The suite that comes pre-packed with this drive is actually fairly extensive. It warmed up after some serious data transfer, but nothing out of the ordinary for a little drive like this. Unless you have your hand on it to feel the vibration - which is minimal - you probably won’t even know it’s on. When it’s running, it does so very quietly. Really solid and as fast as any other portable drive we’ve tested. When plugged into a USB 2 port, it took 3:01. Over USB 3, it took 1:17 for it to transfer to the drive. To test the transfer rates, I used a folder with 4.35 GB of raw image files. It’s still powered by USB 3, but they have beefed up the backup options with their new SmartWare Pro software. Western Digital My Passport Ultra line of hard drives has been around for some time now, but they have given it a bit of a makeover, changing up the shape and the look. ![]() ![]() Western Digital’s new My Passport drive stores your data locally, but also offers integration with Dropbox as well as WD’s own personal cloud storage solution, giving you a bit of both worlds. ![]() The cloud is extremely handy when backing up your data, but it’s still early enough in its implementation that many don’t want to rely on it completely.
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