![]() The My Passport Slim isn’t the fastest, cheapest or thinnest portable hard drive around. You can easily reformat the My Passport Slim as HFS+ for use with Macs and OS X’s Time Machine backup application. The drive ships formatted as NTFS and comes with WD Smartware Pro for Windows which offers automated backups and even backups to cloud services like Dropbox. The fastest test result was 130MBps reading 10GB of files and folders when running under Windows 8. With read and write speeds hovering right around 100MBps, the My Passport Slim didn’t break any performance records, but is fast enough for incremental backups. WD announced a version with a more noteworthy 2TB of storage capacity, but that model is not yet shipping. ![]() It’s a USB 3.0 bus-powered portable drive built around a standard rotational hard drive with a healthy 1TB of storage capacity. In fact, its most distinguishing feature may be its lack of distinguishing features. The My Passport Slim isn’t flashy, in any sense of the word.
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