You ignore label “for Mac” of this mobile drive. My Passport
Edge of Western Digital is external storage equipment that is extremely mobile
and used for any PC foundation. It is speeded up by USB 3.0 configuration.
WD My Passport
Edge for Mac 500GB
When WD released My Passport drive designed again in cover
of high ranking aluminum at the first time, people that used Mac were obvious
subjects. In addition, Micro-USB 2.0 gate is FireWire 800 configuration that
provides a fast way to broadcast data and it is useful advance about efficiency
from slow USB 2.0.
Now when Apple equips the newest Mac with USB 3.0 that
connects faster begins to flow into more My Passport drive. Some models are
zoomed out to fit with inside 7mm drive.
Improving Ultrabook of Intel has an interesting effect in
creating thinner archive. In the past, SATA 2.5-inch drive’s size is often
9.5mm. At present, we are beginning to see hard disk drive with 7mm size.
In reality, building quality of this drive is perfect. The
black front face is anodized through machine exactly to low face that is made
of natural aluminum. All of them are attached by 4 Torx screws below.
The thing that causes the only neglect is large USB 3.0 gate
– its tidy design and one LED light that emit white light when accessing drive.
In reality,
building quality of drive is perfect.
In laboratory, My Passport proves its fastness that is
similar to any other 2.5-inch drives that we have recently tested. In Windows
through USB 3.0, ATTO test witnessed constant speed to 120MB/second (MBps).
It can be rather optimistic to real transmission, especially
to small file. But in QuickBench for OS X test, we witnessed 32KB files that
glided fast with over 100 MBps of speed.
Speed of accidental reading/recording is slower than
technology of rotating disk. Average of all of the small files is from 4KB to
1024 KB, WD can gain medium rate with 20MBps and 28MBps.
From HD Tune Pro diagram, we can see that WD can gain
maximum reading speed 115MBps and minimum rate is 54MBps when it is scanning
around drive. Recording speed is similar; it can gain from 113MBps to 53MBps
between “empty” state and “nearly full” state of drive. The average speed of
reading and recording is 88/86MBps.
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Information
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Price: $105, including VAT
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Website: www.wdc.com
Technological
feature
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500GB mobile drive
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SATA 2.5-inch hard disk drive, 5400rpm
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USB 3.0
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Provided electricity through bus
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Aluminum structure is made by machine
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112x83x11mm
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164g
Verdict
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WD My Passport Edge for Mac 500GB is a fast mobile drive. In
addition, it is fashionable, has good value and is dipped with quality of
wonderful design and attractive thin size.
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Design: 5/5
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Feature: 4/5
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Efficiency: 4/5
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Value: 4/5
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Total: 4.5/5
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