Testseek.co.uk have collected 118 expert reviews of the Western Digital My Passport USB3 WDBBEP / WDBKXH / WDBY8L and the average rating is 82%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital My Passport USB3 WDBBEP / WDBKXH / WDBY8L.
April 2012
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The editors liked
Pocket-friendly form factor
Hits speeds of up to 470MB/s
Quieter and more durable than a HDD
USB Type-C and Type-A cabling
Three-year warranty as standard
Decent software bundle
Huge capacity for a portablestorage drive
Wellbuilt
Can average over 100MB/s for both read and write operations
Solid supporting software
The new WD My Passport portable drive has lots of storage space
Good performance and supports strong encryption. It's available in some vivid color options and comes in an eye-catching design
The My Passport SSD is rugged
Light and super compact. The drive uses USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C to deliver fast performance. It works with both Windows and MacOS right out of the box and features strong encryption to protect data in case of loss or theft
Excellent data transfer speeds
122 MBps read speed
110 MBps write speed
USB 3.0 interface
Powered by USB connection
Good software suite supplied
Scratchproof
Fingerprintresistant casing
Huge capacity
Speedy USB 3.0 transfer rates
Attractive and compact chassis
Some useful pre
Installed software
The editors didn't like
No LED status indicator
Not the thinnest or lightest
There's no USB-C (so no future-proofing) and the high-capacity versions of the drive are bulky
The drive's capacity caps at just 1TB. It's a fingerprint magnet
Abstract: We're still waiting for some truly great external hard drive Black Friday deals to surface (it's only a matter of time), but this Western Digital My Passport is a pretty good one to get started with. Delivering a 4TB of storage in a tiny footprint and wei...
Pocket-friendly form factor, Hits speeds of up to 470MB/s, Quieter and more durable than a HDD, USB Type-C and Type-A cabling, Three-year warranty as standard, Decent software bundle
No LED status indicator
Our second test revolves around two scenarios; copying across a folder containing large files such as ISOs; and copying across a program folder full of various small files. My Passport SSD copes better with few large files rather than many small, yet perf...
The My Passport SSD is rugged, light and super compact. The drive uses USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C to deliver fast performance. It works with both Windows and MacOS right out of the box and features strong encryption to protect data in case of loss or theft
The drive's capacity caps at just 1TB. It's a fingerprint magnet
The My Passport SSD is an excellent portable drive for those needing to securely carry data on the go...
The new WD My Passport portable drive has lots of storage space, good performance and supports strong encryption. It's available in some vivid color options and comes in an eye-catching design
There's no USB-C (so no future-proofing) and the high-capacity versions of the drive are bulky
You can carry a lot of data with the new My Passport and the many color options open up new organizational possibilities...
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Published: 2013-03-26, Author: Mike , review by: micromart.co.uk
Abstract: Western Digital's My Passport has the biggest capacity here, at 2TB, but it's not exactly flashy. Its plastic enclosure makes barely any concession to style and, at 230g in weight and 21mm thick, it can't compete with some of the slimmer and lighter model...
Abstract: USB 3.0 allows external hard drives to realize their performance potential. Each of the three external USB 3.0-based 2.5” disks we're reviewing also excels in some other discipline. We study these specialties up close: speed, capacity, and durability. ...
Huge capacity, Speedy USB 3.0 transfer rates, Attractive and compact chassis, Some useful pre, installed software
Not as future, proofed as some rivals, No alternative connections to USB
Rather than reinventing the wheel or introducing any ground-breaking innovations to the realm of portable hard drives, the Western Digital My Passport 2TB simply tweaks what already exists. This is not a bad thing – far from it, since most users are main...
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Published: 2012-07-12, Author: Frank , review by: uk.hardware.info
An external disk with a high capacity, that is the Western Digital My Passport 2TB in a nutshell. At first glance the price, which currently averages about £175, is a bit steep. However, a quick bit of math shows that comes down to about 9p a gigabyte w...
Abstract: The Western Digital My Passport is a small, portable hard drive with a huge capacity – 2TB to be precise (that’s 2000GB). No larger than a standard Passport drive with dimensions...
