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The Western Digital WDMT4000TN 400GB My Passport Studio Portable Hard Drive, with dual interfaces, is formatted for Macintosh, features a clever capacity gauge, and comes with a soft drawstring bag. Use this portable drive to back up your office files and take them home, carry thousands of songs or pictures and back up your laptop. The included FireWire 800 interface is perfect for Mac computers and a USB 2.0 connection for convenience and compatibility among multiple computers.
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Technical Details
- Box Contents - Portable hard drive, FireWire 800 cable, USB 2.0 cable, Drawstring bag, and Quick Install Guide- Formatted HFS+ Journaled for Mac OS X 10.4.11, 10.5.2, can easily be reformatted for Windows Vista, XP, and 2000
- Fully compatible with Apple's Time Machine backup software
- Dimensions - Height 0.59 x Length 4.97 x Width 3.13 (15.0x126.15x79.5mm)
- Weight - 0.40 pounds (0.18 kg)
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By Jose A. (denver, co)
After doing substantial research I decided to purchase this hard drive, and I'm glad I did! I'm running Tiger 10.4.11 on my imac and wanted something that had firewire 400 so i wouldn't take up one of my usb ports. I backed up 200gb to the my passport, and it took about 3 hours. I like the fact this hard drive is powered through the firewire cable and don't have to connect it to a AC outlet. I couldn't be happier.
By C. Taylor (Baltimore, MD)
I recently bought this to replace my WD 320GB Passport USB drive (which I loved, but USB was too slow) and this is just awesome.
I think I saw people complaining about a thick cord.. really?? The cord is fine, drive works great, perfect compact size and no power supply required!
Awesome awesome awesome
By Garry J. Polled (Santa Barbara CA)
Bought this to provide storage for a WD-TV.. As I ordered it for a Mac I had to re-configure it to work on the TV box. Made one call to support (somewhere in India!), they answered promptly and worked me through the issues easily. Good work Western Digital!
Going to buy another shortly, no better recommendation than that.
By Claude H. Suddreth (Phoenix, AZ USA)
What can I say? Works perfectly as expected with Apple Macbook Pro. Plug in and go! High speed USB connection as well as Firewire 400 and Firewire 800. AMAZINGLY small, light and thin - easily put in your laptop case and take with you everywhere. No complaints! Time Machine on the go! Excellent compliment to your Macbook, Macbook Pro, or Macbook Air - or even your desktop iMac.
By Travis B. Stevens (Knoxville, TN)
I'm a digital artist responsible for photography, high definition motion graphics and overall general graphic design, print and web. I got my passport for Christmas this year and I couldn't be happier.
Firstly, My main machine is a MacBook Pro laptop. My work computer is a Mac Pro and 99% of the computers I work on in my industry are Macs. So this review is from a Mac Users perspective. Windows users beware (apparently this drive will require a reformat.)
I had read a bunch of reviews talking about the difficulty of the short thick fw800 cable and I have got to say they're unfounded. Sure it's thick, no lie there. But it's completely manageable. The package also comes with a USB cable and a FW400 cable for ultimate compatibility (which is Ideal for a freelancer who is constantly working on many types of machines.) And the best of all IT DOESN'T REQUIRE A POWER SUPPLY!!!
For what it's worth i found the drive to be physically appealing and very small & light weight. Compared to a GTECH 500GB GDrive. It comes with a pretty slick carrying bag (to hold the extra cables as well as the drive.)
The drive comes with about 280~ mb of drivers and Documentation in every possible language on it (install-delete imo) After that i did some basic workhorse transfers on them. I moved my entire 36 gig Aperture Library and my 45 gig iTunes library on the drive and it was finished by the time i went in to check on the progress the first time. I was planning on checking on it at least 3 or 4 times. That was a nice surprise.
All in all this drive deserves 5 Stars easily. What this drive doesn't deliver in affordability It easily makes it up in literally every other aspect of it. (I wouldn't knock off a star off any other FAT formatted external for having to reformat it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) so i don't think the previous 4 star rating was deserved.)
Now, because i hate reading reviews that are all praises and no criticism and as much as i hate to try and find anything wrong with this product I guess i would say they default "turbo" icon after installed those drivers is pretty ugly and something i changes immediately.
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