Product Details
- Product Dimensions: 3.3 x 0.7 x 4.3 inches ; 7.2 ounces
- Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
- ASIN: B0049AS38I
- Item model number: WDBACX0010BBL-NESN
Item Description
Capacity: 1 TBImportant SE – Next generation high-capacity storage to go.
Put your digital life on the stylish, maximum capacity My Passport® Essential™ SE portable hard drive. With WD good quality and USB three. and USB two. connectivity, this drive is developed for these days with tomorrow in thoughts.
WD quality inside and outMy Passport transportable drives are the world’s top selling drives. There’s a cause. We’ve been creating challenging drives for 20 years and we know how to protect your information.
USB three. plus USB two. A single drive with universal compatibility nowadays and next-generation speed for tomorrow. Use it with USB 2. now and step up to USB three. speed when you’re prepared.
High capacity in a smaller driveMassive capacity in this tiny, fashionable drive that is powered straight from the USB port on your Computer. No separate energy provide is required.
Attributes at a glance
- Dual USB three. and USB two. compatibility
- Up to 3x more rapidly transfer rates with USB three.
- Maximum capacity
- Automatic, continuous backup
- Password protection and hardware encryption
- 2-years restricted warranty
Dual USB 3. and USB 2. interface- A single drive with universal compatibility nowadays and next-generation speed for tomorrow. Use it with USB 2. now and step up to USB 3. speed when you are ready.
Up to 3x more rapidly transfer rates - When connected to a USB 3. port this drive lets you access and save files up to three occasions more rapidly than USB 2.. Transfer a two-hour HD film in just five minutes as an alternative of 13 minutes.Efficiency may perhaps differ based on user's hardware and system configuration.
WD high quality inside and out - For more than 20 years, millions of individuals worldwide have trusted their information to WD tough drives. We are profitable due to the fact we understand the significance of your data and our initial concern is keeping that data safe.
Maximum capacity - Retailer all your preferred photos, music, movies, and fundamental files on this high capacity, transportable drive.
WD SmartWare™ computer software - You're in manage of your backup. Install all the attributes, choose just the components you need, or if you choose, pick out not to use the computer software at all.
Automatic, continuous backup - Operates quietly in the background to shield your information applying minimal Pc resources. Whenever you add or adjust a file it is instantly backed up.
Password protection for privacy - Gain peace of mind figuring out that your information is protected from unauthorized access with password protection and encryption.
USB-powered - Powered straight from the USB port on your Pc. No separate energy provide is necessary.
Planet friendly - We designed a compact box that uses recycled material and minimizes waste. We encourage you to recycle it.
Excellent for
- Connecting with your USB two. port at this time and working with with USB three. when you're prepared
- Transferring files up to three occasions more rapidly when connected to a USB 3. port
- Safeguarding your information with automatic, continuous backup
- Adding extra storage space for pictures, videos and music
- Securing private or sensitive information with password protection and hardware encryption
What is in the boxPortable hard drive, USB cable, WD SmartWare computer software, Quick Install Guide.
CompatibilityFormatted NTFSWindows® XP, Windows Vista®, Windows 7Mac OS® X Leopard®, Snow Leopard™ (demands reformatting and will operate in USB two.- mode)Note: Compatibility may well differ depending on user's hardware configuration and operating process.
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Place your digital life on the high capacity My Passport Vital SE portable hard drive. With WD superior and USB three. and USB two. connectivity, this drive is created for presently with tomorrow in mind. Visual backup computer software and password protection with hardware encryption ensure your data is protected. Lightweight and quick to carry, this drive is best for fast storage to go.
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Metallic Blue)
Technical Details
- Dual USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatibility
- Connectivity today; speed for tomorrow
- Up to 3x faster transfer rates with USB 3.0
- Maximum capacity
- Automatic, continuous backup
Customer Evaluations
PHYSICAL
One terabyte that fits in your jeans' pocket. I do not want to go all "when we were young we walked 10 miles to school, etc." on you, but my initially tricky drive was such that I would have necessary 50'000 of 'em to match the capacity, occupying a solid cube 9 feet on each and every side and setting me back 30 million dollars. That's thoughts- blowing progress indeed, and although the original advances were produced by firms like Seagate and IBM, these have mostly sold off/sourced out in the meantime, leaving Western Digital as the Bleeding Edge tough drive brand.
This device looks like a cigarette holder with a glossy finish. The edges are rounded, and the usb connector is the only opening in the case, so for my occasional transport I just carry the drive in my jacket as-is. It would have been super- neat to have a rubber flap over the usb and maybe a extra scratch- resistant matte finish, but there is no concern here, especially considering that WD presents inexpensive hardshell and neoprene instances.
USB3
Lastly, ten instances the speed of USB2! The USB consortium calls it Super Speed, to distinguish it (not) from the Hi-Speed of USB2 and the Complete Speed of USB1. It's beyond me why they don't just name it "5Gbit USB", a moniker which would pit it favorably against eSATA, Ethernet, Firewire, and so on... but at least there is a hilarious joke in there for Sci-Fi comedy fans (Google "They've gone into plaid" for the reference, very first video link).
