MY PASSPORT FOR MAC (January 2018) RELIABLE MAC-READY HIGH CAPACITY PORTABLE STORAGE My Passport™ for Mac is trusted, portable storage that perfectly complements your on-the-go lifestyle. Compatible with USB-C and USB-A devices, My Passport for Mac comes equipped to connect with today's latest technology. Designed to fit in the palm of your hand, there’s plenty of space to store a massive amount of photos, videos, music and documents. Perfectly paired with Apple’s Time Machine backup software and password protection, the My Passport for Mac drive helps keep your files safe. Designed for Mac My Passport for Mac portable storage works straight out of the box with Mac devices which makes it easy to get going quickly – drag and drop files to and from, or setup a backup routine with Apple’s Time Machine software to help protect your photos, videos, music and documents. USB-C Ready, USB-A Compatible My Passport for Mac includes USB-C and USB-A cables for universal compatibility with Mac computers of yesterday and today.
Password Protection with Hardware Encryption The My Passport for Mac drive’s built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption with WD Security™ software helps keep your content private and safe. Just activate password protection and set your own personalized password. WATCH MY PASSPORT FOR MAC’S REIMAGINED DESIGN COME TO LIFE The reimagined My Passport for Mac drive will stop you in your tracks.
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Inside the fun design, is a reliable portable drive you can trust to back up your most treasured content. DO MORE WITH WD DISCOVERY Included WD Discovery™ software lets you connect to popular social media and cloud storage services like Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox and Google Drive™ so you can import your photos, videos and docs to the My Passport for Mac drive to help preserve your online life. WD Discovery can also manage your drive through WD Drive Utilities.
EASY TO USE My Passport for Mac portable storage is ready to use out of the box so you can start transferring files, saving your memories and backing up right away. It comes with WD Discovery software for WD Security to help protect your data and is compatible with Apple Time Machine. MORE SPACE FOR ITUNES AND PHOTOS SSD-based Mac computers are great, but sometimes you need more space for your ever-growing iTunes and Photos collections. With the My Passport for Mac drive connected to your Mac, you can add up to 4TB of space for your favorite music and photos. System Requirements: Formatted HFS + Journaled macOS High Sierra, Sierra or El Capitan. May require reformatting for other operating systems. Compatibility may vary depending on user’s hardware configuration and operating system.
Capacity: 4TB, 3TB, 2TB, 1TB Interface USB 3.0, (USB 2.0 compatible) Package Contents: Portable hard drive USB-C to USB Micro-B cable USB-A to USB Micro-B cable (compatible with USB 2.0) WD Discovery™ software Quick install guide Models WDBP6A0040BBK-WESE 4TB WDBP6A0030BBK-WESE 3TB WDBLPG0020BBK-WESE 2TB WDBFKF0010BBK-WESE 1TB. General Stock code IEPU3wh4 Brand WD Series My Passport for MAC Model WDBP6A0040BBK-WESE Type USB3 Portable - Black ROHS Y Date added WDBP6A0040BBK-WESE Spec Information Capacity 4TB Form Factor / Drive Height 110 x 81.5 x 21.6mm Platter size 2.5' External drive? Guarantee 3yr Current drives 1 Total Drives 1 OS Support - Windows May require reformatting for other operating systems.
OS Support - Mac/OSX Formatted HFS + Journaled macOS High Sierra, Sierra or El Capitan. Software WDBP6A0040BBK-WESE Speed Physical Colour Black Weight (kg) 0.35kg Weight (bare) 250g. MY PASSPORT FOR MAC (January 2018) RELIABLE MAC-READY HIGH CAPACITY PORTABLE STORAGE My Passport™ for Mac is trusted, portable storage that perfectly complements your on-the-go lifestyle.
