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

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The My Passport Ultra comes with three different pieces of software. The first is WD SmartWare, which is a backup software. It allows you to set a full system backup or select specific files or folders to backup. If you upgrade to the Pro version of the software it includes cloud backup to Dropbox.

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Next we have WD Drive Utilities, this application has a very different utilities built into it. First there are a few diagnostics tests that include a SMART status check, quick drive test, and complete drive test.

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If you want to save power you can actually set a sleep timer for your drive. This is the amount of idle time before the drive goes to sleep.

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Finally there is a secure erase feature that will completely wipe your drive.

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The last piece of software is WD Security that enables you to set a password for the drive. The data part of the drive will not be able to be accessed unless you input the correct password.

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