Editorial Reviews
Product Description
These elegant portable drives are simple to use, light and easy to carry, and require no power adapter -- they are powered directly through the USB cable. Pack up your office files and take them home. Carry thousands of songs or pictures. Synchronize files between home and office and encrypt everything on the drive for added security. WD Sync synchronization and encryption software lets you take your critical data with you. Plug My Passport into any PC, edit files, read e-mail, and view photos. Then sync all of your changes back to your home or office computer. Your data is protected with 128-bit encryption (Windows only). Perfect for the business traveler who needs to transfer large amounts of data from laptop to clients or just daily backups in case of accidents from mishandled luggage to coffee spills. Also comes in handy if you're worried about laptop theft and someone else having access to your important data, you can store it on this portable encrypted drive instead. For all those precious pictures, videos, music and data files, this external hard drive is a must have. WD Sync synchronization and encryption software lets you save your critical data and take it with you. Plug your drive into any PC, edit files, read e-mail, and view photos. Then sync all of your changes back to your home or office computer (Windows only) Search your drive, manage your photos, and simplify Web searches with included Google software (Windows only) Up to 480Mb/sec Bus Transfer Rate with USB 2.0 System Requirements - Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS X (10.1.5 or later), Available USB port Approximate Unit Dimensions - 0.59 (H) x 4.96 (L) x 3.14 (W) Approximate Unit Weight - 0.23lb
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Customer Reviews Read 18 more reviews...
Portable 500GB Hard Disk. January 9, 2009
Julio Barrenechea (Lima, Peru)
Two years ago I bought the 230GB version, and last year I was looking for a newer WD Passport model with much more capacity. As soon as I saw WD lunched the 500GB version I don't doubt a second and bought it. I have now the product for more than 2 months, and as my old drive, the new one is working flawlessly. I use it in the same way as many people uses USB flash drives, with the only difference I have much bigger space for music, videos, mails, etc. Now I'm just waiting for the 1TB version... I would highly recommend this product.
Don't buy! Terrible product, terrible service! January 8, 2009
DOM (USA)
I bought this product brand new and after only 5 days the drive had a catastrophic failure.
I spend over $150 trying to recover the data, but all was lost.
Western Digital refused to help me in any way and didn't offer any compensation.
DON'T put your life on this passport - it is not reliable!
DON'T buy this product!!
Horrible Product and Customer Serivce. My 500G Passport Broke down after 5 days. January 8, 2009
BIG FAN
DO NOT BUY ANYTHING from Western Digital. Unreliable and they have the horrible customer service. I bought a hard drive (500G) from them that broke down after 5 days. They told me that it wasn't their fault and refused to help. HORRIBLE experience. I lost 500 gigs of data.
worth the price January 6, 2009
Ashutosh Kamani (New York)
I brought this hard drive for storing and transferring my data. It works pretty well with my Dell laptop.
Pros:-
1. very small and handy
2. no additional power needed
Cons:-
1. Slightly slow in data transfer rate, it took about 20 minutes for transferring 20 GB of data)
2. the USB cable is slightly small
Haven't used the sync software hence no comments on that
Good size, memory for a long time... January 6, 2009
M. Hanashiro (Brasil)
I already had bought a WD HD (120 GB). Then, I decided to buy one with more memory (500GB). It's excelent!
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