It's the almost the same size as a passport and hence the name. Very good for the consumer who needs a lot of portable memory on the go and is willing to pay the somewhat demanding price. It's built very well and the rubber feet will stop any vibrations on any surface.

The new smaller USB connector (smaller than the standard mini USB on the 360GB) on the Passport is horrible. A slight touch and it loses connection, causing the dreaded "device removed unexpectedly" warning. This happened 3 times today in my first us...

Don't let the size fool you-The Western Digital Passport Pocket Drive 6GB is not a flash drive! Western Digital is a hard drive making company, so its even more obvious that at the heart of the device is a hard drive.

My son loves his so much it has helped him store all his gaming and important information on it. And it so small and lightweight. he can take it anywhere.

Hand it to Western Digital for trying new things. It's cool that there's a portable software RAID solution available, and bus-powered storage options with 4TB capacities are few and far between. Western Digital also offers a 2TB version of the My Passport Pro, which is lighter and not as tall.

Large capacity; Tethered Thunderbolt cable with adequate length; Bus powered RAID solution

Fan is infrequent but noisy; Big and bulky

We love the colors that WD makes available for the My Passport Essential family, and its included backup solutions. Plus, you get an additional 40GB of storage over the LaCie little disk for $10 less.

With so many portable hard drives to choose from it's not easy for a new release to stand out from the crowd, but Western Digital's My Passport Studio 640GB succeeds admirably with an interesting feature that's more than just a gimmick.

My wife bought me the WD passport pro 2TB for my Mac Air. Even so it is reasonably fast, not as fast as my thunderbolt ssd drive. It is also very noisy in my opinion. The biggest drawback however is its weight!.

capacity

heavy; noisy; big

At 2TB, WD's My Passport is the largest-capacity USB hard drive we've ever tested, and its four chunky 500GB platters rotate at 5,400rpm. In the palm it feels about as thick as a huge English muffin with a piece of ham in the middle, or a water-logged deck of cards; it's the thickest drive in this...

Huge capacity; great speed; full-featured software package

Backup software is not reliable or good for advanced users; can't make backup images

MacBook users, your portable hard drive has arrived. The Western Digital My Passport Studio ($220 list) is the Mac OS version of the WD My Passport Elite . It has the same compact case (albeit in a slightly more silver hue), protective port cover, and velvet-like drawstring bag.

Speedy portable drive; Drive capacity indicator; Protected I/O ports; Both FireWire 400 and USB 2.0; Preformatted for Mac OS X.

Capacity indicator requires utility installation; Mac OS X (10.4) Tiger users will need a separate backup utility