Is this the same as the WD Elements Portable Hard Drive
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"My Passport" drives have a chip that provides encryption with a password. You can turn that on or off depending on what you desire but you have to install some Western Digital software in order to use that password function. I guess that's what they call the "passport". The "Elements" drives do not have that chip. Many people prefer to avoid the encryption chip. According to an answer I got in WD forums, the hard drive itself is the same in both the "Elements" and in the "My Passport" enclosures. Strangely, though, at Amazon, "2TB My Passports" are always on sale for much less than the "2TB Elements." "Personally, I would prefer the "Elements" but it costs about $40 more than a "My Passport." I bought the cheaper of the two. "My Passport" drives come with some software that is supposed to provide backup of your data but many people are less than pleased with the performance of that software. You don't have to use that backup software. The "automatic cloud backup" is nothing more than a web address for some online storage that you must pay for and is accessible to anyone with a web browser anyway. So, "Elements" = hard drive in a nice enclosure that is just that. Many prefer that. "My Passport" has a chip on the board that can password and encrypt everyting you put on the hard drive. Should provide some safety if someone steals your drive but, on the other hand, if that chip fails or if you forget your password, you're dead in the water. Everything on the passworded/encrypted drive is not retrievable. "My Passport" drives also include some free backup software which you can take or leave. "My Passport" drives, however, do require a set of utilities to be installed to manage the drive's sleep time, password function, and a forced "Virtual CD" region of the drive which you can also turn on or off.
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Yes. No password needed. I do it all the time with my media players and video recorders. Just don't set a password and it works like any other drive. If you plug into a Windows computer, windows will nag you to install a "SES" driver. You don't have to install the driver but if you don't, you'll have to put up with that Windows nag every time you connect. You can get the SES driver separately from the WD site. That's what I did. In that way, I didn't even install the bundled Western Digital software. I do use Western Digital Diagnostics Utilities, though. They are helpful.
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Reading the warranty info for all WD drives, I discover that the Passport Ultra carries a 3-year warranty while the WD Elements only rates 1 year of warranty. The WD My Book drives only get 2 years. The PP Ultra looks like the best deal to me even though it is a few more bucks than the Elements.
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One of the Seagate forum moderators stated that it's the same drive:http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Momentus-XT-Momentus-and/What-is-the-difference-between-the-Momentus-xt-500-G-models/m-p/85644
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Yes. I switch between a 320gb WD passport and a 1tb Seagate GoFlex without any issue.
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It was but since then I've lost all my pictures that I took for over two years. I would highly recommend the western digital external hard drive. I've used them for over ten years and no problems at all. I just bought another one two days ago "the WD passport w. Auto cloud backup. It's about the same price plus they give you cloud back up. Can't. Beat this company that been around for 30 years.
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This WD drive works with the nomad rugged case, ASIN B00505EZZ6, $39.95 to protect it in extreme conditions, but for normal rugged conditions a Drive Logic DL-64 EVA HD Case (black), ASIN B003VVH8Y6. $9.95 w/free shipping, will do just as good. Check both then decide.
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I don't know, but I am no longer buying any more WD hard drives. All the ones that have crashed and burned are, guess who? I have other brands that have lasted 8 years. Even the so called white lables that are generic from WD crashed within one year. No more WD.
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Yes it is, but I've only personally tried it with the 1TB 2.5in BackUp Plus Drives.
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You'll need to ask Buffalo. The hardware device is reported as "gendisk" (generic disk) by my Device Manager. The only way I could establish which manufacturer made my Drive Station hard disk would be to remove the cover. Obviously I don't want to do that. Many computer and peripheral manufacturers change their hard drive providers (bidding for cost-savings) during the manufacturing runs of their devices so you have to ask Buffalo to be sure about what you will get. I can tell you that mine has been a sturdy and reliable drive regardless of what is inside it.
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No it is a ZIF drive see this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_insertion_force#Hard_disk_drives Hope this helps.
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I looked in the packaging and in the materials in the box and I couldn't find the distinction. With it being an external drive and transferring at the speed of USB 3... In not sure that will matter a whole lot unless you planned on cracking it open and installing the drives to your PC. I'm sure this can be found out on WD's website. My guess is its 5,400 due to the cost of the device being so low. As soon as I got the device I copied almost a terabyte of my baby pictures to it and it didn't seem slow an it wouldn't be often if move that quantity of data until I replace it.
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Im unsure if it will wrk for your wd device but i have three different ones an it work for me so it should
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I am not that familiar of this type of components, all I know is that this is an external hard drive. Sorry, I am not of great help to you.
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Nothing like a long link - Under wdc.com external drives faq. The Western Digital products listed below are Microsoft Certified (WHQL) under the Windows Vista Operating System. WD Passport Portable USB 2.0 (Black) (WXMSxxxxTx) Order/Model numbers US: WDXMS600TN, WDXMS800TN, WDXMS1000TN, WDXMS1200TN, WDXMS1600TN, WDXMS2500TN http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1457&p_created=1154370312&p_sid=g-6YQ7Si&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NzEsNzEmcF9wcm9kcz0xOTUmcF9jYXRzPTEyMyZwX3B2PTEuMTk1JnBfY3Y9MS4xMjMmcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1hbnN3ZXJzLnNlYXJjaF9mbmwmcF9wYWdlPTE*&p_li=&p_topview=1
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As long as your machine has a Firewire 800 port you should be okay. What matters is the hardware you are using and not the operating system. You can just drag and drop files to the WD, but I use Carbon Copy Cloner and Super Duper to automate my backups.
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Not that I know of..... The item you mention was not available when I purchased my WD Element. I am still very happy with my original purchase, but may go ahead and get the less expensive one just to have another.
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I have the WD My Passport Ultra 1TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0 with Auto and Cloud Backup - Black (WDBZFP0010BBK-NESN) and it works great with the Inateck.
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I don't know about WD. It works with a SeaGate external desktop HD that I use for my Time Machine backup.