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title: "WD My Passport Essential SE 750 GB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Black)"
brand: "western digital"
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# USB 3.0 speed 750 GB storage Automatic backup WD My Passport Essential SE 750 GB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Black)

**Brand:** western digital
**Price:** AR$18054
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## Summary

> 📦 Your data, your way – always ready to go!

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- **What is this?** WD My Passport Essential SE 750 GB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Black) by western digital
- **How much does it cost?** AR$18054 with free shipping
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## Best For

- western digital enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted western digital brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Ultra-Portable Design:** Compact and lightweight, perfect for on-the-go professionals.
- • **Reliable Data Security:** Keep your important files safe and secure with WD's trusted technology.
- • **Lightning-Fast Transfers:** Enjoy up to 3x faster transfer rates with USB 3.0 technology.
- • **Future-Ready Connectivity:** Dual USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatibility ensures you're always connected.
- • **Seamless Storage Solution:** Experience effortless data management with automatic, continuous backup.

## Overview

The WD My Passport Essential SE is a 750 GB ultra-portable external hard drive featuring dual USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatibility, designed for automatic and continuous backup, ensuring your data is always secure and easily accessible.

## Description

From the Manufacturer Put your digital life on the high capacity my passport essential se portable hard drive. with wd quality and usb 3.0 and usb 2.0 connectivity, this drive is designed for today with tomorrow in mind. visual backup software and password protection with hardware encryption ensure your data is protected. lightweight and easy to carry, this drive is ideal for fast storage to go.

