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Pros : Decent transfer rates; Good value for money
Cons : Transfer rate over WiFi is a little slow
Bottomline : A compact and portable drive that can be accessed simultaneously by eight mobile devices (Android and iOS based) and Windows desktops. Interestingly, the drive has a built-in SD card reader, which let’s you directly transfer photos and videos from a digicam to the drive over WiFi. The drive doesn’t heat much, which adds to its reliability. Performance is decent, with up to 211 MBps read and 105 MBps write speeds while transferring 10 GB of assorted data to/from a laptop over USB. It took 3 min to transfer 1 GB data from SD card to drive.
WD My Passport Wireless external drive is both a backup and wireless drive. It has a USB 3.0 micro-B port for transferring files to and from your Mac or Windows PC, and in-built battery that powers it up when it’s not connected to any PC/laptop and being used as a wireless drive. It has a power button and a Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) button that enables the drive’s Wi-Fi network to access files over your smartphone or PC/laptop. It can connect up to eight devices at a time. You can also use a password to protect the wireless’ network.
WD My Cloud app is available for both Android and Apple devices that lets you rename the drive and its network, set a password for the network, and also monitors the storage space and battery capacity of the drive. It also comes with SD card reader that lets you download and backup any card you pop in the slot.
Its’s battery was able to run for 8 hours 34 minutes. To test its transfer speed, we used a standard system comprising of a 3.0 GHz AMD Athlon II CPU on Gigabyte motherboard, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB SATA HDD, and LED monitor running on Windows 7 OS. We transferred 10 GB of assorted files, it took 2 min 38 seconds to complete the transfer with read speeds of 211 MBps, and delivered write speeds of 105 MBps and completed the transfer in 2 minutes 38 sec. On HD Tune Pro benchmark it resulted in 109.4 MBps max read speed and on CrustalDikMark- 110.5 Mbps read and write speed of 109.9 Mbps.