WD MyPassport Wi-fi HDD assessment

Chiropractors love photographers.

It’s no marvel, with the quantity of drugs we stock round throughout our journeys: digital camera our bodies, a number of lenses, tripod, filters, flash items, batteries, cables, garments (garments are all the time final..) and naturally a laptop computer and all of the completely different arduous drives. Let me let you know, the scent of Tiger Balm has grow to be part of me.

So in an effort to keep away from that, we’re always making an attempt to attenuate our gear and find yourself with a lighter backpack. The rise of mirrorless cameras is already serving to, however there are additionally different choices.

Just lately, I bought the WD My Passport Wireless 2 TB arduous drive to check whereas travelling for a couple of days in Italy. The thought was to keep away from taking my laptop computer with all its cables and discover a resolution to rapidly backup my pictures on the highway, in addition to present fast edits to my purchasers if crucial.

So I introduced solely my new HDD, and my Android pill.

What’s the decision? It went nice! Not solely did I reduce the gear I used to be carrying (my laptop computer is heavy), however having the brand new WD arduous drive made it a lot simpler to simply rapidly backup my photos and never fear about having to discover a energy supply to plug my laptop computer, take out my card reader, plug in my exterior drives and wait until the whole lot is backed up.

As a result of one of many greatest benefits of the WD My Passport, is that it comes with an built-in card reader. Simply insert your SD card instantly within the drive and it’ll routinely begin backing up whilst you proceed working. Because it additionally has a wifi connection, you don’t want to fret about connecting cables. Simply pair your pill/cellphone/laptop computer with the drive, set your password and also you’re carried out!

So listed below are the professionals and cons of the WD My Passport Wireless HDD:

Professionals:

• It’s compact and straightforward to make use of. There are solely 2 buttons: “On/Off” and “Wifi”.
• It’s straightforward to arrange. As soon as the drive is on, it creates a wifi hotspot so you’ll be able to join your system. You’ll be able to set a password to make it safer. It additionally accepts connections from a number of gadgets. You may also, after all, join it by means of USB cable (3.0).
• You’ll be able to view your recordsdata by means of the WD app, each accessible for Android and iOS. It’s straightforward to make use of and has a clear interface.
• It has an SD card reader. Nice for photographers! Simply insert your card and it may possibly begin backing up routinely, or you’ll be able to select to again up by means of the app.
• No want to hold round a laptop computer. I solely used a pill to flick thru my photos. If wanted, I can do some fast edits with LR cellular.
• Wifi is first rate. It takes a couple of seconds to load thumbnails when you have a big assortment, however I had no bother in any respect streaming movies. Nice for leisure on the highway.
• The drive may be charged by means of the USB cable (which incorporates a number of plugs for numerous nations), and packs a 3,400mAh battery (4-6h of fixed use).
• The drive is available in a 1TB or 2TB possibility. I selected the 2TB because it isn’t rather more costly.
• A sophisticated function, however the drive can even function a bridge to share an web connection and features a DLNA media server.

Cons:

• The drive is barely chunkier and heavier than different arduous drives and the physique doesn’t seem very rugged. I didn’t have any bother with it, however it may possibly make a photographer paranoid.
• The backing up course of is gradual. The rationale for that is that the drive is performing extra duties to make sure that there are not any duplicates and that the switch goes easily. The drive additionally takes about 30 seconds to really boot up.
• It helps solely SD playing cards. In case your digital camera has CF playing cards, it gained’t be very helpful.
• It’s costlier than regular drives, nevertheless it has the benefit to be wi-fi with a card reader.
• It’s a must to use the WD app to entry your recordsdata. No different choices accessible (so far as I do know).
• Uncooked recordsdata don’t have previews. That is in all probability resulting from Android/iOS and never the app, however you’ll be able to solely view previews of jpegs.

To date, I’m fairly proud of the drive. Since I’ve a number of SD playing cards, I may be certain I’ll have an additional backup and never fear an excessive amount of if a card turns into corrupted or misplaced.
Do I like to recommend it? In case you have a really light-weight laptop computer, it’s in all probability not that helpful. But when not, I positively suggest it for photographers and videographers on the highway.

In case you have any particular questions on it, please let me know within the feedback part and I’ll be blissful to reply.

 

Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with WD and I’ve purchased the arduous drive myself. This assessment is an sincere assessment primarily based alone expertise with the product. All hyperlinks are Amazon affiliate hyperlinks.