Expand the storage on your Windows system and back up photos, video, music, and documents using the silver 4TB My Passport Ultra USB 3.0 Type-C External Hard Drive from WD. This drive is equipped with 4TB of storage and a USB 3.0 Type-C interface. If your computer doesn’t have a USB Type-C port, an included USB Type-C to Type-A adapter helps ensure compatibility with older systems. This drive is also bus-powered, meaning that all its power is provided by the USB cable and no external power cables or adapters are required.
Since WD designed this My Passport Ultra drive for Windows, it comes preformatted NTFS for Windows 10, 8.1, and 7. If you happen to work across both Windows and Mac platforms, WD provides a downloadable NTFS driver for macOS, which enables the reading and writing of this My Passport Ultra drive without any reformatting. Or, make it fully Mac compatible with a simple reformat. Thanks to a 256-bit AES hardware encryption chip, your private files are kept more secure.
Vidal Mitchell (verified owner) –
Extremely portable hard drive, 1 TB, USB 3, reasonable price…and it’s red. I purchased this as my field drive for dumping cards on photo shoots, and so far, it’s done its job. I recommend reformatting it to either NTFS, or OSX Journaled of some sort; FAT32 has a 4GB file size cap that can be a huge pain if you’re working with high resolution video. It hasn’t died on me; if it does, I’ll come and change this rating/review. Not much else to say.
Sonya Stehr (verified owner) –
I really love these little drives. I have six of them now. Their compact, rugged, fast and simple to use. Since they are USB-C powered you just plug it in and starts up. The USB-C connection is fast. I highly recommend them. 🙂
Otilia Legros (verified owner) –
I own 2 WD External hard drives and have been very impressed with their performance. I purchased the 500GB My Passport Ultra for my granddaughter who is a semi-pro photog and was complaining that her photo editing programs were running in slo-mo. She had 3,000 jpeg’s stored in her pics library. Now she has most of her pic files stored on the My Passport Ultra and is overjoyed at the ease and speed she was able to transfer the files, we are both impressed with this Hard Drive.
Santa Murazik (verified owner) –
Rock solid, dependable drive. I had well over 1,000 DVD’S, stretching back in time to when my kids were toddlers. I ripped all those movies and put them on this drive which, incidentally, I was able to use, along with Plex, to watch them again. I’ve since copied those movies to an internal WD Red drive. So now I have a backup as well. Great device.
Mireya Miller (verified owner) –
I’m using this product to back up my laptop computer as well as to store almost 1TB of Elevation Church sermons to watch weekly while serving overseas for the next 12 years as a missionary doctor. It stores and retrieves quickly, no glitches. I like the red color, but the surface doesn’t have little ventilation holes as it appears in the photo, they’re just part of the finish. If that’s all I can find wrong, then it must be a pretty good product. I purchased a small red Case Logic holder for it which was a perfect fit.
Colin Kilback (verified owner) –
Way smaller than I expected. Great speed worked immediately with no setup No a/c power. Couldn’t be happier.
Willis Ullrich (verified owner) –
Haven’t had it for too long, but it’s been great so far. Easy to format, fast write speeds, and does what it’s built to do!
Mohamed Murphy (verified owner) –
I have many WD external drives – portable and desktop. So far, I’ve had good performance from all of them.
Isabella Leffler (verified owner) –
Was afraid my new computer would not recognize my old external HD (has lots of old family pictures) so slaved old computer and old external HD to the new Passport Ultra and copied the photos, etc. over. Feel much more secure now about the family pix.
Johnnie Funk (verified owner) –
The USB mount does not work and w=I went trhough 4 cables. WD would not take back the drive. They initially said it was a bad cable. I told them thos was the second drive of the same class that this has happened too. They said it could not be the drive. They are wrong and I would not suppost this brand anymore. I am on to thinderbolt / lacie no more USB. And no WD after the bad support.
Shakira Turner (verified owner) –
I have bought a few of these drives over the years and will continue to do so. Great portable hard drives at a great cost with quick data transfer speeds. Although they are not meant for editing, I have actually used them in the past when a client has sprung some request on me. Best used for storage only though.
Elmore Ratke (verified owner) –
works wonderfully
Flossie Torp (verified owner) –
I bought this as a project drive. I have 3 active projects on the drive. I usually get drives with multiple ports incase something happens, but all of the Passport drives I’ve owned, I’ve never had that problem. They are fast to load onto a computer, I can edit 4K ProRes without proxy’s.
Myrna Boyer (verified owner) –
Time Machine Backup and backup for photos
Arturo Marks (verified owner) –
I needed an external hard drive to back up my files. This is a great small drive. B&H always has great prices and checkout was smooth. When i need something else, i will be back to B&H.
Barney Witting (verified owner) –
Using as back up for hard drive. Works great. Quiet. Very small and out of the way. Only complaint is that USB 3.0 cord supplied was way too short. Will need to replace with longer one to connect to USB 3.0 connection in back of computer.
Kim Ortiz (verified owner) –
This hard drive allows me to store little used information so i can keep my laptop running proficiently. It also gives me a backup if my computer should fail.
Hector Haag (verified owner) –
Great value. Does exactly what promised.
Rod Langosh (verified owner) –
I needed backup/restore with Mac time machine. That worked well with non-mac version of WD Passport, after automatic reformatting. The whole process takes long time due to mac’s security, while the result was good. No extra cables needed, power over USB-C.
Calista Greenfelder (verified owner) –
Does what it says and seems sturdy.