Product Description

Equipped with FireWire and USB 2.0 interfaces, and formatted for Mac, this portable hard drive is perfect for Mac users on the go. Use it to pack up your office files and take them home, carry thousands of songs or pictures and back up your Mac laptop using Apple Time Machine.

Product Details

• Brand: Western Digital
• Model: WDMT4000TN
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Hard Disk: 400GB

Features

• Box Contents - Portable hard drive, FireWire 800 cable, USB 2.0 cable, Drawstring bag, and Quick Install Guide
• Formatted HFS+ Journaled for Mac OS X 10.4.11, 10.5.2, can easily be reformatted for Windows Vista, XP, and 2000
• Fully compatible with Apple's Time Machine backup software
• Dimensions - Height 0.59 x Length 4.97 x Width 3.13 (15.0x126.15x79.5mm)
• Weight - 0.40 pounds (0.18 kg)

Customer Reviews

Great external drive for Mac users, good for Windows with some extra work
The Western Digital My Passport Studio is a wonderful update to one of the best portable external hard drives on the market. The elegant design has been improved with a "soft-touch" finish that makes it easy to hold and won't collect fingerprints. Mac users will benefit from the HFS+ formatting, and PCs can use this drive as well with a little extra work. The solid performance is complemented by a convenient capacity gauge and the ability to use USB, FireWire 400, or FireWire 800 ... assuming your computer has one of the ports in question.

As a mobile storage solution, the Western Digital My Passport series continues to prove that it is simply one of the best.

Pros:

* Attractive enclosure ... and no more fingerprints!
* Nice sliding port protector and capacity gauge/activity indicators
* Perfectly portable
* Simple to set up and use
* Solid performance

Cons:

* The My Passport "Studio" edition is a little expensive than the regular My Passport drives with the same capacity
* HFS+ formatting means Windows users will need to reformat the drive or use special drivers

Fast, Small & Sleek
I'm a digital artist responsible for photography, high definition motion graphics and overall general graphic design, print and web. I got my passport for Christmas this year and I couldn't be happier.

Firstly, My main machine is a MacBook Pro laptop. My work computer is a Mac Pro and 99% of the computers I work on in my industry are Macs. So this review is from a Mac Users perspective. Windows users beware (apparently this drive will require a reformat.)

I had read a bunch of reviews talking about the difficulty of the short thick fw800 cable and I have got to say they're unfounded. Sure it's thick, no lie there. But it's completely manageable. The package also comes with a USB cable and a FW400 cable for ultimate compatibility (which is Ideal for a freelancer who is constantly working on many types of machines.) And the best of all IT DOESN'T REQUIRE A POWER SUPPLY!!!

For what it's worth i found the drive to be physically appealing and very small & light weight. Compared to a GTECH 500GB GDrive. It comes with a pretty slick carrying bag (to hold the extra cables as well as the drive.)

The drive comes with about 280~ mb of drivers and Documentation in every possible language on it (install-delete imo) After that i did some basic workhorse transfers on them. I moved my entire 36 gig Aperture Library and my 45 gig iTunes library on the drive and it was finished by the time i went in to check on the progress the first time. I was planning on checking on it at least 3 or 4 times. That was a nice surprise.

All in all this drive deserves 5 Stars easily. What this drive doesn't deliver in affordability It easily makes it up in literally every other aspect of it. (I wouldn't knock off a star off any other FAT formatted external for having to reformat it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) so i don't think the previous 4 star rating was deserved.)

Now, because i hate reading reviews that are all praises and no criticism and as much as i hate to try and find anything wrong with this product I guess i would say they default "turbo" icon after installed those drivers is pretty ugly and something i changes immediately.

Awesome Hard Drive
After doing substantial research I decided to purchase this hard drive, and I'm glad I did! I'm running Tiger 10.4.11 on my imac and wanted something that had firewire 400 so i wouldn't take up one of my usb ports. I backed up 200gb to the my passport, and it took about 3 hours. I like the fact this hard drive is powered through the firewire cable and don't have to connect it to a AC outlet. I couldn't be happier.