Western Digital 2TB Blue My Passport Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - Western DigitalBS4B0020BBL-WESN

These are fine hard drives - the new, subcompact design is awesome - great colors - they're incredibly lighter and smaller than the previous style...love digital advancements - if you intend to use this drive as storage for your DISH NETWORK DVR RECORDINGS...FORGET IT!!! - the problem is NOT with the Western Digital Hard Drives - I've got tons of WD hard drives...never a problem - DISH receivers have a software problem (for many months now) that makes these new, smaller hard drives unusable with them - I spent 1.5 hours on the phone with DISH last night - they've known about the problem (and it's not just with Western Digital small drives) - they've never bothered to notify customers who use the external hard drive feature - they can't find or fix the problem in the software THEY designed!...AGAIN...FOR MANY MONTHS NOW! - the DISH DVR will format the drive and allow you to move recordings to the drive until you have about 1600 gigabits or gigabytes (?) left on a 2 terabyte drive (that's a LOT of recording space left, considering it will hold 1800 gigabytes) - then they quit working...so you THINK its working, then you get the surprise of wasted time and cash - I've got two drives that have done it - unless you have another use for the drive, IT'S WASTED MONEY! - and the old-style larger drives are no longer available - DISH offers nothing for this loss of features and use, and have no idea IF OR WHEN it will EVER be fixed (great customer service, eh?) - and you can't talk to the employees/department responsible for fixing it, either...they're protected and insulated from irate customers - the reps. will talk to you nice and, in the end, DO NOTHING! - and I'm a 12-year subscriber - I dumped DirecTV because of very poor customer service - DISH has now reached the same level - BETRAYED AND ANGRY

Not the biggest you can get these days but it just works, I use the drive as a backup for what I have on a number of different machines. Transfer speed is good enough for a backup drive (obviously not as fast as an SSD) but I don't think I'd use this for working with live files (as such). Price wise this is reasonable, not the cheapest but Western Digital drives are solid, you pay for reliability. I like it.

I use WD hard drives to store and back up my professional photos - these hard drives are reliable, lightweight and color options help to keep track and separate if you are using a lot of them. The previous versions were thicker and heavier and I really enjoy the thinner version. In my backpack I typically carry on location - 2 cameras, 3 lenses, 15” laptop and 2 external hard drives to ensure upload and back up simultaneously on location. It gets heavy and every ounce counts - these are light weight hard drives. Capacity- 2tb I feel like is optimal as if it is plenty - but not too much - I get nervous uploading 5 tb disk in case it fails. Performance of this hard drives is excellent and I trust them 100% (with the back up always) The only thing to keep in mind that this version is for PC only.

This is a great drive, however the case is a little cheap and not as good as others that I have seen. It looks good, but it is a little cheesy, and I do not believe that the case is that strong. For my purposes, however, it is fine as it will spend most of its time in a drawer or a safe.

I use this drive as my network drive for the past 4 months. Works just fine. Read times are not top notch, but it is connected to USB 2.0 port on my router, but i still expected read times to be better. I would recommend this product.

My other product stopped working when I upgraded to the new Windows program. Of course, I didn't realize that until after my computer died and I lost files. This one was awesome--plug it in, click a couple things, select the days and times you want it to backup your system and you are done. It works fine with Windows and doesn't require hours of downloading and whatever it is I was supposed to have done to get the old back up to work.

I like that this product is so small but yet has extensive capacity. I was looking for an external drive to save all my pictures on my cell phone for backup and delete them from my phone to open up space. So happy I bought it and it's nice looking too. The color is vibrant and nice looking. Excellent value!!

DO NOT get this drive if you plan to use WD Backup software. The description states: "Auto backup with included WD Backup software" - But, WD backup software does not support this drive. I followed every item they provided to 'fix' the issue and nothing worked. The included WD Backup software simply refuses to recognize this drive. There are many people with this same issue and no solution from WD ... except to use Windows built-in backup software. It looks like a known issue and the drive is marketed as support WD Auto-Backup. Very deceptive. I do not imagine I will purchase another WD drive. But, if you just want a 2TB drive, this will work and seems to work as well as any other drive. Just don't be surprised it the included software does not work for you.