On the travelling
life with WD's My Passport (2TB).
Travelling is all about luggage management.
One sock-sized miscalculation and everything could go bust, and you will not
want to have to choose between the notebook or clean underwear for three days.
Either way, the more portable and practical your luggage contents are, the
better. Western Digital continues this fine tradition with its new generation
of WD My Passport portable hard disc drives.
WD's My Passport (2TB)
The new My Passport is expectedly portable,
even if it's a little bulkier than other portable HDDs. The little extra fat is
justified with its massive, massive storage space: at 2TB, the My Passport just
about has the largest storage space we've ever had on a portable HDD. And since
you're very likely to travel constantly with the My Passport, the built of the
chassis is also welcomingly solid and rugged. It also looks pretty good, and
comes in a variety of colors outside of pure black.
A pinhole LED light serves as an activity
indicator, and that's just about everything else on the chassis, apart from the
connectivity port. The new My Passport supports USB3.0 connectivity, which will
keep the transfer rate speedy. While USB3.0 (and its backwards compatibility)
is mostly sufficient, we would’ve liked it better if the My Passport comes with
Firewire support; we're sure working creatives would agree.
Thanks to the USB3.0 interface, the drive
can also read as respectably speedy speeds. In our test, it wrote files at
90MB/S and read them at 105MB/s: not entirely the fastest, but if you care
little about the numbers, you can at least be assured that you don't have to
tear your hair whenever you transfer large files.
Western digital wouldn't just give you an
empty drive and leave it at that. The My Passport also comes with a few useful
(and some not so) features to complete the experience. Utilities like the
diagnostics works well but not exactly essential, but the password protection
and hardware encryption is great to use and have. You can also have the drive
to automatically back-up your PC on the background at predetermined intervals.
“If you need large storage space on the
go, you can't leave home without the new WD My Passport, which gargantuan 2tb
storage space and speedy transfer rates is more than enough to book a spot in
your airplane luggage.”
There's only one conenctivity port, and it looks like this. Only USB3.0 is
supported
The My Passport looks pretty good, too, with a rugged look and subtle decors
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Price:
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$219
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Manufacturer
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Western digital
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Info
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www.wdc.com
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Specifications
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Capacity
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2TB
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Connectivity
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USB3.0
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Dimensions
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111 x 82 x 21mm
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Weight
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0.23kg
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