Compatible with USB-C and USB-A devices, My Passport for Mac comes equipped to connect with today's latest technology. Designed to fit in the palm of your hand, there’s plenty of space to store a massive amount of photos, videos, music and documents. Perfectly paired with Apple’s Time Machine backup software and password protection, the My Passport for Mac drive helps keep your files safe. Designed for Mac My Passport for Mac portable storage works straight out of the box with Mac devices which makes it easy to get going quickly – drag and drop files to and from, or setup a backup routine with Apple’s Time Machine software to help protect your photos, videos, music and documents. USB-C Ready, USB-A Compatible My Passport for Mac includes USB-C and USB-A cables for universal compatibility with Mac computers of yesterday and today. Password Protection with Hardware Encryption The My Passport for Mac drive’s built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption with WD Security™ software helps keep your content private and safe. Just activate password protection and set your own personalized password.
WATCH MY PASSPORT FOR MAC’S REIMAGINED DESIGN COME TO LIFE The reimagined My Passport for Mac drive will stop you in your tracks. Inside the fun design, is a reliable portable drive you can trust to back up your most treasured content. DO MORE WITH WD DISCOVERY Included WD Discovery™ software lets you connect to popular social media and cloud storage services like Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox and Google Drive™ so you can import your photos, videos and docs to the My Passport for Mac drive to help preserve your online life. WD Discovery can also manage your drive through WD Drive Utilities.
EASY TO USE My Passport for Mac portable storage is ready to use out of the box so you can start transferring files, saving your memories and backing up right away. It comes with WD Discovery software for WD Security to help protect your data and is compatible with Apple Time Machine. MORE SPACE FOR ITUNES AND PHOTOS SSD-based Mac computers are great, but sometimes you need more space for your ever-growing iTunes and Photos collections. With the My Passport for Mac drive connected to your Mac, you can add up to 4TB of space for your favorite music and photos. System Requirements: Formatted HFS + Journaled macOS High Sierra, Sierra or El Capitan. May require reformatting for other operating systems.
Compatibility may vary depending on user’s hardware configuration and operating system. Capacity: 4TB, 3TB, 2TB, 1TB Interface USB 3.0, (USB 2.0 compatible) Package Contents: Portable hard drive USB-C to USB Micro-B cable USB-A to USB Micro-B cable (compatible with USB 2.0) WD Discovery™ software Quick install guide Models WDBP6A0040BBK-WESE 4TB WDBP6A0030BBK-WESE 3TB WDBLPG0020BBK-WESE 2TB WDBFKF0010BBK-WESE 1TB Date added: Last modified. General Stock code IEPU3wh4 Brand WD Series My Passport for MAC Model WDBP6A0040BBK-WESE Type USB3 Portable - Black ROHS Y Date added WDBP6A0040BBK-WESE Spec Information Capacity 4TB Form Factor / Drive Height 110 x 81.5 x 21.6mm Platter size 2.5' External drive? Guarantee 3yr Current drives 1 Total Drives 1 OS Support - Windows May require reformatting for other operating systems. OS Support - Mac/OSX Formatted HFS + Journaled macOS High Sierra, Sierra or El Capitan. Software WDBP6A0040BBK-WESE Speed Physical Colour Black Weight (kg) 0.35kg Weight (bare) 250g.
Completely repartition the drive and reformat. If you have installed any WD software on your computer be sure to remove it completely. Drive Partition and Format 1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. If you are preparing an external or a non-startup drive, then open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.' S ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say 'Verified' then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing.
SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.
Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size. Steps 4-6 are optional but should be used on a drive that has never been formatted before, if the format type is not Mac OS Extended, if the partition scheme has been changed, or if a different operating system (not OS X) has been installed on the drive. Oh, I know about WD releases, Ive had my eyes GLUED to that issue from the beginning. Yes, the bare drives themselves arent the issue, but the OP mentioned 'WD My Passport' And, alas WD (same as Seagate does) includes lots of nice 'helpful' (translate counterproductive and useless) software packages with their external USB and RAID drives.I did notice today that the local Apple store had pulled ALL the WD MyBook for sale. Here is what you mentioned: (but once the external is repartitioned its all a 'close the door after the horse is gone' situation, even with the 'fix') WD is happy to announce the release of. Fixed an issue related to reports of some customers, under certain conditions, experiencing data loss when updating to Apple's OS X Mavericks (10.9).
