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Free of wires and the Internet, My Passport Wireless lets you connect with up to 8 devices at the same time. Interact with your media files using your tablet and smartphone with WD's My Cloud mobile app. Share and access your files securely from anywhere on any iOS or Android device.
. Pros Compact chassis. SD card slot for downloading media. Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) button.
Internet pass-through. Caches media lists. Cons Internal player doesn't resume playback. DRM-protected content better handled by iTunes. Only manual drag-and-drop copying to drive.
No Kindle client. Gyroscopic effects while operating. Bottom Line The 1TB Western Digital My Passport Wireless portable media drive lets you carry lots of movies, music, and photos with you, and it adds a few notable extras including an SD card slot. The Western Digital My Passport Wireless ($179.99) looks just like a traditional portable, but it's actually a portable wireless media drive that stores 1TB of music, photos, videos, and any other document you'd like to carry around with you. It's a good travel companion for your family, and has a handy SD card slot for uploading photos and videos from cameras and other devices, but there are some features you get in other wireless drives that you may miss here. Design and Features The My Passport Wireless measures about 0.96 by 3.5 by 5 inches (HWD), and weighs just north of 8 ounces.
The chassis has a metal ring shell bisecting the black top and bottom panels. True to its name, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi is the primary way to connect to the drive. There's also a single USB 3.0 Micro-B port for transferring files to and from your Mac or PC, or for recharging the drive's internal battery.
It fits the same design ID as drives like the, but adds a Power button and a Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) button instead of the FireWire ports found on the Studio drive. You can use the drive's bundled USB charger and USB cable with other smart devices. WPS can be used to quickly connect devices like some laptops and external Wi-Fi adapters to the drive, provided they support the standard.
Otherwise, you can use a password to protect the My Passport Wireless' 802.11b/g/n network. Most portable media drive competitors like the, the, and the lack WPS. The network that the My Passport Wireless creates is initially designed to be a one-to-one direct connection with a smartphone or tablet, but once you've gone through the setup process, you can connect up to eight devices at a time, including laptops, phones, and tablets. Once on the network, all your devices can search and play media stored on the drive. Android and iOS tablet and phone users can download the WD My Cloud app from Google Play or iTunes, respectively. The app lets you rename the drive and its network, set a password for the network, and otherwise monitors the storage space and battery capacity of the drive. Firmware updates are also handled through the app.
Because there's no My Cloud app for Windows or Macs, you can connect laptops and access the media through the drive's built-in Web server as well. One notable omission is that the Kindle version of the WD My Cloud app hasn't been updated to connect to the My Passport Wireless. The Seagate Media app compatible with the LaCie Fuel and Seagate Wireless Plus has a Kindle version. Once you've set up the network, you can attach the drive to a public or portable Wi-Fi hotspot, or to your home network.
Note that the hotspot setup only uses the external hotspot for access to the Internet. The home network mode opens the drive up to your home Wi-Fi network so you can watch the videos from the drive on a DLNA-compatible HDTV on your home's Wi-Fi network, for example. Both home network and hotspot modes allow devices connected to the My Passport Wireless to access the Internet. Then again, the Corsair Voyager Air, the LaCie Fuel, and the Seagate Wireless Plus also have Internet pass-through.
The SD card reader lets you download and back up any card you pop in the slot. You can either download files on demand via the app, which is the default, or set the drive to automatically download anything from an inserted card. The latter is very handy if you have several cards to process at once. You can also set the drive to automatically erase the card after each download, which speeds things even more. You will, of course, have to be careful if you have both settings on automatic, since it will end the process by erasing the card every time. The transfer and erasing process worked quickly and reliably in our testing.
The My Passport Wireless comes with a standard 2-year warranty. A slightly thicker 2TB model is available for $219.99. On The Road I connected the drive to the both our lab test network and a portable hotspot, and it passed Internet signals through to an and an. Playing back photos in the WD My Cloud app is fine, and it is an easy way to view your snapshots while still on vacation.
Music and videos play back easily as well, but the app has no resume function, so you'll have to either watch each video again from the start, or scrub along the timeline manually to get to where you left off. Viewing DRM-coded videos like 'The Hunger Games,' bought from iTunes, was problematic. On the LaCie Fuel, I could view the video in Safari after launching it from the Seagate Media app, with iTunes taking care of the DRM. The same file streamed from the My Passport Wireless refused to play in Safari when opened from the My Cloud app. I witnessed an odd effect whenever I moved the drive. When I picked up the drive it felt like picking up a gyroscope, where it resisted movement perpendicular to the axis of rotation.
It felt like it didn't want to be moved, which could hamper portability. The drive continued to serve data, but it felt like it could become an added source of wear and tear. The drive is rated for 20 hours of standby time and 6 hours of continuous video streaming. We left the drive on during an 8-hour workday, and it had plenty of juice left after it passed Internet through, as well as streaming several movies and TV shows during those 8 hours. Copying files to the My Passport Wirelesss by dragging and dropping is quick and easy, and the drive is formatted exFAT for compatibility with both Macs and Windows PCs.
