WD 3 TB My Passport Wireless Pro, Black

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I’d sum up that the My Passport Wireless SSD allows you to leave your laptop at home, whilst providing a safe and efficient backup solution whilst on the go. I guess looks are somewhat subjective, but I found the My Passport Wireless SSD was trying to be like the iconic LaCie Rugged with its rubberized orange jacket, but getting it slightly wrong…! The exceptions are high-end cameras which support FTP over wireless, such as Canon and Nikon’s pro bodies with the appropriate wireless adapters.

For a laptop user, having a built-in SSD with an SD card slot would be sufficient, since power could be provided through the USB port. WD’s SSD version is available in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB or 2TB models, while the older hard drive-based version is available in 1 to 4TB models. Combined with the VLC app, you can watch pretty much any kind of video file, and I'm now no longer confined by the limited storage left on my iPad and can take enough stuff on the SSD so I’ll always have something to watch no matter how long the trip. If you work as a team, multiple users can access the content of the My Passport wirelessly at the same time too.On an Android phone you can tap your way through the various nested folders, or drill-down by photos, music or videos. At the end of a shoot, you can simply insert your SD card into the device and relax in the knowledge it’s made a backup of the contents. During the configuration process, you’ll be asked if you want to connect the drive to a home or office Wifi network and if you want to make the drive visible on these networks.

To compare the connection speeds, I connected my MacBook Pro (13in / late 2013) to the drive first via a shared access point, second with a direct 5GHz wireless connection, and third using a direct USB 3 cable. 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. One of the features of the WD My Passport Wireless SSD is ability to install cloud services from different providers to the WD My Cloud app.

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.