Western Digital 500GB My Passport SSD Portable External Solid State Drive, Gray, Sturdy and Blazing Fast, Password Protection with Hardware Encryption - WDBAGF5000AGY-WESN

I have bought many of these and they are very reliable and solid. Only one problem. I ordered the blue one but I got a silver/grey one so it might be a challenge to get the colour that you order because even though the colour is shown on the front of the actual item it is not designated on the box itself. Someone applies a sticker to show what the colour is and of course if they put the wrong sticker on you might not get the colour you were expecting!

I got the 1TB model and I can't believe how small these are getting, I could seriously see losing this if you're not careful, it's not much bigger than a credit card (I got the red one for this reason). In fact, it is so small and light that the included USB-C to USB-C cable is actually way too stiff for the drive and the drive ends up bouncing around in the air off the end of the cable! (Note to Western Digital: may want to include a more flexible cable with the drive so this doesn't happen.) I use this for holding large game apps and it works fantastic, have noticed no problems due to speed, etc. Would definitely buy again.

Before I begin this review, let me take the time to note that if you're ordering flash drives, SD cards or SSDs online, be sure to run a capacity test on the drive you receive. Many drives for sale are counterfit drives that lie about their capacity. There's a handy little Windows tool called H2TestW.This drive arrived very quickly and was well packaged. I'm still shocked just how tiny this thing is; I know NVME drives (which this is interally) are small, but this is still shocking, it's around 1.5 inches wide, a few inches tall and super thin. The casing feels ridgid and sterdy with no flexing at all. It comes with a very short but still great quallity USB-C cable and a USB-A adapter. Straight away my PC recognized the drive with no issues. Western Digital included some encryption software for Windows and Mac on the drive, but sense I'm not storing anything sensative on here I just removed it. A test with H2TestW confirmed the drive is legitimate and is the advertised capacity. The read and write speeds were insainely fast and responsive, way faster than my mechanical USB hard disk.TLDR: Very compact and fast drive great for any usecase. I've always loved Western Digitals products, and this is yet another one.

Only 3.6 TB.I took it out of the box and ran a quick format to get rid of the junk tracking software and It only showed 3.6 TB. A bit disappointing because I had about that exact amount to backup. I started it to copy my first batch of files measuring 1.8 TB and it returned a completion time of 21 hours. Probably more the fault of the older spinner source drive than this drive. Will up date the review when I get it full -- and it will be 90% full.Update: Finished file transfer in 28 hours. Took extra time because it had problems with some files and hung waiting for me to "try again or skip". Not sure why the trouble; the files were not corrupted on the original drive. Still researching why I had to skip several files.

This can be for games too. Works great for all my game play. Price it okay could be less, but 4TB is perfect for my gaming experience.

so far is working as it should, little to small in my opinion but works

When I ordered the item, it worked for a little bit. Then my folder names would look randomized, then I would have to format the disc due to corruption. Essentially, I lost all my data. Thankfully, it was all data that was not deleted yet from the previous drive in use.I initiated return shortly after this issue was apparent and returned the item with the SSD, the USB C to C cable, the C to A adapter, and the users manual all in the original box with little to no damage visible on the box and NO cosmetic damage on the device itself. This return was initiated April 1st and I was told I had to wait until April 22nd for the finalization of my return. Now my return has been "delayed" due to processing.I've used WD Drives for years. I still use a 6tb MyBook HDD that's served me faithfully for many many years. So it's an honest shame that the time I'm facing difficulties with returning a faulty SSD. I will be moving away from WD after this.Use my situation as a cautionary tale. WD works great when it works, but don't expect them to treat you as a valued customer when they don't work. You're better off going with a company that will treat you right. I don't have one for recommendation yet as I'm still testing the waters, but will gladly update this when I do.