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Western Digital's latest MyPassport portable drives offer USB 3.0, 2TB

Summary: WD says that the 2TB model is the first portable hard drive to offer that capacity.

Ricardo Bilton

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Shortly after announcing its first Thunderbolt drive, Western Digital is also outing its latest set of USB 3.0 MyPassport portables.

Prices for the drives start at $129 with the 500GB version. 750GB ($149), 1TB ($179), and 1.5TB ($199) models are also available.

The news, however, is in the 2TB model, which, at $249, is the first portable drive to pass the 2TB milestone, according to Western Digital.

WD has also equipped the drives with their own automatic backup software, which is good for those not too good at scheduling and managing backups themselves.

As shown on the right, the drives come in five colors, though its notable that the 2TB model only comes in black, at least on Western Digital's website.

[Western Digital]

Topics: Hardware, Data Management, Storage

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  • I love the Passport drives . . .

    . . . because the drives work well, and because they get power through the USB connection. Less wires!!! Yeah!
    palavering
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  • I'm not sure I want 2TB on one drive

    All it has to do is crash one time and it's bye-bye lots of personal data.

    It's an EPIC FAIL in the making.
    ScorpioBlack
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    • missing the point

      Having a single copy of your data ANYWHERE is an epic fail, be it on a passport drive or your conventional internal drive, so this is not an argument against passport drives.

      gary
      gdstark13
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      • Missing the point?

        It sounded just like the point he was trying to make whether it be with any drive, not just Western Digital.
        draconian measures
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  • but...

    I love these drives, but I recommend getting the "Essentials" version. On the other versions they come with software that you can't get rid of. The software is in the firmware and shows up as a separate volume...really annoying. By sticking to the "Essentials" versions the software is simply on the drive and can be deleted. I just format the drive, first thing out of the box. Just a heads up.

    gary
    gdstark13
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