WD My Passport Edge Slim 2.5" External USB3 Hard Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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687 words · ~3 min read
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yeah it's a hard drive unboxing Okay so we've got the WD My Passport Edge
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portable hard drive this is a USB 3 or USB 2 which is basically the same thing
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well the same physical connectors USB 3 is about 10 times faster so I shouldn't
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say it's the same thing it's ultra slim has P backup and it has password
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encryption uh well like encryption that you can open with a password rather not
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password encryption password encryption this new concept of encryption that
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involves nothing but passwords No Cry encryption is like much more complicated
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than just like a password because if it
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was just a password then like you could just take the drive out put it in
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something else and then read all the data off it WD has thought of that and
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they don't want that to happen to you or
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me I don't know why they care at all what I no trolling trolling slick
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trolling slick don't worry we'll actually look at the hard drive now okay
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let's take this out there we go let's have a look at what WD has to say for
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themselves this is a 500 gig Drive however the other capacities will look
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pretty much the same uh automatic backw software back Weare backup software is
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included whenever you add your change a file it's instantly backed up very cool
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WD security helps protect your files with Hardware encryption and password
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protection to keep your data private now some of you might think oh no it's okay
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you know I you know all my my data if I've got nothing to hide then you know
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it's no big deal but personally I would argue that everything is private even
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though we upload our entire lives to Facebook if you didn't upload it to
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Facebook it's probably for a reason so you might as well use something
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encrypted the contents are the smartware software the quick install guide and the
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things that you see here there we go aha wow that's slim
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look at that it's basically like like the actual
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plastic shell on this must not be thicker than like this because there's
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basically just like a hard drive in there with uh four oh those are rubber
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too look at that they put the see little touches like that they put the extra
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money into doing instead of just molding a plastic bump onto it which actually
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doesn't do anything because it would just slide around on the table like this
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which for hard drives by the way is bad um the rubber dots actually keep it from
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you know moving unnecessarily which is good okay there's your USB 3 interface
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on the back which goes a little something
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like this and then like this remember this
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plug is compatible with USB 2 and USB 3 never hold a hard drive like this by the
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way that's sort of terrible here just you know hold like football safe
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encrypted okay in the back of the connector there's additional pins and
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then in the front of the connector there's the USB 2.0 pins so that's how
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that works uh the software
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is presumably available for for download although it did say it did say package
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contents smartware sof you know what it's probably loaded on the drive
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actually her D um there's your oh man I
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love this my passport Edge this is a quick start guide plug the thing into
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the thing run the thing and then get
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updates awesome download the latest software thank you WD for validating
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what I've been saying for years don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings
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reviews and other computer videos and I hope hope you've enjoyed my unboxing of
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the my passport Edge from Western Digital
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wait let's see how long we can keep slick from turning off the
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camera on my neck