similar bad quality to the USB-C version - it is quite stiff, possibly a bit wobbly when connected in the ports on both ends (although no loss of connection so far even when moving it) and is noticeably thinner than the cable (of the same type) that came with my Samsung M3 drive. So I might still get a better cable at some point, at least if/when this one starts to have any connection issues. In terms of performance (which I'm surprised isn't mentioned at all in the product details/marketing etc, other than I think I saw the USB 3.0 maximum speed of 5Gbit/s mentioned somewhere which is obviously ridiculous as the drive won't be capable of anywhere near that), I'm getting maximum read/write speeds of 126/116 MB/s in ATTO Disk Benchmark, and sequential read/write speeds of 138/116 MB/s in CrystalDiskMark (just as it came, with NTFS formatting and nothing on it yet). My Samsung M3 (which I remember performance being a point of when I bought it, although I hadn't been able to make full use of that until recently as my old laptop only had USB 2) seems to be maxing out at about 85 MB/s for both read and write (although with a lot more data on it, if that makes any difference), so I'm pleased with this. One issue I have with my old My Passport drive is that it always seems to spin down (to a lower speed if not completely off, I'm not sure) about 20 seconds after it was last accessed, and then takes about 5 seconds to get going when something tries to access it again, which can get very frustrating. I've tried increasing/turning off the sleep timer in both WD Drive Utilities and the Windows Power Management "Turn off hard disk after" setting, but neither makes any difference, it seems to have its own fixed internal idle timer for some sort of low-power mode which even WD's own software can't change. Thankfully that doesn't seem to be an issue with this new drive. I've tried enabling the encryption on this drive to see if it makes any difference to performance - it doesn't, but as the "encryption" process is so basic (it's basically just setting a password on the drive in the "WD Security" software, and it seems to take effect immediately), I'm guessing the drive is actually encrypted at the hardware level all the time (as otherwise it would surely take time to encrypt/decrypt the existing data when setting/unsetting the password). So I'd say that's a drawback as it means even if you don't use the drive encryption, if the controller fails but not the drive itself, you can't take out the actual drive and connect it up to something else, but on the other hand you apparently can't do that with these particular WD drives anyway as the controller board is soldered directly to the drive rather than it using standard SATA connectors or anything. I'm not sure how the password system would work if you connect it to other devices such as phones/tablets etc (on Windows, the drive having a password set causes it to appear as a CD drive with an executable file on it which you run and enter the password into, which then causes the actual hard drive to show up as well), but if I wanted the drive encrypted I don't think I'd rely on this as a solution anyway as WD's system apparently has a lot of vulnerabilities. I also tried enabling write caching for the drive in Windows (before trying the encryption), but it seemed to make barely any difference at all (write speeds very slightly higher, read speeds possibly actually lower, but probably all within the margin of error anyway) so I'm going to leave that off as it's not worth the extra risk if the drive gets disconnected by accident (especially if the cable does become dodgy). I think that just about covers everything I've thought of so far, so I hope someone finds it useful :)

## Features

- THE WORLD’s FIRST 6TB 2.5” PORTABLE HARD DRIVE: Up to 6TB capacity provides plenty of space to carry your photos, videos, music, and important documents
- PORTABLE EXTERNAL STORAGE: Slim and durable design to help make your life on-the-go effortlessly convenient. Robust construction provides you with a reliable companion for your adventures
- SCHEDULED BACKUPS of your precious files made easier with the included Acronis True Image for WD software. Also helps fortify your computer system against data loss caused by ransomware attacks
- SAFEGUARD YOUR FILES against unauthorized access at home or away. Use our included software to add an extra layer of security with password protection and built-in 256-bit AES encryption
- A WORRY FREE WARRANTY: We build our drives using tried and true components and provide a 3-year limited warranty for extra peace of mind
- DESIGNED WITH THE PLANET IN MIND: The enclosure of this drive is composed of more than 50% post-consumer recycled plastic. Packaging is made of over 50% post-consumer recycled pulp and is recyclable

