Review: Western Digital My Passport Studio 1TB

The Western Digital My Passport Studio 1TB is a pocket-sized portable hard drive and is well designed and robust.

Eschewing Western Digital's book-shaped plastic casing, the latest My Passport Studio drive is all metal, with a brushed aluminium chassis and matt black lid. It looks fantastic and doesn't pick up fingerprints.

The version we're reviewing here is 1TB in capacity, and offers both FireWire 800 and USB connectivity. Like all FireWire 800 drives it can also be connected to a FW400 port, but you have to supply your own lead or adapter.

Perhaps surprisingly, USB connectivity is through Micro-B USB, a standard that's becoming de rigueur for mobile phones, but is less common on hard drives.

A couple of applications are bundled. WD Drive Utilities lets you run diagnostics on the drive, set a sleep timer, wipe it clean and register your purchase. With WD Security, you can password-protect your data to keep it from prying eyes.

Unlike the 7200rpm Iomega eGo, the My Passport Studio 1TB uses a slower 5400rpm hard drive. This is reflected in our benchmarking tests' random average read/write speeds.

Using a FireWire 800 connection, the Western Digital drive gave us 7.905/14.822MB/s, and with USB, 7.623/12.365MB/s. These speeds are entirely acceptable, but can't match the eGo Portable HD Mac Edition's 7200rpm hard drive.

If you're likely to spend a lot of time copying large files to and from your portable hard drive, the Iomega eGo Portable HD Mac Edition might be worth the extra money. But for most users, the Western Digital My Passport Studio 1TB is the superior option.

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Review: Western Digital My Passport Studio 1TB

The Western Digital My Passport Studio 1TB is a pocket-sized portable hard drive and is well designed and robust.

Eschewing Western Digital's book-shaped plastic casing, the latest My Passport Studio drive is all metal, with a brushed aluminium chassis and matt black lid. It looks fantastic and doesn't pick up fingerprints.

The version we're reviewing here is 1TB in capacity, and offers both FireWire 800 and USB connectivity. Like all FireWire 800 drives it can also be connected to a FW400 port, but you have to supply your own lead or adapter.

Perhaps surprisingly, USB connectivity is through Micro-B USB, a standard that's becoming de rigueur for mobile phones, but is less common on hard drives.

A couple of applications are bundled. WD Drive Utilities lets you run diagnostics on the drive, set a sleep timer, wipe it clean and register your purchase. With WD Security, you can password-protect your data to keep it from prying eyes.

Unlike the 7200rpm Iomega eGo, the My Passport Studio 1TB uses a slower 5400rpm hard drive. This is reflected in our benchmarking tests' random average read/write speeds.

Using a FireWire 800 connection, the Western Digital drive gave us 7.905/14.822MB/s, and with USB, 7.623/12.365MB/s. These speeds are entirely acceptable, but can't match the eGo Portable HD Mac Edition's 7200rpm hard drive.

If you're likely to spend a lot of time copying large files to and from your portable hard drive, the Iomega eGo Portable HD Mac Edition might be worth the extra money. But for most users, the Western Digital My Passport Studio 1TB is the superior option.

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Western Digital Scorpio Blue Series

Leading manufacturer of hard drives, Western Digital launched 2 models 2.5-inch hard disk with up to 1TB capacity. This is the largest capacity in the 2.5-inch drive. In addition, other models also available with a capacity of 750GB. Both models are named WD Scorpio Blue hard drive offers high performance.

Both of them have to 12.5mm form factor and can easily fit in your pocket. To transfer data, this new series has a speed up to 3Gb / s, and of course the temperature is cold and quiet, like most Western Digital products.

WD Scorpio Blue series offers a variety of security features such as ShockGuard, WhisperDrive and SecurePark. This new series will soon be available in the market with the price $ 250 for 1TB and 750GB for $ 190 with 3 years warranty.

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Western Digital My Passport Essential SE Portable

After launching Western Digital Scorpio Blue Series, Western Digital launched My Passport Essential SE Portable USB Drives portable hard disk with a1TB and 750GB capacity. Both types have been available at the Western Digital online store . Both offer comfort and convenience in storing data, whether the files, songs and photos.

Because the USB-powered, they are compact and light to carry and does not require external power adapter. It also offers encryption and sync functions that can be used with a Windows user.

Sync function of creating easy to synchronize with Microsoft Outlook on your computer. For the security of data, My Passport Essential SE Portable USB Drives are equipped with 128-bit encryption. The price for 1TB is $ 300 and $ 200 for 750GB.

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