Awesome. I was able to put a 4TB SSD disk (WD Red SA500) to replace the existing 4TB HDD in My Passport Wireless Pro, and everything works great! After the upgrade, it is reported as a "My Passport Wireless SSD", but this is normal I guess. Thank you for the detailed instructions, it was very helpful.
Wow, it worked, where is the PayPal Link to buy you a beer? I bought a WD Wireless Pro recently and it was not working, WD said no more support for this device. I followed what you are showing here, and boom, I got an upgraded SSD Wireless Pro. Thank you so much!
Hello, perfect video to change from HDD to SSD. It works perfect…but not all SSD will work. Samsung SSD gives problems. You can also find some negative experiences in the internet. In my case SanDisk Ultra 3d SSD, 500 GB and 1TB (89€) works perfect. Thank you again!
Great video, I just picked up one of these to use with a car stereo. Do you know if I can format the hard drive of the Passport to NTFS and keep the wireless functionality?
Thank you for your video but unforunately it isn't working for me... I'm trying to use a WD blue disk but when I press the key for 5 seconds and release it instead of make the installation all lights blink four times and make a pause, again, four times, pause, and so on... do you have any idea what might be wrong? Thank you.
Hopeless product. I bought two of these and both suffer from a defect harddrive (click sound) and all lamps blinking just after a few days. These drives should be recalled to WD.
Hi. I tried your steps using many difference WD drives from HDD to SSD but non of them recognized by the box. All led flashed instead of only drive led flashing for writing the new firmware. It only work with the original drive. Do you think there's a lock somewhere so my box only work with the original one came with it?
Hello. I have a problem. mounts seagate disk and wifi does not start, only the disk works and you can connect it to a computer and upload data have you encountered this problem?
I tried your restore however after 5 sec, I leave and it start flashing led again. I set up hdd with GPT and set volume to exfat. and I tried 2 different WD drive. those worked just fine with pc. when you restore yours after leave your button after 5 sec hold, all your led flashing? or flash wifi and disk only?
@@Gadgetoman it's weird. I reformatted NTFS type. and it works just fine. I set GPT and put full capacity on one volume. I put WD 4TB SSD Blue. and when it came back, I did "system and disk reset" to load 4TB.
oh.. after everything back to normal, I reformat disk as exFAT. and it just works fine. for speed wide, it's 5 times faster than HDD. tested over usb 3.0. and transfer sd or usb host are not much change cause of SD card speed limit and USB host as usb 2.0. I used Sony 4k support SD card(256G). I copy from sd to SSD. it took 20 min for 220G(5G/file and small images) For my cost, $30 for used WD wireless pro and $400 for 4TB wd ssd. I set up 2 r-pi4 for rendering img seq. I use color-grading render for 4k mov.
These things are garbage. Hard drive died so put in another wd blue HD. Tried to flash it like you did...didn't work. No wifi access, nothing shows up. Lol. Does the hard drive need to be formatted like that? Looks like you did 1 partition with fat32, and left the other half, unformatted. Is that correct? I'm thinking maybe it could be a bad firmware flash and bricked it. Idk what to do.
hi, do I have to change my hdd even it is just working fine? I experienced the same problem (all leds blinking fast repeatedly) and mpwp doesnt broadcast. I got the issue when I failed updating mpwp's firmware.
Привет. Столкнулся с проблемой с таким же диском. Есть подозрения, что умер сам жесткий диск. Но хочу сначала обновить прошивку. Через USB есть возможность обновить? Или только через SD карту?
Awesome. I was able to put a 4TB SSD disk (WD Red SA500) to replace the existing 4TB HDD in My Passport Wireless Pro, and everything works great! After the upgrade, it is reported as a "My Passport Wireless SSD", but this is normal I guess. Thank you for the detailed instructions, it was very helpful.
Thank you for comments!
Wow, it worked, where is the PayPal Link to buy you a beer?
I bought a WD Wireless Pro recently and it was not working, WD said no more support for this device. I followed what you are showing here, and boom, I got an upgraded SSD Wireless Pro. Thank you so much!
Great tutorial, I fitted a WD Blue 5TB (not ssd). Works!
Great tutorial, it saves mine 😊
Hello,
perfect video to change from HDD to SSD. It works perfect…but not all SSD will work. Samsung SSD gives problems. You can also find some negative experiences in the internet.
