Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB

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Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB

Jayesh Limaye, Apr 01, 2010 1140 hrs IST

A TB of portable storage is as small as a passport

Sleeker and streamlined design, capacity gauge, Windows as well as Mac software

Expensive, slower performance

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With increasing capacities of internal 2.5-inch hard drives, the portable drives that house the same were destined to follow suit. So here we have a portable hard drive from Western Digital called the My Passport Essential SE with a huge 1 TB capacity. The drive looks better and leaner than its predecessor. The finish is rich and the drive seems to be rugged. Armed with the SmartWare software, the drive is capable of taking backups secured with 256-bit AES encryption using a password. We have reviewed this USB 2.0 hard drive, so read on to find out if it is any better than the rest.

The first thing we noticed on opening the box was that the drive comes securely packaged in the box with plastic damping material to protect it from shock damage. This reduces the chances of you getting a dead on arrival drive.

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WD My Passport Essential SE 1TB
USB 2.0 cable
Quick Install Guide
Warranty card
Brochure

As usual WD has provided all the necessary cables required to be used with this drive. Conspicuous by its absence is the software disc, but this is situated on the drive itself (as we later learnt). While the drive can work well with any PC with a USB 2.0 port, there always is a chance that it may not work because of insufficient power.

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(6) Comments

Bhavesh Gudhka

,Mumbai, on Oct 05, 2011 04:01 PM

Very bad after sales support. I registered RMA request 5 days back but there is nobody to take care. I have still not received any call, confirmation or communication on this.