- 1TB Maximun capacity in the palm of you hand
- Automatic, continuous backup
- Password protection and military-grade 256-bit hardware-based encryption
- Ultra-portanble design
- Powered directly from the USB port
Product DescriptionSee your life safe in one place with WD’s My Passport Essential SE USB drive. It offers maximum storage capacity for all your important files, videos, music, photos. With visual, automatic, continuous backup your data is backed up as soon as it’s changed. Maximum capacity. Maximum style. – The world’s most popular portable drive now features maximum capacity to store all your favorite videos, music, photos, and important files. Still sleek and compact, you can load it up and take it with you anywhere. WD SmartWare – See your life safe in one place. See your backup as it happens – Seeing is believing. Visual backup displays your content in categories and show the progress of your backup. Protect your data automatically – Relax, your data is secure. Automatic, continuous backup will instantly make a second copy whenever you add or change a file. Bring back lost files effortlessly – Retrieve your valuable data to its original location whether you’ve lost all your data or just overwritten an important file. Take control – Customize your backup, set drive security, run diagnostics, manage the power settings, and more from the WD SmartWare control center. Drive lock – Gain peace of mind knowing that your data is protected from unauthorized access or theft with password protection and military-grade 256-bit hardware-based encryption. Ready to plug-and-play with Windows PCs – if you’re a Mac user, check out our Mac version of this product. [link to] USB 2. 0 powered – Powered directly from the USB port on your PC. No separate power supply is needed*. An optional cable is available for the few computers that limit power from the USB port. Planet friendly – We designed a small box that uses recycled material and minimizes waste. We encourage you to recycle it. Formatted NTFS for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 , Reformatting required for Mac OS X Tiger, Leopard, Snow LeopardAmazon. com Product DescriptionThe world’s most popular portable drive now features maximum capacity to store all your favorite videos, music, photos, and important files. Still sleek and compact, you can load it up and take it with you anywhere. Maximum capacity. Only a few milimiters thicker to accomodate our highest capacity mobile drives. Plenty of room for all your stuff. See your life safe in one place. WD SmartWare software – A visual control center with a single screen view of all your data. From it you can back up, retrieve, and secure your files. Password protection. An extra level of security with password protection and 256-bit hardware-based encryption. Features at a glance Automatic, continous backup Visual backup control center Hardware encryption, password protection WD SmartWare software 2-years limited warranty Maximum capacity, maximum style – Store all your favorite videos, music, photos, and important files. Still sleek and compact, you can load it up and take it with you anywhere. WD SmartWare™ – A control center for your drive that gives you the power to: — Protect your data automatically – Relax, your data is secure. Automatic, continuous backup will instantly make a second copy whenever you add or change a file. — See your backup as it happens – Seeing is believing. Visual backup displays your content in categories and shows the progress of your backup. — Bring back lost files effortlessly – Retrieve your valuable data to its original location whether you’ve lost all your data or just overwritten an important file. — Take control – Customize your backup, set drive security, run diagnostics, manage the power settings, and more from the WD SmartWare control center. Find out more about WD SmartWare™ Drive lock – Gain peace of mind knowing that your data is protected from unauthorized access or theft with password protection and 256-bit hardware-based encryption. Ready to plug-and-play with Windows PC’s – if you’re a Mac user, check out our Mac version of this product. USB 2. 0 interface – Powered directly from the USB port on your PC. No separate power supply is needed*. * An optional cable is available for the few computers that limit power from the USB port. Planet friendly – We designed a small box from recycled materials to minimize waste. We encourage you to recycle it. Ideal For Protecting your data with automatic, continous backup Retrieving lost data effortlessly Adding extra storage space for photos, videos and music Securing private or sensitive data Compatibility Formatted NTFS Windows® XP, Windows Vista®, Windows 7 Mac OS® X Tiger®, Leopard®, Snow Leopard™ (requires reformatting) What’s in the box Ultra-portable hard drive, WD SmartWare software, USB cable, Quick Install Guide. Backup software you’ll really use ? WD SmartWare Five great reasons to love it: 1. It’s easy – Data backup can be a chore, but it’s your family photos, your movies, your music – your life – and it’s important to protect it. So we made this software extra easy because we really want you to use it. 2. You can see your life safe in one place – See your content displayed in easy to understand categories like movies and photos. Watch the progress of your backup as it happens with the instant-feedback color bars. Now you can truly be sure that all your stuff is backed up. A unique visual interface lets you see the drives connected to your computer. WD SmartWare will automatically scan your computer and find all of your personal files, including e-mail. Content category gauges show how much information you have to be backed up in each category. You can even mouse over a category to see a file count. Simply click Run Backup and WD SmartWare will automatically start backing up your files. As your backup is running the category gauges will change color showing you the backup as it happens. When finished, you’ll see a status screen and information about your backup. You only have to do this once. After the first backup your files will be backed up automatically every time you change or add a file. 3. It’s always on the job – WD SmartWare is always watching your computer, so when you change a file and save it, create new files, add new pictures, movies, or songs, WD SmartWare will instantly back them up. 4. You can bring back lost files effortlessly – If you ever accidentally delete an important file, or need to get an earlier version of a file, you can find and retrieve it in seconds with this easy-to-use interface. Restore files and folders by categories – photos, music, video, for example. Find a lost file with the search function. Go back in time to retrieve an older version of a file. 5. You’re in control – WD SmartWare software is also a control center for your external drives. From it you can: Customize your backup Set drive security Run diagnostics Manage the power settings, and more. . .
