Using NVMe tech, the specs promise read speeds of up to 1050MB/s1 and write speeds of up to 1000MB/s1. While the size and funky yet non-gaudy design of the My Passport USB are impressive, ultimately speed is why you spend the bucks on such a drive. The beauty of using USB-C is that the drive is just as at home as very large, very fast extra storage for a smartphone or tablet (once formatted to suit) as it is with the adaptor plugged into an older PC or games console. Upon opening the box – and getting those wows out of the way – you’ll find a white plastic tray housing the metal-cased drive, a USB Type-C cable, a USB Type-A adaptor and documentation. Yet what it’s capable of is very impressive.Īvailable locally in metallic blue, red, gold or grey, and sizes of 512MB or 1TB, it was the latter option that we put to the test on several devices. If you’ve been around long enough to remember the introduction of USB stick storage, the My Passport SSD is around the size of two of them side by side.
“Wow!” That’s the word that leaked from our mouth as we opened the package of Western Digital’s latest My Passport SSD.
