western digital my passport for mac 1tb external hard drive

Western Digital My Passport 1Tb External Hard Drive Windows 7 Additional Information

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Western Digital My Passport 1Tb External Hard Drive Windows 7 Additional Information

Can be reformatted for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 Additional Information Date First Available January 09, 2012.

The 1TB size is exceptional in the price range, although marked up a bit due to the Mac relationships.

The interface is the older USB2, with no options available to update to a USB3 cable.

The package includes a quick install guide, warranty information (2 years), a USB2 cable and the drive itself.

This package will automatically update to the newest version (1.1.4.7 at this time) and includes Diagnostics, a Sleep Timer, Drive Erase, and Registration modules.

The Diagnostics modules provides only a S.M.A.R.T.

Sleep Timer provides a 10-15-30-45 minute-Never options.

You can use this drive for your time machine backups as well, and shows up in the Time Machine app as a 999.73GB available device.

The drives Disk Test score is 36.52, with the Sequential score at 33.85 and the Random score clocking in at 39.66.

Very respectable overall.

Final thoughts; If you are looking for a nice color matching device to compliment your mac hardware, and dont mind a slight cost premium, this would make a good purchase.

It has a Western Digital brand mini mechanical HDD (like in a laptop).

Has a tiny white LED activity light near the USB port of the drive that is easy to see.

You can easily stuff it into a side pocket of your laptop case or backpack.

The construction is actually very ridged, and without taking it apart it feels solid enough to where it could make a good impact without too much stress to the HDD itself.

Random data speeds for 4.62GB worth of data took just over 6 minutes on a USB 2.0 port.

For large files writes speeds were 27-58MBs and for small file writes 18-22MBs.

For a solid 7.92GB ISO file it took 7 minutes 45 seconds at an exact speed of 18.2MBs (never left 18.2 lol) which is totally expected for a non-externally powered USB 2.0 device such as this.

So this being a 1TB USB powered backupstorage drive earns this little drive an extra egg.

Deleting the 7.92GB file from the drive took 1.5 seconds and a couple of flashes of the activity light.

The little peg-legs are little mini inset rubber pegs that keep the device from sliding around, plus it also has enough weight to keep the unit planted wherever you put it.

But the BEST part of this drive is it is DESIGNED for Macs right out of the box (Excellent work WD).

Western Digital My Passport For Mac 1Tb External Hard Drive