You can use the drive's bundled USB charger and USB cable with other smart devices. It fits the same design ID as drives like the Western Digital My Passport Studio (1TB), but adds a Power button and a Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) button instead of the FireWire ports found on the Studio 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. True to its name, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi is the primary way to connect to the drive.
The chassis has a metal ring shell bisecting the black top and bottom panels.
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.ĭesign and Features The My Passport Wireless ($99.00 at Amazon) measures about 0.96 by 3.5 by 5 inches (HWD), and weighs just north of 8 ounces. The Western Digital My Passport Wireless ($179.99) looks just like a traditional portable hard drive, 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.
