WD Discovery software can also be used to manage your drive settings such as reformatting, LED control and more. To help preserve your online life, WD Discovery allows you to import your content from popular social media and cloud storage services like Facebook, Dropbox and Google Drive.
WD Security function within WD Discovery helps keep your files private with a password of your choosing, making it easy to enable password protection and 256-bit AES Hardware Encryption.įusing modern anodized metal and textures, the My Passport Ultra for Mac portable drive matches your personal style and the latest Mac computers. Password Protection with 256-bit AES Hardware Encryption
WD also ships the My Passport Ultra 3TB with their very own WD Software (Security/Backup/Utilities/QuickView) and has it covered with a 3 year warranty.Learn more about the Western Digital WDBKYJ0020BSL-WESN Best Seller Rankingįormatted HFS+ Journaled for macOS Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra or El Capitan.ĭownloadable HFS driver to read/write on Windows.Ĭompatibility may vary depending on user's hardware configuration and operating system.įeaturing USB-C technology, the My Passport Ultra for Mac portable drive delivers quick and easy storage for your Mac, while the included USB 3.1 adapter makes sure it's compatible with older machines. For the My Passport Ultra 3TB USB 3.0 portable hard drive WD has used a durable hard plastic enclosure inside which they have placed the brand new WD30NMVW-11C3NS2 2.5" SATA III/600 HDD model which is roughly 15mm thick and features four perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) 750GB platters, rotational speed of 5400RPM, AES 256-bit hardware encryption (SED) and 8MB Cache.
For more information, please visit the company’s website at Much like the Backup Plus 4TB portable hard drive by Seagate the My Passport Ultra 3TB by WD is a rather thick model (20.96mm) so if you're looking for something which you can take with you in your back pocket such drives may not fit that description. WD was established in 1970 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. WD’s leading storage devices and systems, networking products, media players and software solutions empower people around the world to easily save, store, protect, share and experience their content on multiple devices.
These drives are deployed by OEMs and integrators in desktop and mobile computers, enterprise computing systems, embedded systems and consumer electronics applications, as well as by the company in providing its own storage products. As a storage technology pacesetter, the company produces reliable, high-performance hard disk drives and solid state drives. WD, a Western Digital company, is a long-time innovator and storage industry leader. Still both 3TB and 4TB 2.5" portable hard drives offer sufficient storage space to cover the majority of consumers out there and since many of you asked today we're going to be testing the latest My Passport Ultra 3TB USB 3.0 portable hard drive by WD. Since then it's always been the same story again and again and even now although the highest commercially available 3.5" HDD has hit 10TB its 2.5" equivalent is only 4TB in capacity. With the arrival of the very first 3TB 3.5" external and internal HDDs a few years back most of us knew that although at home we'd be able to have sufficient storage space to support our work and "hobbies" it just wouldn't be possible to carry that amount of data around with us since at that time the largest 2.5" internal/external HDD models had just hit 1TB (let's face it, carrying around a 3.5" desktop drive with its power adapter isn't the easiest thing).