#WD MY PASSPORT STUDIO FOR MAC REVIEW PORTABLE#

I also think the My Passport line of drives are some of the best-designed portable hard drives on the market. I’m going to be able to store lots of photos and videos on it when I’m traveling, and use it to back up important files from my MBP and my iMac.

It is double the size of my MBP’s hard drive, which is 250GB.

I’m really looking forward to getting a 500GB Studio drive, because of its unbelievable capacity. I’ll also test data transfers between USB, FW400 and FW800.

#WD MY PASSPORT STUDIO FOR MAC REVIEW DRIVERS#

I hope the drivers are well-developed and won’t introduce any sort of OS stability issues. I haven’t used the drive yet, but when I get it, I’ll be sure to test out data transfers with and without the drivers, to see if there’s an improvement between the two modes. The drivers are available for Mac computers only. These latest drives also have something I haven’t seen before: turbo drivers for faster data transfers. I think it’s neat to see how much space is used up on the drive at a glance. The more recent models from the My Passport line have something that my 1st gen My Passport drive doesn’t have: an external capacity gauge. I bought it in February of 2007, and it’s worked great ever since. I myself have a 1st generation My Passport drive, a 160GB model with a USB 2.0 connection. Technology moves fast, doesn’t it? Just a few months ago, the My Passport Studio models featured USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 connections. These latest drives feature triple interfaces (USB 2.0/Firewire 400/Firewire 800), which is something one normally sees only on external desktop hard drives (the 3.5″ size). The base capacity was upgraded to 320GB, and the 250GB size was phased out. On 10/30/08, WD introduced Firewire 800 connections and new capacities (400GB and 500GB) for these wonderful little drives. The My Passport Studio line is meant for Mac users and comes formatted in HFS+, although the drives can be used just as well with Windows machines if they are reformatted to NTFS or FAT32. While the WD My Passport line of portable drives is a couple of years old, their My Passport Studio models are new, and their specs and capacities were greatly improved recently.

Wd my passport studio for mac review