WD 3 TB My Passport Wireless Pro, Black

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This would have been a great solution, since it would have given the option to the end user on how they want to transport the device and what part(s) they want to take with them. Next to this is an old-style USB 2 port for charging external devices like phones using the generous 6700mAh internal battery as a power bank, or for connecting external card readers; as a USB 2 port though, the data speeds are not going to be as quick as they could have been. For example, if you have a Dropbox account, you can install the Dropbox service and browse through your Dropbox content. Use My Passport Wireless Pro as a Wi-Fi hub and share an Internet connection with u

Above: The WD My Passport SSD shares the same square case design as its disk-based predecessors, although is now supplied with a rubber bumper sleeve which fits snugly around the corners and provides some protection against knocks and falls.Many camera brands and models are supported from a number of different manufacturers, including Nikon, Canon, Sony, Pentax, Fuji, Panasonic, Olympus and others. Above: With its rubber bumper sleeve fitted, the My Passport Wireless SSD measures 135x135x30mm and weighs just under half a kilo, making it substantially larger than a basic portable drive whether using an SSD or an traditional hard disk. This in turn would allow you to backup an SD card before viewing your day’s photos or videos as a slideshow on, say, a hotel smart TV. When compared to its predecessors and as the name suggests, the WD My Passport Wireless SSD is the first of its kind to feature SSD drives instead of conventional spinning hard drives, which makes it not only significantly faster (up to 390 MB/sec read speed), but also much more reliable in the long term for backup needs. On the downside, the unit is fairly large (although still smaller than any laptop), it's not water-proof, and you'll only enjoy the speed of the SSD with a direct USB connection.

And while it seems a little traditional, they can also be connected directly to a computer over USB for the fastest data transfer.folder containing a mix of 177 JPEG and RAW photos from the computer to the drive, and then to read it back again (following a delete and restart to clear any caching). There are a number of important options in those tabs and you might want to go through each one individually. and WD claim up to 65MB/s, and I found when I copied 100GB of data from a 128GB card and it too around 30 minutes. Second, I found the process of copying data from a cloud provider to be painfully slow, something I could easily avoid by just plugging it directly into my computer.

I would however have liked the option to copy new files into the same folder as previous backups for that particular card so that all the files from a trip or event ended up in the same place. Before I go I’ll copy a couple of movies and documentaries onto the drive, and then while I’m sitting waiting in an airport or hanging around in my room I can connect my iPad to the drive and stream something to watch. There’s no display on the drive, but four blue LEDs indicate the backup progress, one quarter at a time. On my iPad I can transfer up to 66MByte/s WebDAV or FTP instead of 10-12MByte/s SMB (sustained, large files) on AC866, so… wireless may not be quite that unusable, depending on protocol and App used.The idea of a self-contained drive is to provide backup in the field without the need to lug around a laptop. A conclusion of the style “slow on WiFi” can be anything, but not that informational unless connection speed (AC433 or AC866) and protocol (FTP or SMB) is specified. There’s the main power button on the left which turns the drive on with a quick push and switches it off again with a longer press. If you have the drive setup to only copy over new files, then this folder will only contain the new files since the last backup, otherwise you get a fresh copy of the entire contents to date.

These portable solutions have to have power banks inside, because they are designed to be used without a laptop or a computer in the field, so that you can autonomously transfer / backup files. By default, the option is not enabled, which means that you would first have to insert a memory card, then press the “Battery / SD” button on the side of the device to start the backup process. Does it do incremental backups of both video and images with Sony complicated folder structure of video files? This way, if you still have space in your card and you want to keep shooting to it, you don’t have to duplicate data each time you insert the memory card.I wasn’t able to try this during my tests with the drive, but will update the review if I get the chance in the future; I also hope it works with the FTP capabilities of Sony’s A9. Anything that’s in the root of the SD card is copied over, so no videos, nor logs or other data are left behind.