WD My Passport 500GB Portable Hard Drive - Red

Title : WD My Passport 500GB Portable Hard Drive - Red
ASIN : B007UOW8MC

Features :

• Interface:USB 3.0
• Weight:138 g
• Depth:11.1 cm
• Capacity:500 GB
• Height:1.5 cm

List Price : £89.90
Price : £45.40
Saved Price : £44.50

category: Products
brand: Western Digital
Item Page Detail URL : link
Rating : 4.5
Review : Can be used as an external boot disk on a Mac
Even though there is every reason to expect any external hard drive to be usable as a boot disk on a Mac, these days some manufacturers perform tweaks to their drives (such as omitting certain components from USB controllers to further reduce the size of the drives) that inadvertently prevent them from being bootable on a Mac.

Samsung's S2 portable drives and even some of Western Digital's own FireWire drives come to mind.

Prior to buying this drive, which at the time of this review is currently the only widely available 2TB USB 3.0 bus-powered portable hard drive, I was unable to find any information online about whether it boots a Mac, so I finally decided to try it out for myself.

I am happy to report that this drive (Western Digital My Passport 2TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive) can indeed be successfully used to boot a Mac, via both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0.

For best results (and especially if booting is required) on a Mac, you'll need to...