Shouldn’t this be in a more obvious place? You must scroll to the bottom of these apps to find the place for you to install the WD Security, WD Utilities, and WD Backup software.

Switch to the App tab and you will see a list of colorful apps provided by WD partners that are available with little explanation other than a “learn more” button on each. Several failed attempts and a reboot of my computer were necessary.Īgain, unfortunately, you have to actually look for the other WD software. Unfortunately, it took me almost an hour to update this software.

Upon starting the WD Discovery software, I was immediately asked to update the software. To set up the drive you need to run WD Discovery.exe. Although the setup is really easy, WD needs to do better on the documentation. The User Guide is on the drive itself, although the quick start guide doesn’t even say that. As you can see, it shows only the drive attached to a computer with no instructions. While I believe in simplicity, this quick start guide, shown below, is almost useless. The My Passport comes with a small single-sheet quick start guide. When the drive is plugged in, you have 3.64 TB on the 4 TB drive. As expected this software eats up some of the drives. It includes WD Discovery, WD Backup, WD Security, and WD Drive Utilities. The software for the drive is preinstalled on the drive. So if you only need a 1 TB drive and you love red, it is available. This is a great feature in that there are usually color and size restrictions.

The 4 TB model is a little thicker than the others. The Passport comes in 1, 2, 3, and 4 terabyte models. Since it is a proprietary cable, I find that the colored cable makes it easily identifiable among my tangles of different cables from various equipment. The color of the cable matches the color of the drive. This My Passport drive comes with a 15” long detachable cable.

Wd my passport portable 4tb for mac