4TB My Passport SSD External Portable Solid State Drive, Grey, Up to 1,050 MB/s, USB 3.2 Gen-2 and USB-C Compatible (USB-A for older systems) – WDBAGF0040BGY-WESN

I like how small and lightweight it is—it’s easy to carry around without even noticing it. The build quality feels solid too, not cheap at all. Setup was simple, just plug and play, and it works perfectly with my devices. Definitely a good buy if you need extra storage that’s quick and reliable

If you're looking for a portable and reliable storage solution, the WD 1TB My Passport SSD is an excellent option. This external solid state drive offers high-speed data transfer, a compact design, and exceptional durability. Here are some pros and cons to help you make an informed decision: Pros: Speed - The WD My Passport SSD provides lightning-fast data transfer speeds of up to 1050MB/s, making it ideal for professionals who need to transfer large files quickly. Durability - This SSD is designed to withstand shock, vibration, and drops of up to 6.5 feet, making it a reliable option for those who are always on-the-go. Compact Design - The My Passport SSD is incredibly slim and compact, making it easy to carry in your pocket, bag, or purse. It's smaller than most smartphones, making it a convenient option for those who need to work or travel light. Compatibility - The drive works with both PC and Mac computers and comes with USB Type-C and Type-A cables for easy connectivity. Security - The My Passport SSD comes with built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption to help protect your data. Cons: Price - The WD My Passport SSD is more expensive than traditional hard drives, but it's worth the investment if you need fast and reliable storage. Capacity - While 1TB is a decent amount of storage, it may not be enough for those who require more space for their files. Overall, the WD 1TB My Passport SSD is a high-quality and reliable storage solution that's perfect for those who need fast and portable storage. Its speed, durability, and compact design make it a top choice for professionals and creatives who are always on-the-go. If you're looking for a reliable and efficient external solid state drive, the WD My Passport SSD is definitely worth considering.

Storage Capacity, Interface, and Size Solid State Drives (SSD) are a welcome alternative to older, non-SSD hard drives. This Western Digital (WD) drive, in particular, has features that make it an attractive choice for anyone needing a high capacity USB drive with relatively fast read (1050MB/s) and write (1000MB/s) data transfer rates. The drive is available in four capacities (500GB, 1TB, 2TB, & 4TB) and designed with a native USB-C interface (USB 3.2, Gen-2), and it is supplied with an adapter that allows cross connectivity to legacy USB-A interfaces. These drives are larger than any thumb-size drives, but are smaller when compared to a WD My Passport Ultra Portable Hard Drive (see photo). An important consideration beyond size is the fact that SSD drives will be more durable to accidental drops/impacts that could easily corrupt data on non-SSD hard drives. No Excessive Heat Thumb-size (stick) flash drives are criticized for generating heat during read/write processes, but I did not notice a substantial problem when using this drive for everyday data transfers. Some warmth is noted when writing multi-gigabyte files but unnoticeable during read processes. Some heat release is to be expected, but it was not comparable to the higher temperature levels produced by thumb drives. As an added feature, this drive can remain attached at all times to a computer or wireless router without software forcing the drive into a “sleep” mode when not in use. Colors These drives are available in five colors, but not all colors are available in all storage capacities. If used for backup data storage, then color coding facilitates the backup rotation process, e.g., red, silver, and blue. Music Storage for a SONOS Wireless Music System I use this SSD to store iTunes/Music music files for playback using a SONOS app. After connection to a USB-supporting router, the music library stored on the drive was indexed, and the drive served as a NAS device to allow music playback to every room in the house that has a SONOS speaker. Music playback was responsive and done without unusual delays. As a general note, music playback was operated using SONOS apps on either iPad or Mac systems at various locations within the house. The convenience and performance of this SSD made it an attractive alternative in comparison with “noisy,” mechanical hard drives. Moreover, when portability is necessary, this SSD packs easily for trips to other locations where other SONOS systems are present. Drive capacity choice will depend on music storage needs. I use 2TB drives because these easily store hundreds of music files with substantial room leftover for future music additions. The USB 3.x read transfer rate (estimated at 1050MB/s) eliminated the playback “jitter” that was experienced in the past when using non-SSD, WD drives. Although for comparison accuracy, it should be noted that general data transfers and music playback reliability will be affected by a variety of variables unrelated to the drive itself–notably, all other facets of the wireless network and the physical environment where WiFi data are transmitted.

