WD my passport
In this age of information, keeping your data close by has become incredibly important. Having access to all your videos, music, games, eBooks and photos can be very important. But if you want to have everything near you, you have to make sure you keep it safe, and this is where the WD My Passport portable hard drive comes in.
It will serve just about any type of computer user, as it can make your data portable and easy to store. If you own a laptop, upgrading your hard drive can be very difficult and expensive. The WD My Passport takes care of that problem. Students going away for college, business travellers, tourists and even teachers needing to store and move the data for a presentation will surely benefit from this amazing hard drive.
Quality
Western Digital is one of those brands that practically become synonymous with their products. Thus, for the past 2 decades or so, WD has been synonymous to high quality hard drives. The whole design of the portable hard drive, with its smooth rounded corners and edges, glossy finish and astounding solidity, points out towards the fact that it was built to be carried in your pocket.
Capacity: Small outside, massive inside
The WD My Passport is incredibly small, especially when considering its 1 TB storage capacity, that’s ONE TERABYTE of data that can fit into your pocket.
1 TB of hard drive storage can hold:
Up to 200.000 photos ( with an average size file of 3.5 MB for each photo)
Up to 76 hours videos ( with video data rate aprox 25mb/sec)
Up to 250.000 songs ( based on 4 minutes lengh per song)
Introducing the future: USB 3.0
But the design is not the only amazing feature of this portable hard drive. It is compatible with both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0, and that will provide it with incredible speed. The hard drive can help you to transfer files at speeds of up to 5 gigabytes per second. And if you can connect it to a USB 3.0 port, that speed can become a whopping 3 times higher. But the most amazing thing about the WD My Passport is that even at these incredible speeds it is as quite as a whisper and as cold as a wind breeze
…some Performance tests:
It takes about 20 second to drag and drop a file of 1.22 gb when connected to 3.o USB port, that is a rate of 60MB/sec, not bad! took 48 seconds to drag and drop the same file under the USB 2.0, about 25MB/sec rate.
Simply Plug and Play
All you need to do to access your data is plug the USB wire into your computer. The device installs its software automatically and you can immediately start copying and rendering data.
No need for power adaptor…
You don’t even need a power supply as the hard drive is capable of powering itself from the USB port. That means that you won’t even have to carry another power adaptor with you when you want to use the hard drive. Apart from the hard drive itself and the durable USB cable
Data encryption and password protection utility included
The package includes WD SmartWare software and a quick install guide. These will help you organize and manage your data far more efficiently than before. The software will also provide you with instant and continuous back-ups for your important data, which will even be encrypted and protected with a password to make sure it doesn’t fall in the wrong hands
Compatibility
WD My passport is NTFS formatted, make it out of the box compatible with Windows OS – Windows 2000/XP/Vista , for Mac users the drive has to be reformatted, its a simple procedure using the Mac ‘Disk Utility’.
What’s in the box?
Hard drive
USB cable
WD SmartWare software
Quick Install Guide
Dimensions
Heigh: 18mm (0.7 in)
Width: 83mm (3.2 in)
Length: 110mm (4.3 in)
Weight: 205 grams ( 7.2 ounces)
Colors
The WD My passport comes in 5 colors options:
metallic red, silver, metallic blue or black
Warranty
2-years limited US warranty
12 months UK warranty
Consumers ratings
based on the consumer rating from Amazon.co.uk the WD my passport has 4.2 out of 5 stars
where to buy?
WD My passport hard drives can be found pretty much in every major computer and electronics store but Amazon usually have the best deal specially with free shipment click here to buy from Amazon.com
