5TB My Passport Ultra, Blue, Portable External Hard Drive, backup software with defense against ransomware, and password protection, USB-C and USB 3.1 - WDBFTM0050BBL-WESN

Love this little drive. Very happy that USB-C is starting to appear as an option on portable hard drives. I have owned the old style metallic Passport 5TB and the WD Elements 5TB and for me this is the best one yet. The good: - Huge 5TB capacity in a pretty small footprint. This drive is about the same size as the older Passport and Elements drives. The blue color makes it look a little slimmer. - USB-C to USB-C transfer rates steadily above 130MB/s for large files. - The USB-C cable includes a compact USB-A adapter so you can still use this with older computer ports giving full flexibility. - Comes bundled with a very slim software installer for PC and Mac. I don't use the software but generally save it somewhere in case I need it before formatting the drive. Older passport used to include upwards of 500MBs of this software but these new installers are only a few MBs. The not as good. - The included cord is pretty short, It would be nice to have a little bit longer. - The drive is no smaller than previous generations. I guess this is as small as spinning 5TB drives are going to get, now that SSD prices are coming down. Can't wait to get a 5TB SSD in this price range! - The price is generally 10-30% higher than the older Passport. I don't know that the USB-C interface and faster transfers justify the higher end of that pricing. I can't comment on longevity as I've only used the drive for a week, but so far it is fast, quiet and stable. I've always found WD drives to be reliable, but I never keep a drive in service longer than 2 years and always have a backup. I hope this one will be as reliable as my past WDs.

Very good value

Most of us need to be better about backing up our files. This external drive came highly recommended by a respectable tech reviewer. And it hasn't let me down. This 5T Passport can hold a lot of data and files, including earlier versions. I found the setup to be quick and easy with my MacBook. In a couple minutes, it was up and running and backing up my files. It's lightweight and relatively small. So, you can easily bring it with you on the road to make sure that any additions to your laptop while away are promptly backed up. As someone whose laptop once crashed without any of its files being accessible by experts, believe me, this is a necessity. Were it not for my external drive, I would have forever lost almost 1.5 millions files. I now have two external drives and trade off every other day backing files up to them. Even if you back up to the cloud, I recommend an physical external drive for extra protection.

Great drive but TERRIBLE mis-toleranced/defective cable included. See below for details. Great drive. I wanted to get a 5 TB size HDD to store all my Ripped CDs to be able to stream them on my network. Ive been using WD drives for a long time. Never had any issues. I have a Windows system 1) Great Drive. I checked the drive integrity using the included WD tools and it checked out fine. I deleted the utilities to leave a blanl drive. This left 4.54 TB of available space (Formatting drive takes up 0.46 TB) 2) The included CABLE is 100% Junk. Throw it away. It is designed improperly with bad specs that do not fit into ANY of the USB-C ports I have. It is very loose and falls out. I had read a few reviews that mentioned this fact so just in case along with my order I got this Anker Powerline II USB-C to USB-C cable: https://amzn.to/3gK8reu It sucks to have to spend an additional $10-20 for a cable to be able to use a product that should included a good one but....Oh well. The included ADAPTER is GREAT perfectly fine with the Anker cable. It locks/clicks in place as it should. But the included WD cable just falls out/is very loose and will not work. I made sure to line up the arrows on the cable. Tried it on my laptop USB-C port and the WD HDD and my Android cell phone all of which have USB-C ports and it did NOT work / lock in pla ce. I will be contacting both Amazon and WD to complain about this. Not acceptable. Terrible Quality control to not test the fit of the cable to a mating device. 3) I ran benchmark tests using Crystal DiskMark 7.00 x64 bit to test the empty drive out. I ran two scenarios. One going direct from laptop USB-C port to USB-C port on WD HDD (no adapter) and one test when using the included USB-C to USB 3.1 type A adapter in between the laptop and the WD HDD. You can see the results in the attached image, Not much difference in using the USB-C port directly or the USB 3.1 port so thats good to know. Your result will vary. Im using a Dell XPS 15 hi spec machine on Windows 10 Pro Of note: The disk LED light is always flashig on the HDD even when its not reading/writing data. I think you can turn that off but my other 3 WD external HDDs dont do that. They only flash the LED light when actually reading/writing. Hope this is helpful. Keep the drive. Ditch the cable. Good luck

Great product and easy to set up.

