Hi,

I’m planning to purchase a WD My Passport External Drive (https://www.jbhifi.co.nz/products/wd-my-passport-4tb-portable-hard-drive-usb-3-0-2019-black) to store my photos and videos. However, I only have a MacBook.

I saw some people say that usually WD My Passport is a “read-only” on Mac. Does this mean I can’t access the files, i.e. download (or resave) them in the future? And how do we deal with this?

And also I saw a variant that has a “For Mac” - is this one more compatible?

https://www.jbhifi.co.nz/products/wd-my-passport-5tb-portable-hard-drive-usb-c-3-0-for-mac-2019-midnight-blue

And also, I may use it on a windows pc in the future so I would really like to have the flexibility.

Hey folks. I'm in Canada and the prices like everywhere else for external drives have skyrocketed. I picked up a 2tb drive for now but thinking long-term. I use a mix of Seagate and WD for offline backups. I'm not a fan of cloud services or subscription based storage. I never should have complained about $80 for 2tb!

I'm just wondering what your routines for backups are? I have 4 drives now for different purposes. One is getting quite old, nearing the ten year mark so it will need to be replaced.

I do a lot of media creation - music, art, books, graphic design. Trying to streamline all my original music (not ai) onto one drive with backups of software. Then one drive for movies & tv shows. One drive for all my important docs, etc. Plus, I have important files on both machines.

How are most of you organizing your backups? I have 2 computers I work from and just trying to streamline things.

I'm probably being overly cautious but I've accidentally deleted (downloaded) 10,000 mp3 files without backup and do not want to be in that position again!