WD introduces My Passport Wireless, external hard drive with Wi-Fi, battery and SD slot
Western Digital also has its own version of external hard drive with battery and Wi-Fi slot for making direct bakup SD card, giving him the name of My Passport Wireless. Comes in a couple of weeks in denominations of 500GB, 1TB and 2TB. Here are the details and prices. During a press conference, WD has introduced a new external hard drive My Passport family, a line that does just recently 10 years of market presence.
If the external hard drives for years have been good or bad differentiated by shape, color, capacity and little else (USB 2.0 or USB 3.0), there is turmoil in the industry with a new paradigm that moves forward thanks to the widespread dissemination of technology in our lives.
In a world where we are often in the hand’s PCs, smartphones, tablets, and in a context in which the connection to the web is really widespread, it changes the entire ecosystem of accessories that cater to these devices. No wonder then noticed more and more massive adoptions of wireless connectivity even where not expect that, as in the case of the new My Passport Wireless.
Regular readers will recall that something similar has already been introduced by Toshiba last week, with the model Canvio AeroMobile: an external SSD with a capacity of 128GB, takes advantage of the adoption of Wi-Fi to connect to 8 devices, by integrating also an SD slot to make fast backups of their own shots or video.
Here, WD has presented a model very similar in functionality, with the difference to be taken within a mechanical disk drive of 500GB, 1TB or 2TB, thought to be a ” Personal cloud ” can centralize data storage from different devices. My passport Wireless integrates a built-in rechargeable battery that promises up to 6 hours of continuous streaming and 20 hours in standby mode, so it can be used without USB cable (users of Apple iPhone and iPad thank you). Also in this model are integrated an SD slot, which allows you to perform a back up to the flight of multimedia content in the tabs.
With My Passport Wireless users have the freedom to access content anywhere, anytime, using the popular WD My Cloud mobile app for iOS or Android: After you run the setup, the app allows you to centralize all user content and an application under a single interface, allowing access to content on the disk My Passport Wireless, the personal cloud family WD My Cloud, and on major public cloud services like Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive, all from a single app. Another interesting feature is the built-in FTP: the disk is connected to the wireless cameras are compatible allowing you to automatically transfer photos as they are taken.
Compared to the competition the solid state capacities are higher, but we certainly need to have more respect in order to avoid accidental bumps and drops, since the mechanical hard drives much more likely to be damaged.