Review: Nice, small & fast, but USB-3.0 is no benefit - I installed this drive about 1 month ago using USB-2.0. It has worked flawlessly and provides slightly above average speed for a USB-2.0 external drive (it is noticeably slower than eSata or Firewire external drives). I was out of back-panel USB ports so I decided to upgrade to the USB-3.0 using a Buffalo Superspeed USB-3.0 on an empty PCI-express 2.0 slot. The card is "rated" at up to 5Gbps, but no one will actually see that in the real world. I was curious to see what my real world performance boost would be. I don't find much practical value in speedtest bench marks that move small chunks of data and test all sections of the drive. They don't give meaningful indication of what happens with large video files. (After all isn't the reason you buy a Terabyte drive to store large video files?). I measured USB-2.0 and USB-3.0 speeds using two sample video files. One sample was 1.0 GB and one was 2.0 GB. Here are my results using the supplied cable: USB-2.0: 1.0 GB file = 184 Mbps (42 seconds) USB-2.0: 2.0 GB file = 176 Mbps (90 seconds) USB-3.0: 1.0 GB file = 176 Mbps (44 seconds) USB-3.0: 2.0 GB file = 160 Mbps (100 seconds) I should note that I don't have a old, slow PC. It is a 2010 HP Win7 64bit with Core2 Quad 3.0 GHz (Yorkfield). I moved my files from an internal Barracuda drive connected with SATA that is significantly faster than any external drive. By comparison the same two files can be moved between two internal drives (SATA) on this machine in 12 and 19 seconds respectively (666 Mbps and 842 Mbps). If moving big files matters to you, you'll probably see no improvement with USB-3.0. If you simply need a good small portable Terabyte drive that easily fits in your pocket, this drive is a good value. The USB 2.0/3.0 doesn't cost you any more and doesn't provide any problem either. However, in the real world (big video files) don't expect break-neck speed or any advantage to adding the USB-3.0 interface. In my case the speed actually dropped slightly! If it had been sold as an USB-2.0 drive, I would give it 5 stars, but it doesn't live up to the hype of "Superspeed USB-3.0" UPDATE: I changed the rating to 5 Stars. I went back and remeasured the large file transfer rates after installing a second USB-3.0 drive that came with a different USB-3.0 driver. Now I am seeing a SUBSTANTIAL increase in speed. 2.0 GB file now can write to this drive in 33 seconds - nearly 500 Mbps or about 62 MB/s. The other USB-3.0 drive (Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 2TB) moved the same file in 22 seconds or 742 Mbps or 92 MB/s. This is almost as fast as an average internal SATA drive! I suspect there must have been a driver problem with my USB-3.0 card that made it revert to USB-2.0 mode.
Review: A Large-capacity Portable External Drive for Videos - I bought this Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Black) strictly to store and play videos. The first thing I did was to reformat the drive (in its native NTFS format); this immediately deleted the Western Digital software for which I have no need. Then I copied two videos to the drive: one, an HD [720p] video of about 4 GB and another of 600 MB (SD). I played both of them through my new LG HX350T 720p Front Projector - Black and I will soon be playing them in my home theater via my OPPO BDP-93 Universal Network 3D Blu-ray Disc Player and my Panasonic PT-AE4000U 1600 Lumen LCD Home Theater Projector . Via the LG projector, the video looks fantastic as would be expected. Storing music on external hard drives is already a de facto standard. Storing videos in this way is rapidly becoming practical too as hard drives' capacities increase dramatically and their prices fall just as dramatically. If all of my video could be compressed to 4 GB, I could store 250 full-length movies on this drive - which I could carry in my pocket! (I am using an desertcartBasics Hard Carrying Case for My Passport Essential - Black which I highly recommend.) However, most of my movies can be compressed to far smaller files, thus increasing the number of titles this drive will hold. I do not yet have a computer with USB 3.0 ports. Mine has only USB 2.0. But the transfer of the 4 GB file took only about 10 minutes. (Obviously the 600 MB files took much less time.) Once USB 3.0-equipped computers become widely available, that transfer time should drop considerably. All in all, if you are looking for a portable external hard drive on which to store movies, I believe that this is the one you should buy now. Its capacity, its physical size, its price, and its overall quality just can't be beat. I am planning to buy more of these drives. I will want additional ones for films (I own a LOT of films) as well as backups (in other words I want two drives carrying the same data in case one were to break down). Once I have placed all of my films on drives (and that will take many years, mostly due to lethargy on my part), I can get rid of my physical media. Think of the space that can be saved! Storing music, movies, and maybe even books on drives is definitely the wave of the future, at least in my opinion. Thank you for reading this. I hope it has been of some interest to you. ================================================================================================================================== Update: August 5, 2012 A person made a comment (on another review I wrote of a different WD hard drive) which impelled me to revisit this review and tell you that I now DO own a computer with two USB 3.0 ports. Thus I can now take full advantage of these drives' capabilities. Let me tell you: USB 3.0 is FAST. I am noting, in the real world, transfer speeds about four times faster than what I was able to get using these drives with USB 2.0 ports. I transferred 625 GB of data FROM one of these hard drives TO another one via my computer's USB 3.0 ports and the process took slightly under two hours. That translates to about 85 MB/s. I continue to HIGHLY recommend this particular drive and Western Digital external hard drives in general. Lawrence H. Bulk

## Features

- Automatic, continuous backup
- Maximum capacity
- Connectivity today; speed for tomorrow
- Dual USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatibility
- Up to 3x faster transfer rates with USB 3.0

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B0041OSQAM |
| Additional Features | Portable |
| Best Sellers Rank | #553 in External Hard Drives |
| Brand | Western Digital |
| Cache Memory Installed Size | 750 GB |
| Color | Black |
| Compatible Devices | usb 3.0 and usb 2.0 |
| Connectivity Technology | USB |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 2,357 Reviews |
| Data Transfer Rate | 5 gigabytes_per_second |
| Digital Storage Capacity | 750 GB |
| Form Factor | Portable |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00718037771526 |
| Hard Disk Description | portable |
| Hard Disk Form Factor | 2.5 inches |
| Hard Disk Interface | USB 2.0/3.0 |
| Hard-Drive Size | 750 GB |
| Hardware Connectivity | USB |
| Hardware Platform | Mac |
| Installation Type | External Hard Drive |
| Item Weight | 7.2 ounces |
| Manufacturer | Western Digital |
| Mfr Part Number | WDBACX7500ABK-NESN |
| Model Name | My Passport Essential |
| Model Number | WDBACX7500ABK-NESN |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Special Feature | Portable |
| Specific Uses For Product | Personal |
| UPC | 718037773377 718037759135 718037771526 |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Western Digital
- **Color:** Black
- **Compatible Devices:** usb 3.0 and usb 2.0
- **Connectivity Technology:** USB
- **Digital Storage Capacity:** 750 GB
- **Hard Disk Description:** portable
- **Hard Disk Form Factor:** 2.5 inches
- **Hard Disk Interface:** USB 1.1
- **Installation Type:** External Hard Drive
- **Special Feature:** Portable

