Chic and fast USB 3.0 hard drive

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Not only the hard disk makes a good visual impression, the packaging complies with a certain aesthetic standards, where you can take delight quite longer because it takes a little until the hard drive eventually get out of the box has. At least if you do not want to completely destroy the packaging here.
After all, the hard drive is very easy from its plastic bag, as this is not yet sealed additionally.

The cord falls My Passport typical with 40cm short of, but can be easily by a suitable AmazonBasics A Male to Micro-B connector USB cable replaced.

When picked up first the hard disk with a good tactile feeling knows how to please, what is particular about my feelings to the rounded edges.
The 2TB version with its dimensions of 11 x 8 x 2 cm (L x W x H, rounded up) quite small compared with older generation My Passport, but not quite so flat. According to Western Digital's website, the 1TB version but should be flat.
Spontaneous negative falls on something slippery bottom of the case. Although this is made of plastic, but really it does not have much liability.

For the hard drive, however, can convince at speed. Using USB 3.0 and the Windows standard driver, it reached very ordinary read and write rates above 110 MB / s in CrystalDiskMark.

When you first plug probably everyone will receive the warning that the driver is not installed properly. This is because that the hard drive would have a particular Western Digital driver, but the should not be already present on most Windows installations. The Windows default driver works but perfectly. Who still wants to install the WD driver, this is among the programs stored at the factory on your hard disk.

As is common for hard drives, the memory size is indicated in the decimal, so from 2 TB to be converted 1,863 TiB. The space is still the same, only the number base is another.

Overall, a highly recommended external USB 3.0 hard drive.