Customer Ratings & Reviews

This drive has performed reliably for nearly a year. No bad sectors. Huge storage and fast data transfer at good price. No disk drive lasts forever, but this one looks like it will give a lot of reliable service. I do power it down whenI don't need to access its files, which is consistent with how I use it. How it would function as an always on backup disk is not as certain, but it does have (I think) a power saving spin down mode, and I would not hesitate to use it for that purpose.

I purchased a similar silver hard drive for my wife and after seeing how affordable it was, I couldn't help but to get one for myself. Would you believe that neither one of us has used our hard drive yet? I have mine in safe keeping until that perfect moment. My wife and I are on the computer very frequently and just haven't set aside a few moments to enjoy our new hard drives. I really appreciate the value that I received for both hard drives. I compared a few hard drives on Best Buy's website to ensure that we got the best quality at a decent price. Data security was an important factor and both hard drives had password protection and data encryption. Combining those aspects with a great price and I was very satisfied with the outcome. I like that Best Buy has various options for different products that I look for from time to time. This was definitely another great shopping experience and the curbside pickup was awesome. As I mentioned in my review about my wife's hard drive, I wasn't expecting the hard drive to be so small. Despite this, it is a great convenience as you don't have to worry cause it uses very minimal space. We have transitioned from those days when bulky items used to clutter our desks or wherever you work on your computer.

I use these to back up my photo/video that I take daily as a real estate/architectural photographer/videographer. Every day I dump the folder for each job into a catch folder with the date. Then I transfer that folder to these hard drives to keep my archive organized and computer hard drive free. They are small and reliable, and now I have all my photos and videos from my job archived and easily accessible and contained in a relatively small space. They are great and an important part of my work flow. The affordable price is important as I go through a lot of them.

My daughter had a last-minute emergency where she needed more disk space, and this was the perfect fit. The solid state drive allows for faster data retrieval, and the physical size is perfect for both use and travel. The price was perfect for the size as well.

Recently I retired some 9 year old drives that I've been using for backups. Replaced them with two of these and they've been running great. I've got SSD's that I use for "work data", these spinners are more than enough for backups and the price was right. I paid more than double for 4TB when I purchased the drives these replaced. These are small/portable and I chose these for several reasons, past good experience with similar devices and WD overall, but also my old drives were AC powered, switching to the Passport series saves me two outlets on my UPS (it was getting cluttered!).

These are great drives. I have 2 or 3 of them, and I got one for my mother. They've all been stable, no loss of data. One is the external drive for my PS5, and it's held up just fine. Can't ask for more than that, especially at the price point.

It works fine and was reasonably priced. Easy to use - plug it in and you’re good to go.

This hard drive is working perfectly for storing data. The price was fair for a portable unit and the transfer cord is short which makes it easy to fit in pocket if necessary.

Good value. 4TB is a lot of storage space. Easy to use. Plugged in the USB and the drive was recognized immediately.

I have three of the Passport externals and really like them. I love the small size. They come in a variety of capacities. They are the best value in my opinion for an affordable external storage method.

The WD-My Passport 4TB External Drive was purchased to hold mostly my pictures and documents that were clogging up my desk computer. It works as expected and at a good price point. I like that it had color choices, because I like to color code things! It is just the right size: compact, but not so small that it would get lost easily. Best Buy is easy to order from and shipping is fast.

This external hard drive was easy to format and set up with instructions provided. I set My Passport up on my MacBook Pro with Time Machine with no complications, and I keep it connected via USB so it constantly backs up when my laptop is in use. The price was excellent on sale and well worth the investment. I would recommend and purchase this item again.

Very small considering the storage size. I like this external as it does not need to be connected to Power separately, just a USB and you are set. High capacity, small size for a good price.

Great drive for the price. Plug and play. Easy to install. Plenty of space.

Very good and useful product, budget friendly and easy to use

Perfect external hard drive for PS5 storage. Great price for the size of the storage and super easy setup on the PS5

I needed the drive to archive my files and picked this up. Overall, I have been happy with the WD portable drives, and have purchased a few of them. My only minor complaint is that I am a bit OCD and wish they would STOP changing the darn cases all the time. I know, silly, but... I bought this thinking it was fully 100% red, but the "new" version is half-red, half-black. First-world problems, I guess... But I reocmmend them. Good quality, Reasonable price.

Good value for money. Runs in both windows and mac (with software).

Nothing beats the value that WD provided with these external drives! Just know it's a HDD using USB 3.0, so you're not going to get blazing fast read/write speeds. But for pure space to backup your files, it's hard to beat the price. I own several of these over a number of years and have not had a problem with the actual drive itself. Highly recommend for anyone on a budget.

Slim Drive that holds plenty -great price for the value