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Macworlds buying advice Western Digitals My Passport Studio provides satisfactory (though not exceptional) speed, a strong warranty, and a convenient digital label.

In contrast, others release new editions of their line seemingly every year, continually evolving their line as a car company would.

Wd Passport Aluminum Portable Hard Drive

Western Digital falls into this latter category, but that doesnt mean their latest My Passport Studio portable hard drive isnt a huge leap forward for the portable line.

Thanks to an innovative new display and some solid connection speeds, the My Passport Studio is a solid successor to Western Digitals tradition.

The latest My Passport Studio offers a dual interface design with FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 connectivity.

The drive also comes Time Machine ready and offers capacities of 640GB, 500GB, and 320GB.

The unit itself is slightly shorter and more rounded than the previous version, weighing in at 0.4 pounds and with dimensions of 3.3 by 0.7 by 4.8 inches.

It feels flimsy in your hands but survived several of our drop tests with no ill effects.

The My Passport Studio is light enough to put in your pocket and take with you anywhere.

Even when unplugged, you can view the white on black customizable label.

The display can reveal whats on the drive, to whom it belongs to, or indicate some other message to its owner.

Meanwhile, the display also lets you know the available capacity and security status of the drive.

The My Passport Studio features a 2.5-inch drive with a 8MB cache and a 5400-rpm drive mechanism.

The drive offers both USB 2.0 and FireWire 800 ports, though users can also achieve FireWire 400 connectivity with a FireWire 800 to FireWire 400 cord (not included).

With only a 5400 rpm mechanism and without eSATA connectivity, its not surprising that the My Passport Studio did not achieve the best times weve seen in our lab tests.

The My Passport Studio fared better in our duplication tests, finishing the test in 39 seconds with its FireWire 800 connection enabled.

Thats actually a second better than the Mercury Elite AL Pro Mini.

Unfortunately, the low-memory Photoshop tests proved to be comparatively difficult for the My Passport Studio; its FireWire 800 score was 20 seconds slower than the Elite AL Pro Minis.

Why the up and down times The AJA tests only complicate the narrative: the My Passport Studio has slower read speeds than the Mercury Pro with its FireWire 800 connection.

However, My Passport Studio produced better write times than the Elite Al Pro Mini.

This is impressive considering the My Passport has a 5400-rpm mechanism, compared to the Elite AL Pro Minis 7200-rpm mechanism, and the copy tests (usually a pure write test) are worse for the My Passport.

We copied a folder containing 1GB of data from our Macs hard drive to the external hard drive to test the drives write speed.

We then duplicated that file on the external drive to test both read and write speeds.

We also used the drive as a scratch disk when running our low-memory Adobe Photoshop CS4 Suite test.

This test is a set of four tasks performed on a 300MB file, with Photoshops memory set to 25 percent.Macworld Lab testing by Chris Holt.

LaCies Rikiki ( ), for example, is a measly.22 per gigabyte.

The My Passport Studio comes with a three-year warranty.

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