WD My Passport Edge 500GB Portable Hard Drive Review

Back in 2011 we reviewed the WD My Passport Essential 500GB USB 3.0 portable hard drive and found it to be an amazing product that worked as advertised. Western Digital introduced its newest version of the My Passport line of portable hard drives with the debut of My Passport Edge in September 2012. The My Passport Edge still features 500 GB of storage and a USB 3.0 interface for fast read/write speeds, but it uses a faster hard drive and the enclosure has been updated. Let's dive right in!

Western Digital currently offers the My Passport Edge portable hard drive in just one capacity, 500GB. The My Passport Edge comes in a model for PCs and another for Mac. Both drives are virtually identical other than the formatting and software that comes on them(NTFS for PC and HFS+ for Mac), but there is also a price $10 difference. The WD My Passport Edge for PC runs $89.00 shipped and the My Passport Edge for Mac is $99.00 shipped. The drive that we are looking at today is a WD My Passport Edge for PC and it has model number WDBK6Z5000ATTNESN. WD only offers this drive in one color, so picking one out is pretty easy.