🔸️Now both are giant reputed american storage brands & preference is mostly based upon personal usage experiences. This is again a topmost struggle, making a decision. 🔷️ So for majority bulk data backup - HDD are a better option to costlier SSDs. While none of the mechanical HDDs can reach the blazing fast speeds of SSDs which are in excess of 500 MB/s R/W, The HDDs definitely offer a better value for money per MB of storage.Īlso if data is corrupted in a SSD its almost never retrievable while in a HDD, there is always a hope depending upon extent of damage.
🔶️ Now, whenever we opt to go for a new external Disk purchase, the following challenges are encountered & if you are planning to invest thousands in purchase - my detailed review, even though a bit lengthy is worth reading. I like to keep backups of backups of my lifetime collected data & thus have over 15 TB of external harddisks in my arsenal with a dominant share of Western digital disks( both passport & elements ) & few others like Transcend, Samsung SSD & a seagate ( old usb 2.0 ). Pathetic that WD couldn't include an actual USB C to Micro B cable, I'm buying one separately to avoid this stupid huge plug and adaptor sticking out of my laptop and probably stressing the USB C port, the plug and adaptor is 8cm long! Happy to recommend the drive, but don't waste your time with the WD Software! It says it's USB C but really it's USB A with an adaptor. The final reason for my low score for this product is the cable.
#MY PASSPORT FOR MAC USB C PASSWORD#
It was showing nothing in the password field so I couldn't tell if I was typing into the field (maybe white text on a white background?), one dialogue box had a tick box that seemed to appear many rows below the setting it belonged to and something else I clicked on (sorry can't remember) did the old "no visible response whatsoever" trick so you got no feedback as to whether you'd actually selected anything.
#MY PASSPORT FOR MAC USB C SOFTWARE#
I'd have to say that I don't miss the WD software anyway 'cos it's terrible. While the WD software was installed, I was variously getting Time Machine backup failures of "Time Machine failed to create the backup folder" or "Time Machine failed to read some files". Once I removed the WD password and uninstalled the WD software, I let Time Machine do the password protection and encryption and everything is now humming along nicely. After three failed attempts to run a backup and after trying a reformat, thinking this might fix the problem, I eventually read on-line that the WD software was the culprit. Bought this drive as a dedicated Time Machine backup drive for an M1 MacBook (OS 11.5.2). Specific model to avoid is WDBPKJ0050 and this appears in your USB device tree as "WD My Passport 2627". My assessment is that in any case, this drive is unsuitable for any long-running write, and is in particular, bad for backups.
That's a reliability as well as a performance problem.
It's possible that WD used a very low-quality platter and attempted to improve short-term performance with a buffer.
When swapped in as a replacement to increase capacity, we were surprised how slowly a standard Time Machine backup progressed, and investigated with some large-file write benchmarking.Įven when connected to a dedicated USB3.1 bus, my basic tests to the unit I bought, of a linear large-file write, showed that it can barely take 40MB/sec for a few seconds at the start of continuous writes, and then quickly degrades to 9MB/sec or worse sometimes it stalls completely and write performance drops to nil.īy comparison, I have several comparable 5TB portable-backup drives from other manufacturers, and even other similar drives from WD, and these consistently sustain writes of 100MB/sec, using the same port and cable and test method. This drive cannot sustain high speed writes.
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