I've bought 4 of these over the past few years. All of them have failed just outside of WD warranty. All were barely used (one had never been used, it sat on the shelf and was faulty when first unpacked). They all develop unrecoverable read errors, the WD disc software can't even tell you what the error number is.

WD Elements is not reliable. Mine crashed after just 2 years. WD would not replace it and would not pay for data recovery. So this piece of rubbish will end up costing me hundreds of dollars and possibly loss of valuable data. You should try a more reputable brand instead. I learned my lesson the hard way. I will use a solid state drive and cloud as backup.

I bought one WD Passport Ext drive. Worked oK for the week so bought 3 more for family and extra back up for me. Various models of gig sizes. What a mistake that was. Its now 2 months later and the last of the four is also now not working. Not being recognised. And trying to install it!! What a nightmare. Its not listed to uninstall, contains no uninstall option in its software. Its hidden away in docs. Sneaky. But moved it to Programmes in case it would then get listed. No go. Tried IO bit uninstaller and even that doesn't list it as programme! Stuck at present still trying to figure out how to get these out of our laptops and dump in bin - and spreading the word to my entire network of how lousy a product this is.