World’s Leading Selling My Passport Studio and My Passport for Mac Provide Compact Solutions to Store and Transport Massive Amounts of Digital Content
WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT FOR MAC 500GB HARD DRIVE PORTABLE
WD’S MY PASSPORT ® STUDIO™ AND MY PASSPORT FOR MAC ® PORTABLE HARD DRIVES COMBINE HIGH-PERFORMANCE AND SVELTE DESIGN They are available now for $189.99 from Amazon for the Studio and $159 for the 1TB Mac Still though, that’s a small price to pay for quality.
On the downside, these are slightly heavier than your typical hard drive at half a pound. As you can see from the pictures, both the Studio (formatted Windows) and Mac go well with a Unibody MacBook. These drives are also so whisper quiet that the only way to know if they are running is the white LED on the back (much better than the front). The aluminum shell is going to protect these from more drops than a plastic casing and these drives look the part of a high quality Mac setup. You can feel the quality in these drive enclosures. …not that there is anything wrong with that. The speed tests on these guys (see results below) was pretty average for 2.5-inch Firewire hard drives at just under 80MB/sec read, making the slight premium Western Digital is asking for these mostly “an aesthetic upgrade”. They are encased in an all-aluminum shell, the My Passport Studio comes with two FireWire 800 ports as well as a Mini USB port around back the latter only has a Mini USB port. We’ve been messing around with a damn fine looking set of portable hard drives for the past few days from Western Digital called My Passport Studio and My Passport Mac.