It is portable storage reimagined to complement your own personal style.

Reimagined Design The bold, vibrant design of the My Passport for Mac drive is sure to stop you in your tracks. It’s ideal for people who’ve outgrown the storage built into their MacBook or other laptop because it’s much faster than cloud storage. My Passport for Mac drive find its way back to you if it ever accidentally gets left behind. These file systems can help you to make your WD My Passport work with a Windows PC and Mac at the same time. But, the good news is that MS-DOS exFAT and FAT32 formats come quite in handy in such cases. But so do traditional external hard drives like the WD My Passport SSD. A WD My Passport formatted with the Windows file system will be useless on the Mac and vice-versa. ICloud, OneDrive, Google Drive… they all have their place. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac WD My Passport SSD final thoughts Pick your adjective - they all describe the My Passport SSD. I brought it home and started figuring out a new backup scheme. This means the My Passport SSD can’t be used with an iPad or iPhone if it’s been locked, as there’s no iOS/iPadOS version of the unlocking app. Product Name: My Passport Essential Serial Number: - Drive Size: 1.0 TB Firmware Revision: 2.003 Operating System: Mac OS 10.6.3 I bought this drive on Friday afternoon of last week.

It’s required to lock and unlock it, too. The drive offers optional 256-bit AES hardware encryption, but a Mac or Windows utility is necessary to password protect the contents of the SSD. That’s not ideal for a mobile drive like the My Passport SSD. This offers backups, but the utility is designed around scheduling these on a regular basis, which assumes the drive will be constantly attached to your computer. Western Digital pre-loads onto the drive its WD Discovery software for macOS and Windows.

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