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Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive

Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
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Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
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Rating: 9.03/10
Quintana
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Review Date: 08/04/13
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
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Benchmarked with HD tune at 75MB/sec transfer speed more than USB3, 25MB/sec over USB2.Smaller than my old 250GB passport. Gets really hot. I suggest keeping it in a well ventalated location when under heavy use, it gets very hot.
Opal
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Review Date: 06/16/13
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
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this can take something you throw at it. even if you transfer a lot of different factors at the identical time this drive will save, like a pushing soul train until it gets the job carried out. i wish it was a 2 t drive 1t in the palm of my hand. pocket size.
Makoto
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Review Date: 04/07/13
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
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More rapidly then what I believed it was going to be. Transfer test with H2testw 9.76gb in 122 seconds. So I am extremely delighted.USB three. each techniques 9.76gb in 122 secondsWrite Speed: 82.7 MByte/sRead Speed: 82.eight MByte/sUSB two. 9.76gb Create 313 seconds Study 290 secondsCreate Speed: 31.9 MByte/sRead Speed: 34.four MByte/s None. I wish Western Digital would place the rpm of there Transportable Challenging Drive on the box. I consider it's 5400. Either way I am really pleased with the efficiency
Tieve
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Review Date: 03/07/13
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
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So far so fantastic, very small negatives! Nice and compact, great appear! I needed to purchase a seperate USB powered hub in order to use this with my Roku box. An optional external energy provide would be advantageous. Unit can often get a small warm during heavy use.
Quintana
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Review Date: 02/22/13
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
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Basic test of high quality of a quickly external drive;Touch an external drive with your hand, when the drive is "on" for about an hour. This drive as cold like a cucumber... do the same with a different manufacturer's drive. Be cautious! you could burn your hand. Two of this drives are Velcro-ed onto the back of my laptops monitor for over a year now. I travel around the planet non-cease with my laptop with the drives attached all the time. The drives are operating every time the Pc is on.Most of my VM Ware photos are on these drives and they are access constantly....never ever a difficulty.. By no means had a dilemma. haven't noticed any
Tod
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Review Date: 02/09/13
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
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-This..... Issue..... is as big as my wallet, which suggests I can lastly carry a TB in my pocket :D I.........I've never carried this substantially memory in my pants ahead of.... kinda makes me feel... massive. :D. The quick cord goes will with the pocket-carry function. None however. I'll give a secondary assessment 1 year from now.
Chloris
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Review Date: 08/03/12
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
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I now have two of these and can carry around 1.7 TB of photographs everywhere now in a modest package. Quiet and they run fairly awesome. USB 3 cable included. Didn't obtain at the Egg, had a credit to use at a regional location. Wish it were a bit quicker, 5400 rpm drive in a USB three package is sort of like a four cylinder Vette. There is also a built in software program formatter integrated with the drive application, which requires up a little portion of the drive. Formatted in Win7 just fine to get total size. Copying a tb of photos to this guy at present receiving 45-48mb/sec. A couple of weeks ago I place a 7200 two.five" rpm drive in a USB 3 situation myself and got 60-65mb/sec. I suspect there is a 5400 RPM drive in these. A lot far better than the same in a USB two case.
Rodney
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Review Date: 07/29/12
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
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super rapid with USB3., and super modest, super light weight. not however
Kalinda
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Review Date: 05/21/12
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
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- Very little (SLIGHTLY larger than my wallet)- Incredibly rapidly transfer rate- Stylish- A lot of space for all of my files (around 950GB out of the box)- The plan is straightforward to use and I backed up my netbook with ease- LED busy light isn't also vivid and it's little - STIFF cable, but not really a con- Kinda fingerprint prone, but you can grab the perimeter of the drive, exactly where it isn't.- Kinda heats up when beneath heavy use
stoanee@NCIX
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Review Date: 02/28/12
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
Cons:-Supplied cable is very short

Pros:-Portable-Needs only one cable to connect-Easy to use
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Bought this for my wife to do data back-up with after the hdd on her desktop died and she lost some files. (I do have another external hdd but she was not using it) This drive is small enough for her to slip into her purse and take to college if she needs to. We now have our important pics & data backed up onto two external drives so I would hope we will not lose anything else.
Shane_P@NCIX
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Review Date: 02/19/12
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
Cons:none

Pros:fast, looks good, small
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very fast drive, even USB 2.0much faster than I thought USB 2 would be, of course 3 is very fast, works great, and with WD's track record should last for a long time to come
Kamella
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Review Date: 11/18/11
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
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USB three. is superfast nothing
Benjamin_T@NCIX
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Review Date: 10/24/11
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
Cons:nothing at all

Pros:its just perfect
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I bought it for movies and music and it's just perfect USB 3.0 is so fast and totally worth it. I can now transfer 10GB in less than 1min and overall for 99.99 i'm totally satisfied with it
Eric_L@NCIX
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Review Date: 10/15/11
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
Cons:The USB cable is very short. It's only about 2 feet long and for someone like me I prefer a longer cable so I can route it behind my desk from my computer. If a short cable is an issue then I don't recommend this drive. The other minor issue is that the drive's glossy finish scratches VERY easily. But this is a cosmetic issue, if you don't mind or expect scratches then it shouldn't be a problem. Just thought I'd point it out.

