WD 3 TB My Passport Wireless Pro, Black

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If you remove a card that’s already been backed-up, add more photos or video to it then re-insert it, the drive will create a new folder labeled by the time of the new backup, within which again a folder is placed with the card ID and the contents. Initially I was worried that the My Passport Wireless SSD was a solution for a problem that didn’t exist, but the more I used it, the more I found that it can actually complement what many of us do already. If you have the drive setup to only copy over new files, then this folder will only contain the new files since the last backup, otherwise you get a fresh copy of the entire contents to date. I found the device genuinely useful as a mobile backup solution that allows me to check my files wirelessly on my iPad.

Secondly, if you connect the drive to a network and enable sharing, then any device on that network will be able to access it – this is great for using the drive as a wireless NAS, but obviously you wouldn’t want to connect it to a public network and enable the same sharing rights. If the backup process starts, you should wait until the copy process fully completes before attempting to remove the card. Then you can use your phone or tablet to wirelessly connect to the drive and browse or share your work. Once the SD card backup starts, you will be able to monitor the copy process by checking out the progress bar in the WD My Cloud app. I guess looks are somewhat subjective, but I found the My Passport Wireless SSD was trying to be like the iconic LaCie Rugged with its rubberized orange jacket, but getting it slightly wrong…!There’s LaCie’s DJI Copilot hard drive, not to mention Kickstarter projects like the Gnarbox, currently gearing-up to launch its version 2 model by the end of 2018. The fact that it’s a flash drive does make it more expensive than a spinning hard drive but for me it’s worth it as I know it will survive a lot of the bumps my hard drives are often subject to, as well as lasting longer. If you like, you can then save the images into Adobe Creative Cloud and the edits you’ve made on it will still be there when you open the image from Creative Clound in Lightroom CC on your laptop at home.

My plan is to dump from SD card onto the SSD and to process off the SSD with Lightroom Mobile (yes I have a CC account) and then to save the processed files back to the SSD. Since the My Passport contains a high performance SDD, you can connect it directly via USB to your computer to function as a fast external hard drive. Carry less equipment when every ounce counts and offload, edit and stream HD media in the field with My Passport Wireless Pro. After firing up the application, I let it find my home wireless access point, and went through the process of connecting to it.Two notes on this: first, my home Wifi network has a hidden SSID and I needed to use the broader options on the web-based interface to access and connect to it. I’m planning a trip very soon and I was wondering if this is the best travel backup solution you tried so far?

When compared to its predecessors and as the name suggests, the WD My Passport Wireless SSD is the first of its kind to feature SSD drives instead of conventional spinning hard drives, which makes it not only significantly faster (up to 390 MB/sec read speed), but also much more reliable in the long term for backup needs. It is a very clean, user-friendly interface through which you can access WiFi settings and Admin, Hardware, Media, Support and Firmware sections.

And while the rubber bumper helps soften any blows, it’s far from bullet-proof and in no way water-resistant. If you find yourself wanting to sync up your data to the cloud via Dropbox or some other service, your best bet would be to connect the drive directly to your computer, then configure your desktop client to sync with the folders on the device.