Western Digital’s My Passport For Mac is a solid, compact, comparatively speedy little USB-only portable hard drive that also happens to be Time Machine–ready and designed for the Mac. For the most desirable results when reformatting on Windows systems, use Western Digital's Formatting Utility. Due to a system limitation, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista can only create 32GB FAT32 partitions, regardless of the drive's capacity. [/one_half] The USB cable is compatible with both USB2.0 and USB3.0 and is around a foot in length. PERFORMANCE As this is a Mac OS-targeted product, the pre-formatted file system is in HFS but it is possible for anyone to just format it for Windows use. Since this drive is mostly a cosmetic redress of the My Passport line we’ve checked before, most of the numbers should be in line with what we’ve seen before. In the interest of fairness though, we will not be including the results we got from the 2TB My Passport for consistency purposes. Priced at around Php4,900, this drive should be around the price range of most 1TB solutions with the 2TB and 500GB variants coming in for Php8,990 and Php3,790 respectively. We known its rude to generalize or stereotype, but Mac fans tend to have a bit more to spend than PC users so its good to know that WD isn’t riding the Apple Tax bandwagon by overcharging for these things. Even more so is the performance we’re seeing is still very respectable so we’re giving this drive both straight 10s for Performance and Value. ![]() Everything’s not all sunny for the WD My Passport for Mac though. To make it jive with Mac products, the WD employed a silver coating on the case which sadly gets easily marred and scratched. Another oversight is the cable color of choice as most Mac fans would surely go want a white cable. We’re docking 2 points for Quality for these. All in all though, Western Digital manages to deliver a great performing product with this one. The slim profile, large capacity and reasonable price makes it an easy choice for anyone looking for a portable storage solution for their MacBook, Ultrabook or basically any use. We give the WD My Passport our Value award. And for a Mac-targeted product, that’s rare. It also comes backed by a 3-year global warranty.
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