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B0D1YHC4KW |
| Best Sellers Rank | 771 in Computers & Accessories ( See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories ) 10 in External Hard Drives |
| Box Contents | External Hard Drive |
| Brand | Western Digital |
| Brand Name | Western Digital |
| Cache Memory Installed Size | 6 TB |
| Color | Black |
| Compatible Devices | Computer, Game Console |
| Compatible Video Game Console Models | Sony PlayStation 4 |
| Connectivity technology | USB |
| Customer Package Type | FFP |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 104,555 Reviews |
| Data Transfer Rate | 5 Gigabits Per Second |
| Digital Storage Capacity | 6 TB |
| Digital storage capacity | 6 TB |
| Enclosure Material | plastic |
| Form Factor | 2.5-inch |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00718037903873 |
| Hard Disk Description | Mechanical Hard Disk |
| Hard Disk Form Factor | 2.5 Inches |
| Hard Disk Interface | USB 3.0 |
| Hard Disk Rotational Speed | 5400 RPM |
| Hard disk form factor | 2.5 Inches |
| Hard disk interface | USB 3.0 |
| Hard-Drive Size | 6 TB |
| Hardware Connectivity | USB 2.0, USB 3.0, USB 3.2 Gen 2 |
| Installation Type | External Hard Drive |
| Item Weight | 0.46 Pounds |
| Manufacturer | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. |
| Manufacturer Part Number | WDBR9S0060BBK-WESN |
| Media Speed | 50-60 MB/s |
| Model Name | My Passport |
| Model Number | WDBR9S0060BBK-WESN |
| Network Connectivity Technology | USB |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Product Features | Hardware Encryption |
| Product Warranty | 3 Year Limited |
| Read Speed | 110 Megabytes Per Second |
| Special feature | Hardware Encryption |
| Specific Uses For Product | [INF] Compatible with PC, Xbox, and Playstation |
| UPC | 718037903873 |
| Unit Count | 1.0 count |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Western Digital
- **Colour:** Black
- **Compatible devices:** Computer, Game Console
- **Connectivity technology:** USB
- **Digital storage capacity:** 6 TB
- **Hard disk description:** Mechanical Hard Disk
- **Hard disk form factor:** 2.5 Inches
- **Hard disk interface:** USB 3.0
- **Installation type:** External Hard Drive
- **Special feature:** Hardware Encryption

## Images

![My Passport - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/418pxQX3bKL.jpg)

## Available Options

This product comes in different **Color, Size** options.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Highest capacity bus powered external harddrive
*by C***Y on 10 November 2024*

I need high capacity external drives for a third backup of about 10Tb of data. I back up in real time with dedicated external drives that are permanently connected to my PC and NAS devices but I also wanted to have drives that are bus powered for easy removal, not permanently connected to guard against devious ransomware that might manage to get on my system despite the extensive security. This drive seemed like a good, reasonably priced high capacity drive that I could use with FreeFileSync open source backup and sync software and it has turned out to be perfect. I have divided my data into two divisions and I mirror sync one division to one drive and the other division to a second identical drive, both roughly weekly so the most I could lose if malware managed to get onto my PC, my permanenly connected external bakcup drives and my two Asustor NAS would be up to a week's work that had not yet been synced to one of the MyPassport drives which would be a bit inconvenient but not a disaster. The drives are compact, smaller than a Seagate 4Tb drive I was using before I bought the MyPassport, virtually silent with a very small pin prick blue light that illuminates when the drive is connected and flashes when the drive is being written or read. It gets warm when a lot of data is being transferred but not hot and the transfer speed is good, as you would expect from a USB 3.0 device. One thing that might be an issue with how often I attach and detach the drive from its cable is that the connector at the drive end is USB-B, the type with the flattened 8 shaped connector. I am concerned the connector inside the drive may become detached from the drive inside the case. A more firmly attached USB-C connector might have been a better choice. Also, with it being bus powered, the cable from a USB-A 3.0 socket on the PC to the drive can't be longer than 50cm or the drive periodically disconnects due to power fluctuations. I need a longer cable so I can leave it plugged into the tower of my PC under the desk and have some spare to leave on top of my desk so I can easily attach the drives when running the back up without have to grope around on the floor. The only way to do this is to have a powered USB 3.0 hub connected to one of the USB 3.0 sockets on the PC and then attach a longer cable from the hub to the drive. Doing it this way has enabled me to use a 2m cable from the hub to the drive without any disconnections. This would be necessay with any bus powered device - that's why the cable included in the box is so short and only usable to connect to a laptop with the drive right next to it. I will see how reliable the drives are and how durable the connector socket on the drive turns out to be after plugging in and unplugging twice a week but sofar, so good and I can recommend this drive.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Seems very good, so far...
*by E***M on 7 October 2020*

