Yes, it works very well. The software that it comes with ... well, it is not needed on many of the modern OSes like Windows XP onwards, Linux or MAC. I always remove such preloaded software using Linux first. Some USB pendrives are worse -- you simply cannot delete the loaded software because the gadget presents itself as 2 USB devices -- one as read-only drive with an auto-executioble file (INF) in it and the other is the pre-partitioned space for you. Once you insert this pendrive in Windows XP, before you know it that read-only drive is already executing god knows what in your PC!
This Passport has none of that BS other than just some loaded software and a FAT32 filesystem. Max speed of transfer while copying a set of 300 MB+ files from this to the PC was about 30 MB/Sec on Linux 2.6 kernel based os. That rate will obviously go down for a mix of smaller sized files.
Care in handling is advised because hard disks are fragile no matter what the laptop makers say. This Passport uses a laptop hard disk inside with a good USB 2.0 USB-IDE controller.Get more detail about Western Digital My Passport Essential 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive WDME5000TN (Midnight Black).
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