So here I am with the My Passport Elite and this is different from the My Book
Elite because it is smaller. So you can see the actual package for the My
Passport which is a 2 and 1/2 in drive is actually about the same size as the
entire My Pass My Oh man, this is going to confuse me. My Book Elite that we had
a look at a little while ago. So this is an ultra portable hard drive with a USB
dock. It is a premium backup and storage, which means that it has their
their premium backup and storage software. It has all the same sort of
things here. So, it has a three-year limited warranty. It has a drive space
indicator, which is pretty cool. It is secure. I I don't know what this means.
I'm guessing they think it's like intelligent or something. That would be
my guess. It stores up to 38 hours of HD footage, 80,000 MP3s or 64,000 JPEGs.
So, this is a 320 gig drive. Obviously, the 2 and 1/2 in ones are available in
smaller capacities than the 3 and 1/2 in ones. This is all stuff that we're going
to see when we actually open the box. So, why don't we have a look at the back? Automatic continuous backup.
Whenever you add or change a file, it's backed up on the spot. That's pretty cool. It has a drive lock, password
protection with 256-bit hardware encryption. It has an illuminated
capacity gauge. See at a glance how much space is left on your drive, and it has
convenient one-hand connection to your computer. One hand connection. That is a
feature that I can't imagine myself needing, but for like my mother, that
would be really good because like connecting things to computers is not
her forte. And uh like not like the
commercials where she has a Kiaforte and that's her forte, but like not her
forte. Like she's really bad at it. If she ever watches this, she's going to
totally rage at me, too. All right, here we go. So, we have the drive itself
comes out first. We'll have a look at that in a moment. Then we have some
documentation. So, important note to Windows users. Um, it tells you how to
install the software, which we actually covered in the My Book Elite uh
unboxing. No, that wasn't in the unboxing. That was in the how to set it
up video. Then it comes with a little guide that
is two steps really. That's it, huh?
Well, there you go. So, you plug in the USB cable and then you run the software.
That was easy. Okay. Then we have the 300 million
language technical support and limited warranty guide, which is about the size
of your typical wall poster. Oh, no. This one isn't as big. Wow. Okay. It
still has this graph, though. I want to know what that is. Okay. That's not
that's not there in the English version. So, there we
go. Uh, I'll figure out how to fold that
back up off camera. Then we have a USB
cable. So this is just a straight USBA to mini
cable. Then we have a USB dock cable.
Cameraman wants to look at the cable. All right. Here you go. You happy now?
You can see the cable. It's about this long. Yeah. You can't see that. Oh, and
now I took it away. Okay, I'm kidding. Now you can see how long it is. Fine.
All right. Then the dot cable is actually
quite a bit longer. So you can see this one is designed more to uh reach around
to the back of your computer and then sit up on your desk kind of thing. So
all right, why don't we have a look at the drive itself because that's what you
folks all paid good money to see is the My Passport Elite. So there it is. Oh,
that's quite slick. It's uh very small as you would expect from a 2 and 12 in
drive. It's got a silvery WD logo on the front. Then on this side there is
nothing. And on this side there is nothing. And oh no, that's a USB port.
Sorry, that isn't nothing. And then on this side, there is nothing. And on this
side, there is an illuminated capacity LED as well as a little lock um light
and then a power indicator as probably an activity LED as well. On the back, it
is labeled my passport. And then there is a serial number and a part number.
So, it's got four little rubberized feet. So, if you're using it on your
desk, you don't actually have to balance it this way. You can just put it down
like this. And then if you're using it with the dock, you can see the dock is
just a USB port. So you just go like this and plug it in that
way. See, it's funny because I was saying my mom isn't good at plugging
things in, but then now you look at me trying to do it, it's hard. Oh, I get
it. It's because it goes in at like an angle. It doesn't actually sit like
flat. So it doesn't go in like this straight in. It actually like kind of
slides in at sort of this angle there. There. Now I've got it figured out. And
why don't we have a look at that from a different angle? Okay, I guess that
pretty much covers it. That's my unboxing of the My Passport Elite.