With its speed, design, and security, My Passport is surely one of the best in the market. This My WD My Passport for Mac 7th generation which was released around May 27, 2015 is a must-have for all Macbook users. Whether you opt to update or not, after the installation, you get this window, Just click on Finish and you are good to go! Just head on the Finder and you will find preinstalled files. But if you want install the WD Utilities, the set up is quick and easy. You can use your WD My Passport for Mac right away. Once you plug it in on your Mac, you would get a prompt if you want to use the drive for your Apple Time Machine back up.
Say goodbye to waiting forever just to copy a movie file! You can now copy and back up large files to your external drive in just a few minutes! For the speed and performance, I’m giving WD My Passport for Mac a score of 5 out 5 stars. These two third party apps are the most commonly used apps to test the speed of external and flash drives in Mac.
I used Blackmagic Disk Speed Test and Xbench to test the read and write speed. I tested the WD My Passport on my Macbook 2006. For the design, I’m giving the WD My Passport a 5 out of 5 stars.
At the bottom of the device, you will again see the branding, the product number and serial number and other product information. On the top, its color is black with the branding “WD My Passport for Mac.” It has a USB 3.0 port and LED indicator on the side. It has a textured aluminum finish along the sides and the bottom. The design would really look good when you pair it with your Macbook. It offers 256-bit hardware encryption that will help you secure your files.
Formatted HFS+ J for Mac OS X Yosemite, Mavericks or Mountain Lion (I tried it on Lion and Snow Leopard, its still compatible.).Now, I have a WD My Passport for Mac with 2TB. Just because I don’t have a drive where I can store all of those files, all those years of memories were gone. Now, all of my treasured photos and files were gone. I told myself I’m going to have to purchase an external hard drive to transfer all of the photos I took during events, etc. I use to have a laptop with a really old model. Maybe for some, they think we can never use up all of these memory. Now we even have 2TB and even 3TB! (Check the price of WD My Passport external hard drives here: ) Even desktop hard drives improved. Years passed, we started to have 1 GB, 2GB, 4GB flash drives. When I was in elementary I used to have those floppy disks to store my important files for my class. Gone were the days when we are satisfied with the memory of a floppy disk.