Western Digital 160GB 2.5-inch Passport USB Portable Hard Drive by Western Digital
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Digital camera reviews of Western Digital 160GB 2.5-inch Passport USB Portable Hard Drive
Digital camera Review: Convenient portable small hard drive
Summary: 5 Stars
I have several of the original passports in 60 and 80 gb and have never had a problem with them. I bought one of these 160 gb ones for my husband and it was smaller and nicer than the earlier ones I had, so I had to buy another one for me! We both carry ours back and forth to work and use them daily and never had a problem. I never had a problem with the older ones that I have had for a couple of years. We use them on our desktop computer, laptops, and our work desktops. We don't use any Apple products so maybe the mention in the other review is the reason others have had problems. I love ours. Simple to use, small, reliable.Digital camera Review: Couldn't possibly ask for more
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw the negative reviews only after I'd bought this drive, so I was a bit nervous. I might not have bought it if I'd read the reviews first, but I'm sure glad I did buy it.
I got the drive for an important project, so I was a bit concerned. I reformatted the drive to NTFS and spent a lot of time copying data to and from it just to make sure it was solid. It worked flawlessly on my Dell desktop and my HP laptop. It worked fine when I defragmented it on Windows XP, and I also successfully ran a disk error check or two. The drive performed flawlessly for the use I'd purchased it; I backed up several XP systems prior to rebuilding them from scratch.
At the end of May I bought a 17" MacBook Pro, and it had no problems reading data from the drive (OS X won't write to NTFS drives).
I then reformatted the drive as a Mac disk (using the standard Mac disk utility), and used Parallels 3.0 to install a full Windows XP Pro virtual machine on it. I successfully installed the 100 or so Windows updates that have come out since XP SP2, and I get excellent performance while running XP from the drive. When I switch to full scree mode, you'd never know you weren't on a Windows PC. I've used more than one pure Windows machine that isn't as fast as the VM I'm running from this disk, and I can unplug the drive from my Mac and stick it in my shirt pocket. What more could anyone ask from such a small USB powered drive???
Digital camera Review: Died after 6 months
Summary: 1 Stars
If you use any kind of external harddrive BACK UP DAILY! I cannot stress this enough. This is my third portable hard drive from 3 different companies. WD Passport 160 GB died after 6 months.Digital camera Review: Died on 3rd day of use
Summary: 1 Stars
Drive worked fine at first and then died making strange whirring sounds even when computer not trying to access the drive. Strange, but when connected to any computer it has decided to call itself a 2 TB drive. I use an Apple MacBookPro (which has worked fine with other WD USB hard drives. I've requested a replacement drive. My recommendation: AVOID THIS DRIVEDigital camera Review: Does not work with Vista
Summary: 2 Stars
I purchased this item solely based on Western Digital's name. I'm sorry I did. The package says it works with Vista - what it doesn't say is it doesn't work with Vista x64 and they don't plan to create a patch. It also doesn't say that the USB cord furnished will not work with a laptop. If you call them about the laptop, they will send you a cord that will work.
Very disappointed in WD. Last time I will purchase their products on name only.