WD 2TB Black My Passport for Mac Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - Model WDBP6A0020BBK-WESN

I am finally getting around to this review (I got this item last month)... I have used this type/brand of hard-drive for several years now and I wanted to get a second one as a back-up because it's a good idea to replace old electronics. I am very happy with this purchase and product. It came in excellent and safe packaging and the ship and delivery time was very fast - I selected free shipping with the longest delivery and arrival time and my item came much earlier than expected - as if it was on another shipping. In my experience, it's easy to set up - you plug it in and a pop-up comes onto the screen and gives you some options for extra back-up if you so choose, then you can just simply start using it - in my case transferring photos and videos and Word documents from my old hard-drive to the new one. I would occasionally open a file or video here and there to check if they got corrupted through the transfer somehow and there has been no problems. This is a great product and I cannot complain. Just as reliable as my first My Passport for Mac external hard-drive.

I bought this USB 3.0 2 terabyte drive to replace a USB 2.0 1 terabyte external drive that was using for a Time Machne drive on my Mac. I plugged the new drive in -- I didn't even bother installing the utilities -- and it was recognized immediately by the Mac. Getting it to "adopt" my old Time Machine backups was straightforward but painfully slow. I would attribute that to my old drive being USB 2.0 but also the huge number of files. Save yourself grief: don't use "Finder" to copy the files, use "Super Duper!" instead. Still, expect that it could take 30+ hours to migrate a terabyte of backup files. Once it finished, I told Time Machine to use the new drive and it's worked like a charm ever since. Now what I don't like: the white drive activity LED on the drive can either be OFF or it can be blinking. I would prefer a true activity indicator, and maybe a choice of colours (tricolour LEDs are cheap). The utilities on the drive were much newer than what Western Digital had online. The utilities are quite limited in what they can set. Other than that, I'm very pleased with it. And Walmart was by far the least expensive place to buy it.