Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB
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15 years ago
WD My Passport Essential SE 1TB
Pocket hard drives are by their nature not the most design heavy of creatures. They need to be small - to fit the pocket designation - and they need to contain hard drives. We've seen a few interesting designs built around tiny lights in drives, or interesting case colours.
Pros:
- Simple backup software included
- Who couldn't use 1TB of extra storage space?
Cons:
- Design is bland
- Pricey compared to a couple of 500GB drives
13 years ago
Western Digital My Passport
Western Digital's My Passport is a portable hard drive that goes big on storage and slashes features back to the bare essentials. It packs oodles of capacity into it's compact, plasticky body, though, and its 2TB capacity providing 1.8TB of formatted space.
15 years ago
Western Digital My Passport Essential USB 3.0 1TB
Western Digital's My Passport Essential USB 3.0 1TB is a perfectly serviceable drive with a decent price point. At the time of writing, however, the key reason to pick up a USB 3.0 drive at what are still early adopter prices is to get the best speed possible, and in the key area of file writing to...
Pros:
- Sleek design
- Includes backup and password protection software
- USB 3.0 is markedly faster than USB 2.0
Cons:
- Not the quickest USB 3.0 drive available
16 years ago
Western Digital's My Passport Essential SE is currently the only portable external hard drive to boast a whopping 1TB of storage space. Despite this, it is one of the smallest hard drives around and is quite speedy, too.
16 years ago
WD My Passport Essential SE 1TB review
Western Digital's My Passport Essential SE is currently the only portable external hard drive to boast a whopping 1TB of storage space. Despite this, it is one of the smallest hard drives around and is quite speedy, too.
15 years ago
WD My Passport Studio 640GB review
Passport is the rather apt name chosen by Western Digital for its range of portable hard drives. Not much bigger than the 2.5in notebook drives they contain, these pocket-sized storage devices are now more pocketable than ever, thanks to their extra-rounded corners – not to mention attractive...
Pros:
- Large capacity
- Personalised e-label display
- Three connection options: FireWire 400/800 and USB 2.0
- Straightforward software for labelling
- locking and backup
- 256-bit hardware encryption
Cons:
- Only one FireWire port – no daisy-chaining
- No carry case in the box
15 years ago
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE
The Western Digital My Passport Essential SE ($159.99 list) is a compact, portable 1TB drive that doesn't require an external AC adapter. It's convenient enough to pop this drive into your travel bag, especially if you need a copy of all your files, but don't want to bring your whole desktop or...
Cons:
- Requires reformat for Mac
14 years ago
Western Digital My Passport Portable USB Drive
The company also recently released the My Passport Edge , an even slimmer drive that offers better portability. We'll review one of those as soon as we can get our hands on one.
Pros:
- Extreme portability
- No external power supplies or power cables required
- You can set up password protection and hardware encryption
Cons:
- Fast enough for everyday use
- but not the fastest.
14 years ago
WD My Passport Essential SE Review
The WD My Passport has always been very stylish – yet surprisingly small – devices and the all new refreshed version of the Essential model is no exception. While it does come in many color options, mine was the silver and white version. To be blunt, this color scheme looks like a million bucks.
14 years ago
"Great hard drive could stay on for longer"
I bought this hard drive about 2 months ago after i realised my 640gb was getting pritty full so i got a good deal for it on ebay, just 70 pound so i was happy. when you first buy it and get it out of the packaging it is really small for the size, you get all the manuels, cds ect but being me i just...
Pros:
- great amount of size
- looks good
- reliable
Cons:
- goes in "sleep mode" like every 3 mins
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