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Western Digital’s My Passport Ultra 1TB is certainly a good hard drive, not to mention it has a slim design and a very appealing look. Nevertheless, these are still respectable transfer speeds. For better visualization, a drive should, theoretically, take at most 20-30% longer when copying files to it compared to copying files from it. The transfer times when copying from the device are good, but the same could not be said when transferring files to it as it took almost double the time. It took exactly 4 minutes and 59 seconds to copy the 13.4GB folder into the device and 2 minutes and 19 seconds to copy the same folder from it. The drive was connected to a USB 3.0 port, expect lower speeds when connected to a 2.0 port.
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We tested the real world performance of the device by checking the transfer times of a 13.4GB folder to and from the PC and portable drive. These are average numbers for an external 7200rpm as the standard speeds nowadays are between 80-160Mb/s. Now on to the crucial part, the Drive’s performance. WD Security – An app for setting up passwords and hardware encryption to your portable drive.WD Drive Utilities – An app for drive diagnosis and easy reformatting.
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The app is only available on Windows, Mac users are advised to use Apple’s own backup program. Users could either back-up their files to a Western Digital drive or to a cloud-based storage, apart from that you could also set-up a backup plan where your files will be stored automatically depending on your chosen schedule.
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These apps include WD Security, WD Back-up, WD Drive Utilities and WD Discovery. Western Digital was kind enough to include installers of their utility apps and program in the portable drive. Say hello to the Western Digital My Passport Ultra 1TB Hard Drive. What we’re taking a look at here is a 1TB hard drive, which is now the minimum recommended capacity, from manufacturer Western Digital. Luckily we have a lot of choices out there with storage capacities ranging from 500GB up to a staggering 5TB. With the increase in file size of games and media content, you’ll be hard-pressed to look for a storage option other than your PC or laptop’s main hard drive. External hard drives are becoming more of a necessity nowadays than an option.