Отзывы о Внешний HDD Western Digital My Passport, WDBYVG/WDBPKJ

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Немного дороговато, но работает для моих потребностей. Приложение хорошо могут использовать некоторые доработки.

Переводы с USB или SD карта работает отлично. WiFi является очень трудно работать. Он постоянно выключается.

Единственный минус заключается в том, что они могли бы увеличил ОЗУ на эту вещь.

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Этот жесткий диск работает отлично быстро хранение данных и эффективно

Быстрый беспроводной или USB 3.0 передача файлов.

Превзошел мои ожидания

Нестабильная 5г

Люблю его

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I own and use many external and internal drives on my Mac Desktop and laptop and also own several WD products that I use often, if not daily.

Some are conventional SATA hard drives, some Hydrid hard drives and I use SSD SATA and external usb3 drives as well.

This review will be geared towards Mac users and for Windows users some of my results and observations may vary for what you’ll see for performance and features on a Windows PC. As I mention later, due to PCs and Mac being unique for their user/owner’s configurations for soft/hardware, your results may vary considerably from mine!

The WD 500GB My Passport Wireless SSD External Portable Drive - WIFI USB 3.0 has a large profile and is heavier then more conventional drives. Given it houses additional internals for wifi and SD card reading/writing as well, that is to be expected.

It also comes enclosed in a thick protective Silicone rubber skin that can be slipped off if needed. The skin also serves to provide a nice safe non-slip grip for the drive.

I will say right off that the SD slot on this WD is darn hard to access through that thick silicon skin since the slot in the silicone is exactly the same dimensions as the physical SD slot is on the Passport,

Taking the card out requires some pinching to grasp the card through the thick protective cover.

Pushing in the card far enough into the slot with the skin on to get it to lock can be a challenge as well for medium to large sized fingers as trying to fish it out of the slot once the card is pressed to unlock and ejected.

You’ll be using your finger tips most likely if you do this procedure with the protective cover in place if your fingers are average sized or larger.

This drive comes formatted for windows/NTFS. Reformatting it to Mac Ext journaled was straight forward. Oddly, although most all SDD drives can be formatted to the new APFS format and typically DISK UTILITY defaults to that format protocol, my Mac will not recognize this drive as true SSD. most likely because of its wifi and non-typical interface. Using the disk utility, APFS is not an available Mac option for this drive for formatting/partitioning.

On to testing this Passport for general performance on my Macs:
I first tested this Passport drive using a standard usb3 to micro usb3 cable connection, that being the short 18 inch cable that is included with this Passport is for both charging it directly from wall (charger is included) as well as for charging, connections and communication to a Mac/PC desktop or laptop or other compatible device.

It immediately was recognized and I did a few test file and folder copies and transfers to it as well as test deletes. All went as normal.

I then did a wired connection speed-test for read and write using the very popular Blackmagic Disk Speed Test app or Mac. I use this app all of the time on new drives for setups or general debugging if there’s an issue to be resolved.

This The WD 500GB My Passport Wireless SSD External Portable Drive is slower then any SSD I’ve tested in the past. I suspect due again to limitations through a unique interface for connecting in both wired and wireless modes.

Speeds I got were only about 2X that of a conventional non-solid-state Spinning hard drive and slower then any of my other SSDs (both internal and external).

Blackmagic gave me averages of 337 mbps write and 320 mbps read. Still decent for most applications that might require faster speeds such as High Def streaming, or transferring large file sizes or quantities of files.

Those speeds are adequate though as stated, but, they don’t reflect what many other SSDs can achieve.

Keep in mind too that the hardware and setup from one pc or mac to another can be vastly different so as they say, “your milage may vary”. My particular setups here may very likely be slower over-all then some others so the good news is, your results might be better then mine in a similar test.

My internal 1TB SSD used in my Mac Pro desktop for its OS for example, can write at about 410 mbps and read typically at just over 460 mbps as tested with the same Blackmagic Disk Speed test app.

Quite interesting that if connected by cable, the SD slot is not available, at least not on my Mac in a plug and play function. It simply won’t recognize or read any SD card, …on
-my- Mac.

With wifi (I’ll discuss next) all of my SD cards were recognized immediately on the Passport and accessible wirelessly.

The reader works flawlessly using wifi and I tried a mix of several different make and model SD cards to be certain.

The wifi access worked fine across my Apple devices.

This My Passport model has both 2.4 and 5.0 (GHz) WiFi connections and both are broadcast. You simply select the one you want and log in using the dedicated password (I see no way to change it!) provided on the label attached to this WD Passport 500 SSD/SD drive.

But, the big disappointment was that on my laptop and desktop, using wifi and no cabled connection, produced a really slow access speed for SD cards, no matter if the fastest (SDHC) or slowest (SD) were used, the R/W speed was dismal.

