Western Digital 5TB My Passport® External HDD

The best there is. Great for me.

I got the 5TB drive, red and black colour. Looks very good. Its simply the best, for backups and all. I'm happy.I'm getting around 50-60MB write speed on USB 3 on old laptop. Good for me.Before this, I also had a 2TB from WD, that's also doing well till now.Seagate has improved on reliability from older days, and now are also offering free recovery services, but I have a firm belief on WD.Still, you can do your research to see what does best for you, both companies make 5 star rated, reliable products.

Samarth Singh · review on Amazon

स्पीड शानदार है

आज पिछले 2 साल से इस ड्राइव को इस्तेमाल कर रहा हूँ, इसकी शानदार रीड और राइट स्पीड के साथ इसकी स्मूद पेरफोरामनके ने मेरा भरोसा जीत लिया है, आजतक इस ड्राइव मे कोई समस्या नहीं आई है। सफर में मैं इस ड्राइव को अपने साथ एक प्रोटेक्टिव केस के अंदर रखकर ले जाता हूँ और आज तक कोई भी समस्या नहीं आई है। इसकी स्पीड शानदार है। स्टोरेज कैपेसिटी के हिसाब से लगभग इसका पूरा और भरपूर इस्तेमाल किया है मैंने। दिखने में ये ड्राइव काफी मजबूत और सुंदर लगती है। जिस प्राइस मे मैंने इसे खरीद था वो वैल्यू फॉर मनी है। ओवरऑल ये काफी अच्छा स्टॉरिज ड्राइव ऑप्शन है ।

The Banjara Man · review on Amazon

Do not buy for important data storage

If you are willing to lose your data only then go with them. Highly unreliable, even if you keep it safe eject safely the drive failure rates are really high and WD will only replace it for you. So unless you are using a drive for data that’s not important never go with this one! I have two both crashed.. WD doesn’t offer recovery services. So you’ll burn over 20k just for trying to recover data from third party vendors who do not come under brand guarantee!

Viresh · review on Amazon

WD My Passport vs Seagate One Touch? Pick Seagate

Before you pull out your pitchforks, I'm a big WD fan. I have been using their products for years and have yet to have a single hard drive failure. Even my oldest powered 2TB WD My Book drive from 2013 is still alive and kicking today. That being said, Seagate products have learnt from their early mistakes and their hard drive are now more or less just as reliable as WD products (google: BackBlaze hard drive stats).However since WD have enjoyed their spot at the top, they don't feel like they need to provide anything more than the bare minimum so what you get when you buy a WD 5TB My Passport is just the hard drive and a USB cable and nothing else, no extras for 8999 INR.However, with the Seagate OneTouch 5TB, for the same price, you also get a 1 year trial of Mylio (a pretty cool self-hosted alternative of Google Photos), a 4 month trial of Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan and 3 year Rescue Data Recovery Services. The last part is the one of the best perks of getting a Seagate product. What it means is that over the 3 year warranty of your product, if your Seagate HDD breaks down, you get 1 in-lab data recovery attempt by Seagate for free.Both WD and Seagate will replace your HDD if it fails but Seagate will also attempt full data recovery on the failed drive once during that 3-year warranty period which mind you, is a huge perk. Data recovery services aren't cheap and generally cost like 10-20 times the value of the HDD itself.Now coming to performance differences between the two, I'm attaching all the different tests I've conducted on both hard drive using CrystalDiskMark 8. They're pretty much identical but WD has the lead over Seagate for smaller file transfers while Seagate does slightly better at large sequential file transfers.The WD drive was already formatted using NTFS while Seagate was using exFAT out of the box. After formatting the Seagate HDD to NTFS, the sequential write performance decreased by around 5-10 MB/s. I hadn't encrypted the WD drive but the Seagate was encrypted using the Seagate Toolkit (which may or may not have contributed to some performance decrease, I don't know).

Not your average reviewer · review on Amazon