Equipped with FireWire 800/400 and USB 2.0 interfaces, and formatted for Macintosh, the 400GB My Passport Studio 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 Macintosh laptop using Apple Time Machine (also works with PCs once reformatted).
Average Customer Rating:
4.8 out of 5
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5 of 5 (100%) customers would recommend this product to a friend.
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Customer Reviews for 400GB My Passport Studio FireWire 400/800, USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive
Reviews & Ratings for 400GB My Passport Studio FireWire 400/800, USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
45
Performance:
45
Ease of Use:
45
Good to Go!
Date: March 21, 2009
Written By:
GiulianrFrom: New York
Owned this Product for:
0-3 Months
Level of Expertise:
Good
Pros: Easy to Setup/Install, easy to use, quiet
Reviews & Ratings for 400GB My Passport Studio FireWire 400/800, USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive Nice size. Enough room to store your favorite files, documents and pictures. Speed is ok but not superfast. No Esata port is the only downside. Won't break the bank
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Review 2 for 400GB My Passport Studio FireWire 400/800, USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive
Mac Enthusiast
Overall Rating:
55
Performance:
55
Ease of Use:
55
Excellent drive!
Date: March 17, 2009
Written By:
DeVonFrom: Portland, OR
Owned this Product for:
0-3 Months
Level of Expertise:
Expert
Pros: Easy to Setup/Install, easy to use, fast, high capacity, quiet, reliable
Reviews & Ratings for 400GB My Passport Studio FireWire 400/800, USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive I have used this for the past few weeks and it has been trouble-free, fast, and easy. I am using with a MBP/FW800 and it works great with Time-Machine and backs us very fast. It is also very inexpensive at $99. I was also considering the 500GB version of the Passport Studio, but wasn't willing to pay almost twice the price for an extra 100GB...
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Review 3 for 400GB My Passport Studio FireWire 400/800, USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive
Top 25 Contributor
Mac Enthusiast
Overall Rating:
55
Performance:
55
Ease of Use:
55
Great Firewire Drive
Date: March 16, 2009
Written By:
dlvaFrom: UT
Owned this Product for:
0-3 Months
Level of Expertise:
Expert
Pros: Easy to Setup/Install, easy to use, fast, high capacity, quiet, reliable
Reviews & Ratings for 400GB My Passport Studio FireWire 400/800, USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive The most inexpensive FireWire 800 drive I could find with this much space. This drive performs wonderfully. Lots of space, runs without a power adapter and the case matches my MacBook pro.
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Review 4 for 400GB My Passport Studio FireWire 400/800, USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
55
Performance:
55
Ease of Use:
35
Best for firewire 800 port or usb
Date: March 13, 2009
Written By:
AnonymousFrom: Santa Rosa, CA
Owned this Product for:
0-3 Months
Level of Expertise:
Expert
Pros: Easy to Setup/Install, fast, quiet, reliable, Highly Compatible Cons: difficult to use
Reviews & Ratings for 400GB My Passport Studio FireWire 400/800, USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive This drive gets high marks for overall design and general ease of use. It comes with cables and asks that ONLY these cables be used.
There is no Firewire 400 port on the drive, only an 800 port and a converter cable that can connect directly to a FW 400 port. This means you cannot use existing FW 400 cables already connected to your Mac to connect directly to this drive.
If traveling, you will need to bring the special cables that come with drive with you.
These limitations make this drive not quite what I was looking for and less convenient to synchronize data between my three Macs.
There are some clever LED lights to indicate status and a sliding port cover that is a little difficult to get a grip on due to a slightly slippery surface.
It is as compact as similar drives by other manufacturers. I like its rounded sides. The cloth case is ok, but is not roomy enough to accommodate the three cables that are needed with the drive.
These issues aside, I like the drive and it comes with one of the longest warranties you can find.
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Review 5 for 400GB My Passport Studio FireWire 400/800, USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive
Top 500 Contributor
Mac Enthusiast
Overall Rating:
55
Performance:
55
Ease of Use:
55
many alternatives, this is a good one
Date: March 8, 2009
Written By:
PaitFrom: Brookline, MA
Owned this Product for:
0-3 Months
Level of Expertise:
Expert
Pros: firewire Cons: none really
Reviews & Ratings for 400GB My Passport Studio FireWire 400/800, USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive Works fine, Firewire is great! For the same price could get an extra 25% capacity with USB only, I prefer firewire. Silver color nice and sober, but a little boring. The real test is reliability, WD appears as good as any.
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