I first accessed the 2.4 GHz wifi connection.

R/W speeds in WiFi as measured by Blackmagic using a 2.4 GHz wireless connection with the WD right next to my desktop and laptop to maximize connect speed, were painfully slow:

My “Slow” SD card (rated 40 mbps write) was: 4.4 mbps write, 12 mbps read.

My faster SDHC card rated 90 mbps write (and it does in fact write at that speed as tested on a conventional cabled USB 3 SD reader w/ Blackmagic), was slow as well on this Passport at 12 mbps write and 13 mbps read.

So don’t expect blazing fast and quick transfers especially on those 128 or larger cards!

Ok, so hoping Wifi at 5 GHz might be a bit better… I was also disappointed that ….nope!….Blackmagic confirmed similar results as well.

The general rule of thumb is that typically wired wins most all of the time for speed over wireless. …and wireless performance is clearly impacted by all of the hardware in series to access it, plus distance from your wireless broadcast source, quality and strength of signal, interference to the wifi channel frequency …among other factors.

Unfortunately the SD reader function only works in wireless so a cabled test could not be done. There may be a work-around using installed drivers on a Mac or other alternatives. for me, I was hoping for a plug and play connectivity for the SD reader for both wireless and wired, but, seems wifi is the only way to go for this Passport using it out of the box and avoiding the use of any other app installs or drivers.

Windows might be totally different here and perhaps Windows 10 offers drivers and more hardware compatibility regarding the lack of wireless SD reader function I saw on my Macs.

I wish to note, the WD website has what I believe “might” resolve the SD issues I had using a cabled connection. They have a free download of  WD Access for Mac that might offer Mac users some improvements and/or additional features.

I did not install this app since I prefer plug and play wherever possible and try to avoid installing too many add-on apps like this as I’ve had hardware and general conflicts before in doing this, but, perhaps in the future I may temporarily try this app and update this review if the WD App offers some improvements to using this Passport on a Mac.

SSD generally means faster to most people and it should, but, for this specific device, SSD performance is clearly not there like a stand-alone SSD (SATA) internal or external drive.

SSDs have great benefits though aside from offering better R/W speed (as compared to a spinning hard drive) with longer life, no noise nor vibrations, use less power/saves energy, runs cool(er), and do not need a major erase procedure to be sure your personal data is completely removed (delete it and it is gone, as it is not like the need to overwrite zeros and ones on all partitions similar to a conventional drive.

As said above to clarify for a conventional spinning hard drive: all sectors must be over-written with ZEROs and ONEs multiple times to assure no recovery software could recover any of the data. That is the method needed to be completely certain nothing on a spinning hard drive can ever be recovered.

I tried 2-3 times to be certain my claim that SD cards using the Passports SD slot can not be used if connected by cable vs wifi/wireless (which works fine) and that is true, at least in my case on a Mac. (YES, the cards were inserted and firmly locked/secured in the SD slot!).

Only in wifi with this drive will you have access to the SD slot reader function and do not expect to get blazing transfer speeds when you use it.

Given the convenience of wireless SD, it is still a plus for specific applications where you wish to avoid a cable connection or want to share it with others in the vicinity.

Granted, the ultimate convenance of this drive is wifi sharing or general access wirelessly using a WEP/passworded access protocol.

I have a similar drive of this kind (ASUS) using a spinning hard drive with wifi access as well and for a Mac, the wifi is not protected at all! No passworded protection is offered. So I use the ASUS only in a cabled setup.

This WD Passport can only be accessed by those having he Key/Password and is thus fully secured in wifi mode.

This Passport a very nice hard-drive for those wishing to have secured wifi access and a SD reader to boot. While it does not blaze in performance, it does work flawlessly and is very stable in performance. Never a lost connection and never any issues using it.

In the 25 or so times I played with it with different file formats and included high def video files to play from it, The WD Passport never had a single issue for connect/disconnect or buffering issues. It was smooth use all the way.

I have yet to discharge the battery all the way and it does have a standard usb and micro connection to allow using any usb charger…..even my usb spare lithium battery pack works perfectly with it or if connected to your Mac/PC/Android device, it will draw current from that source as well.

I am not sure what this PAssport needs for minimum amperage to charge, but, it seemed ha

Being able to share pics,, data and videos with those who have the passwords is really handy.

…or transferring video and still on the fly wirelessly is a nice feature. A lot of the new dig cameras out there now allow a wifi transmission of image files so there is some potential here for that type of use.

Forget that usb cable on your trip or your cable is acting up and defective?… no worries, you still have wifi to connect with no problem!