Once files are loaded, the drive will read the file names, then catalog and categorize the files. You can set the catalog cache size from 1GB to 64GB, which helps speed access to the files. You can also set up passcodes for access to the files (so you can give people access to the Internet pass through, but not the files on your drive), and you can have it remind you that you're on a data plan so you can avoid streaming video from the Internet if at all possible. The LaCie Fuel and Seagate Wireless Plus also catalog their files and present them categorized as well in the Seagate Media app. The one thing we'd wish for is a media sync utility for your Mac or PC, which automatically searches for files that can play on your devices and copies them over. Seagate supports such a sync utility for the LaCie Fuel and the Seagate Wireless Plus. If you have your media files organized on your host PCs or home server, then the Western Digital My Passport Wireless is a great way to bring them with you on a business trip or vacation.
If you're like most folks and have files and folders all over your PC, though, then the LaCie Fuel is a better choice. Its media sync utility and the fact that the Fuel handles DRM content better keeps it on as our Editors' Choice portable wireless media drive. That said, if you take a lot of pictures on vacation, the presence of an SD card slot could tip the scales in this drive's favor.
Got a new WD My Passport drive? Not sure how to set it up on your Mac or maybe you are thinking about buying one and want to know whether it would work on your Mac. The answer is yes! Don’t worry in 10 quick steps I’ll tell you how to format WD My Passport for Mac. One of the first things to note is that there are two main versions available of this external hard drive. The first is preformatted and is called simply WD My Passport.
Incidentally it is the cheaper version to buy. NTFS as a disk format (also referred to as a file system) is designed to plug into a Windows PC. NTFS version The drive in this format is readable by a Mac but cannot be written to by a Mac. But don’t worry this default file system is easy to change with a little bit of know how, a few clicks of your mouse and of course this article. The second version the WD My Passport comes in is a ‘for Mac’ version. This means it is preformatted at the factory to HFS (Hierarchical File System) version It is worth bearing in mind that HFS and Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system are one and the same. It is just that Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system is how the file system is referred to on the Mac within its menus.
It is designed to be ‘plug and play’. Plug into your Mac and just use the disk.
You do pay extra for this preformatting and in my experience I have occasionally found that you end up reformatting anyway because – Well a Mac is just a Mac and sometimes they just want the disks on them they have formatted themselves You need to format the NTFS version of WD My Passport for a Mac and the second you ‘may’ need to format depending on how your Mac feels, so why not save yourself some dollars and go for the cheaper NTFS formatted version? Table of Contents.
What do you plan to use the WD My Passport Drive For? It is worth taking a few minutes before you go ahead and format your shiny new drive, thinking about your planned use. For example are you thinking of. Storage of files. Using the drive as your Time Machine backup disk?.
Do you plan to share files and inter connect Mac and a PC? Storage of files You can drag and drop, copy and paste files from your hard disk to your WD My Passport Drive. Remember though if your intension is to free up space on your Mac and the only copy of your files now live on the My Passport drive what will you do if something happens to that drive? You still should have a backup so seriously think about getting a second external hard drive to keep extra copies on.
Just in case. My Passport as a Mac Time Machine Backup Drive Using your WD My Passport for Time Machine is perfectly fine. Format it correctly. Then tell Time Machine on your Mac to use the drive to back up to. You will need the whole hard drive or a partition of the hard drive allocated to Time Machine.
Drives can be split up into different sections – like sharing candy where you give each piece to a particular person. Hard drives can be virtually split up and each section can be given over to do a particular job. The hard drive or partition given over to Time Machine must be at least as big as the amount of data you are using or backing up on your hard drive. Ideally twice as big to give you room to grow into. Or you can take the total amount of internal disk you have let us say you have a 500 GB internal drive and get a WD My Passport twice as big. A 1 TB drive or a 1 TB partition allocated to Time Machine.
WD My Passport Compatible with Mac and PC? This requirement will be in addition to what you’re going to need for Time Machine and you will need additional hard drive space for that. An Example You want some space to copy and paste your photos to. You need 400 GB for that. You want to do regular backups and your internal drive is 1TB in size so you’re going to need 2TB for that. You want an area to swap files between your Mac and a Windows PC you have and you need 500 GB for that. In this example you would go ahead and purchase a 3TB as a minimum; Probably two so that you can have one as a copy of the other in case of a disaster and one drive failed.
One other thing formatting uses up space on a hard drive so if my total figures were really close to the hard drive capacity I was thinking of, I would purchase the next size drive up. That way I would make sure I had the room I needed. Format WD My Passport for Mac 10 Quick Steps These instructions are for the release of Mac OS Sierra.
For earlier releases of the Mac OS the instructions are the same except the screens may look slightly different. One thing before I take you through the steps of how to format your WD My Passport for Mac.
