Getting Started
In the family of My Passport Elite represents the top end. Among what distinguishes the entry called Essential, also bundled software, the finish of the product. The My Passport Elite is protected by a plastic shell mate "touch sensitive" as the likes to make Western Digital. Material with a texture reminiscent of the hull below the FreeAgent Go but note that the My Passport is the smallest in the comparison with the model from Seagate. Product Western Digital is a little thicker and heavier but less long.
What else?
Again, the hard drive has a 5 year limited warranty (unlike the Essential, restricted to three years). In terms of connections, same as for the FreeAgent Go USB 2.0 with a short cable and by a second source. The Elite board or a gauge of capacity: a small block of four LEDs located on the portion of the proceeds. It slides to reveal or protect the mini USB connector. When the drive is connected, the LEDs light up according to the disk space used. When the drive is active, the LEDs flash in succession in one direction then the other. Finally, Western Digital provides a cloth pouch to protect the hard drive.
What performance
By default, the My Passport Elite is formatted in FAT32, so as to be compatible with the Mac operating system. We strongly advise you to format it to NTFS if you use Windows. Already, you can copy files larger than 4 GB, something impossible in FAT32. Then you get better performance, especially for copying small files. During our test, which is to copy 609 files from a total size of 10.5 MB (or 17 KB per file), it took 21 seconds for 5 seconds against FAT32 to NTFS for writing! And 6.4 seconds against 2.5 seconds FAT32 to NTFS for reading. However, the results of the My Passport Elite remain slightly below those of Seagate FreeAgent Go, in both synthetic tests and in those applications. Do not over 23.16 MB / s write and 21.87 MB / s reading. The average access time is at about 17 ms.
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