WD My Passport SSD WDBK3E2560PSL 256 GB
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two-faced
The first thing that attracts attention in the WD My Passport SSD is its non-trivial appearance by the standards of external drives. Its top cover is actually divided into two halves, one of which is smooth and glossy, while the second has a corrugated surface. Adding colour is the presence of six colour options, including strict black, blue, yellow, orange and extravagant bright red. Definitely, this is a gadget that you want to put in the most prominent place on the table.
Hardware encryption
But the ergonomics are not so well thought out. On the one hand, small rubber feet are glued to the bottom of the device, which dampen the vibration of the hard drive during operation and prevent the device from slipping to the floor. On the other hand, the drive comes with a very short cord of 30 cm. For laptop owners, this is a plus, since there will be fewer wires on the table, but computer owners will either have to crawl under the table or use a USB hub. But My Passport SSD can withstand a fall from a two-metre height without losing information and supports 256-bit AES hardware encryption. You can set it up, as well as backup, using a proprietary set of WD Discovery applications. There you can also find several useful programs for creating a backup of the system, encrypting data and monitoring the status of the drive.
Small file specialist
As for the disk itself, it works on the basis of a modern type of 3D TLC NAND memory, the volume of the disk is 256 GB. According to the passport, the disk provides approximately the same read and write speeds — 440 MB / s and 430 MB / s, respectively. In reality, the numbers are almost the same. More interesting here is something else. The WD My Passport SSD performs particularly well when working with large arrays of small files, databases, and more. from which conventional flash drives suffer. But when writing very large files of 70 – 80 GB, the SLC buffer fills up pretty quickly and the copy speed sags at times. Many TLC-based drives suffer from this disease, but here it manifests itself more than usual.