Impressed! Little thingy, lightweight, sturdy, of course silent because an SSD has no moving parts, plug-and-play. Perfect for what I was looking for, works great. As I said, plug-and-play (Dell, Windows11). The cable it comes with is really short, that's OK for a laptop, but not for my desktop tower. So I bought separately a C-to-A UBS port cable to use with the WD Passport SSD, the new cable is 1.5' long, it is now perfect. The short length of the cable this WD SSD comes with is the only reason I am giving it 4 stars. This is the 4th WD Passport external hard drive I have owned over the years, they are great.

Before I begin this review, let me take the time to note that if you're ordering flash drives, SD cards or SSDs online, be sure to run a capacity test on the drive you receive. Many drives for sale are counterfit drives that lie about their capacity. There's a handy little Windows tool called H2TestW. This drive arrived very quickly and was well packaged. I'm still shocked just how tiny this thing is; I know NVME drives (which this is interally) are small, but this is still shocking, it's around 1.5 inches wide, a few inches tall and super thin. The casing feels ridgid and sterdy with no flexing at all. It comes with a very short but still great quallity USB-C cable and a USB-A adapter. Straight away my PC recognized the drive with no issues. Western Digital included some encryption software for Windows and Mac on the drive, but sense I'm not storing anything sensative on here I just removed it. A test with H2TestW confirmed the drive is legitimate and is the advertised capacity. The read and write speeds were insainely fast and responsive, way faster than my mechanical USB hard disk. TLDR: Very compact and fast drive great for any usecase. I've always loved Western Digitals products, and this is yet another one.

This External SDD is rock solid, reliable and has great capacity. This greatly simplified my ability to save entire portions of the podcasts I produce. It attaches and installs with little effort and it just works. Highly recommended.

I got the 1TB model and I can't believe how small these are getting, I could seriously see losing this if you're not careful, it's not much bigger than a credit card (I got the red one for this reason). In fact, it is so small and light that the included USB-C to USB-C cable is actually way too stiff for the drive and the drive ends up bouncing around in the air off the end of the cable! (Note to Western Digital: may want to include a more flexible cable with the drive so this doesn't happen.) I use this for holding large game apps and it works fantastic, have noticed no problems due to speed, etc. Would definitely buy again.

This thing rocks. It so blazingly fast it backed up my whole computer, including a separate DATA drive, in less than 10 minutes compared to hours from the conventional external HDD. I did not run any sophisticated speed tests comparing it to other SSD's so I can't say this is faster than other brands. I did see speeds near the rating of 1,050 MB/s during a backup. Pretty fast. On a Restore, it finds the file you want to restore in seconds. You can't use the old WD BACKUP program. You need to download WD's new version called ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE FOR WESTERN DIGITAL. It can do more functions like restore the entire computer, partitions and even more. The cord it comes with is short but I just swapped it out for a longer one. It gets warm but so what. Just keep it in open air and not enclosed. It is a bit pricey for the early adopter tax on a 4TB SSD so that price will come down I am sure. If you just need external storage for backups, a regular HDD will do except it is painfully slow and you have the associated problems of crashing or optimizing or whatever. I have found SSD's to be much more reliable in protecting your data. I feel better knowing that about a backup if my computer blows up one day. If you want lightning speed and are willing to pay to protect your data, this is one to consider.

