

- Western digital my passport 1tb reviews update#
- Western digital my passport 1tb reviews portable#
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While Crystal Disk Mark shows a reasonable (to be expected from a hard disk) internal read and write speed the aging USB-A to micro-B interface really lets it down for large file transfers giving speeds from. No matter how fast the USB 3.0 interface is, it will be limited by the read/write speeds of the hard disk. It comes with a USB-A 3.0 to USB 3.0 micro-B 10 pin connector (it has a micro-USB beside a power connector). The test unit was a 4TB – capacities range from 1TBĬrystal Disk Info says it is a WD SATA 600, 5400RPM hard disk. It is also larger at 110 x 81.5 x 21.5mm x 241g. Just don’t drop it as there is a spinning disk inside. Let’s assume that it does almost everything the SSD does and has similar software. Note this is the new model with a ‘wave’ design case. Review WD My Passport Ultra (Global website here) There is no issue buying a parallel import of this product. GadgetGuy’s take – My Passport SSD it a great portableĪ great little backup device with capacities up to 1TB.
Western digital my passport 1tb reviews portable#
This is the fastest (and most expensive) portable SSD. We compared it to a 1TB Samsung T3 SATA 600 (now superseded by the T5). Interestingly reads from the disk are usually faster than writes to it. The figures below are very respectable for a portable device.

Western digital my passport 1tb reviews update#
If possible, we will update these figures with a Thunderbolt 3 device.Ĭrystal Disk Info identified it as SanDisk SATA 600 with 477GB usable space. We would expect faster results on a USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 device. Cable connection was via a USB-A 3.0 to USB-C adaptor (supplied).
Western digital my passport 1tb reviews pro#
The test unit capacity was 512GB, and we used a Microsoft Surface Pro 4. 256-bit AES Hardware Encryption with WD Security software.Compatible with Apple Time Machine (requires reformatting).WD Backup software will back to a hard drive or Dropbox cloud service account.

Will withstand a drop of 1.98m (important for portable devices).Backward compatible with USB 2.0 (maximum 480MB/s).Mac (requires reformatting) and Windows capable.Of course, to achieve to achieve that you need a computer with a similar UBS-C spec or Thunderbolt 3. It is USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 capable which means data transfer speeds of up to 10Gb/s or 1250MB/s. This is a diminutive sized SSD at 90 x 45 x 10mm x 39g (without cable). Review WD My Passport SSD (Global website here) In a few years’ time, SSD will be at cost parity per GB with hard disks – there will be no more need to compromise.
