WDMES5000TN My Passport, Mac Friendly!
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Mac Friendly!
I’m running a MacBook with Leopard (I bought the computer in Dec 2007) and this My Passport played nice. It is honestly plug-and-go, especially with Apple’s Time Machine software. Take this HD out of the box, plug it in the Mac and it will take care of the rest. It could not be easier to back up your computer.
USB cable is a bit short, if I’m looking for things to gripe about, but if you have a spare firewire/USB cable you’ll be fine.
Update (2/7/2012): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen.
The featured review for this product, My Passport Essential WDMES5000 - Hard drive - 500 GB - external - Hi-Speed USB - cool silver Electronics, was written by kate.
The average rating for this item is out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.
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Posted on: May 12, 2010
Filed under: Reviews
Reviews (3)
kate
April 2nd, 2010 at 4:12 am
Mac Friendly!
Rated 5 stars.
Mike Owens
April 25th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Dead in Six Months
I’ve never had a USB drive fail. Not only did this one fail, it did so in six months.
In my case, it was the controller that went bad. I broke the case and plugged the internal drive into a BLAC-X USB adapter and the drive itself worked fine. But so much for my portable (and pretty) drive now.
Other problems with this drive include it going to sleep and then never waking up. I would have to unplug the drive and plug it back in. It got to the point where I would have to do this 2 and 3 times, and finally today it no longer responded at all. I tried to connect it to another machine and it still failed, so it’s not just my machine.
Based on my experience, I wouldn’t recommend this drive.
Richard A. Simon
May 3rd, 2010 at 6:08 pm
compact and efficient
Bought this little portable hard drive to store my photos and empty my cards while traveling. also to be able to carry my collection with me. Just plug it in and start using it. Easy! Fast! Compact!
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