Does anyone use a WD "PassPort"?

I'm considering getting the 120gb WD "Passport" to put all my Backups on. Since it's powered by the USB bus, and requires no extra power supply, and spins at 5400rpm,
I was just wondering if anyone here has ever used one before with Acronis to make Full Back-up's, and Restoring.

If you do use one, do you have any problems with it? Does the Boot-CD recognize it in the menu?

 

Yep. I have one hooked up to my Dell E1505 laptop now.

I've successfully performed restores from ATI images, FD-ISR archives, and from IFW/IFD images.

These weren't disasters, of course, I purposely did them to confirm they worked after I got my Dell Utility and Dell Restore partitions removed and verified I would be able to restore them and get my laptop back to an "out of the box" state.

The ATI Boot CD picked it up fine on my system. EDIT: Correction, I actually made a boot rescue DVD+RW which I booted from and it picked up my WD Passport 120 OK.

I hate to say this, starsfan09, but there's no guarantee you'll have the same luck as me. But, anyways, there's one data point for you at least.

 

Thanks Croft for the reply.

After I posted this question, I decided to test a 1gb PNY memory stick.
I put the Boot-CD in and rebooted the computer. The Acronis menu came up, and I checked in the Back-up and Restore areas to see if it would pick up this little ol' memory stick. It DID! (just to be sure I checked the memory stick, and was able to read my files and folders on it.)

 

I'd say that's an encouraging sign !

 

I've been using one (80GB) for several months, no problems at all.

 

I have one that I use on numerous systems. No problem.

 

Yes, been using one for at least a year. Works like a charm.