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Not reliable (2010-03-19)
My first review, motivated out of anger.

I agree this hard drive is an excellent hard drive, so good, i bought three of them over a relatively short period of time. One from two online, one offline. I already had another WD before, though that one failed. Well this can happen so I did not really care, so I stuck with the brand, as except for the failure of my two years old 500 gb, i liked it.

By now all my WD drives have failed. This is very inconvenient as these are my work/company backups. There is no virus or any other bogus on there. WD failed me four times, with a failure rate of 100% for everything i ever bought from them. I agree it is nice and shiny, but reliability is for anyone who is doing serious backups, not just fun files a disaster.

DO NOT BUY THIS!

Cheers~

After several months of use, still going great! (2010-03-18)
I have owned this little passport for several months now and it is still going strong. I primarily use it on my MacBook Pro as my Time Machine backup drive. It's small and light enough to carry with me in my computer bag, so I always have my backup device with me. I have had to go back 4 months in my Time Machine backups to recover a file, and the Passport's data integrity was fine. With prices coming down so much, I would recommend a 1 TB drive in case you want to take movies,etc. along with you and so that you have a longer Time Machine window. Will definitely buy another WD Passport drive when I grow out of this one.

Awesome (2010-03-17)
I want to tell to everyone that is looking for a media device to storage files, that the Passport 250 from Western Digital is an excellent device for these purposes. I bought one from Amazon.com almost two years ago, and now is the time when I am doing the revision of this product, because i was testing it, and really I have recorded all my importants files on it (Music, videos, photos, etc) and is excellent, works perfect in the laptop (Dell Inspiron) and I have plenty of room to storage many files. With this device, you can empty the hard drive of your machine and record or make a copy o these in the Passport, so your machine or laptor can run faster and perform better work, I recommend this product, for me, particularly is a good media storage, great capacity, reliable, easy to use, all my music, one of my most valuables files is there of course, I have more than five years collecting music from varies epocs or generations and this is very importan for me, because i love the music, it is my favorite pass time. Great product from Western Digital.

The Best Portable Data Storage (2010-03-15)
This one is very easy to use, u just plug it in your computer's USB and it works, you don't need any additional power adaptors or anything, and for the price it is agood deal. reliable, small and safe. Good Choice.

Nice and useful portable HDD (2010-03-11)
I love my new external HDD. Is very small, compact and has plenty of space to store your data. No issues so far.