Testseek.com have collected 17 expert reviews of the Western Digital My Passport Essential SE USB2 WDBABM and the average rating is 76%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital My Passport Essential SE USB2 WDBABM.
March 2010
(76%)
17 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
All eight portable drives we tested work well if you mainly need a device to store large amounts of user data that doesn't depend much on performance. As soon as you apply more demanding workloads, it's time to start paying more attention to the way yo...
Abstract: The My Passport Essential SE is a portable hard drive that backs-up, secures, and stores all your digital files without the hassle. Click to enlargeThe Essential SE easily fits in your pocket despite being able to store up to 1TB of data. As soon as y...
We’d prefer a standard mini-USB port for the connection mechanism, but there’s not much else to fault on the affordable Western Digital My Passport Essential drive. IDG staff ...
The My Passport Essential SE is Western Digital's largest capacity portable hard drive yet, and it offers encryption to keep your data secure. Buy it if you have to lug a lot of data around, or prefer to keep your system backups on an easily mobile dr...
Sleeker and streamlined design, capacity gauge, Windows as well as Mac software
Expensive, slower performance
The WD My Passport Essential SE 1TB is the largest 2.5-inch portable hard drives we have reviewed and it does exude elegance due to its casing and premium finish. While it is slimmer than the previous My Passport products, the 1TB is enough to take car...
Large capacity yet tiny, 256bit hardware encryption
Backup software limitations, Premium pricing
The My Passport Essential SE is Western Digital's largest capacity portable hard drive yet, and it offers encryption to keep your data secure. Buy it if you have to lug a lot of data around, or prefer to keep your system backups on an easily mobile dr...
