- Automatic, continuous backup
- Password protection and 256-bit encryption
- Grab-and-go USB dock
- Illuminated capacity gauge
- Premium finishes
Product Description
Take your digital life with you on WD’s ultra-portable My Passport Elite drive. It’s our smallest drive but it’s packed with smart features.Our smallest portable drive ever – WD are experts in portable storage, so they designed a smaller, high-quality integrated USB hard drive inside a premium finished package. Smaller is always better for a portable drive. WD SmartWare – A control center for your drive that gives you the power to:Protect your data automatic… More >>
Western Digital My Passport Elite 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive WDBAAC5000ACH-NESN
December 16th, 2009 at 07:40
Well it works, but…
1) The connector, it’s a flimsy proprietary-to-usb cable, can’t use any other Mini-USB cable for example. Also the slightest nudge and it disconnects, I’ve hurt myself now a few times with this…
2) Why do they need 569MB for Drivers and software? Just give me the drive rather than make me reformat this…
3) Speed, seems slower than many other drives I’ve had…
In short I wish I’d bought another drive…
Rating: 2 / 5
December 16th, 2009 at 10:15
I purchased this p.o.s with the hopes of backing up my laptop files. Well, It backs them up alright. 6.05 gig in at least 12 hours.WD was no help at all. There response was “Maybe it takes that long”.Try the cable without the stand.You must be kidding if this is there idea of product support. WD has some serious issues with there support team. Wd My Passport Delete.It doesn’t matter what color they are all the same.
Western Digital My Passport Elite 320 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive WDBAAC3200ARD-NESN (Metallic Red)
Rating: 1 / 5
December 16th, 2009 at 10:54
I got this item shipped within 2 days after ordering. The drive is really cool, small and compact for a 500GB drive. The software for installation is fine, I didn’t get any problem and I could start transferring my files immediately. The speed of transfer is also good. It took just 45 sec to transfer a movie of 2GB size. I got what I was looking for.
Rating: 5 / 5
December 16th, 2009 at 11:52
WD is doing a terrible job in marketing the new Passport drives. Things they leave people guessing which should be better communicated:
1. The drive to cable interface is micro-USB, NOT proprietary. This means I can use the cable from my Nokia cell phone and vice versa.
2. The firmware prevents you from deleting factory loaded contents, but later WD issued a firmware update to allow it. One star off for the irritation.
3. The drive IS really much smaller than before. There should be a side-by-side pictorial. This is because the HDD circuit board has USB on-board. Less space, power, reliability, and performance costs than traditional SATA drives with added USB-SATA interface adapter. Minor consequence is being unable to use it internally as a notebook PC drive.
4. 3 year warranty. I’m not sure if this is 3-year drive/1-year other components warranty or full warranty. Seagate disguises their 1 year warranty as a 5-year by charging you for “non-drive” defects after the first year (5-years on the drive/1-year on all components other than the drive).
I wonder what becomes of the tons of returned drives WD/Seagate seems to get recently? From a consumer’s point of view, this year’s external drive products make little sense.
Rating: 4 / 5