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Looking for a convenient way to locally back up your files? Western Digital’s stylish portable hard drive may be what you’re looking for. Design and Setup We last looked at the in 2015.
Format usb for mac and pc. That drive was an of the one we reviewed in 2014. The My Passport we’re reviewing here isn’t technically the successor of those drives, as it doesn’t have the “Ultra” branding. The My Passport Ultra drives include extra software and have a more upscale look, but are otherwise very similar to the My Passport series.
(We’ll discuss software later in this review.). The My Passport is sold in six different colors. We have the blue and black versions for this review, but you can also get them in red, orange, yellow, and white. The exterior construction is all plastic, although it’s thick and of good quality. The pricier My Passport Ultra drives have a combination metal and plastic exterior and, of course, a snazzier look. They tend to retail for about $10 more.
The drive itself has a sturdy look and feel. The top half has a smooth and shiny finish, while the bottom half has a grooved surface and an anti-glare coating. The My Passport feels durable enough, although it doesn’t carry any kind of official MIL-spec durability or waterproof rating. The dimensions of the drive are 4.4×3.2×0.9 inches, and it weighs about one-fifth of a pound, including the cable. Here you can see our My Passport drives next to a standard coffee cup, for reference.
On the underside of the drive, there are four small rubber feet to keep it from slipping around too much. The included cable connects to the drive using a “Micro B” connector. The end that goes into your computer is the standard rectangular Type-A USB. This is a USB version 3.0 drive, but it’s backwards compatible with USB 2.0. The cable measures about 16 inches from end to end.
Specifications and Performance The available storage capacities for the My Passport are 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, and 4TB as of this writing. From a gigabytes-per-dollar perspective, the 4TB drive is the best value; it retails for $119.
The 2TB versions we have retail for $79, but we found them going for a few dollars less online. Competing drives, such as the Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB and the Toshiba 2TB Canvio Basics, seemed to be priced with 10 dollars of the WD drive, indicating its price is competitive. There’s no hiding the fact that these kinds of drives are commodities. As we expected on a drive of this size, the My Passport comes formatted with the NTFS filing system, which will allow you to copy files up to several gigabytes in size. It’s ready to go out of the box for whatever you want to copy to it. To test the storage performance of the My Passport, we hooked it up to our Windows 10 test computer and transferred a single 9GB file back and forth. To eliminate any sort of bottleneck on the PC side, the source file was stored on a lightning-fast solid-state-drive (SSD).
Copying the file from our test computer to the My Passport, we recorded a peak write speed of 97MB per second, with the transfer completing in 1 minute, 35 seconds. Transferring the file back to the computer, we observed a peak read speed of 117MB per second, with the operation completing in 1 minute, 21 seconds. That performance is about as good as you can expect from a portable 2.5-inch hard drive. Using this drive to back up or synchronize many gigabytes of data on a regular basis shouldn’t be a problem. Note you’ll want to connect the drive to a USB 3.0 port for the best possible transfer speeds. (As we noted, the drive is compatible with the older USB 2.0 connection.) Included Software The My Passport sits between the Elements series and the My Passport Ultra drives in Western Digital’s external storage lineup.
The Elements drives don’t include software, whereas the My Passport includes WD Backup software and hardware data encryption. The My Passport Ultra includes extra software. The WD Backup software is preloaded on to the drive. After you plug the drive into your computer for the first time, you can access the software installer right at the root of the drive (WD Apps Setup.exe). It takes just a few clicks of the mouse to install the software.