WD My Passport Ultra Metal Edition 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Review

Setup & Usage
To use the drive all you have to do is plug it in to any USB 3.0 / 2.0 port on your PC. It will automatically be recognized and you can start transferring files etc. You will notice there are a few things on the drive, these are WD’s Apps which we will discuss on the next page.

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To give you an idea of speeds on the drive we used three different testing applications. They include HD Tune (file benchmark), ATTO Disk Benchmark, and CrystalDiskMark. These should give you a good idea of performance of the drive. Here are our results.

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As you can see the results are quite good. Getting over 100 MB/s on both the read and write tests is great. Remember there is a normal hard drive inside the My Passport, not a solid state drive.

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