

I’ve had the blue before, but the red’s pretty nice too. It does all of these things…and looks pretty because you can have it in various colours. What I want from an external hard drive like the WD My Passport Ultra is a lightweight, compact, easy to use, fast hard drive, that will work with no problems with my laptop and any others I need to connect it to. Having already used the My Passport range in the past, of course I wanted to share my experiences with them.

Recently WD approached me to review one of their products – the WD My Passport Ultra 1TB. Of course, owning them doesn’t mean regularly backing up, but I try to do it every 6 months or so. So since then I have bought a couple more external hard drives. Yes I have a (very full) drop box where some photos are saved, but I don’t find it user friendly and begrudge paying for extra space which works out expensively compared with external hard drives. Luckily a computer expert retrieved my photos and ever since I’ve been a big fan of external hard drives. Thankfully at the time I had a WD My Passport external hard drive, so I knew lots of my photos were already backed up on there but my more recent ones weren’t. I did have a scare about 4.5 years ago when my old laptop died with a motherboard problem.
