yeah it's a hard drive unboxing Okay so we've got the WD My Passport Edge
portable hard drive this is a USB 3 or USB 2 which is basically the same thing
well the same physical connectors USB 3 is about 10 times faster so I shouldn't
say it's the same thing it's ultra slim has P backup and it has password
encryption uh well like encryption that you can open with a password rather not
password encryption password encryption this new concept of encryption that
involves nothing but passwords No Cry encryption is like much more complicated
than just like a password because if it
was just a password then like you could just take the drive out put it in
something else and then read all the data off it WD has thought of that and
they don't want that to happen to you or
me I don't know why they care at all what I no trolling trolling slick
trolling slick don't worry we'll actually look at the hard drive now okay
let's take this out there we go let's have a look at what WD has to say for
themselves this is a 500 gig Drive however the other capacities will look
pretty much the same uh automatic backw software back Weare backup software is
included whenever you add your change a file it's instantly backed up very cool
WD security helps protect your files with Hardware encryption and password
protection to keep your data private now some of you might think oh no it's okay
you know I you know all my my data if I've got nothing to hide then you know
it's no big deal but personally I would argue that everything is private even
though we upload our entire lives to Facebook if you didn't upload it to
Facebook it's probably for a reason so you might as well use something
encrypted the contents are the smartware software the quick install guide and the
things that you see here there we go aha wow that's slim
look at that it's basically like like the actual
plastic shell on this must not be thicker than like this because there's
basically just like a hard drive in there with uh four oh those are rubber
too look at that they put the see little touches like that they put the extra
money into doing instead of just molding a plastic bump onto it which actually
doesn't do anything because it would just slide around on the table like this
which for hard drives by the way is bad um the rubber dots actually keep it from
you know moving unnecessarily which is good okay there's your USB 3 interface
on the back which goes a little something
like this and then like this remember this
plug is compatible with USB 2 and USB 3 never hold a hard drive like this by the
way that's sort of terrible here just you know hold like football safe
encrypted okay in the back of the connector there's additional pins and
then in the front of the connector there's the USB 2.0 pins so that's how
that works uh the software
is presumably available for for download although it did say it did say package
contents smartware sof you know what it's probably loaded on the drive
actually her D um there's your oh man I
love this my passport Edge this is a quick start guide plug the thing into
the thing run the thing and then get
updates awesome download the latest software thank you WD for validating
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the my passport Edge from Western Digital
wait let's see how long we can keep slick from turning off the
camera on my neck