## Images

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## Available Options

This product comes in different **Color, Size** options.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nice, small & fast, but USB-3.0 is no benefit
*by D***G on February 12, 2011*

I installed this drive about 1 month ago using USB-2.0. It has worked flawlessly and provides slightly above average speed for a USB-2.0 external drive (it is noticeably slower than eSata or Firewire external drives). I was out of back-panel USB ports so I decided to upgrade to the USB-3.0 using a Buffalo Superspeed USB-3.0 on an empty PCI-express 2.0 slot. The card is "rated" at up to 5Gbps, but no one will actually see that in the real world. I was curious to see what my real world performance boost would be. I don't find much practical value in speedtest bench marks that move small chunks of data and test all sections of the drive. They don't give meaningful indication of what happens with large video files. (After all isn't the reason you buy a Terabyte drive to store large video files?). I measured USB-2.0 and USB-3.0 speeds using two sample video files. One sample was 1.0 GB and one was 2.0 GB. Here are my results using the supplied cable: USB-2.0: 1.0 GB file = 184 Mbps (42 seconds) USB-2.0: 2.0 GB file = 176 Mbps (90 seconds) USB-3.0: 1.0 GB file = 176 Mbps (44 seconds) USB-3.0: 2.0 GB file = 160 Mbps (100 seconds) I should note that I don't have a old, slow PC. It is a 2010 HP Win7 64bit with Core2 Quad 3.0 GHz (Yorkfield). I moved my files from an internal Barracuda drive connected with SATA that is significantly faster than any external drive. By comparison the same two files can be moved between two internal drives (SATA) on this machine in 12 and 19 seconds respectively (666 Mbps and 842 Mbps). If moving big files matters to you, you'll probably see no improvement with USB-3.0. If you simply need a good small portable Terabyte drive that easily fits in your pocket, this drive is a good value. The USB 2.0/3.0 doesn't cost you any more and doesn't provide any problem either. However, in the real world (big video files) don't expect break-neck speed or any advantage to adding the USB-3.0 interface. In my case the speed actually dropped slightly! If it had been sold as an USB-2.0 drive, I would give it 5 stars, but it doesn't live up to the hype of "Superspeed USB-3.0" UPDATE: I changed the rating to 5 Stars. I went back and remeasured the large file transfer rates after installing a second USB-3.0 drive that came with a different USB-3.0 driver. Now I am seeing a SUBSTANTIAL increase in speed. 2.0 GB file now can write to this drive in 33 seconds - nearly 500 Mbps or about 62 MB/s. The other USB-3.0 drive (Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 2TB) moved the same file in 22 seconds or 742 Mbps or 92 MB/s. This is almost as fast as an average internal SATA drive! I suspect there must have been a driver problem with my USB-3.0 card that made it revert to USB-2.0 mode.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Large-capacity Portable External Drive for Videos
*by L***K on June 4, 2011*

