Our Overall Score:
8.6/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the External hard drives category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £82.99
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, WD or alternative products in the External hard drives category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive
WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive scores 8.4/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with External hard drives. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for External hard drives, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any External hard drives? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive scores 9.2/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the External hard drives category was £399.99, whilst the cheapest we found was £8.99 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the External hard drives category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the External hard drives category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the External hard drives category. This was £102.32 from the 34 products we found in that category. So WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive actually comes in below average at £82.99.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £399.99 and the least expensive, which was £8.99. In total we found that of the 34, 16 were more expensive and 17 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive.
Prices of products from WD
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, WD. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from WD, which was £128.28 of the 27 products we found. So WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive price is below average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from WD was £8.99 with the most expensive coming in at £349.00.
Prices of products from WD and in the External hard drives category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from WD that sit specifically within the External hard drives category.
For this we found that the average price was £92.35, making WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive at £82.99 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £280.00 with the lowest priced item being £8.99. In total there were 4 items that were more expensive and 5 that was less expensive.
Reviews of WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive
WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive scores 8.2/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive is.
Overall score
WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive scores 8.6/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from WD so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive
- Brand: WD
- Model Number: 10154526
- USB 3.0Up to 5 GbpsHardware encryptionPassword protectedBackup software included
- EAN: 718037853369
- Description: Top features: – Keep your files and folders safe with back up and encryption software – Rapid transfer rates up to 5 GB per second – Smart and compact design Keep your files and folders safeWD’s backup software ensures important data and files are regularly saved to your system on the schedule you choose. You’re safe in the knowledge that you don’t have to worry about data recovery.With optional 256-bit AES hardware encryption, WD Security software and password protection, your files are safe and private. You can add a “return-if-found” message as the password prompt just in case.Rapid transfer ratesUSB 3.0 offers rapid transfer rates, and the Western Digital My Passport Hard Drive can move files at up to 5 GB per second, so you aren’t left waiting for long.My Passport is compatible with USB 2.0 connections and transfers at up to 480 MB per second.Smart and compact The WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive comes with a three-year warranty for your peace of mind, and packs a punch for a device which fits into the palm of the hand.
- Product ID: 3704358221
