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Monday, June 6, 2011
Western Digital Passport Essential 1TB Review
The
WD Passport Essential SE 1TB looks smaller, more square compared to my
Passport Essential 500GB drive
as you can see in this picture:
It's USB 3.0 and comes with a 1-ft cable, but it's still backwards compatible and will plug into a standard USB 2.0 socket on the computer, or alternatively, the drive can take a standard USB 2.0 micro USB cable. The cable is pretty short for my desktop use (should be ok for laptop where the drive will be beside it), but I do have a USB 2.0 extension cable on my computer that I always use for USB drives and that works just fine even with the stock cable.
Speed is around 30MB/s on my USB 2.0 system copying to the drive on average, and I believe around 50MB/s on USB 3.0.
It comes with its own backup software called SmartWare for Mac & Windows. I didn't try this myself as I'm going to use this to store videos. But I also just prefer TrueImage and robocopy to create a mirror image or copy of my hard drive for backups.
It's USB 3.0 and comes with a 1-ft cable, but it's still backwards compatible and will plug into a standard USB 2.0 socket on the computer, or alternatively, the drive can take a standard USB 2.0 micro USB cable. The cable is pretty short for my desktop use (should be ok for laptop where the drive will be beside it), but I do have a USB 2.0 extension cable on my computer that I always use for USB drives and that works just fine even with the stock cable.
Speed is around 30MB/s on my USB 2.0 system copying to the drive on average, and I believe around 50MB/s on USB 3.0.
It comes with its own backup software called SmartWare for Mac & Windows. I didn't try this myself as I'm going to use this to store videos. But I also just prefer TrueImage and robocopy to create a mirror image or copy of my hard drive for backups.
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