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Western Digital My Passport Elite 320GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (Bronze) | 
| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $304.11
Buy New: $161.99
You Save: $142.12 (47%)
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 619
Media: Personal Computers
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Hard Drive Size: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 6 x 2 x 7.5
Warranty: 5 years warranty
MPN: WDMLZ3200TN
Model: WDMLZ3200TN
UPC: 718037731452
EAN: 0718037731452
ASIN: B0015YGNQU
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Box Contents - My Passport Elite 320GB Hard Drive, USB 2.0 Cable, Drawstring Carrying Bag, Quick Install Guide, 5-Year Warranty | | • | 320GB Hard Drive | | • | USB 2.0 and 1.1 Interface | | • | Powered by the USB bus | | • | Up to 480Mb/sec Bus Transfer Rate with USB 2.0 |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
A luxurious soft-touch finish makes these drives easy to grip, comfortable to hold, and beautiful to show off to your friends. Combine that with mega-capacity that fits in your pocket, plus four powerful features -- capacity gauge, automatic backup, sync and encryption, and remote access software -- and you'll understand why we call these little drives Elite. Capacity Gauge allows you to connect My Passport to your computer and see at a glance how much space is available on your drive. Save a copy of your photos to an online sharing service, duplicate your e-mail and contacts to your iPod, and back up all the precious files on your computer to your My Passport. Set it and forget it; every time you plug your My Passport into your computer your data is automatically backed up. WD Sync synchronization and encryption software lets you take your critical data with you. Plug My Passport into any PC, edit files, read e-mail, and view photos. Then sync all of your changes back to your home or office computer. Your data is protected with 128-bit encryption. (Windows only) Connect My Passport to any PC and run MioNet Key software to remotely access files, music, and photos from any of your computers with MioNet software installed. This compact drive fits easily in your pocket or purse, weighs only a few ounces, and with capacities up to 320 GB, you can take approximately 91,000 photos, 24 hours of videos, 80,000 songs, or tons files with you wherever you go. You can even plug My Passport into the USB port on your gaming console to play your music or view photo and video files on your TV. System Requirements - Available USB port, Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS X 10.4.10+, 10.5.2+ Approximate Unit Dimensions - 0.59(H) x 4.967(L) x 3.13(W) Approximate Unit Weight - 0.231 pounds
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Cheap finish, average performance, great portability. August 18, 2008
Dreams of tomorrow
Overall, I like this hardrive. It is small and light, fits perfectly in my bag. Compared to the essential version, I would expect a better finish. It's still plastic, though matte and not as easily scratchable. The drive gets really warm after just a few minutes of use. The transfer is slow, at around 10 mb/s but that's what you would expect from a usb device.
Despite the fact that I like it, I would not buy it the second time.
 Very pleased this is wonderful August 15, 2008
Croppled1 (Tampa , Usa)
The last backup drive I bought was a 4 gig flash drive. Its nice but I should of just bought two of these there just as portable for adults . I bought this model it was only $10 more then the essential and the door on the USB data port is worth that much . IT came with the little bag too otherwise I was going to put it in a crown royal pint bag . Buying a case is worthwhile it comes with a 20% off coupon for one from WD . You would think they would just sell it with one at cost .