Pros:It looks great, it's small, light, overall very portable. You can very easily stash this in your bag or even your pocket if you're on the go.
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Overall it's a nice external drive. The only things I wish they improved on was provide a longer USB cable.
KrUsHeR™@NCIX
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Review Date: 09/01/11
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
Cons:connector on hd

Pros:usb 3 and size
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I like the fact that the hd is usb 3. The transfer speeds are great! The main issue I have with it is the cable that is needed to plug it into the usb port has a proprietary connector on the hard drive side. And since the connection at the hd is very poor, it would be nice to be able to buy a replacement cable. I find myself having to firmly push on that connector for my computer to even recognize the drive now. I would have recommended it the first couple weeks I had it, but now there is no way I would buy another one of these.For the money you are paying, it would be nice to have a cable/connectors that last longer than a month or two!
Rahzel@NCIX
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Review Date: 08/18/11
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
Cons:short USB cable

Pros:Good price for what I paidGood brandUSB 3.0Very small and portable
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In HD Tune, I averaged about 68MB/s transfer rate which is typical for a 5400rpm 2.5" drive.Just realized this only has a 2-year warranty... thought the passports had a 3-year warranty. Oh well, I've yet to have an issue with a WD drive.Comes with software which is easily removed.Other than the fact that it comes with a short cable (a little over a foot long) I'm happy with it so far.
Aviator@NCIX
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Review Date: 07/19/11
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
Cons:None

Pros:Small, light, fast
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1TB in a 2.5" enclosure. What more could an IT guy ask for when portable workers need more storage space on the go. It's the best thing for people on the go. Lots of space, light weight, and works without having to plug an external brick.
Jesus Jr_L@NCIX
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Review Date: 06/03/11
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
Cons:none

Pros:fast 2.0 and UBER FAST 3.0 USB transfer speedsdurablesmall
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would buy again, i keep this puppy in my day bag and had the 500GB USB 2.0 version for a while until i filled it up. this thing is solid.
Saberon@NCIX
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Review Date: 04/30/11
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
Cons: Cable is so bloody short! I can't even plug in the back of the tower and set it on my desk. It hangs from the USB port.

Pros: Nice small designUsb3 is much much faster than than usb2. I have been highly impressed with the speed.
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Small, lightweight and fast. Western digital brand is known for it's quality. A tad expensive per GB but overall I have been very satisfied.
Thomas_W@NCIX
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Review Date: 04/17/11
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
Cons: PS3Slim owners beware. Drive doesn't work with ps3 slim because the usb ports can't power it. Works fine with PS3Fat

Pros: Light, sleek, large capacity.
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If i would have known about the ps3slim copatibiity issue i wouldn't have bought it. but it works nice with everything else, mac, pc, ps3fat. just besure to format it to fat32 file system or no ps3 will read it.
B.Y.@NCIX
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Review Date: 03/30/11
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
Cons: only come with black

Pros: small, fast, cheap
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what can I say, it is small, easy to carry, fast, support usb3, and much cheaper than bestbuy, futureshop, londondrug
Vincent_P@NCIX
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Review Date: 03/24/11
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
Cons: None so far.

Pros: It's small and compact with a good amount of space on it. No power adapter needed so I always liked these passport essential drives.
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It's small and compact with a good amount of space on it. No power adapter needed so I always liked these passport essential drives.
Striderx32@NCIX
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Review Date: 03/19/11
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
Cons: - Bundled software

Pros: - Compact- 2.5, 1 TB+enclosure for $100- USB 3.0/2.0
Comment:
I purchased two of these just over a week ago (March 10th, 2011) and have no complaints about them really. I'm not a big fan of the bundled software, but have found that you don't need to use it or even install it. Windows (XP) mentioned the hardware was not properly installed, but really it doesn't mean anything and the drive works fine. For the pricematch of $100, it was a good purchase.
Dan_G@NCIX
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Review Date: 03/06/11
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
Cons: wish they had large storage size

Pros: It has no power cord which is fantastic. No problems being recognized on multiple pc's
Comment:
great price and easy to use. The fact that there is no power cord means less to carry with you and taken that the unit is small....awesome
Alexei_C@NCIX
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Review Date: 02/21/11
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive
Cons: None.

Pros: Reliable. A lot of storage space.
Comment:
Bought this to replace my old 320GB portable HDD. It does what it needs to do - storage for portability :)
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