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These elegant portable drives are simple to use, light and easy to carry, and require no power adapter -- they are powered directly through the USB cable. Pack up your office files and take them home. Carry thousands of songs or pictures. Synchronize files between home and office and encrypt everything on the drive for added security. WD Sync synchronization and encryption software lets you take your critical data with you. Plug My Passport into any PC, edit files, read e-mail, and view photos. Then sync all of your changes back to your home or office computer. Your data is protected with 128-bit encryption (Windows only). It's perfect for business travelers who needs to transfer large amounts of data from their laptop to a client's computer, or daily backups as insurance against accidents from mishandled luggage or coffee spills. Also comes in handy if your worried about laptop theft and someone else having access to your important data, you can store it on this portable encrypted drive instead. For all those precious pictures, videos, music and data files, this external hard drive is a must-have.
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Technical Details
- Box Contents - My Passport Essential 320GB Portable USB Hard Drive, USB 2.0 cable, Quick Install guide- 320GB Hard Drive Capacity
- Installation is a snap because you don't really install this drive; you just plug it in and it's ready to use.
- USB bus powered, no separate power supply is needed
- This ultra-portable drive fits easily in your pocket or purse, weighs only 6 ounces
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By J. Brehm (Columbus, OH USA)
I can't get it to spin up with my PowerBook, even though it SAYS it's compatible. I tried getting help from Western Digital, but got a recorded message that says my USB port might not have enough juice to run the drive. They're sending me a power cord, which still leaves me with a portable drive THAT ISN'T REALLY PORTABLE!
By Fernando SIERRA RUIZ (Germany)
I actually already knew this product and I just bought 2 more to give them away to my dad and sister. Perfect way to secure your data in a small disk and carry them around.
By joeThePlumber
Yes, it works very well. The software that it comes with ... well, it is not needed on many of the modern OSes like Windows XP onwards, Linux or MAC. I always remove such preloaded software using Linux first. Some USB pendrives are worse -- you simply cannot delete the loaded software because the gadget presents itself as 2 USB devices -- one as read-only drive with an auto-executioble file (INF) in it and the other is the pre-partitioned space for you. Once you insert this pendrive in Windows XP, before you know it that read-only drive is already executing god knows what in your PC!
This Passport has none of that BS other than just some loaded software and a FAT32 filesystem. Max speed of transfer while copying a set of 300 MB+ files from this to the PC was about 30 MB/Sec on Linux 2.6 kernel based os. That rate will obviously go down for a mix of smaller sized files.
Care in handling is advised because hard disks are fragile no matter what the laptop makers say. This Passport uses a laptop hard disk inside with a good USB 2.0 USB-IDE controller.
By S. Thompson (Mandeville, LA USA)
This passport is great. Very small, I keep in my computer bag. The only thing I don't like, when you install for the first time it tries to install backup software. I'd rather it give me the choice to be just a mass storage or use their software. I did unistall their software and now use it as a mass storage and use my own backup software. Also, if you have an older pc, the USB port may not be powerful enough to run it. You'll need a "Y" USB cable that provides more power. I think the unit should ship with a "Y" usb cable. Even with this, I like having the passport. Compact, light weight, cool colors.
By James Holland (GR, MI USA)
Good drive so far - no problems. I have used it to transfer data between several different computers without problems. The power and data on one USB cable is great! Especially for older computers with all the USB ports one the back in a tangle of other cables. Simple and nice.
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