This drive apparently has a direct/stand-alone SD backup feature to allow this drive to backup an SD card without the need to have a PC, Mac, Android or IOS device in series to use it, but, I did not test that nor set up the software to support it.

My reasoning is I have been involved in photography for over 50 years doing wedding photography, landscape and theater work and I would not dare to assume my SD card is backed up with without a visual confirmation that all files are transferred and all are readable.

A desktop, laptop or Android or IOS device can give you that visual confirmation…I want to see my files listed in the appropriate folder and safely in place!

I’d never use this feature on a stand-alone drive that blinks a light or whatever to tell you, the images are backed up and perhaps find out later that there for whatever reason, the backup failed or some glitch occurred and stand to loose critical images assuming the original SD card did not still have those images intact or it was erased, overwritten or (re)formatted, etc.

I’ll probably play around with this feature at some point using some practice images and update this review sometime in the future, but, I’d never use this feature for really important images I want to protect and backup.

I assume, at least on my Mac, there’s got to be an installed program/app directly on the Passport or perhaps embedded in the firmware, but, I avoided trying to set up or try out this function, assuming I could get it to work on this Passport which is currently Mac formatted.

Mac can be set up to read and write in NTFS/Windows so the potential of using this Passport on a Mac, but, formatted in NTFS is yet another option to consider and experiment with. Mac OSs can read NTFS formatted disks by default, but, not write to them without the addition of 3rd party apps and there’s a few out there that are quite popular.

iCloud and other cloud services offer some reasonable and stable backup options and honestly at the price of this drive, I’d probably just opt for more storage on line for backups.

At 500GB capacity, this model Passport would be full soon just for doing backups of my main drive. This Passport series has a 1 and 2TB model at Amazon as well, but, wow, they are quite expensive.

I own many other WD products including three NAS’s used for backups, media and critically important files, and a few usb 3 external drives both SS and conventional spinning drives and every one of these WD products has performed flawlessly and a few are used often during a week and have been running strong for years.

Judging by what I see in this drive for stable operation (on my Macs), I’m feeling ok to say this drive should prove to be another very reliable WD product.

For those who have SSDs in their PC or Mac laptops, this 500Gb drive would be superb to use as a dedicated backup drive considering most of the Macs and PC oriented laptops currently use SSDs in the 128-500gb capacity
range. As I said though, if you use 500Gb for backups, you’d probably want to avoid using this drive for anything else due to limited capacity and in that Time Machine over a few months will fill your drive and then begin to delete the oldest backups as needed.

If you need the convenance of a wireless drive, specifically in a solid web made SSD plus like the convenance of a wireless SD reader capability in one unit, I don’t think you going to go wrong with this WD Passport model.

Given the price-point of SSDs are paying more for storage capacity over conventional spinning drives or Hybrid/SS spinning drives, I think the combo that this drive offers for SD card reading wireless connectivity and a SSD are offered at a reasonable price if 500Gb will work for you.

3 stars for slower then expected speeds and the lack of SD Slot reader function in a cabled mode (out of box) and 5 stars for solid and reliable performance and operation = my over-all 4 star rating.

Thank you for taking the time to read my long-winded review!

Just got this item today. Comes with next to no documentation. Just a small quick start post card with a few images on it. OK, fair enough i guess. Step one is to turn on the unit. Makes sense, except the unit i got had no charge in it at all leaving me wondering if the unit was DOA right out of the gate. Spent a couple hours charging it up. Step one, turn it on. Step two is to down load their custom iOS(or android) app. Easy enough. Step 3 is connect your phone to the wifi signal it broad casts and enter the pw that comes with the unit. Did that 5 or 6 times, no luck. This was while connected to the unit's 5ghz band. I switched the band over to the 2.4ghz band and pw worked on the first try.
Opening up now their application, there's a few steps to walk through. Some of which timed out or failed. I had to restart the app a couple of times. There is no interface in the iOS application for file management. You can't create/delete folders or move files around. That was a bit surprising. Also, when in wireless mode, the wdpassport does not show up in Windows10 file explorer as a drive at all, only a network device. When clicked on, takes you to an internal web dashboard which wasn't expected. (This was both when my win10 machine was on my network and when the win10 machine was using the passport's WiFi). Plugging the device directly into the win10 machine via a USB cable did produce the expected results (a mounted and usable drive)

Still exploring features and options but its been a bit of a headache so far. Can't recommend it.

This ssd from western digital is awesome! It doesn’t have the same issues with heating up like it’s cousin the passport pro hdd and has a faster boot up sequence to “boot” (LOL). While it is not a true NAS you could consider it a scaled down portable version of a true NAS. Because it has its own WiFi ssid you can take it anywhere, to the beach, camping, road trips because you can bring all your media with you! With an sd card slot and a USB port you can back up your pictures and videos from your camera or phone. The only negative I see here is the price. Starting at 200$ for the 250Gb model and increasing exponentially with the 500Gb, 1Tb and 2Tb models this is something you’re going to have to save up for. Did I mention the Plex media server? Yeah it’s got one making it a no brainer when it comes to choosing a wireless storage device.

