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Western Digital
Is Western Digital worth buying?
Western Digital earned a buy verdict on 3 of the 4 Western Digital products we compared (75%), well above the 50% average across every brand on the site. 1 of them won its comparison outright: Western Digital WD My Passport (USB-C). We would skip 1: Western Digital WD Blue SN5000 NVMe SSD.
Verdicts synthesize independent testing and long-term owner reports; we do not run a lab and never take review units. Each product below links to the comparison it was judged in. How we review.
Buy it 3 products
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The Best External Hard Drives: 4 Compared (and One to Skip) · Tech & Gadgets
Western Digital WD My Passport (USB-C)Won the comparison
The best all-round portable hard drive, pairing pocketable capacity with genuinely useful encryption and backup software.
Best for: Anyone who wants a single pocket drive for backups and file transfer and values built-in encryption.
$$ · mid-range
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The Best Internal NVMe SSDs: 4 Compared (and One to Skip) · Tech & Gadgets
Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe SSDRunner-up
The gaming and PS5 value pick that trades almost nothing to the pricier flagships.
Best for: Gamers and PS5 owners who want near-flagship speed without paying flagship money.
$$ · mid-range
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The Best NAS Hard Drives: 4 Compared (and One to Skip) · Tech & Gadgets
Western Digital WD Red Plus NAS HDDRunner-up
The quiet, sensible CMR drive for a small home NAS, and the one whose name you have to get exactly right.
Best for: A two-bay to four-bay home NAS that lives in a room where you can hear it, doing backups and media rather than constant writes.
$$ · mid-range
Skip it 1 product
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The Best Internal NVMe SSDs: 4 Compared (and One to Skip) · Tech & Gadgets
Western Digital WD Blue SN5000 NVMe SSD
A fine cheap laptop drive that quietly disappoints anyone who came here for performance.
Why we skip it: DRAM-less design per reviewers leans on host memory; random performance trails the drives above
$ · budget
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