Review of WD My Passport Wireless SSD: Network Storage on the Go

As one of the world’s largest storage manufactures, Western Digital has a wide range of products to meet the users’ different requirements. Among its products, the My Passport Wireless line of external drives can offer more than just convenient storage.

The drives are built with on-board Wi-Fi, battery, and SD card readers, thus, they can be treated as a working photographer’s best friend. Certainly, it sounds like a common use case for a device like this. However, will this latest WD My Passport SSD live up to its promise?

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WD My Passport Wireless SSD

Now, let’s have a close look at this WD My Passport Wireless SSD.

Specifications & Features

The capacities of the drives can be ranged from 250GB to 2TB. The interfaces contain SD 3.0 card slot, micro USB 3.0, and USB-A 2.0. The networking is 802.11ac/n Wi-Fi (1×1). The power output is USB-A PORT: 12W 5.1 V, 2.4A.

The weight of the drive is 1.0 lb, and the dimensions (W * D * H) is 135mm * 135mm * 30mm (5.31″ * 5.31″ * 1.18″). When you get one drive, you will get 2 years warranty.

Outlook

The square plastic enclosure of the WD My Passport Wireless SSD feels well constructed for durability, and there is a large 6,700 mAh battery inside. This WD SSD claims up to 10 hours of continuous usage after a single charge.

The drives also have simple controls. For example, the drive top edge has two buttons: one is for power and the other one for initiating data transfer. There are also USB-A 2.0 and micro-USB 3.0 ports on the drive.

The USB-A port is build for offloading files from pen drives or thumb drives as well as other USB-based storage onto the My Passport Wireless SSD. The micro-USB 3.0 port can be used to charge the drive and serves as the data connection to a PC.

Besides, there is an SD 3.0 card slot around the corner of the drive left edge. This place of the SD card slot can reduce the odds of damages caused by fall.

The drive top side is almost blank. There is only a small WD logo and some blue LEDs which can indicate the status of the drive, and there is a descriptive text near the center of the drive: one light if for Wi-Fi status and the other one is for drive activity.

There is a separate series of SSD which has five LEDs in the corner and they are served as a dual purpose.

You can tap the file import button which is on the edge of the drive to make them show the battery level when no SD card or USB flash drive is inserted.

There are four rubberized feet at the bottom side of the SSD. The sticker in the center shows the relevant product information like the model number, serial number, and MAC addresses.

If you thing this drive can meet your daily needs, you can go to learn it further by going to the Western Digital official site.

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