Western Digital My Passport Essential 160 GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (Arctic White)
Product Description
Pack up your office files and take them home, carry thousands of songs or pictures, and synchronize files between home and office and encrypt everything on the drive for added security. 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.
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Great for backups
As I add more data to my computer than can fit onto a DVD, I opted for this hard drive to create a backup for all my files – iTunes, photos, etc – just in case something horrible goes wrong with my main system. I just plug it in, and there it is – I do a manual backup (yes I’m old-fashioned) then it gets ejected and put away until the next time I need to do a backup. Compact and easy to use.
Love this little HD!
We bought this sometime in the spring of 2009. It has been reliable and solid since then, and so far I have no complaints. I would recommend this to someone looking for a small, inexpensive HD.
Loved it while it worked
Stopped working after a few months. Now it sometimes works and other times doesn’t. Not reliable.
works great… But
I love the design of this, and it works perfectly (I use it as a Time Machine backup) But the plastic sliding cover doesn’t click in place and leaves the port exposed. Just a minor thing, and may be fixed on the next product run. I still recommend this product
Western Digital My Passport
No technical jibber jabber here. It’s simple. I plug the passport into a usb port on my laptop. I move video files, pictures, audio files into separate folders I’ve created labeled ‘video’, ‘picture’, and ‘audio’. For the better part, the moves are quick and effortless. Actually, always effortless. ‘Quick’ depends on the size of the file. A standard movie takes about 1 minute to move to the passport from the computer. To watch a movie, I plug my passport into my laptop, my laptop into my tv, start the 100% non-copyrighted movie I choose, make it full screen, and I’m all set. The passport has replaced a wall of video tapes, cds, dvds, and photo albums. It’s so easy to use, that I actually feel bad for anyone that has trouble figuring it out. Sorry if that’s you, but that’s the truth. It’s very small and it requires no electrical outlet. It is one little piece of equipment, with one cord. It doesn’t get much easier than that.