WD My Passport Studio 2TB FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive

Nice little drive, totally silent
I'm using mine for twice daily Time Machine backups and a weekly SuperDuper! backup of the boot drive.

I connected the drive via Firewire and partitioned the disk using Disk Utility, setting the two partitions I need to use the GUID Partition Table. This means it can now be used as the boot drive in the event my primary drive fails.

I did not install the supplied WD utilities as I've been down the route of WD software before and, for me, they add nothing I need. The other consideration was that Apple seem to be banging out a "new" OS every year and thus there's no guarantee that the WD software will work -- or be updated -- in the next incarnation of OS X.

All in all, a nice, solid backup solution that I have no problem recommending.

Oh, and I'm using it on Mountain Lion if that helps anyone?

WD My Passport Studio 2TB FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive

Stylish Add-on to the MacBook I Use
An amazingly fast (I use the Firewire 800 connectivity option) and stylish external drive. I have a Macbook Pro and bought this drive as a backup device using TimeMachine. It provides a useful encryption and authentication option, connects very quickly and painlessly and works silently in the background. Enough said.

WD My Passport Studio 2TB FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive

A nice neat bit of kit!
I have been buying Western Digital Passport external drives for some time, due to their reliability and functionality. This new drive is something better and more impressive. The build quality is VERY good and, despite the recent hike in drive prices, was not excessively expensive. As I need to have a reliable back up drive - and need to be mobile - this is the only choice on the market at the moment. It linked in with my existing system without any hassle at all, and has already repaid my investment by saving me from a system failure.

If any storage hungry project demanded more mobile storage, I wouldn't hesitate in buying another.

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