October 13th, 2016 by Lyle Smith WD My Passport Review Along with the My Book update this week, WD has released a new version of the My Passport and My Passport for Mac, the company’s popular portable storage solution. This re-release is highlighted by a new modern design that features a textured underside and is available in six distinct colors: Black, Yellow, Red, White, Orange and Blue for the Passport PC version, and just Black for the My Passport for Mac. Like all WD storage solutions, the My Passport (PC) leverages automatic backup with the included WD Backup software, while the Mac version is Time Machine ready. The new WD Passports come bundled with WD’s backup software, giving users a versatile way to manage their files via an easy-to-use, yet powerful interface.

It also allows them to automatically protect and back up their files to both on-premise and off-site (i.e. The cloud), the latter which is useful for increased protection and disaster recovery.

Slow Transfer Speed. At least it isn’t stuck but my WD passport runs faster so am thinking it is the software??? It transfers at a decent speed (6gig takes about 4 mins). However, when i use it on my MAC, running OS X, it takes much longer. A 6 gig file takes an hour. Does any1 know any ways to fix this?

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The My Passport portable drives also feature password protection and hardware encryption. Both the My Passport and My Passport for Mac portable hard drives come in capacities of up to 4TB ($79.99) and backed by a 2-year limited warranty. Design and build The My Passport line looks identical to the new WD My Book (only smaller), as WD is moving towards a more streamlined look for their external storage portfolio. That said, l ike the My Book, the My Passport features a new textured groove horizontal/diagonal design that wraps around the device while the WD branding is imprinted on front-facing side of the portable drive. Due to its shiny build, it is also fairly easy to smudge Connectivity and power of the WD Passport remain the same as the previous version with simply a bus-powered USB connection for the PC version and the Mac version. Performance The newly designed WD My Passport caters towards a mainstream consumer base, so the results of our performance will reflect that demographic. To this end, we tested the PC version of the WD portable storage solution using our using the USB 3.0 port.

Looking at 2MB sequential speeds the WD My Passport was able to reach 105.44MB/s write and 109.48MB/s read, while 2MB random speeds hit 66.59MB/s write and 48.94MB/s read. Looking at our 4K random throughput the WD Passport (PC) gave us 37.5 IOPS write and 75.13 IOPS read. To test the My Passport formatted for Mac, we used the BlackMagic disk speed test on a current generation MacBook Pro. The My Passport for Mac was able to hit 101.9MB/s write and 107.3MB/s read. To further test the performance of the new WD My Passport, we tested with PCMark on the Z640 workstation.

This is a tool that calculates the performance at the system and component level and most often represents typical home user workloads for all types of PCs, tablets, mobile workstations, and desktops storage solutions. While there are multiple categories that PCMark tests (including typical work usage, home usage, and creative usage), we will only be looking at Storage benchmark, which tests the performance of any drives installed in the system (including portable/external drives), leveraging traces recorded from Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office and a selection of more popular video games to measure real-world performance differences between storage devices. Here, the new WD My Passport (PC version) recorded a PCMark score of 2,227 and a bandwidth of 8.06MB/s.