Product Information. This Western Digital My Passport Ultra drive is an excellent storage solution for users who travel often.

The My Passport Ultra model offers 3 TB storage space for digital content and data backup. This external drive connects and powers through USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 interfaces. It offers cloud storage and can be charged via a USB port. This disk is designed for PC.

The dimensions of this storage unit are 0.83 inch height, 3.21 inch width, 4.33 inch depth, and its weight is 0.5 lb. WD QUALITY GETTING BETTER I bought 3 of these 3 TB Portable WD hard drives on sale for 100 dollars each and they are a perfect buy. They are compact enough to fit in a shirt pocket, they are quiet when running, and hold a wealth of information. The only reason I took a star away from this review was that they go to sleep and cannot be woken up without pulling the USB cable out and putting it back in so the computer would recognize it.

They go to sleep every time when not being used. I hope WD reads there reviews so they might answer this for me so I can keep my hard drive awake when I am not using it for a short period of time. One piece of advice, dont use the smartware on this hard drive as it will end up being a nuisance to your computer. Otherwise a very good hard drive.

Verified purchase: Yes Condition: New. Lots of storage for a low price. I was very happy to find a 3Tb drive for less than 20 dollars more than I paid for a Seagate 1Tb a couple of years ago (one of the cheapest I could find at the time).

My only complaints are that it seems to be a little finicky about being moved while in use, since it has disconnected from my computer a few times when I jostled the wires while disconnecting or connecting another device in nearby USB ports. Also if I let the drive idle for a while and it spins down, then when I go to access it again in file explorer, it will freeze for several seconds while spinning back up.

Still, for the price, I say it's worth dealing with the minor issues. Verified purchase: Yes Condition: New. Great performing drive with massive storage space!!! PROS: Drive is extremely compact with massive storage space.

The price is also very reasonable. CONS: Media content on drive (e.g., movie and audio files) cannot be played on media devices with a USB port!!!

OTHER THOUGHTS: I bought this drive for the sole purpose of loading it full of AVI, MKV, MP4 and FLV video files so that I can connect it to my LG Blu-ray player's USB port and watch them on my HDTV. However, none of the files on the drive could be played - not one!! My blu-ray player didn't even recognize the drive as being connected.

It appears that this particular WD drive is to be used for backing up files only. It's useless if you want to play audio and video content on it from media devices with a USB port - SO BEWARE!!!! FOLLOW-UP REVIEW: I recently rated this particular drive by Western Digital a 2 out of 5 being that I was unable to watch any media content I loaded on to it when I connected it to my LG Blu-ray player. However, I've since updated it to reflect a 5 out of 5 rating because this is simply an outstanding drive! I've always purchased drives by Western Digital (external and internal) and they've always provided rock solid performance and superior reliability. This drive is no acceptation, as it delivers the great performance WD is highly known for. Ultimately, what prompted me to update this review is the fact that the LG Blu-ray player I connected my WD drive into was a bit outdated, and simply didn't recognized the drive.

Nevertheless, I purchased a newer model LG Blu-ray player (LG BP550) and it recognized my WD drive instantly! I'm now able to play all my media content with ease.

Simply put, this WD drive definitely works as intended, but you have to make certain that whatever you're plugging it into supports external HDD playback. Verified purchase: Yes Condition: New. Small-but big! This drive shares its compact size with other WD passport drives which came before in various storage capacities. It adds another full 1TB to the heretofore largest drive of 2TB.Time will tell if it lasts as long as others or fail due to heat build up which plagued the early passport drives (I've personally experienced these and know other folks who have suffered the same issue(s). Who would have thought back in the day when 250mb drives were hard to fill up the storage that drives with storage capacity would be developed? But today, given the number of music, movies and pictures (plus 'back-ups' files) which seem to be needed.

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As for myself, I prefer the smaller design of the Passports (and others like it)vs. The 'bookends' style. They're easy to carry around in a laptop case so wh en you're on the go and feel the need to have tons of data at your fingertips, you're all set! You can also use them with a desktop machine and save valuable desk space. All and all, you get a lot for the money with this drive (or its smaller brethren)-as long as it doesn't fail relatively quickly! With this now available, prices for the 1TB and 2TB drives should plummet! Verified purchase: Yes Condition: New.

WD users are reporting physical connection problems with the micro-USB connector. Does the drive make any sound or vibration? Did you drop it? If your drive is trying to spin up but cannot, then try a USB Y-cable. A standard USB port is current limited to 500mA. A Seagate ST9500325AS drive, for example, requires about 850mA during spinup, and about 400mA thereafter. A Y-cable is therefore sometimes necessary to pick up power from two USB ports.

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Is your drive an Elements or an Essentials? The latter incorporates AES hardware encryption. How does Microsoft's UVCView utility see the external drive? Hi there, The web gave me tons of options butI have decided to post here because this USB device viewer gave surprisingly high amount of info. See it pasted at the end. I have this WD: I used it for 3 years on my HP (Pavillion dv6500), when it had XP installed.

Suddenly (no hit) one day stopped being recognized by the explorer, nor by the Administration tool. I could still heard the sound of 'USB connected/disconnected' from Windows.

At that point I accepted I had to go to specialized company to get my data out from the external HDD. Funnily enough, I recently updated to Windows 7 and now the computer manager can see it but is asks to initialize it. Didn't do that since it can imply loss of all the data. I tried several tools: Find and Mount (cannot see it), iCare data recovery, Handy recovery, Minitool power data (none of the last three helped, they see the drive but give 0B in the size). I tried a bit Test dysk but the interface is weird so I have to dig further.

I am also going to try UBCD but first I need to buy CDs. I haven't tried the Y-cable thing since it was working before without problems. Any suggestion?

This is the output from HD sentinel. Should I bother any more or take it to the technical service directly. Physical Disk Information - Disk: #1: WD - Hard Disk Summary - Hard Disk Number.: 1 Interface.: SCSI Hard Disk Model ID.: WD Firmware Revision.: 1.05 Hard Disk Serial Number.: 704 Total Size.: 0 MB Power State.: Active Current Temperature.:?

(Unknown) Performance.:? (Unknown) Properties - Vendor Information.:? Status.: OK Version.: 4 Device Type.: Disk ASC.:?