| Reviews : Western Digital My Passport Elite 320 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive WDBAAC3200ARD-NESN (Metallic Red) |
Western Digital My Passport Elite 320 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive WDBAAC3200ARD-NESN (Metallic Red) Product By Western Digital Available From 18 Sellers |
Technical Details
- 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 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 organizes and displays your content into categories and show 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 .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.Illuminated capacity gauge - Connect the drive to your computer and see at a glance how much space is available on your drive.Grab-and-go USB dock – Convenient one-hand connection to your computer.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 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.Similar Products
Customer Reviews
By Renjan Bhasi (Lafayette, IN, USA)
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.
By Jack
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.
By G. Harris (Loveland, CO, USA)
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...
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