Testseek.com have collected 27 expert reviews of the Western Digital My Passport Essential USB2 WDME and the average rating is 78%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital My Passport Essential USB2 WDME.
October 2009
(78%)
27 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Synchronization and encryption software, Uses a performance hard drive
Well designed with smooth curves. Is widely available in retail and offers a choice of nine colors. Internally, it uses a performance oriented WD Scorpio hard disk drive....
For these reasons and more, we would like to be able to recommend WD's new-design My Passport Essential, but we can't. It's not a bad drive, and while the software-on-virtual-CD system will annoy geeks, it's a good idea for the less techni...
Transfer rates stayed the same with the installation of the SmartWare software, though the user experience decreased. If you don't install it, every time you connect the drive the software will mount and ask to be installed. This was extremely annoy...
Small, light, and buspowered for easy portability, Lots of color options available, Performance rivals more expensive versions, Zippered case a nice included accessory,
Fingerprintprone finish is back, Software suite not as versatile as the Elite's, Synchronization utilities still Windows only,
At the end of the day, what do you give up by stepping down to the Passport Essential? The most notable difference may be that the Essential’s simply not as trendy looking as the Passport Elite – in fact some of the colors can even make the cheaper mo...
