Western Digital’s My Passport portable hard drives have long hit the sweet spot in the price/size/looks triumvirate. Cheap, small, and plain but good-looking, I have a few around as backups and for general storage.
With the latest update, WD has managed not only to squeeze in more bytes (one whole terabyte) to the USB-powered enclosure, it has actually managed to shrink the box and at the same time smooth off some of the sharper corners. This has been achieved by tossing the SATA to USB interface and just hooking the drive right into USB.
Another bonus, one increasingly useful with these portable drives, is hardware encryption, which will still keep things safe if the drive is pulled and put into a different box. The 1TB Passport Essential SE will cost $250 when it makes it into stores, and the basic 320GB My Passport Essential will be $100.
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