WD Passport includes a backup utility that "automatically" helps you back up your files when it is connected to your PC.
Personally I find softwares like this intrusive and stupid. If you are having an external HDD, chances are you are backing up your stuff manually anyways.

RM10 is nothing much, but I'd personally go for the Elements as it has no software in it. Just plug and play.

Othrewise if you like the looks of the Passport or the Seagate Backup Plus, you can permanent delete the software by reformatting the drive before use.

The latest WD Blue (EZEX series specifically) actually performs as quickly as the WD Black (FZEX). The Blue also doesn't run as hot and as noisy.
It's just too bad they don't come in capacities larger than 1TB (though expect this to entirely change as WD should announce new drives at CES 2015).

So there you go.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Dec 31 2014, 04:28 AM

Okay, please just stop using Backblaze as a credible source for reliability checks.

There has already been a lot of myths debunked on Backblaze's results. Just google them up.

The short version is, they use consumer HDDs in an enterprise environment. The HDDs are never off and are always running at maximum speed, they are never idle. If Seagate drives are so bad, then why does Backblaze keep using them? Because they are the cheapest. Just compare the other drives from WD and HGST, why so little units from them? That skews the chart entirely.

Sure their argument is that if the consumer HDDs can withstand their stressful environment, then it'll be of zero issues in a standard home usage. They also argue that Seagate drives fail but a similar drive from WD and HGST does not, that's their conclusion.

So WHY then do they NOT switch their entire cloud system to WD?! Why the HUGE disparity between units on HGST and WD in comparison to Seagate? Why then, don't they EVER use the same amount of units in the exact same stress test situation for all drives in their chart across the same platform? They never answered any of this, they just snuck their tail in between their legs and hope people forget until their next "annual" HDD failure report.