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Western Digital My Passport Essential 320GB Portable Hard Drive

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  • Item: 820838
  • Model: WDBAAA3200ABK-N

The world's most popular portable drive is now smaller than ever. And it's smarter than ever with WD SmartWare™ data management and backup software that backs up your data automatically and continuously, shows your backup as it happens, and restoreslost files effortlessly. Password protection and military-grade, 256-bit hardware-based encryption lets you secure your data. One of the five beautiful colors is just what you need to make you look smart (and very stylish).

  • WD's smallest portable drive ever
  • Automatic, continuous backup will instantly make a second copy whenever you add or change a file
  • Visual backup displays your content categories and shows the progress of your backup
  • Retrieve your valuable data to its original location whether you've lost all your data or just overwritten an important file
  • Customize your backup, set drive security, run diagnostics, manage the power settings, and more from the WD SmartWare control center
  • Gain peace of mind knowing that your data is protected from unauthorized access or theft with password protection and military-grade 256-bit hardware-based encryption
  • USB 2.0 powered
Capacity 320GB
Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Size 2.5"
Connectivity USB 2.0
Networked No
Encryption Type 256-bit hardware-based encryption
Special Features WD SmartWare control center
Compatibility PC
Internal or External External
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Western Digital My Passport Essential 320GB Portable Hard Drive
Avg. Customer Rating:
 
3.8 stars
(based on 5 reviews)
60% of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Customers most agreed on the following attributes:

Pros:
Attractive design (5), Quiet (5), Easy to setup (4), Easy to use (4), Large capacity (3)
Best Uses:
Additional storage (4), Back-up (4), File transfer (3)
Describe Yourself:
Power user (4)
Primary use:
Personal (3)
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Love this Portable Hard Drive!!!
By Regular CustomerVerified Buyer from East Lansing, MI on 11/17/2009
Pros:
Attractive Design, Compact, Easy To Setup, Easy to use, High Capacity, Quiet
Best Uses:
Additional Storage, Backup
Describe Yourself:
Power user
Primary use:
Business
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Western Digital My Passport Essential 320GB Portable Hard Drive:

This is a great little item. I'm getting two more for home computers!

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Easy
By RetiredVerified Buyer from Eastern Colorado plains on 10/29/2009
Pros:
Attractive Design, Easy To Setup, Easy to use, High Capacity, Portable, Quiet
Best Uses:
Additional Storage, Backup, File Transfer, Photo Storage, Video
Describe Yourself:
Casual user
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Western Digital My Passport Essential 320GB Portable Hard Drive:

My son recommended it. He keeps his development environment on it. I wanted inexpensive, easy to install additional storage for my documents and pictures. I plugged it in, moved the my documents folder to it, and it worked. I bought one for my sister for automatic backup.

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[1 of 1 customers found this review helpful]

 
Good but could (should) be Better
By MikeVerified Buyer from Detroit , Mi on 10/28/2009
Pros:
Attractive Design, Portable, Quiet
Cons:
Difficult To Use
Best Uses:
Backup
Describe Yourself:
Power user
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
No, I would not recommend this to a friend

Comments about Western Digital My Passport Essential 320GB Portable Hard Drive:

I tried it on both a PC and a Mac. The first time plugging it into the Mac it was not recognized. I had to plug it back into the PC and reformat it with its own utility first, then tried again and it was recognized. From there it works about the same on Mac or PC equally well. The biggest disappointment was I could find no way to remove the Virtual CD that is preloaded with the Back-up & security software. I prefer not to use it, but it offers no way to get rid of it. This is not what I purchased it for. Does not seem to work very well as a portable drive either. While it works as a back-up device, it is very complicated for the average user to use as a device to transport files between computers due to the Virtual CD with the Back-up & Security software. If you want it simply to back up your local files, it will work. If you want to transport large files between computers, try something else. The WD website is of no help in trying to resolve the issues I encountered and no information about removing the VCD and preloaded software.

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great drive,BUT!
By MrPolisherVerified Buyer from Boston area on 10/22/2009
Pros:
Attractive Design, Compact, Easy To Setup, Easy to use, Quiet
Cons:
USB cable is too short, USB cable unplugs itself
Best Uses:
Additional Storage, File Transfer, Photo Storage
Describe Yourself:
Power user
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
No, I would not recommend this to a friend

Comments about Western Digital My Passport Essential 320GB Portable Hard Drive:

USB cable should be longer and clip into the drive securely.

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[3 of 3 customers found this review helpful]

 
Fast and Lightweight
By DougVerified Reviewer from Grand Rapids, MI on 9/30/2009
Pros:
Attractive Design, Easy To Setup, Easy to use, High Capacity, Portable, Quiet
Cons:
May not get enough power
Best Uses:
Additional Storage, Backup, File Transfer
Describe Yourself:
Power user
Primary use:
Business
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Western Digital My Passport Essential 320GB Portable Hard Drive:

Works great and is very quiet. With my newer computers, no problems. However, I have a 4-yr old laptop that does not (apparently) put enough power into the USB ports to run it. It will not install the necessary drivers and computer will not "see" it.

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