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Super dysk jak za tę cenę. Prędkości zgadzają się z specyfikacją, jakoś wykonania też całkiem ok

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Ho acquistato questo hard disk WD My Passport SSD portatile 4 TB perché avevo esaurito lo spazio sul mio vecchio WD Passport meccanico da 2 TB, arrivato sigillato perfettamente ed integro l'ho messo subito alla prova e ho notato che collegato via USB A non è molto veloce, ovvero non raggiunge i 1.050 MB/s promessi, li raggiunge solo se collegato ad USB C (3.2 Gen). Io l'ho collegato alla mia porta USB 3.0 facendo attenzione al verso delle freccette. Per fortuna la Western Digital ha fatto un cavetto a senso unico nel senso che non si può sbagliare l'inserimento dell'adattatore USB C -> USB A perché ci sono delle scannellature nei connettori che ne impediscono l'inserimento nel verso sbagliato ed in ogni caso ci sono le freccette che indicano il corretto allineamento dei cavetti. Arriva formattato in exFAT il ché comporta che tutti i file copiati avranno 2 secondi in più rispetto all'origine e per ovviare al problema ho riformattato il disco WD My Passport SSD in NTFS. Adesso le date dei file sono integre e a poco a poco ho fatto la copia di 3 TB di dati avendo cura ogni 80 GB di dati copiati di fare una pausa di 10 minuti per permettere al disco WD My Passport SSD di rientrare nelle temperature normali. Il mio problema che ho avuto è che ho due hard disk WD RED con rotazione 5.400 RPM, dunque sono molto affidabili ma sono lenti e da qui l'effetto collo di bottiglia perché il WD My Passport SSD è molto veloce (circa 460 mb/s se collegato ad USB 3.0) ma viene rallentato dalla velocità di lettura del disco sorgente che come dicevo è un WD RED meccanico che non supera i 185 MB/s. Dunque il vero problema di cui ho letto nelle recensioni circa la lentezza non è addebitabile al WD My Passport SSD ma dal disco da cui si sta tentando la copia che limita la velocità in scrittura. Infatti copiando file dal mio disco di sistema Samsung 850 EVO PRO SSD fa esattamente 460 MB/s in lettura/scrittura sul WD My Passport SSD. Il guscio è in lega di metallo, resistente alle cadute, agli urti ed è talmente piccolo che sta comodamente dentro un taschino della giacca o della camicia. Arriva corredato dal seguente materiale: ✔ WD My Passport SSD ✔ Cavetto USB C -> USB C ✔ Adattatore USB C -> USB A ✔ Garanzia Procuratevi una prolunga USB altrimenti non potrete usarlo perché il cavetto è di circa 15 cm di lunghezza dunque impossibile da usare senza una adeguata prolunga USB. Sono piacevolmente colpito dalla solidità costruttiva di questo microscopico hard disk che altro non è che una memoria SSD inserita in un guscio di metallo. Nota del 25.04.2023: oggi pomeriggio ho ricollegato il mio WD My Passport SSD e dopo 3 ore di copiatura file ho scollegato l'hard disk che era diventato caldissimo (per fargli fare una pausa di raffreddamento) e dopo 30 minuti l'ho ricollegato, ad un certo punto mi sono accorto che la velocità era scesa a 40 MB/s fissa, non saliva nemmeno pregando, così ho scambiato le porte del mio PC ed ho scoperto che in un'altra porta USB 3.0 il disco era tornato a fare 460 MB/s di velocità, a questo punto decido di ispezionare la porta che va lenta con un programmino portabile che si chiama USBDeview e scopro che la porta USB 3.0 in questione era vista in modalità compatibilità, a questo punto mangio la foglia, ovvero con USBDeview disinstallo la porta USB 3.0 dove era collegato il mio WD My Passport SSD e così l'hard disk viene espulso, lo scollego anche fisicamente dalla porta in questione e lo ricollego alla stessa porta USB 3.0, faccio un test di velocità sulla stessa porta che prima non andava e il mio WD My Passport SSD torna come per magia a fare 460 MB/s!!! Si era sconfigurata la porta dove era attaccato l'hard disk!!! Incredibile ma vero e non so nemmeno perché ma l'importante è che ho risolto. Conclusioni? 5 stelle per adesso: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.

かなり軽くてコンパクトです。PCのバックアップなどに使ってますが速度も問題ないです。見た目が赤でスタイリッシュで好みです。