With a three-year warranty by default, a useful set of utilities, a reasonable retail price and decent performance, the WD My Passport Ultra 4TB (2019) marginally improves on an already good product. The WD My Passport Ultra does get relatively warm in use and produces an audible hum (about 48dB if you put your ear to it – not that you’re likely to do that, of course). Our standard 10GB test file was transferred in just under 100 seconds, making this one of the slowest drives we’ve tested recently. We don’t know the cache capacity, but what we can observe is that it generally performs worse compared to the G-Tech 2TB mobile USB-C drive, which is likely to contain a 2TB single platter version of this drive. What we know is that this hard disk drive has 5,400RPM platters, probably two of them, each with a 2TB capacity, hence the increased thickness. You can buy it (WD40NMZM) from eBay, but it will cost four times the price of the WD My Passport Ultra 4TB portable drive – the laws of supply and demand at work! This storage solution uses an OEM drive that’s not available on the open market – WD’s laptop drives have a maximum capacity of 2TB. SmartWare backup software is included with the drive.Ī fantastic storage companion for MacBook users.Here’s how the WD My Passport Ultra 4TB performed in our benchmark tests:ĬrystalDiskMark: 127MBps (read) 124MBps (write)Ītto: 130MBps (read, 256mb) 122MBps (write, 256mb)ĪS SSD: 122MBps (seq read) 113MBps (seq write) Performance The WD Ultra offers a generous amount of storage capacity of more than 4TB Previously we had wd my passport ultra 2tb and wd my passport ultra 1tb which are still available in the market. WD My Passport Ultra is the successor of the WD My Passport Edge and way faster than WD Edge.I just bought the WD My Passport for Mac 1 TB what a.bleep.ing mistake didn’t work when I got it home, so updated my OS from 10.6.8 in order to use it since it said Lion or Mountain Lion on the box and figured it would be compatible with Yosemite as well but it doesn’t show up once I plug the passport into the USB.Wd My Passport For Mac 1tb External Hard Drive.Regardless of which one you have you can use both on a Mac. The other is called WD My Passport for Mac and is designed to be plugged into a Mac and work straight away. Speed comes at a price, as of the cost of a 1tb SSD is $170ish versus $60ish for a 1tb hard drive, both from Western Digital. See two images I have attached to this review for benchmarks of the My Passport 1tb hard drive versus a My Passport 500gb SSD. The SSD will be significantly faster for reading and faster for writing operations. I happened to be back home here in Africa when this happened and my brother told me that I could just get a 2.5’ OEM External Sata Hard Disk Enclosure to USB2.0 (Z10) for $60.00 to solve my problem. I have a 500GB Passport WD drive which failed to be recognized by my mac laptop and my windows desktop.
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