What is it formatted as? П˜Š You stated- 'It was connecting until the other day' (to the Mac) What you and most people dont understand (logically I see why) is that it makes 'no logical sense that it will mount on ONE machine and not another' (however as per your mention it would be a minor power variance to the SATA card as different slightly between the Mac and PC) however this bizarre behavior is actually typical for a dying SATA bridge card, they produce 4 extremely counter-intuitive diagnostic issues (as mentioned in the LINK). (this is why SATA bridge issues are often called 'haunted hard drive syndrome', due to illogical behavior) On a side note, the 'WD for Mac' doesnt mean anything. The drive is just marketed that way. There is no such thing as a 'MAC HD' or a 'PC HD', all HD are just blank bricks and formatted for either PC or Mac or for both (ExFat). FAT32 (File Allocation Table).
Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X. Maximum file size: 4GB. Maximum volume size: 2TB. You can use this format if you share the drive between Mac OS X and Windows computers and have no files larger than 4GB. NTFS (Windows NT File System). Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X. To Read/Write/Format NTFS from Mac OS X, here are some alternatives:. For Mac OS X 10.4 or later (32 or 64-bit), install Paragon (approx $20) (Best Choice for Lion). Native NTFS support can be enabled in Snow Leopard and Lion, but is not advisable, due to instability. AirPort Extreme (802.11n) and Time Capsule do not support NTFS.
Maximum file size: 16 TB. Maximum volume size: 256TB. You can use this format if you routinely share a drive with multiple Windows systems. HFS+ ((((MAC FORMAT)))) (Hierarchical File System, a.k.a.
Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Don't use case-sensitive). Read/Write HFS+ from native Mac OS X. Required for Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! Backups of Mac internal hard drive.
To Read HFS+ (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer. Maximum file size: 8EiB. Maximum volume size: 8EiB. You can use this format if you only use the drive with Mac OS X, or use it for backups of your Mac OS X internal drive, or if you only share it with one Windows PC (with MacDrive installed on the PC) EXFAT (FAT64). Supported in Mac OS X only in 10.6.5 or later. Not all Windows versions support exFAT.
exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table). AirPort Extreme (802.11n) and Time Capsule do not support exFAT. Maximum file size: 16 EiB. Maximum volume size: 64 ZiB. You can use this format if it is supported by all computers with which you intend to share the drive.
See 'disadvantages' for details. After searching the web for hours and trying everything I finally found the answer to this. I have a MAC Book Pro and also have the WD Passport, it was working just the other day and now it wasn't.
I could hear it working and see the white light on but it was NOT showing up in devices but WAS showing up in disc utility. Here's what I did; With my WD Passport plugged in I went to; FINDER APPLICATIONS DISC UTILITY Click on the WD Passport (in My case it said 1TB WD My Passport) at the left hand side so it's highlighted Then click on FIRST AID in the middle section then at the bottom right hand side click on VERIFY DISC This gave me some errors that needed to be fixed, and then I clicked on REPAIR DISC and in a few minutes it was fixed.
Now, I don't know if this was a problem for you, but when I clicked below the 1TB WD My Passport where I named my passport 'Modella2014' (you will have a different name obviously) in the bottom section it said MOUNT POINT 'not mounted' So I went back up to 'Modella2014' and right clicked (on the mac track pad that's a 2 finger click) and selected 'Mount Modella2014' and in a few seconds that was mounted. Hope this helps, feel free to share and save someone else the 4 hours it took me to figure this out. Now back to editing! Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums. Apple disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third parties in connection with or related to your use of the site.
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