This review is for the My Passport 2 TB standard version (not Ultra) - I just got this drive yesterday, and I'm a bit wary of writing such a positive review so early on, but I know if I don't do it now then I never will and I'll forget all the details. I'll definitely update it if I do start to have any problems with it later though. Be warned - this review might be very long, but there don't seem to be that many reviews of this particular model so I'd like to cover everything that would have been useful to me in case any of it helps anyone else. The reason I went for this particular drive is that I needed a portable drive of at least 2 TB, but wanted it to be as small and light as possible, so while 4 TB would have been nice, those seem quite a bit bigger and heavier and the reviews for them seem worse in terms of both performance and reliability, so decided to stick with 2 TB. All the drives I could find to have plenty of reports of them failing etc in the reviews, but the WD ones *seemed* to have less, and I get the impression that most knowledgeable people on other forums etc with experience of different drives tend to favour WD for reliability over other manufacturers these days. I almost went for the Ultra version, as my new laptop has USB-C and it does seem nicer than the extra-wide MicroUSB 3 connector, but I didn't particularly want it to be made of metal (it's just extra weight for me), and my laptop's USB-C ports are usually taken up by the charger and a hub anyway. Plus lots of reviews say the USB-C cable that comes with it is really bad, and I didn't like the choice of colours. So when I realised the standard version was £20 cheaper, available in black, and doesn't seem to have any real drawbacks apart from the wider connector (maybe the performance is slightly worse, but I'm not sure because that's not really mentioned anywhere) I decided to go for that one instead. Amazon's packaging of it wasn't great - I saw other reviews saying to order other items at the same time as a hard drive so that they get packed around it in the box, so I did, but unfortunately that didn't help because the packaging consisted of one small strip of the large air bubble type stuff placed on top of all the items, which left literally half the outer box empty for everything slide around in. Just picking up the box after it was delivered, everything loudly slid over and thudded into the other side of the box. It seems to have survived ok though (and of course it was in its own retail box which I would hope provided some protection). From looking into it I've found people saying that hard drives these days can survive huge forces as long as they're not turned on at the time, so anything that was enough to damage it in transit would have caused visible damage to the casing too (in this case even the cardboard retail box it was in doesn't have any signs of damage), and that it would be likely to not work properly at all straight away rather than just failing later. So I think it's fine. I currently have two similar-style drives - an older WD My Passport (Essential SE, apparently) 1 TB from sometime around 2010 which has a MicroUSB 2 connector, and a slightly newer Samsung M3 1 TB with MicroUSB 3 (same as this drive), so it's interesting to see how this compares to those. The first thing I noticed when unboxing it was that it is considerably smaller than either of those (about half the height, despite having double the capacity), and also noticeably lighter. So I am impressed and pleased with that - it looks very sleek, and the casing feels solid, so definitely no complaints about the plastic of the drive itself from me. When plugged in and spinning, it is slightly noisier than my Samsung M3, but still pleasantly quiet (no noticeable seeking noises at all so far, just the constant spin). And this is with a Razer Blade Stealth (late 2019) laptop which is almost completely silent when not doing much, and the drive in front of it at the moment, so I probably wouldn't be able to hear it at all if I wasn't in such a quiet environment. The cable that came with it seems to be working fine so far, but possibly is of similar bad quality to the USB-C version - it is quite stiff, possibly a bit wobbly when connected in the ports on both ends (although no loss of connection so far even when moving it) and is noticeably thinner than the cable (of the same type) that came with my Samsung M3 drive. So I might still get a better cable at some point, at least if/when this one starts to have any connection issues. In terms of performance (which I'm surprised isn't mentioned at all in the product details/marketing etc, other than I think I saw the USB 3.0 maximum speed of 5Gbit/s mentioned somewhere which is obviously ridiculous as the drive won't be capable of anywhere near that), I'm getting maximum read/write speeds of 126/116 MB/s in ATTO Disk Benchmark, and sequential read/write speeds of 138/116 MB/s in CrystalDiskMark (just as it came, with NTFS formatting and nothing on it yet). My Samsung M3 (which I remember performance being a point of when I bought it, although I hadn't been able to make full use of that until recently as my old laptop only had USB 2) seems to be maxing out at about 85 MB/s for both read and write (although with a lot more data on it, if that makes any difference), so I'm pleased with this. One issue I have with my old My Passport drive is that it always seems to spin down (to a lower speed if not completely off, I'm not sure) about 20 seconds after it was last accessed, and then takes about 5 seconds to get going when something tries to access it again, which can get very frustrating. I've tried increasing/turning off the sleep timer in both WD Drive Utilities and the Windows Power Management "Turn off hard disk after" setting, but neither makes any difference, it seems to have its own fixed internal idle timer for some sort of low-power mode which even WD's own software can't change. Thankfully that doesn't seem to be an issue with this new drive. I've tried enabling the encryption on this drive to see if it makes any difference to performance - it doesn't, but as the "encryption" process is so basic (it's basically just setting a password on the drive in the "WD Security" software, and it seems to take effect immediately), I'm guessing the drive is actually encrypted at the hardware level all the time (as otherwise it would surely take time to encrypt/decrypt the existing data when setting/unsetting the password). So I'd say that's a drawback as it means even if you don't use the drive encryption, if the controller fails but not the drive itself, you can't take out the actual drive and connect it up to something else, but on the other hand you apparently can't do that with these particular WD drives anyway as the controller board is soldered directly to the drive rather than it using standard SATA connectors or anything. I'm not sure how the password system would work if you connect it to other devices such as phones/tablets etc (on Windows, the drive having a password set causes it to appear as a CD drive with an executable file on it which you run and enter the password into, which then causes the actual hard drive to show up as well), but if I wanted the drive encrypted I don't think I'd rely on this as a solution anyway as WD's system apparently has a lot of vulnerabilities. I also tried enabling write caching for the drive in Windows (before trying the encryption), but it seemed to make barely any difference at all (write speeds very slightly higher, read speeds possibly actually lower, but probably all within the margin of error anyway) so I'm going to leave that off as it's not worth the extra risk if the drive gets disconnected by accident (especially if the cable does become dodgy). I think that just about covers everything I've thought of so far, so I hope someone finds it useful :)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent
*by R***R on 13 July 2026*

This is being used for data storage as well as a backup device for my laptop. 5Tb is the perfect size for my requirements and it is working perfectly

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