Western Digital 160GB 2.5-inch Passport USB Portable Hard Drive
by Western Digital
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Customer Review: Not a good experience
Summary: 1 Stars
I first purchased this product in 2007. The original device was bad and would not accept any sort of file upload or transfer. I contacted customer service (a bad experience in itself) and they agreed to exchange my faulty product for a new one, and to reimburse me for the return shipping costs incurred upon me (which I have yet to see after 7 months).
A new hardrive was sent upon my return of the original. It worked fine for several months, but like the first is a faulty product. I can no longer retrieve and play the music/movie files I have stored on it. I understand that some have great experiences with this product, but I will not buy from WD again. I recently switched to a Toshiba 160 GB hard-drive and remain very satisfied with it.
Customer Review: Avoid this drive if you value your data
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this drive in Feb. of 2007. Almost six months to the day after I purchased it the drive stopped working. There was no indication that it was going to stop working. One day I used the drive in the morning, in the afternoon I went to use it again and nothing happened. I tried the drive on two laptops and two desktops using Windows XP and Windows 2000 without success. When I put my ear to the drive it was silent and there was no vibrations. I really needed the data on my drive so I sent it away to a data recovery service. It is going to cost me more than $1500 to recover my data. I could have bought 10 of these drives for the same amount of money. But, I wouldn't spend a dime on another one of these drives. A drive should be able to last more than six months.Customer Review: Another review
Summary: 5 Stars
This drive was passed on to me from the previous IT manager and I've been using it for nearly 3 months. So far so good!! The capacity is nearly maxed out with a nice assortment of documents, music, photos and applications and I've never lost a file or received a "file is damaged" notification. Working in Iraq, this drive is constantly exposed to enough dust to short out Number 5 and has performed flawlessly.
In regards to the operation/functionality of the drive on a Mac notebook (I have a PB15) it will NOT work unless a dual-USB type connection is used due to the lack of power on the port. Again, not a HD issue, this has always been a Mac issue. We're using Dell's here in Baghdad and I've never had an issue with connectivity.
Customer Review: Worthless POS
Summary: 1 Stars
I used this drive on 3 machines with WinXP SP2. It worked great the first few weeks. Then it started producing "Delayed Write" errors and corrupting files. Good thing I had a backup. I had sensitive data on this drive and tried to wipe it (with the intention of asking for a warranty replacement). But it would not work on any of my modern machines. I tried it on my old laptop with USB 1.1 ports and it would successfully mount. Then I tried to wipe it (using WD's utility and Truecrypt). But it would only get half way through (24 hours!) before exiting with a "sector not found" error. I tried a few times then gave up, took it apart and smashed the platters with a hammer. Western Digital, you've lost a customer for life!Customer Review: Good device that does the job.
Summary: 5 Stars
I use this drive as a backup for backup. My primary backup device has been another western digital passport drive for the past 2 years and it has served me good except for one time when I disconnected the usb cable while doing an rsync and without stopping the device and could not recover any of the data. Ever since, I have been careful not to do that and have had no issues. I hope the same reliability in this new drive.
The best thing about this is that it is so small that you can carry it in your pocket. It would have been good to have had a longer USB cable, but I use the longer cable I had with my older drive, so no issues there either.
Overall, a good buy for the price if you value compactness.