Western Digital My Passport Elite External 2.5" USB Hard Drive Unboxing and First Look
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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999 words · ~4 min read
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So here I am with the My Passport Elite and this is different from the My Book
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Elite because it is smaller. So you can see the actual package for the My
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Passport which is a 2 and 1/2 in drive is actually about the same size as the
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entire My Pass My Oh man, this is going to confuse me. My Book Elite that we had
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a look at a little while ago. So this is an ultra portable hard drive with a USB
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dock. It is a premium backup and storage, which means that it has their
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their premium backup and storage software. It has all the same sort of
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things here. So, it has a three-year limited warranty. It has a drive space
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indicator, which is pretty cool. It is secure. I I don't know what this means.
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I'm guessing they think it's like intelligent or something. That would be
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my guess. It stores up to 38 hours of HD footage, 80,000 MP3s or 64,000 JPEGs.
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So, this is a 320 gig drive. Obviously, the 2 and 1/2 in ones are available in
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smaller capacities than the 3 and 1/2 in ones. This is all stuff that we're going
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to see when we actually open the box. So, why don't we have a look at the back? Automatic continuous backup.
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Whenever you add or change a file, it's backed up on the spot. That's pretty cool. It has a drive lock, password
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protection with 256-bit hardware encryption. It has an illuminated
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capacity gauge. See at a glance how much space is left on your drive, and it has
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convenient one-hand connection to your computer. One hand connection. That is a
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feature that I can't imagine myself needing, but for like my mother, that
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would be really good because like connecting things to computers is not
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her forte. And uh like not like the
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commercials where she has a Kiaforte and that's her forte, but like not her
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forte. Like she's really bad at it. If she ever watches this, she's going to
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totally rage at me, too. All right, here we go. So, we have the drive itself
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comes out first. We'll have a look at that in a moment. Then we have some
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documentation. So, important note to Windows users. Um, it tells you how to
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install the software, which we actually covered in the My Book Elite uh
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unboxing. No, that wasn't in the unboxing. That was in the how to set it
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up video. Then it comes with a little guide that
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is two steps really. That's it, huh?
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Well, there you go. So, you plug in the USB cable and then you run the software.
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That was easy. Okay. Then we have the 300 million
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language technical support and limited warranty guide, which is about the size
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of your typical wall poster. Oh, no. This one isn't as big. Wow. Okay. It
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still has this graph, though. I want to know what that is. Okay. That's not
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that's not there in the English version. So, there we
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go. Uh, I'll figure out how to fold that
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back up off camera. Then we have a USB
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cable. So this is just a straight USBA to mini
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cable. Then we have a USB dock cable.
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Cameraman wants to look at the cable. All right. Here you go. You happy now?
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You can see the cable. It's about this long. Yeah. You can't see that. Oh, and
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now I took it away. Okay, I'm kidding. Now you can see how long it is. Fine.
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All right. Then the dot cable is actually
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quite a bit longer. So you can see this one is designed more to uh reach around
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to the back of your computer and then sit up on your desk kind of thing. So
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all right, why don't we have a look at the drive itself because that's what you
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folks all paid good money to see is the My Passport Elite. So there it is. Oh,
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that's quite slick. It's uh very small as you would expect from a 2 and 12 in
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drive. It's got a silvery WD logo on the front. Then on this side there is
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nothing. And on this side there is nothing. And oh no, that's a USB port.
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Sorry, that isn't nothing. And then on this side, there is nothing. And on this
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side, there is an illuminated capacity LED as well as a little lock um light
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and then a power indicator as probably an activity LED as well. On the back, it
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is labeled my passport. And then there is a serial number and a part number.
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So, it's got four little rubberized feet. So, if you're using it on your
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desk, you don't actually have to balance it this way. You can just put it down
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like this. And then if you're using it with the dock, you can see the dock is
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just a USB port. So you just go like this and plug it in that
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way. See, it's funny because I was saying my mom isn't good at plugging
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things in, but then now you look at me trying to do it, it's hard. Oh, I get
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it. It's because it goes in at like an angle. It doesn't actually sit like
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flat. So it doesn't go in like this straight in. It actually like kind of
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slides in at sort of this angle there. There. Now I've got it figured out. And
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why don't we have a look at that from a different angle? Okay, I guess that
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pretty much covers it. That's my unboxing of the My Passport Elite.