I bought this Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Black) strictly to store and play videos. The first thing I did was to reformat the drive (in its native NTFS format); this immediately deleted the Western Digital software for which I have no need. Then I copied two videos to the drive: one, an HD [720p] video of about 4 GB and another of 600 MB (SD). I played both of them through my new LG HX350T 720p Front Projector - Black and I will soon be playing them in my home theater via my OPPO BDP-93 Universal Network 3D Blu-ray Disc Player and my Panasonic PT-AE4000U 1600 Lumen LCD Home Theater Projector . Via the LG projector, the video looks fantastic as would be expected. Storing music on external hard drives is already a de facto standard. Storing videos in this way is rapidly becoming practical too as hard drives' capacities increase dramatically and their prices fall just as dramatically. If all of my video could be compressed to 4 GB, I could store 250 full-length movies on this drive - which I could carry in my pocket! (I am using an AmazonBasics Hard Carrying Case for My Passport Essential - Black which I highly recommend.) However, most of my movies can be compressed to far smaller files, thus increasing the number of titles this drive will hold. I do not yet have a computer with USB 3.0 ports. Mine has only USB 2.0. But the transfer of the 4 GB file took only about 10 minutes. (Obviously the 600 MB files took much less time.) Once USB 3.0-equipped computers become widely available, that transfer time should drop considerably. All in all, if you are looking for a portable external hard drive on which to store movies, I believe that this is the one you should buy now. Its capacity, its physical size, its price, and its overall quality just can't be beat. I am planning to buy more of these drives. I will want additional ones for films (I own a LOT of films) as well as backups (in other words I want two drives carrying the same data in case one were to break down). Once I have placed all of my films on drives (and that will take many years, mostly due to lethargy on my part), I can get rid of my physical media. Think of the space that can be saved! Storing music, movies, and maybe even books on drives is definitely the wave of the future, at least in my opinion. Thank you for reading this. I hope it has been of some interest to you. ================================================================================================================================== Update: August 5, 2012 A person made a comment (on another review I wrote of a different WD hard drive) which impelled me to revisit this review and tell you that I now DO own a computer with two USB 3.0 ports. Thus I can now take full advantage of these drives' capabilities. Let me tell you: USB 3.0 is FAST. I am noting, in the real world, transfer speeds about four times faster than what I was able to get using these drives with USB 2.0 ports. I transferred 625 GB of data FROM one of these hard drives TO another one via my computer's USB 3.0 ports and the process took slightly under two hours. That translates to about 85 MB/s. I continue to HIGHLY recommend this particular drive and Western Digital external hard drives in general. Lawrence H. Bulk

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ love it--it just works, looks great, fits anywhere
*by A***S on April 18, 2011*

I bought this because I wanted something gigantic and portable to supplement my new MacBook Pro, which has a 121GB solid state drive--very cool and functional, but maybe not sufficient by itself for the next 3 years. The My Passport is a nice visual match for the MacBook, with more capacity than I'll need. I use it for Time Machine backup, and also have some legacy data--photographs, music, finances &c--just stored as normal files on disk. All the documentation is on the disk itself, so when I first plugged it into my old XP PC, I got the usual misleading message asking if I wanted to give permission to search for a driver on the web. That's completely unnecessary--it just works, and you don't have to do anything. However, I did have to reformat the drive in order to be able to use it on the Mac, since I naively did not realize the file systems are incompatible. It was easy to do. I copied the documentation & drive management software onto all my computers (belt & suspenders), plugged the drive into the Mac's USB port and reformatted it. Didn't take very long. Then I copied the docs and drive management software back onto the drive, and installed the software on the Mac. No problems, although in the end I am using Time Machine for backups instead of Western Digital's software. Then I copied all my legacy data from all my PCs over the wireless network. That took a few hours, and several times the Mac would tell me I didn't have permission to copy one of my files. Typically this would be a pdf or spreadsheet I got from a fellow committee-member at church. I would just make a copy on the PC, and copy the copy. The instructions on the drive say not to move it when it's operating, but I made the decision to use it for Time Machine back ups while in a One-to-One session at the Apple Store. The staffer & I started the process, which takes an hour or so the first time. We did other stuff, and the initial back-up was still going on when session time ended. So I left the drive connected, put the MacBook & drive in my bag, and carefully strolled through the mall to drink coffee and wait for it to finish. No problem. I enjoyed the coffee and worked the email, never have had a problem.

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