#My Passport Review Mac And My

It measures just 3.94' x 2.17' x 0.35', so its the same width as a credit card and ever so slightly longer. This drive is absolutely tiny. In our My Passport SSD review, several excellent qualities became immediately apparent.

My Passport Review Mac And My

Read and write speed are adequate for an external hard drive (compared to an SSD), and from copying data back and froth, I even manage to edit directly from it. For the most part it works fine and behaves just like any of my many ordinary Western Digital and Seagate USB 3 drives. It lists at 19 cents per gigabyte for the 1TB model we tested, and the 500GB model at 24 cents per gigabyte. Therefore, I chose to format the drive in exFAT so that both operating systems can read and write to it without issues, and to accommodate long video files in excess of 2GB.The 2020 My Passport SSD is competitively priced among the external SSDs of its class. Since I have almost 300 GB of photos it took most of Saturday afternoon and evening to do the initial update.I bought this drive in May 2018 from Amazon to exchange large amounts of data between my Mac and my Windows system.

Only a Mac restart will usually work to bring this drive back to life.Shortly after that, IвЂ™ve noticed something even weirder when the drive is attached to my running Mac: sometimes it just doesnвЂ™t shut down anymore. This tells me something isnвЂ™t right here. Trying to start Disk Utility results in Disk Utility not even opening.

I can tell you that as of October 2018, the firmware on the drive is up to date (not sure which version, but the online utility was confident itвЂ™s the latest one).For everyday use itвЂ™s fine, but if youвЂ™re looking for a more or less permanently attached drive to increase your storage space, I recommend to look elsewhere.In WDвЂ™s defence, this was at the time the cheaper 4TB drive on the marketвЂ¦ perhaps itвЂ™s true what they say: you get what you pay for. IвЂ™ve had weird behaviour with Seagate drives many years ago, but IвЂ™ve always have good experiences with Western Digital drives over the last 20 years.IвЂ™m not sure if this is a duff drive, or if itвЂ™s related to exFAT (I doubt it) or if itвЂ™s my operating system (macOS Sierra 10.12.6, again I doubt it). ThatвЂ™s extremely weird, and IвЂ™ve never had any of this issues with previous drives before.On my Windows system, IвЂ™ve not had these problems вЂ“ even though I must say, since IвЂ™ve started using this drive, the WiFi keeps having issuesвЂ¦ I canвЂ™t believe this is related to the WD drive, just sayingвЂ¦ stranger things have happened.HereвЂ™s what it looks like in Disk Utility:I must say that IвЂ™m a little disappointed in what the drive does to my Mac.

My Passport For Mac Review