The new My Passport SSDs borrow from the total design language from the current disk drive designs, however change the angular corners and waves with a more rounded style to inform the two lines apart. The idea is that the disk drive lineup– with its bigger capacities of approximately 5TBs on a single device– will serve consumers searching for large storage, while the brand-new SSDs will provide much better speed and toughness.
Speed is the name of the game here: the brand-new drive supports the USB-C 3.2 Gen-2 requirement, and assures approximately 1050MB/s read speeds and up to 1000MB/s compose (roughly twice as quick as the original 2018 My Passport SSD). The new drives likewise use a five year warranty, and will come in gray, red, blue, and gold colors.
Western Digital has along because a mainstay for portable disk drives with its popular My Passport line, however its recently began to move its focus to solid-state drives– and now the company is releasing its second-generation My Passport SSD lineup, which brings even faster speeds than the original.
To begin, Western Digital will be releasing a 500GB option for $119.99 and a 1TB model for $189.99 (both in gray) starting today, although more colors and a larger 2TB capability drive are prepared for release later on this year.