This product is used to store large data files on both Fedora-33 and Rocky-8 linux systems. They are moved between the two systems allowing machine based access. The NTFS file system just needed to be configured in /etc/fstab, the blkid gave the device location, and then the mount command allowed access to the device so that it acted like any other. They are inexpensive enough that three devices are now attached to the same linux box giving multiple terrabytes of storage. The USB-C connection with adapter gives a quick change between the USB ports of the Rocky Linux USB-A 3.0 ports and the fedora-33 USB-C ports, allowing portable connection to each computer. Access speeds seem higher with the 5T USB-C than with the USB-A devices (e.g. the non Ultra version of the 5T drive). I keep the cable attached to the device at all times. Experience with others has taught me that the connection to the device is direct to the circuit board, so this procedure keeps the connects to a minimum. I do not tug or flex the attaching cables. Three are operated horizontally and one is operated vertically. There does not seem to be any difference in performance between vertical or horizontal operation. Longevity - I have both the 1T and 4T versions which I purchased almost 10 years ago which I use to store pictures (1T) and data files (4T). I started purchasing 5T drives in 2017 and 2018, and again in 2022. All but the 1T device are continually used daily and have had no issues.

I am extreemly happy with my purchase of the WD 5TB My Passport Ultra Blue Portable External Hard Drive. It is exactly what I needed to store all my photos, videos, music and documents. It is very easy to use, just plug it into your computer and you are ready to go. It is also very fast and reliable, I have not experienced any lag or errors while transferring or accessing my files. The design is sleek and compact, and the blue color is very attractive. It fits perfectly in my backpack or laptop bag. I also like that it comes with a password protection feature and backup software for extra security and peace of mind. I would highly recommend this product to anyone who needs a lot of storage space in a portable device.

I am stupefied; I genuinely am. Media attached. I made this purchase because my laptop broke and I needed to take it somewhere in the hopes of salvaging the terabyte of information I had on there. I've also had 2 Western Digital external HDD's in the past; a one tb elements many years ago & a ten tb elements more recently. This one is for portability rather than desktop replacement. The moment it came in, I didn't even take it out of the box. I went straight to my nearby computer repair place with my old laptop and this drive. When it was all plugged in and my old hdd tested, it looked as if it would transfer over everything, I was thrilled!!! I had a lot of work related items I couldn't risk losing. I should mention, I'll be using this drive specifically for work (video editing, so large 2k and 4k raw video files). Then, when we plugged in this Western Digital 5tb drive, it worked, but the cord didn't fit in properly. It wouldn't go in all the way, barely half way and it kept disconnecting. It was extremely stressful for me and it was irritating the tech who was helping me because he had other business to attend to. We ended up using one of his spare cords (a usb-c to usb-c) and it fit properly and worked perfectly. In the video I posted, I thought the cord was defective at first, but when I compared it to my phone cable (usb-c to usb-c) it looked completely different!!! (See attached pic). My phone cable works with this drive, it fits securely. I had another cable that was a usb-c to usb 3a and that usb-c fit snug. Also, the cord I was given was pathetically small. 6 inches. What is the point of having a 6 inch cord? Even if you're using this on a desk, it barely gets out of your way. I'm using it with a laptop, I travel, it's extremely inconvenient to have this thing dangling because there's no length to place it nearby. This is just wrong. I mean, what is Western Digital thinking? It's completely irrational. Provide a respectable cord, and the proper one would be nice as well. Lastly, and this makes me very nervous! When you go to 'safely unplug' your peripherals from your computer by clicking on your taskbar and clicking to safely remove hardware and eject media, this always says that it can't close while a window is open or while it's in use (even when it's not in use). I had no windows open, I wasn't connected to the drive in any way other than the cord (by which I mean, I didn't have a music player open or video player or file location window accessing the unit) but when I tried to safely remove it, it began spinning or "being active". ??? I double checked everything, it wasn't being used, but the light was solid and you could feel it at unrest, if you will. I tried to wait it out, 5 minutes, 10, 20, 30... It wasn't stopping. so I restarted my computer. I should also mention that I'm using a brand new Lenovo Legion 7i less than 2 weeks old. After the restart, the only thing I tried to do was 'safely remove the Western Digital HDD and the exact same thing happened! It's clearly NOT being used!!! So I just unplugged it. I hate doing that. I plugged it back in just to be sure that everything was still on there, and it was, but now I'm unsure of the device as a whole. I have very little confidence in it. Is this going to be a recurring issue? It better not be!!! The entire point of the purchase was to SAVE information, not to lose it! When I have clients that have invested tens of thousands of dollars on a commercial, and then I'm sent the media to begin the post production process, I need to have confidence in all my gear, my computer, my headphones, and ESPECIALLY my HARD DRIVES!!! Needless to say, I'm weary and uncomfortable with my purchase to this point. At these prices, one would think you would be buying a quality piece of equipment, as of right now, this isn't worth half of what I spent. I don't mind spending for quality, for sturdiness, practicality & longevity. It does work, but I have to say, if I'm being totally honest... just barely. I'm considering returning it; it's just going to be such a chore to have to re-transfer a terabyte of information from this drive to another. This whole experience has been a real pain, and I am dissatisfied and unhappy.

