The Passport storage hard disk has been Western Digital's most winning line of portable external hard drives for quiet some time now. The lustrous casing, rugged build quality, sensible speed and loads of storage space prolong to keep these USB-powered 2.5" 5400RPM SATA laptop hard drives familiar. The all new Passport Elite variants offers even better capacities, innovated indicator lights, easy port protection, and even comes with few nice software to help you own your portable storage organized. In terms of the fundamental peripheral shape and proportions the Passport Elite is just about similar to the older Passport versions:• H/L/W: 0.59"(15mm)/4.967"(126mm)/3.1"(80mm)
• Weight: 0.4 lbs/0.18 kg
• USB cable (USB-A to mini-USB) length: 11"
In conditions of pace, the Passport Elite is scaled at a "theoretical" high end transfer rate of 480Mb (megabits) each second stabilized on USB 2.0 transfer rates. That would decipher to 60MB (megabytes) each second.
The Pros and Cons of the New Passport variants of portable hard disk are as below:
Pros:
• Gorgeous enclosure
• pleasant sliding port protector and a sensible capacity indicators
• faultlessly portable
• Simple to use
• rugged performance
• Synchronization and encryption software packed
Cons:
• Bit on the pricey end
• Packed along software only runs in windows
