We don’t have a fancy gaming PC in the office fo, Meet Vince (@petrichorpictures)’s rig! Vibes we’re getting from this @hgststorage HDD. jolin.tan@wdc.com, Cathy Ding The drive offers social media and cloud storage import (for services like Facebook, Dropbox, and Google Drive). Your subscription has been confirmed. Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. When your internal hard drive is almost full your PC slows down. The WD SN750 NVMe hard drive offers first-class performance for games. So it’s like you’re getting each game for $45 instead of the full $60. This T7 model includes a USB-C to USB-C cable for the fastest transfer speeds, as well as a USB-C to USB-A cable for broader compatibility with most PCs and gaming consoles. Again, the difference is more or less too small to notice. WD Quality Inside And Out

Amazon didn't add any additional protection to the shipping of this physical hard drive. Portable With a new, stylish design that fits in the palm of your hand, there’s space to store, organize, and share your photos, videos, music, and documents. Best Buy’s deal of the day is on Western Digital’s Easystore USB 3.0 portable hard drive with a whopping 5TB of storage. erin.hartin@wdc.com, Jolin Tan There are a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate including, among others: changes to specifications from standards organizations, volatility in global economic conditions; business conditions and growth in the storage ecosystem; impact of competitive products and pricing; market acceptance and cost of commodity materials and specialized product components; actions by competitors; unexpected advances in competing technologies; our development and introduction of products based on new technologies and expansion into new data storage markets; risks associated with acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures; difficulties or delays in manufacturing; and other risks and uncertainties listed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including the company's most recently filed periodic report, to which your attention is directed. WD Discovery can download data from cloud storage and social media accounts. Although All capacities carry a three-year warranty. Dropbox is a trademark of Dropbox, Inc. Google Drive is a trademark or registered trademark of Google LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Keep an eye on your inbox! One of the best things is that it comes with portability and lightweight design. Writing credits include nine computer-related books, major contributions to four others, and more than 4,000 articles in national and worldwide computer and general interest publications. … However, the LaCie drive was a close second overall, with the ADATA HD710M Pro a close third. Free standard shipping on all eligible orders over $25. Its performance is on par with the competition; the built-in hardware encryption and bundled utilities enhance its usability; and it doesn't hurt that it looks good, too. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances. Lisa Neitzel

emi.hatano@wdc.com, Kenji Suzuki The drive is ideal for consumers that have several photos, videos, music, and documents that they need to take with them. The 5TB version of WD’s My Passport gives users even more space to store their ever growing library of photos as well as higher definition videos while also giving them a nice little performance bump. For our own folder transfer test, we use a MacBook Pro laptop. One notable plus is that WD Discovery lets you download Paragon drivers at no charge, which will let you use an NTFS-formatted drive with a Mac or one formatted with HFS+ in Windows. All rights reserved. kenji.suzuki@wdc.com. If you've backed up sensitive information—say, all your financial data plus documents with your social security number and birthday—that's a nightmare in waiting. Looking at 2MB sequential speeds the new WD My Passport was able to reach 115.7MB/s read and 114.5BM/s write versus the previous scores of 109.48MB/s read and 105.44MB/s write. Western Digital Dashboard. Enter your account email address to receive an email to validate your account. After being born in and spending most of his life in or near New York City, David moved to Pennsylvania several years ago, but still considers himself a New Yorker, and refuses to give up the New York area code on his cell phone. © 2019 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. © 2020 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. PCMag, PCMag.com and PC Magazine are among the federally registered trademarks of Ziff Davis, LLC and may not be used by third parties without explicit permission. Something went wrong. The LaCie Mobile Drive and Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Touch posted a photo finish in 11 seconds, with the other three drives, including the WD My Passport, taking 12 seconds. Came in a bubble wrap bag and manufacturer packaging. Shop WD easystore 5TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Black at Best Buy. Improve PC performance This is worth checking out if you just got a Switch or are getting one as a gift for someone. WD Elements™ portable hard drives with USB 3.0 offer reliable, high-capacity storage to go, fast data transfer rates, universal connectivity and massive capacity for value-conscious consumers. Terms of Use. One of the differences between a generic external hard drive and a top contender like the WD My Passport ($149.99 for the 5TB model tested here) is the manufacturer's added effort to make a simple plastic box look attractive. According to the company, this would make the My Passport the slimmest portable 5TB Hard Drive in its portfolio. Even so, the difference in price is so small that it's hard to justify choosing the 1TB version if there's any possibility you might someday need 2TB. Every day, millions of people count on the performance, quality, and reliability of SanDisk®-branded products. He also wrote a column for the Newark Star Ledger for several years. We promise no spam! The award-winning My Passport line now features the slimmest 5TB portable hard drive in the WD brand portfolio at just 0.75 in (19.15mm) thick. WD 5TB Elements Portable External Hard Drives: Get it on Amazon.com. The BlackMagic utility measures a drive's throughput in MBps for reading and writing various video formats.

Ships with apps for backup/restore, reformatting and checking drive health, and more. PCMag Digital Group. That equals a cost per gigabyte of 6 cents for the 1TB drive, 4 cents for the 2TB model, 2.8 cents for the 4TB unit, and 3 cents for 5TB.
Samsung’s T7 1TB SSD is down to its lowest price at Amazon. New WD-Brand My Passport Line of Drives Enables Consumers to Store and Carry Even More Photos and Videos. We compared the current My Passport with the previous version we reviewed.