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WD My Passport Ultra 2.5 inch 1 TB External Hard Drive (Black)

WD My Passport Ultra 2.5 inch 1 TB External Hard Drive (Black)

5490
1 tb , usb 2.0 , 480 Mbps , usb 3.0 , 5 Gbps , portable , encryption ,
  • 56
    SortWiz.AI spec score (of 100)
  • 4.5
    star rating by 12832
  • #2
    brand rank in this budget
WD is ranked 2 with 29.6% popularity

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  This Product Similar Products
Storage Capacity
1 TB
2 tb
USB 2.0 Speed
480 MBPS
480 Mbps
USB 3.0 Speed
5 GBPS
3 Gbps

This is how user sentiment of various aspects of WD My Passport Ultra 2.5 inch 1 TB External Hard Drive (Black) compares with similar products. Green indicates that sentiment is as good or better than other similar products. Red indicates worse user sentiment compared to competition.

Click on aspects to read sentences which influenced the sentiment scores below.

 Review Aspect This Product Similar Products
Overall
8.1
8.3 - 9.1
Cable
7.5
5 - 6.7
Performance
7.3
7.8 - 8.9
Ports
6.7
7.3 - 8.5
Safety
10
8.4 - 8.8
Service
10
6.7 - 8
Size
10
7.5 - 9
Software
6.7
7.5 - 9
Warranty
3.3
3.3 - 5

These are the sentences extracted from user reviews talking about overall aspect. Click on review lines to read full reviews.

"best Storage available in market"



"A Great Product from WD... and a great harddisk with excellent performance..at a great affordable price.!!!"



"Awesome HDD !! Definitely worth your money....."



"EXCELLENT SELLER, EXCELLENT STORE, EXCELLENT HDD..."



" A bunch of tools provided in the HDD is very very useful and necessary to keep ur backup's safe, confidential and hassle free"



"HDD not working after 1 month of use"



"This hdd is extremely slow compared to all usb 3 hdds"



"The HDD crashed after a month"



"a few days usage caused a serious issue on my hdd"



These are the sentences extracted from user reviews talking about cable aspect. Click on review lines to read full reviews.

" Cable is good enough in length and the build quality of cable is also good"



" 1 CABLE WHICH IS COMPATIBLE WITH BOTH USB 2.0 AND 3.0"



"The box is excellently packed with a USB 3.0/2.0 wire & a very nice and soft pouch is given for the hardisk protection and user manuals and the main hardisk itself and the bundled software provided in the drive itself"



" I am worried about the USB cable, it's a little shorter but still longer than my previous Seagate 500 gb external hard drive one"



These are the sentences extracted from user reviews talking about performance aspect. Click on review lines to read full reviews.

"A good hard disk , but excepted more !"



" My question here is how can a sealed pack hard disk have soft pouch missing"



" I explained him many times that the unboxing videos and other reviews given for this product say that this WD hard disk comes with soft pouch"



" I again gave a call to customer care and got a complaint registered and sent a mail by Attaching the screenshot from WD site which says the hard disk comes with soft pouch"



"SO I WAS LOOKING FOR AN EXTERNAL HARD DISK DRIVE WITH A GOOD BRAND NAME AND LOW PRICE"



"BUT 2.0 SPEED ARE LYING IN BETWEEN 25-40 MBPS IN SEVERAL TRANSFERS"



"Speed is not as promised"



" Dont buy WD hard disks"



"looking wise it is cool but when you try to transfer your data than speed is very poor "



"bad speed "



These are the sentences extracted from user reviews talking about ports aspect. Click on review lines to read full reviews.

" 1 CABLE WHICH IS COMPATIBLE WITH BOTH USB 2.0 AND 3.0"



" It was mentioned in the description that it supports USB 2.0 and 3.0 but I am not sure if its really USB 3.0, the usual data transfer rate is still less than 30 mbps (I attached it in USB 3.0 port of my PC)"



"Reliability , is superb and considering USB 3.0 WD is excellent "



"the copying speed on usb 3.0 as well as in USB 2.0 is great"



"Good USB 3.0 READ N WRITE speeds"



"This hdd is extremely slow compared to all usb 3 hdds"



"I received this item without the pouch and it had really slow transfer speeds on usb 3.0 and 2.0."



" I am worried about the USB cable, it's a little shorter but still longer than my previous Seagate 500 gb external hard drive one"



These are the sentences extracted from user reviews talking about safety aspect. Click on review lines to read full reviews.

"Install WD smartware app which gives you many features like checking for bad sectors in drive, status of your drive, and many more you can also apply password protection to the drive using this app"



"The box is excellently packed with a USB 3.0/2.0 wire & a very nice and soft pouch is given for the hardisk protection and user manuals and the main hardisk itself and the bundled software provided in the drive itself"



"It has been given nice security password protection and encryption also and AUTO CLOUD BACK-UP which is an added advantage"



These are the sentences extracted from user reviews talking about service aspect. Click on review lines to read full reviews.

"Great Service but not very reliable"



"Good service but delivery was late"



"Really Good Service"



"As usual FK service is fantastic"



"FIRST OF ALL THANX TO WS RETAILS & FLIPKART FOR SUCH FABULOUS SERVICE"



These are the sentences extracted from user reviews talking about size aspect. Click on review lines to read full reviews.

"Pros: pocket-sized, light-weight @ nice price"



"AVAILABLE USER SIZE ON DISK: 931.3 GIGA BYTES "



" but it's ultra portable"



" Really very handy and portable ( as shown on the product pics)"



"The design is very attractive and the small size makes it very easy to carry it around with me"



These are the sentences extracted from user reviews talking about software aspect. Click on review lines to read full reviews.

"Comes with some softwares which are almost useful to none"



" WD Security app might be useful for windows users as it will encrypt the data but beware, if you forgot your password for the drive or your drive is partially corrupted then you loose your data completely"



"Comes with some softwares which are almost useful to none"



" WD Security app might be useful for windows users as it will encrypt the data but beware, if you forgot your password for the drive or your drive is partially corrupted, then you loose your data completely"



" Awesome software support from WD"



" The utility softwares are irritating at times as they ask for a software update on a daily basis"



" The WD Tech support answer was the people use TimeMachine to backup so we didn't make the smart ware software for MAC"



These are the sentences extracted from user reviews talking about warranty aspect. Click on review lines to read full reviews.

"Great Drive, and amazing Warranty!"



" Sometimes I actually think their warranty is better than Apple's"



"WARRANTY: 3 YEARS LIMITED WARRANTY"



" Warranty is same the defective one"



Sales Package Portable Hard Drive, USB Cable, WD Smart Ware Pro, Quick Installation Guide
Model Name My Passport Ultra
Type HDD
Capacity 1 TB
Color Black
System Requirements Windows: XP, Vista, 7, 8, Mac OS X: Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion
Form Factor Portable
Cloud Backup Yes
Encryption Yes
Data Transfer Rate USB 3.0: 5 Gbps, USB 2.0: 480 Mbps, USB 1.1: 12 Mbps, Hub: 12 Mbps
Shock Resistant Yes
Password Protection Yes
External Power Required No
Weight 160 g
Warranty Summary 3 Years Domestic Warranty
Product Id SHD137961

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