You can turn this light off using a software tool, however. The drive has one little white indicator light near the USB port that flashes during operation. The drive is bus-powered and doesn’t require a separate power adapter. It has a regular micro-USB 3.2 Gen 1 (formerly USB 3.0) port - it has no USB-C support - and comes included with a standard USB cable. So, you can’t remove it from the new My Passport shell to use with other standard purposes, like inside a laptop.įrom the user’s perspective, the new My Passport is still quite similar, however. It’s a 15mm-thick, 1TB per platter, 5400 RPM drive with 128MB cache that uses USB 3.0 interface. The new portable drive uses a not-for-resale internal hard drive designed specifically for mobile applications.įor example, the 5TB version uses a hard drive model WD50NDZW-11MR8S1. It’s slightly thinner and narrower on all sides. The new WD My Passport looks a bit different from its predecessor with a more compact design.
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