But not so fast, Dark Helmet. First, just considering that the interface is ten times speedier does not mean the drive is, and second, it's most likely that even your 2010 Computer wants an adapter in the form of a PCIx card. And if it does, the USB ports will be on the back of the laptop or computer, which might be a situation as the cable that comes in this package is only 16" lengthy. If you have to have a lot more, you are going to have to buy a Micro USB 3. cable, the connector on the drive finish is numerous from USB2. At present, these cables are rare (none on Amazon!) and high priced, so be careful not to misplace the one particular you got.
SPEED
This external drive functions with each USB2 and USB3, so the question is, is it worth the added expense of the USB3 adapter, and what specifically is the speed obtain one particular can count on? To figure that out, I've run two tests, 1 a simple challenging drive test by way of HD Tune, and a single a filecopy test.
- HD Tune: (see screenshots for particulars): with USB2, the interface is the limiting factor, with a transfer rate of 33 MB/sec over the complete range. With USB3, you get the pure drive efficiency and up to 87MB/sec can be achieved in the outer regions and nevertheless a decent 45 MB/sec in the inner regions (the outer regions of the spinning disk have higher velocity and more sectors, hence the larger rate).
- File copy: I copied a batch of 7000 files back and forth a couple times and measured read and write efficiency separately. Averaged more than five runs, I located that the read performance gain of USB3 was 19% and the write performance acquire was 25%. It wants to be noted that in this scenario there was a lot of overhead - the copy plan (robocopy), the file seeks, the destination drive, etc.
So what to make of this? The raw read performance as measured by HD Tune is two to three times quicker with usb3 - nice to see that WD's advertising and marketing blurb "up to 3 times faster" is in fact correct! Even so, this benefit rapidly comes down as you use extra complex operations such as copying modest files. Given the decision once more, I in all probability wouldn't bother with an USB3 PCI card and just wait for my subsequent Computer to have it onboard. If you mainly copy large files (such as movies), you may perhaps benefit additional from USB3 than I do.
Computer software
The drive comes with some software on it (in lieu of an installation CD) which does two items: enable a hardware encryption and do backups. I've fiddled with it for a while but it left me unsatisfied. Beneath my (admittedly elderly) WinXP the GUI had rendering troubles (holes in the windows!), it wasn't half as intuitive as other software, and at least when I activated the encryption but it didn't take. It also installs a virtual CD, what do I have that for!? The very good news right here is that WD appears to ship this computer software with all their external drives now, so it stands to cause/hope that they'll increase on it and you will be able to download an upgrade.
Of course, if you happen to be a Mac or Win7 Ultimate user, you don't want the WD computer software at all, just use the built- in stuff.
CONCLUSION
This is a excellent little device: a complete terabyte, compact and reasonably future- proof despite the fact that you may not want to bother with USB3 for now if you do not currently have it. I'm deducting 1 star for the mediocre software, otherwise I'm exceptionally pleased with this capable small information vault.
I can don't forget when I was impressed by a 356 MB difficult drive on my new laptop or computer. (Don't forget those days?) Now here's this back-up external drive that is a terabyte, some thing that not so several years ago was in the domain only of supercomputers that took up complete rooms. The really impressive point is that this is such a great compact tiny drive, not a lot larger than a deck of playing cards. I've made use of other drives for back up and have at all times avoided the back up software program that came with some of them, fearing it would get in the way and slow points down when I'm working or that it would take as well much time to figure out what to back up and how usually to do so. As a result, I typically forget to back items up, which could be a disaster if I ever had a tricky drive failure.
Now the great point about a big external drive such as this a single is that it has tons of space and I can just back up everything and preserve various copies. The computer software that comes on the drive installs in minutes and checks for updates for both software and firmware. It provides you a choice of what to back up and the choice of pausing backups when you are operating, so you do not have to be concerned about it receiving in your way when you're doing something else. It was effortless to enter password protection and comes with a manual on the drive that's hassle-free to understand, as manuals go. You can also choose how various backups to keep at a time and exactly where you'd like these stored. The settings are straight forward to set up, even partitioning the drive if you determine to do so.
I've implemented it for a couple of weeks now and hardly notice it becoming there. It just does its point in the background and I can verify the backups so I know they're there. Applying Windows XP, it puts a little icon down in the menu bar exactly where I can verify at any time to see how considerably space has been applied, whether or not or not it is locked and if the temperature is OK. As opposed to some drives I've employed in the past, this a single appears to run pretty cool and I've in no way felt it being warm, even when the summer temperatures in the space were warm. I like that it really is so little, but has such high capacity. I am working with a two. interface but it really is nice to know it has the 3. capability for future use with perhaps a distinctive laptop. Two thumbs up for this external difficult drive.
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Metallic Blue)
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