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Pros

1TB a large amount of "Portable" Drive space

The drive is quite, and lightweight

Cons

NONE- some feel the software that comes with, as a con, but it secures your data, and makes backups & recovery time fast

Western Digital My Passport Essential SE Reviews

LaptopMag

05/2011

WD My Passport Essential SE 1TB Review

What good is an external drive for backups if there isn't any good backup software to go along with it? Western Digital's My Passport Essential SE comes with a bevy of utilities to help users more easily protect their important files, photos, and videos. You also get a full terrabyte of storage for 1GB, but the speed and design of this $109 drive give us pause.One of the lighter drives around, the Western Digital My Passport Essential weighs just 7.2 ounces, half the weight of the Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive. Still, the Passport's plastic case felt very flimsy, flexing when we pressed on it. The even-lighter LaCie Rikiki (7.1 ounces) has a tougher aluminum case.The best aspect of the My Passport Essential is its included software. The clean and intuitive installer walked us through the setup quickly. The program prompted us to perform an initial backup and to add a password to protect the drive, steps not offered on any of the other drives we tested.During backup, the software provides a visual indicator of the status by way of gauges. As the backup finishes documents or media files, you see a box that fills up. Restoring files was also just as easy using the Western Digital software.

Thinkcomputers

03/2011

Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Review

Portable storage has always been very popular, it is nice having a hard drive that you can easily take with you anywhere on the go. Western Digital is no stranger to portable storage solutions, they have been marking portable solutions for a while now. With technology advancing and USB 3.0 becoming very popular Western Digital has released versions of its My Passport drives that support USB 3.0. Today we will be looking at the 1TB USB 3.0 My Passport Essential SE drive. Special thanks to Western Digital for providing us with the My Passport Essential SE 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive to review. The My Passport Essential SE drive comes in the typical Western Digital packaging. The front is open so you can take a look at the drive. There is also some useful information on the front. Moving to the back there is even more information about the features of the drive. Getting everything out of the packaging you have the My Passport Essential SE drive, USB 3.0 cable, and a user’s guide.

DigitalVersus

03/2010

Product Survey: External Hard Drives

There are two types of My Passport Essential hard drive - the standard version and the SE version – with the SE range boasting higher storage capacities. This 2.5-inch My Passport Essential SE external hard drive is available with a capacity of from 750 GB (model tested) to 1 TB. It is only available in one colour (black), compared with five colours for the lower capacity models of 250 to 640 GB. There's no change to the casing, although the overall size of the external hard drive has been reduced to a compact 110 x 83 x 15 mm. That explains why Western Digital has chosen to use a micro USB interface instead of the mini USB format that's usually found on this type of product. WD My Passport SE 750 GB Samsung S2 Portable 500 GB The Western Digital My Passport SE 750 GB has slightly slower transfer speeds than the Samsung S2 Portable 500 GB hard drive. In both read and write modes, the Samsung outperforms WD's model by 2 MB/s and 1 MB/s respectively.

Prices

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WD My Passport Essential 500 GB USB 3.0/2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Pacific Blue)	$62.99	See it
WD My Passport Essential SE 750 GB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Black)	$67.99	See it
WD My Passport Essential SE 750 GB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Black)	$68	See it
WD My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Black)	$72.99	See it
WD My Passport Essential SE 750 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Midnight Black)	$81.5	See it
1TB External Portable 2.5in HDD My Passport Essential SE, Western Digi	$84.98	See it
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Black	$89	See it
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive -Silver	$89	See it
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 750GB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive	$89	See it
Western Digital My Passport 1 TB USB 2.0/3.0 Portable Hard Drive Black	$89	See it
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 750GB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Black	$89.99	See it
New Western Digital Retail My Passport Essential Se Wdbacx7500abk 750 Gb External Hard Drive Black	$98	See it
New Western Digital Retail My Passport Essential Se Wdbacx0010bbk 1 Tb External Hard Drive Black	$98.96	See it
WD My Passport Essential 500 GB USB 3.0/2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Pacific Blue)	$99.5	See it
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive	$99.99	See it
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Metallic Blue)	$109	See it
WD My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Silver)	$109.8	See it
Western Digital 750GB External Hard Drive WDBABM7500ABK	$109.96	See it
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Silver	$109.99	See it
WD My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Black)	$112.11	See it
WD My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Silver)	$113.95	See it
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Metallic Blue)	$119.95	See it
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0 / 2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive with WD Carrying Case (Black)	$124.99	See it
WD My Passport Essential SE 750 GB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Metallic Red)	$124.99	See it
WD My Passport Essential SE 750 GB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Silver)	$127.99	See it
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0 / 2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive with WD Carrying Case (Black)	$128	See it
750GB External Desktop 2.5in USB3.0 My Passport Essential Black Factor	$131	See it
WD My Passport Essential SE 750 GB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Metallic Red)	$138.99	See it
WD My Passport Essential SE 750 GB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Silver)	$138.99	See it
WESTERN DIGITAL WDBACX0010BBK 1 Tb Usb - 3.0 External Storage	$140	See it
1TB External Portable 2.5in HDD My Passport Essential SE, Western Digi	$144.98	See it
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Silver)	$149.99	See it
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Silver)	$149.99	See it
WD My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Midnight Black)	$189.79	See it
WD My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Midnight Black)	$190.99	See it