The new My Passport portable drives from Western Digital comes in
white, black, silver, blue, and red, with capacities ranging from 500GB
to, for the first time, 2TB. (Credit: Screenshot by Dong Ngo/CNET)
Western Digital announced late yesterday the first single-volume portable external hard drive on the market that offers 2TB of storage, 500GB more than the second-highest-capacity portable drive of its type, the GoFlex Ultraportable of Seagate.
The new drive belongs to the My Passport family that, prior to this, offered up to 1TB of storage space. Despite the doubling of the capacity, the new 2.5-inch drive remains compact, bus-powered, and portable. WD says it supports USB 3.0 and USB 2.0, and is reformatted using NTFS but can be easily reformatted for Mac OS.