Formatting the WD My Passport will erase any existing data on the hard drive. In fact on the Mac, you choose the Erase button to do it, so that’s clear. It is destructive process and if there are any files on there you want to keep. For example, there is software on the WD My Passport drive, NTFS version that is designed for and works on a Windows PC. If you plan on using those files, copy off onto a Windows PC first before you format the drive.
If you have files already stored on there from a Windows PC copy them off onto a Windows PC Before you format, or you will be in a world of trouble trying to get them back again, and you may not. Let me show you how in ten quick steps using words and pictures. There is a video at the end you can watch as an additional resource. First physically connect your WD My Passport drive to your Mac?
Power up your Mac, log in and connect up the WD My Passport drive. The drive will appear as an icon on your desktop. Internal and External Drives List Clicking the arrow under the headings will expand or contract the list. The My Passport drive should now appear under the external heading in this list.
If it hasn’t, it may well be that your Mac’s USB port has gotten confused. A shutdown, restart and reconnect of the drive should sort that out.
Select the the external hard drive list. Be sure you are selecting the external drive – important. Also select the drive at the top level of the hierarchy. You can experience problems formatting the drive if it is not selected at the right level. Double check. Format Window Popup First give your drive a name. I suggest you give a name to reflect the use you are going to put the hard drive to.
The up and down arrows to the right hand side of the format option allows you to choose a format for the whole disk. Choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) if you plan to use the hard drive with Time Machine, or for copying and pasting files to. Choose format if you plan to share this drive between a Mac and a PC and you want the files to be visible and read and writeable by both.
File System Formats Don’t select. That file system is slow, old and has file size restrictions. These days it is really not a practical solution for sharing files between a Mac and a PC. The exception to this is some TV’s and Media players that ask for this format. If that is the case then you are better setting up a partition for sharing those files, rather than formatting the entire disk in this format. –.
Once you have entered a name and selected a format, click on Erase and the formatting of the My Passport external hard drive will start. It may only take a few seconds or a minute or two depending on the hard drive size. Once done dismiss the Disk Utility Screen. The formatted WD My Passport drive icon should now appear on your desktop ready for you to use. Right Click to Eject External Drive And there you have it, the format WD My Passport for Mac in 10 quick steps. YouTube Video Covering the Format of WD My Passport for Mac This video from Acquevara shows the formatting of an external hard drive on a Mac using Mac OS Sierra. I copy it here so that if you would like to watch the video along side using my notes above you have a quick and easy link to get to it.
WD My Passport External Hard-drive Set Up Guide for Mac Images and Video Credit: Acquevara Frequently Asked Questions. How can I format my Hard Drive for Resale? Be aware that the formatting procedure above will not prevent someone using specialized data recovery software to recover data from the My Passport hard drive. If you are planning on reselling your hard drive you’ll need to do a bit more than the formatting I’ve detailed above. Instead; Once you have entered Disk Utility and selected the erase option, click on the security button. Format Security Options Button Select one of the security options and format your drive using one of them. It could take several hours for the drive to be written over and erased to remove as much of your data as possible.
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But at least that way you can rest easier that it will take way more effort to recover anything from your sold external hard drive. Setting up encryption and a password to secure your My Passport hard drive. WD My Passport has 256-bit AES hardware encryption and password protection for the drive. The hardware encryption is controlled and managed via the WD Security software. The My Passport drive non Mac version does not come with a Mac version of the software however this can be downloaded direct from the Western Digital site.
I personally prefer to use the facilities provided by Mac OS for encrypting my hard drive data and adding a password. Because, without the WD Security software installed and accessible by your Mac, you will not be able to access the data on the My Passport drive.
If you are sharing the hard drive between Mac’s the software has to be loaded on that Mac as well. What if your Mac has failed and the backup you need to restore it with is on the My Passport drive. To get to it you need the WD Security software. But your Mac is wiped. You need your Mac restored to get to it. You see the problem?
You are then in an almighty bind. It has happened to users. Mac OS will always recognize its own encryption and password methods. You can encrypt your data and set a password by selecting Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) file system. Time Machine Auto Backup Check Time Machine auto backup is selected off. Uncheck the check box and try again.
Often simply retrying the formatting clears the problem. I am having problems formatting an external hard drive since upgrading to High Sierra. There have been quite a lot of discussions on various forums where users are having problems formatting hard drives since upgrading to Mac OS High Sierra. I am sure Apple will produce a fix soon but in the mean time to format WD My Passport for Mac try these. If the icon doesn’t appear on the desktop when you plug in to format, go to Disk Utility and expand the external hard drive list there (step 4 above). If it shows up there go ahead and format.
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Use a Windows PC to format the WD My Passport drive first to ExFAT then try again on the Mac. Use a Mac with an older release of Mac OS to format the drive. Download the WD Discovery software for Mac from the Western Digital site. This software allows you to check the disk health and you can format to HFS using that software. There are other options which are more complex if the above have not worked for you. Check out my resources section below to see the discussion threads.