

- WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT FOR MAC BEST BUY FULL
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I had planned to bring my computers and hard drive to either Best Buy or Apple, but today while looking on Western Digital's website, I saw they instructed users not to use USB hubs.
WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT FOR MAC BEST BUY PRO
I tried to plug it back into my old Macbook Pro and it then said that it wasn't readable on that computer (even though it had worked previously!) In the time in between it working and not working, nothing happened to the hard drive, like it dropping, etc.
WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT FOR MAC BEST BUY FULL
I copied over the last few things from my old computer that I wanted on my new computer (I didn't think there was enough to warrant doing a full file transfer, but I did transfer over about 80GB of photos and my iTunes library). The new hard drive from Best Buy showed up on my old computer properly.The same week, I got a new computer, a 12-inch Macbook.Late December I brought the hard drive to Best Buy, where they could not figure out the issue but went ahead and transferred the data to a new hard drive, WD Passport.
WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT FOR MAC BEST BUY SOFTWARE
In September, I tried to access it and it did not show up on my computer at all(a mid-2010 Macbook Pro updated to the newest software to that date)-the light on the hard drive would blink and I could hear the disks spinning but it didn't even pop up as unreadable. I mostly used it to hold my Photos libraries once they got full.

WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT FOR MAC BEST BUY PORTABLE
Overall, the Western Digital My Passport for Mac is one of the better portable hard drives we've tested. Western Digital covers the drive with a three-year limited warranty. However, some users may lament the lack of bundled encryption software for locking down folders and files. When we plugged the drive into a Mac via USB, we were prompted to use it for Time Machine backups, and after a few short clicks we were up and running. The drive wrote the same folder in a better-than-average 4 minutes and 15 seconds, or 19.9 MBps, also beating the Toshiba (15.8 MBps) and Hammer (12.5 MBps) drives.Īs the My Passport for Mac is designed for use with Apple notebooks, it doesn't feature any backup software OS X Leopard's Time Machine utility will automatically backup your photos, music, video, and other data. It was able to read our 4.97GB folder of mixed media in 3 minutes and 48 seconds-a rate of 22.3 MBps, slightly slower than the 22.5 MBps pocket hard drive average, but not as fast as the Toshiba Portable External Drive (26.2 MBps). The Western Digital My Passport for Mac proved to be a fairly strong performer. One of the advantages of this 500GB unit is that you don't need to plug in an additional power supply. The back of the drive features four rubber feet that help keep it from sliding around on a desk. The unit we tested sports a simple but attractive black and silver design (with the WD logo subtly branded into the lower-right corner) that visually matches the revamped MacBook line. Measuring 4.9 x 3.1 x 0.5 inches and weighing just 6.4 ounces, the 500GB Western Digital My Passport for Mac (also available in a 320GB capacity for $129) is thin and light enough to slide into a bag with ease. Western Digital removes that hurdle with the MyPassport for Mac ($149), a lightweight, pocketable, USB-powered HDD that features HFS+ Journaled formatting, making the device compatible with Apple notebooks out of the box. Typically, Mac users are forced to reformat their external hard drives before they can use them to back up data on a MacBook or MacBook Pro.
