Western Digital's My Passport is a great lightweight SSD that has a range of excellent features including security encryption and a backup facility. The unit itself comes in a range of different ...

WD has done quite well with the Passport Ultra. It's priced competitively and offers a full range of capacity options, great software, and solid performance. For years, Western Digital has enjoyed a ...

Thanks to its new design, the WD My Passport Edge is a very good companion for mobile novice users who need a quick way to back up their data. Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor Former CNET ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

This external USB 3.1 10Gbps SSD is small, fast, good-looking and capacious. It’s a great product, but it’s slower with smaller files and folders than its main competitor–Samsung’s similarly expensive ...

Some developers refresh their product lines infrequently, only changing their formula when they’re able to dramatically improve performance or offer new features. In contrast, others release new ...

It could definitely be a bit more rugged, and we’d like to see a proper Mac version with either a Thunderbolt or Firewire interface. But if you just want a basic USB 3.0 drive that is light and ...

While spinning disk storage holds much of its excitement with the larger 3.5" variants, the portable drive market is refreshed every year with its own set of advancements. In the last few iterations ...

Western Digital’s redesigned mobile SSD is an ideal companion for MacBook or iPad. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac Even in a world where everything can be stored in the cloud, there’s still a role for an ...

When it comes to data storage, faster is the name of the game. WD is currently at the top of that game. Not only is the company’s 2020 My Passport SSD twice as fast as its like-named predecessor, it’s ...

Back it up! The new Western Digital My Passport for Macs holds 4 terabytes. Photo: David Pierini/Cult of Mac The best work I ever did as a photographer resides in a collection of Western Digital ...