WD My Passport Portable, portable hard drive with 2TB

The new WD My Passport Portable seems almost magical: a portable hard drive 2.5 "2TB, a top technology and probably the pinnacle of this kind of drive, which has done their time so unavoidable and is losing the war against SSDs.

To see something smaller and more compact we will have to turn elsewhere, but this last descendant of the dynasty of magnetic disks is effective and relatively inexpensive, costing $ 200. Its compact size is really impressive: the long and often less than 13cm 1.78 cm, you can toss it into any pocket.

It is a modern HD and then provided with output microUSB 3.0, in order to exploit adequately 2TB could not be expected nothing less. The USB port is also what gives energy to the drive, of course. Standards of the My Passport Portable USB 3.0 can transfer 101MBps and 83MBps for writing to read. This is very good performance.

The drive has four small rubber feet which absorb the vibrations of the magnetic disk. It 's quiet. The accompanying software is both Windows and Mac (though the drive is formatted to NTFS) and includes tools for maintenance, security and backup.