Thankyou other posters for telling me that it was formated in Fat32 . I plugged it in loaded all the software in my machine then I reformated it . The WD backup has a product code lock its on the quick instal manual so dont toss the instructions . Basically the real manual is in the software . If you loose it you can find it at the WD site . I figured I would loose mine when I reformatted to NSFT using my machine through exlporer . However since it was all loaded on my machine already it was fine . Infact when I ran WD backup it reinstalled it for me on the elite drive . All the other programs are trial or pay for software the one you want is that WD backup though I can see where some would pay for the others its up to each person . There is another free program to restore you can download when you go through the backup process the first time . After I put the NSFT format on the drive I was able to backup my entire machine . Thats what I bought this for I have lost to much important data over the years to viruses , burnt hardrives and or theft . I was worried about the synch feature causing bad files so I didnt encrypt with the horror stories others have told about WD wanting thousands to break code and back out .but ...we will see I am looking for software elsewhere with a backdoor to do this just incase I loose the password . ( I am a head injury patient and have health issues organization and memory arent my strong suits )
I saved $$$ buying a different color then i originally wanted . They are all good i was very happy once I got the Bronze home . Check to see which one is the cheapest and buy that one unless your a guy and its pink . IT will be in a case most the time anyways . I dont know what their talking about the brush soft coat wearing off its just rubber coating on the areas that would be the spine and front and back covers if this was a book . The page areas are black plastic . ITs nice . It does heat up a tad but not bad . The extra USB is for power and you have to ask for it my Desktop ran this fine but I might say I need it . You could buy one for a few bucks the cable is just like any other USB data cable . The person that talked about the external powered USB hub was a good tip but this is so nice if it works through the one USB cable alone . Mine does yeah . It fits easily in a t-shirt pocket , the cable is about 16 inches long too bad it just is loose so you need a case or a bag which mine came with . ITs just a velvet black draw string pouch and thats fine . I like it very much . I will post again at a later date like all electronics the price fluctuates daily plus falls . I paid $129 and am very pleased . The last backup for me besides that recent flash drive was a Iomega zip drive and I paid $450 bucks for it. You can imagine how geeked I am on this . I am not computer savvy . I am a 50 year old disabled blue collar worker with 2 years of college .
I read the reviews used the tips to help me . It backed up my entire drive while I slept . I have not tried using it at another computer yet . I may buy another one to just synche the suggested files . I cant imagine a easier way to back up my ever growing digital photo's , music and documents for the last decade .It stated it would just synche the back up for me once a day due to the size of my backups and all files . I keep everything scanned into my computer . This would of filled twenty file cabinets . Do it . I had my home broke into and lost a computer . I plan on having everything backed up and in two locations from now on . Again the printed material is lacking just once sheet of useless mumbo jumbo in many languages that really only gives you their online website address and a quicklaunch few page booklet with your product key for the Wd backup software otherwise its all online or inside the drive just open the file . Good luck I am glad I bought it .
Portable, but default formatted to FAT32 August 5, 2008
SudR
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent, portable hard drive. However, it is factory format to FAT 32 (at least the drive we got was...). Once re-formatted to NTFS, storing large files (> 4GB) was a breeze. Excellent quality and price.
No Complaints, 5 Stars! June 18, 2008
J. Roubique
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bought on 6/17. Amazon was $199 on 6/16 so I bought at B-Buy for $159 on 6/17. Came home and it was $137 on Amazon. Oh well...
This exHD is awesome.
I love the bronze color and the size is perfect; literally the size of 2 passports stacked on top of each other. The white LEDs give it a professional look more than a neon geek color :-B Price per GB is spot on. I paid .50 cents per GB, but its obviously less now. Sure you can buy a plastic S*mpleTech for less per GB, but you can also get the exact same problems every negative review had about them. No problems here.
I followed another review of another Passport exHD and plugged it into my iMac (OSX 10.5.2 Intel 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo). Apple's Time Machine or something came on instantly and asked if I wanted to use it as a back-up. I closed it and went into the Disk Utility under Applications>Utilities. From there I made it a journaled disk from the drop down menu. From there it shows up initially labeled My Passport. I used the first menu to verify the exHD. After that, I went to erase as I did not want to ATTEMPT to foil with any proprietary software. I chose Mac OSX Extended (Journaled) and named it My Passport again (because I'm so proud of it). This deleted any software that *might have been on it. As soon as it was formatted I moved the files that were bogging down my poor iMac HD and then I opened Time Machine and used the Passport as my source for all my necessary files to be backed up. Works great.
5 Stars for
1. Price
2. Size
3. Style
4. Function
5. No Complaints
If I need more space, I'll be buying the exact same drive again. /Maybe in
titanium for organizational purposes/
Hope this was helpful for Mac community :)
Looks Great, Nice Features June 16, 2008
D. Collier (San Diego, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very nice looking drive, has 4 nifty white LEDs that sequence back and forth, and feels good in your hand - not as slippery as the high gloss plastic versions. Appearances aside, it also has a sliding cover for the USB socket when the drive's not in use, which should come in handy for protecting against grit when it's stuffed in your purse/pocket/bag.
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