Vraiment bien et pas cher

Using it good

i'm an it professional and i use this disk for several things. (read below) i think this is the best value for your money as a backup disk. it's not the best because that would be getting a docking station and an internal disk that way you know 100% what type of disk is in the inside. Also it has a usb-c port instead of regular usb-a port or mini or what ever. That's the best connection you can get for something you are going to be connecting and disconnecting a lot. in fact i just returned a different version of this disk because id did not have usb-c .. And before you ask yes you can use a usb-c to usb-a cable and adapter without any problems. it's 100% compatible with all operating systems And performance is way better then non usb-3 spinning disks. I use this disk to backup my nvme 970 pro in all my laptops. And the two 970pro's i use as fast external storage.. That's write i have several external backup disks. This physical spinning rust disk or mechanical hard drive is only for home use as a bulk backup or when i need to transfer large files like movies to watch somewhere in house. The benefit is i don't have to care about wearing out my SSD. in my case not a real problem as i use MLC ssd's instead of TLC or even QLC. But still i am paranoid when it comes to storage. i have partitioned the disk and use different filesystem types for different operating systems. exFAT if i need to read/write on windows and Linux and macos. And a ext4 partition to only use on Linux. i like to use native filesystems when i do a lot of read/write on a partition. Most if not all the times where i need to access a partition on different operating systems it's small data like documents. The least discriminating operating system is Linux that's what i use to format and partition all my disks using Gparted. But i suppose you can do that on windows ?

As the title suggests, I bought the 5TB metal enclosure version for use as plex media drive for use with the Nvidia shield tv pro 2019. It works well and has no issues. It even sleeps after the Nvidia shield has been sleeping for a while (even if the USB port power is left on in the Shield settings). You can wake up the HDD by starting the shield or by running a plex client remotely without turning on the shield. Overall, I am quite satisfied with this product.

I recently purchased the WD My Passport Ultra 5TB hard disk and I am absolutely happy with its performance. I managed to snag this incredible piece of technology for just 8799₹, and I must say it has exceeded all my expectations. One of the standout features of this hard disk is its impressive speed. Compared to other hard disks I've used in the past, the WD My Passport Ultra offers lightning-fast data transfer rates. Whether I'm transferring large files or performing backups, the speed is consistently remarkable. This has saved me a significant amount of time, especially when dealing with large media files and documents. What truly sets this hard disk apart is its noiseless operation. Unlike some other hard disks that produce distracting whirring or clicking sounds, the WD My Passport Ultra remains completely silent during operation. This is a huge plus, especially when I'm working in a quiet environment or watching movies from the hard disk without any interference. The storage capacity of 5TB is a generous amount of space for all my files, photos, videos, and more. The compact and sleek design makes it easy to carry around, and the compatibility with both Mac and PC systems ensures that I can use it seamlessly across various devices. I am thoroughly impressed with the WD My Passport Ultra 5TB hard disk. Its exceptional speed, noiseless operation, and ample storage capacity make it a reliable and convenient choice for all my data storage needs. At the price point of 8799₹, this purchase has proven to be a fantastic investment. Highly recommended!