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The most amazing thing about this product is the new backup software. WOW this is so easy. This is by far the best WD passport ever. This is the third WD passport I have had. I never like any of the software at all (I did love the product). And I can not stress the fact on how easy this new backup software is. This software alone is worth a lot. Finely a user friendly WD passport, Very user friendly! I will be recommending this product very highly. Thanks WD for making this super user friendly. My main reason I bought this was to back up my computer. I see some people just want a hard drive, I guess this would not be a good choice if you did not want the backup software.
Rating: 5 / 5
First and foremost, It says 1TB hard drive. It’s NOT. 930 GB!!!! This is just frustrating. If it is 930; then advertise 930; not 1 GB. Secondly, the software is as bad as everyone says. I was able to quickly remove it, but really. . . what were they thinking.
Rating: 1 / 5
Having now purchased and started using the 1 TB WD Passport, I can now answer the question I raised in my Amazon “review” of three weeks ago about whether the USB cable now shipping (mid-April 2010) with this product forms a sturdy reliable connection with the device. It does, or at least MINE does.
No muss, no fuss. I just plugged the thing into my iMac Snow Leopard machine and the Apple “Time Machine” backup software offered to reformat the ntfs drive as a Mac drive. Backup then proceeded without a hitch and showed 999. 16 GB of available space. I have used the WD 500 GB drive for more than a year and have had no problems. I will use the two drives in tandem, with one always in the safety deposit box at the bank. And this is about the only 1 TB drive that is small enough to fit in a conventional safety deposit box.
Rating: 5 / 5
First of all I want to say that I had a terrible time hooking up this drive to my laptop but it worked perfectly when I hooked it up to my daughter-in-law’s computer. She has now had it connected for ten days without any problems.
I love the directions for this. The first picture shows the USB going into the side of the computer, and the second shows the laptop and hard drive connected. I love directions that include two pictures. It should have been much easier than it turned out to be.
My husband, who had been shopping for a(nother) storage drive alerted me to the fact that some people were having trouble with this drive and wow, there are a lot of mad people. But right away, reading the reviews, the common elements that seemed to make people mad have already been addressed by WD. The USB cord was an issue – and I’m certainly glad I didn’t get one of the original ones. And the software was an issue. My abilities range on a scale somewhere from yes, I have seen smoke coming out of one of my computers in the 80s (okay, and 90s), to being generally competent enough to manage most devices from a central media server. (In other words, if I can do it, anyone can. ) It does not take a rocket scientist nor a programmer to go to WD’s site to download the UPDATE FOR THE FIRMWARE.
The directions for the update were straightforward. It asks you to turn off any firewalls, as well as any programs that might need drive access during the update. That was when the trouble started.
This is the message I got when I plugged the hard drive into my computer:
“A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
“BAD_POOL_HEADER”
(Then there was a lot of information I found irrelevant. ) It ended by saying:
“Technical information:
“*** STOP: 0x)0000019 (0×00000020,, 0×89725668, 0×89725680, 0x1A030001)
“Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete.
Contact your system administrator or technical support group for further assistance. ”
My support group? OHOH! (My support group is no longer taking my calls during business hours. ) This was all on a big blue screen with white lettering. It definitely got my attention. On completion of these steps, I reconnected the drive. What followed was a repeat of the big scary message above. This happened several times while trying to reboot the computer with the device connected or not and with the firmware on or off the computer. I tried all the possible variations. The computer would start but within a few minutes, crash.
Onward and upward!!! I took the drive to my DIL’s computer after having forewarned her. Before we plugged it in, I asked her if she had read the reviews on the product. She WASN’T WORRIED.
She plugged it in and it worked. Perfectly well. She said she might hide the software but she was able to move files from her computer to the drive without any problem. She has now been using it for about ten days without any problem.
She says it’s a great little drive.
Rating: 4 / 5
This is a great product small and slim to carry places and can back up loads of data, I use it for my collection of movies and to back up my computer, it’s amazing and easy to use!
Rating: 5 / 5