Portable SSDs are not common, but if you value reliability and speed, you might choose one.
Read this post to learn some information about it.
It is a compact and uniquely designed portable SSD that can be put on your palm.
Here, see the complete review of this hard drive.
Design
This SSD has an interesting design approach with two tones including plain black plastic and gunmetal looking ribbed.
With this eclectic design, the build quality is quite good and it seems very solid.
But it is not easy to clean this SSD since the metal portion picks up smudges all the time.
My Passport SSD is about 3.5 inches long, 1.75 inches wide and mere 0.4 inches thin.
And it can fit into your palm and readily into any small pocket of your bad.
Besides, this portable SSD is only about 40g, and even you wont feel its weight.
If you are accustomed to carrying pen drives around, this SSD is just a bit wider.
To put it simply, WD offers a 3-year limited worldwide warranty.
And this eliminates the need to carry any extra cable.
Here, lets see some programs.
WD Drive Utilities helps to check the SSD for errors and format it.
WD Security allows you to set a password to make use of the 256-bit encryption on board.
And you are required to jot down the password to unlock the drive.
But this drive doesnt support other cloud storage services.
The former two apps are available for both Windows and macOS and WD Backup is only available for Windows.
In the CrystalDiskMark test, its sequential read and write speeds can achieve up to about 450MBps.
From this, the speed of this WD portable SSD is quite fast.
