Western Digital 2TB WD My Passport, Portable External Hard Drive HDD, Black - WDBYVG0020BBK-WESN

worked great backing up my files ---- was writing to hard drive when we suffered a power loss. drive hit and ALL the files stored on this drive was gone forever. I lost everything. even hired someone to retrieve info. nothing he did could get to that data. bummed out otherwise is worked great

Good price fast data transfers.

I'm going to return it. Not big enough for me

I bought My Passport to store very large fine art paintings. It copies them fast, but I should have gotten a drive with more capacity. It takes a bit more time to render them. Other than that, I have no problems with My Passport. It's ease to use, practical, and smaller than my phone.

This is my second one, the first having been in service for more than two years now. Installation was virtually transparent. Just came up immediately as another drive. Reliability has been excellent. I run these using Windows System 7 Pro on Dell computers.

I use computer for Excel Word processing PowerPoint, Stock, Trading, and various other personal home records. It's been far faster than my previous computer and I'm quite happy with it. The graphics are far superior and the minute increase in the screen has made a big difference. I highly recommend this machine to anybody who wants to use it. The speed is exceptional.

My son has it up and running for me. So far I haven't had much of a chance to use it, but it was easy to install and it seems to be what I was looking for. I'm not tech savvy so easy is best for me. It holds lots of data which is also good. My computer recently crashed so having most of my data on this will definitely give me more peace of mind knowing my files are safe.

Unfortunately this product failed on me within the first month I used it. My PC could no longer recognize the drive and I could not access my files. Ended up costing me a lot of money to get a professional data recovery done by a local shop, very disappointing.

What is the deal with WD products, currently I am having issues with 3 different of their products at once??!! My WDBFJK004OHBK My WD My Book hard drive is not working correctly, I was in the middle of downloading some files and shut my computer down to run errands and when I came back to finish the files my My Book was no longer showing up in my file explorer, it does show up under the section where it says eject item, it shows up in the drives manager but not the other manager. The hard drive is running, and light shows from the inside.( I ran the WD digital Data Life guard Diagnostics Tool and it shows the my book but says not available)As I said it was working perfectly and my errands took less than 30 minutes when it stopped showing in the file explorer anymore. The more I look into wd hard drives the more I find that thier products have a lot of issues that I did not know about when I looked into the research originally. I tried everything that was suggested. I plugged the hardrive directly into the wall, I shut down the computer a couple of times, I went in and unistalled the my book drive under all the areas you could do that and reinstalled nothing worked!!! this is ridulous how can their products have so many issues this one does not make sense. it was working and than it wasnt and I can not get to my files that I was back up which is the whole point of these products how is wd sitll in business seriously!? Issue 2 I plugged in my passport 2tb external hard drive that was working perfectly and has thousands of vids and other files on it into my WD live Media player to watch something off it and it played for a second (3 issues) but the purple screen that often happens with the WD media showed up again the files played fine but when I was done unplugging the hdmi cable it would not show the files on the screen anymore and now when I plug the passport in my computer to check it it will not show up on my File explorer or the drive file at all now!! This is Crap WD all of this has happened in just the past 3 days in the middle of another Covid shutdown, again how is this company still in business I now have several thousand files, and movies and things that I can now now find or retrieve or whatever!!!?? and these were my backups I only have some of what was on my My Book hardrive that is back uped on another hardrive but some of the best stuff was on this passport that suddenly stopped working or something??!

This is my third 2TB Passport HDD and the second HDD to fail. The first one lasted less than a year, the second died in less than a month. It was a major hassle to get a return authorization for the first failed drive, the second was a breeze. Perhaps WD knows they're shipping some bad product... The first replacement has been working for several months now; I'm hoping the second replacement will also prove reliable.