I bought this because I wanted a way to download footage from SD to SSD quickly. The built-in SD slot is fast (usb3 speeds). The USB port is USB2. Usability feels more 2015 than 2020. I'd love to see a revised version with an OLED screen or something. Literally all I want to do consolidate footage from multiple SD cards to an SSD, quickly. This product does exactly what I need, but feels dated. ~10 min to download 50-60 GB of GoPro footage from SanDisk U3 gold Micro SD card. Was able to fill up the 500gb drive with SD card downloads on one battery charge, with plenty of charge to spare.

I was about to post a relatively low rating for this product concerning its WIFI features which I was not able to set up after struggling for 2 days. Be sure to shut off any VPN or "Safe Browsing" feature you might have on you mobile phone before configuring the app. Obviously, devices will not be able to connect to your WIFI Network if you use a VPN to keep unauthorized devices out !!!
PS I used LookOut security app. Simply go to settings in the app and shut off "safe browsing" to use the device. When through, turn it back on again if you want.

I had to return it because it could not make a stable connection to my camera. I set up the FTP function on my Canon 5d Mark IV and when it did connect, it worked great. Without explanation, the lights would start blinking and the connection would drop and the unit would freeze. It was unstable and I sent it back.

It's too bad because if it worked as the features were represented, it would have been a valuable way to push photos out for sharing.

I'm sure this works fine in wireless mode, and, although the manual is well illustrated & organized, I didn't have the time/patience to go thru all the network setup details so I gave up during the complicated network setup + I don't need to share files across multiple devices nor plug it into my wireless home network & worry about security issues/passwords, etc., I just need a simple mechanism to transfer files to/from the SSD to my laptop (after the SD card is plugged into the SSD), so I'm just going to use the direct USB cable connection from the SSD to my laptop - that works fine.

I wanted to like this but it won’t work wirelessly with Windows 10, a known security issue which WD could fix if they chose to. Also, I couldn’t turn Wi-Fi off which is a waste of battery when all I want to do is copy SD card data over. An SSD with an automatic card reader Is all this photographer needs. A great idea, with lackluster execution and poor WD support.

I purchased this portable external drive for a month-long off-grid photographic journey, and am very pleased with its performance. I'm glad I read the reviews first, and studied the on-line instructions before I left home, because I would have been out of luck out in the field. Other than a quick start-up sheet, instructions are only available with an internet connection. However, I did study the file and was able to rely on the portable battery-powered drive to backup my SD cards in a difficult environment.

Good thing I own both a MAC and a PC. This device works GREAT with MAC, but is completely unusable with Windows 10. . . It is just completely useless. So, if you really want to use this drive, you better own a Mac.

Pros:
- You can access any file wireless and from multiple devices at same time
- Option to store any new file directly to SSD instead of using device local storage
- WD my cloud is good app
Cons:
- Data migration is unreliable. I made numerous attempts to copy data from existing disk to this wireless SSD using USB and wireless methods and after about every 1.5 GB of data copy, It will give an error code -50
- While deleting files, It will give an error "files are locked and check your system settings". System settings doesn't have any locking on, re-try, files are now deleted without any change in system settings
- Quality of Data copied from any source is unreliable
- You must be connected to same wifi connection in order to access data.

Bottom line: My primary need to buy this product was to store my Data, which is historical and precious to me and this device didn't earn my confidence to handle my data well. I can't rely on it. Uses was cumbersome that to after paying a premium price.

Returning it to amazon.

I had planned to use this to backup photographs on an SD card while overseas, but found the wireless feature to be time-consuming and difficult to use so I eventually returned the item. You have to set up a wireless network with your phone or other device, and if you can't get the wireless to work, you can't use the drive. As others have mentioned it is heavy (about a pound) to travel with, and there is no safe eject of your memory card so there is always a risk it will be damaged. I also was concerned about compatibility when a new iPhone would be used. I am hoping in the future these issues will be solved with a more user-friendly version of this product.

Too difficult to setup, difficult to copy files to/from, and a smart card from my camera is never recognized by the drive, or by pushing the button that's supposed to copy a card automatically, etc.

The product seems glitchy. It has a hard time connecting to my iPhone. Sometimes it works fine, and others it refuses to connect. It has also corrupted some photo files during transfer. The battery life is awful...couple of hours during use. Using the auto backup on iPhone I have had 3 copies of the same files.

Honestly it’s just kind of mess.