Western Digital: New portable hard drive My Passport SSD with up to 1,050 MB/s

[14:37 fri,21.August 2020 by Thomas Richter]

The latest generation of Western Digital portable hard disk drives My Passport SSD (2020) series, which has just been introduced, features twice the speed of its predecessor models. Internally, a Western Digital Blue SN550 NVMe SSD is used, which reaches up to 1050 MB/s and thus exploits the speed of the USB 3.1 Gen 2 interface to the limit. An interesting feature is the possibility of password-protected 256-bit AES hardware encryption of the hard drive data to protect the information from unauthorized eyes - without compromising performance.

Western Digital My Passport SSD

The new models for Mac and PC have storage capacities of up to 2TB - but for the time being only the 500MB and 1TB models will be available on the market. The maximum read speed is up to 1050 MB/s

, the write speed up to 1,000 MB/s. Thanks to its shock and vibration resistance, the My Passport SSD should be able to withstand falls from a height of up to 1.98 m. Software for backing up data on the drive or in the cloud is included.

Western Digital My Passport SSD

The new My Passport SSDs come with a five-year warranty in the four colors gray, blue, red and gold and are available immediately in the capacities 500 GB for around 150 euros and 1 TB for around 240 euros in the color gray in Germany. Further colours and capacities will be available in the course of the year.

more infos at bei shop.westerndigital.com

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