- #WD 2 TB MY PASSPORT RATING FULL#
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#WD 2 TB MY PASSPORT RATING PC#
Inside the neatly laid out box is a WD My Passport X information booklet, a USB 3.0 cable to connect it to your chosen device such as a laptop, PC or Xbox One and of course the 2TB My Passport X in all its stunning glory. Packaging wise? Nothing too special really to be concerned about other than a clear marketing focus on the gaming storage aspect not being cynical, but not sure how it makes much of a difference over any other USB 3.0 drive? I could be wrong though! The box is a nice grey and black throughout with much information to be read such as specification…the WD logo is on there too! Just imagine all those games you could fit onto a 2TB hard drive and with USB 3.0 speeds, there is no bottleneck in terms of data transfer so it should make for a seamless gaming experience. The WD My Passport X is only currently available in a straight and large 2TB capacity with a real focus on game storage PC and Xbox One as previously mentioned. Today isn’t about the past though, it’s about the future and today we have one of their premium USB 3.0 external hard drives which is not only compatible with PC but is also compatible with Xbox One this is nothing new though, but for those consumers confused about compatibility won’t complain when they see it written all over the packaging.
#WD 2 TB MY PASSPORT RATING PORTABLE#
One field they have been pushing for a considerable while though is portable storage and their My Passport range has been a mixed bag on the whole some great points and some really annoying negatives.
#WD 2 TB MY PASSPORT RATING FULL#
Western Digital or WD as they are more widely known to those who can’t be bothered to pronounce the full name of the company (I am only pulling your legs, relax!) specialise in manufacturing and producing hard drives to a large range of cliental which include regular consumers, businesses and of course, OEM. Every other HDD maker has done the same, and just about any Rs 5,000 external HDD you buy will perform just as poorly.Introduction & Closer Look (WD My Passport X Review – 2TB) The one saving grace here is that WD isn’t alone in this. The results are all over the place, and they just make no sense.Įither way, these speeds are atrocious, but the technology is also part of the reason why you can get 2 TB of storage for just Rs 5,000, and in a package that you can slip into a shirt pocket. Write speeds can also sometimes drop as low as 10 MBps when moving small files. PCMark10’s results indicate a bandwidth of 33 MBps. CrystalDiskMark registered a speed of 76.54 MBps. HDTune registered a read speed of 243 MBps. If I’m transferring a large chunk of files, speeds on the WD MyPassport HDD will hit 90-100 MBps before dropping to 20 MBps every 30 GB or so. In fact, WD got into a lot of trouble when it tried to sneak SMR drives into the market, trouble that resulted in the company being forced to come clean and apologise, while also promising more transparency in the kind of tech its drives use. The performance penalties are so high that users will notice. This is a lot of additional work for the drive to perform.Īs you can imagine, moving tiny files around an SMR drives can be a nightmare, resulting in extreme performance drops and variations in performance. Given how SMR works, even if a small chunk of data in a block has to be rewritten, the entire data block will have to be moved, edited, and then restored. Without getting too technical, what happens in SMR drives is that data is divided into blocks. SMR makes this process more efficient by taking advantage of the fact that data can be read from narrower tracks than it was written on. A magnetic read/write head would glide over a platter and write data in parallel tracks. Older, thicker drives that don’t use SMR can easily hit 90-120 MBps.Įarlier, drives stored data the way you imagined they stored data. While this is a 5,400 rpm drive with a USB 3 interface, I never saw average speeds hitting over 60 MBps. (L): WD MyPassport 2 TB HDD (R): Samsung 2 TB HDD. The WD MyPassport is noticeably smaller than portable HDDs from just a year or two ago.
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