In my case SanDisk Ultra 3d SSD, 500 GB and 1TB (89€) works perfect.
Thank you again!
thank you i can revive my device now
That’s great
Thx ! You helped me to fix WD wireless pro!
Could you make a video on how to open up the box, cause I had trouble opening it. Thanks
Great video, I just picked up one of these to use with a car stereo. Do you know if I can format the hard drive of the Passport to NTFS and keep the wireless functionality?
Thank you for your video but unforunately it isn't working for me... I'm trying to use a WD blue disk but when I press the key for 5 seconds and release it instead of make the installation all lights blink four times and make a pause, again, four times, pause, and so on... do you have any idea what might be wrong? Thank you.
worked with my sandisk plus 2tb ssd :D
Hopeless product. I bought two of these and both suffer from a defect harddrive (click sound) and all lamps blinking just after a few days. These drives should be recalled to WD.
I have the proble, that I can't pick up the board, what is the way? Opening ok, but the next step to this is missing. can you help?
Sadly I can't get it to work with any hard drive or SD card. Stuck in recovery mode and nothing else.
Hi. I tried your steps using many difference WD drives from HDD to SSD but non of them recognized by the box. All led flashed instead of only drive led flashing for writing the new firmware. It only work with the original drive. Do you think there's a lock somewhere so my box only work with the original one came with it?
Hi, I know that box locked to work with WD blue series only
@@Media_Gadgets So No other HDD could works on it?
i want frimewere for this model to changing SSD plz
Hello. I have a problem. mounts seagate disk and wifi does not start, only the disk works and you can connect it to a computer and upload data have you encountered this problem?
Seagate is incompatible disk. Only WD Blue will work.
КАНАЛ ГаджетоМан tkanks
I tried your restore however after 5 sec, I leave and it start flashing led again. I set up hdd with GPT and set volume to exfat. and I tried 2 different WD drive. those worked just fine with pc. when you restore yours after leave your button after 5 sec hold, all your led flashing? or flash wifi and disk only?
wd blue models?
@@Gadgetoman it's weird. I reformatted NTFS type. and it works just fine. I set GPT and put full capacity on one volume. I put WD 4TB SSD Blue. and when it came back, I did "system and disk reset" to load 4TB.
oh.. after everything back to normal, I reformat disk as exFAT. and it just works fine. for speed wide, it's 5 times faster than HDD. tested over usb 3.0. and transfer sd or usb host are not much change cause of SD card speed limit and USB host as usb 2.0. I used Sony 4k support SD card(256G). I copy from sd to SSD. it took 20 min for 220G(5G/file and small images) For my cost, $30 for used WD wireless pro and $400 for 4TB wd ssd. I set up 2 r-pi4 for rendering img seq. I use color-grading render for 4k mov.
These things are garbage. Hard drive died so put in another wd blue HD. Tried to flash it like you did...didn't work. No wifi access, nothing shows up. Lol. Does the hard drive need to be formatted like that? Looks like you did 1 partition with fat32, and left the other half, unformatted. Is that correct? I'm thinking maybe it could be a bad firmware flash and bricked it. Idk what to do.
Вот интересно, будет ли он работать с диском Seagate 1tb ?
(Как карман работает без проблем, но вот будет ли работать через wifi)
What is maximum size hard drive i can use?
The password doesn't work for me - it doesn't seem to be 8 last serial number digits ...., how can I find this ??
hi, do I have to change my hdd even it is just working fine? I experienced the same problem (all leds blinking fast repeatedly) and mpwp doesnt broadcast.
I got the issue when I failed updating mpwp's firmware.
Be careful my passport starts to blink all lights and it lost all data (all corrupted).
Привет. Столкнулся с проблемой с таким же диском. Есть подозрения, что умер сам жесткий диск. Но хочу сначала обновить прошивку. Через USB есть возможность обновить? Или только через SD карту?
Обновление. Какие-то системные файлы теперь видны на новом накопителе, но не вижу wi-fi, который он должен раздавать для первичного подключения
I've changed to a SSD but it won't boot off the SD card to flash the WD Passport. Any ideas?
same issue sadly. Really sucks, drive works and starts up fine via usb but cannot get the sd card flash to work at all.
hi where are based
The password doesn't work for me , It does not accept the last 8 digits of the new wd disk.HELP
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