Western Digital My Passport Pro WDBRNB Thunderbolt

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 28 expert reviews

Excellent:

6
Good:

19
Average:

3
Bad:

0

Pros:

Huge, 4TB capacity in a portable drive.
Speedy throughput scores.
Permanently attached cable.

Cons:

No Thunderbolt pass-through.
Bulky for a portable drive.

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Last revision on May 10, 2020

Reviewers Liked

Huge, 4TB capacity in a portable drive
Speedy throughput scores
Permanently attached cable
Bus powered
RAID Level 0, 1, JBOD
Three-year warranty

Reviewers Didn't Like

No Thunderbolt pass-through
Bulky for a portable drive

Expert reviews and ratings

On the one hand, you could say that the Western Digital My Passport Pro is just a faster, more spacious portable drive. On the other hand, you might be a creative pro looking at a bus-powered portable striped RAID and thinking “I need this in my life!” And you probably wouldn’t be wrong.

By MacLife on August 14, 2014

WD's latest external drive combines a lot of features that are probably too much for what most people are looking for in a storage device. It's a whopping 4TB, for one thing, and uses two drives combined into a single RAID 0 array. In that respect, it's...

By PC Authority on July 16, 2014

What's most striking about Western Digital's My Passport Pro portable hard drive is its size and weight. The 4TB version I tested weighs 700g, which could only be considered light when compared to your average bar of gold bullion. The weight is due in...

By Digital Arts Online on July 11, 2014

Hand it to Western Digital for trying new things. It's cool that there's a portable software RAID solution available, and bus-powered storage options with 4TB capacities are few and far between. Western Digital also offers a 2TB version of the My...

By Macworld Australia on July 11, 2014

By Macworld on July 10, 2014

The WD My Passport Pro 2TB is the more left-of-field option of the two — it's a Thunderbolt-only design, meaning it's essentially intended for Mac users exclusively. WD's stated that it's aiming this one at content creation professionals — people going...

By APC Magazine on July 07, 2014

Thanks to an enormous capacity in a still just handleable bus-powered package drive chassis, the WD My Passport Pro could prove invaluable for carrying huge volumes of data on the road. At £350 for the 4 TB version it is not pocket-change cheap but nevertheless its price per capacity figure of just 8.8p/GB makes it in effect the cheapest Thunderbolt drive in this class.

By PCAdvisor on July 02, 2014

WD has been making various portable drives aimed at Mac users for many years now, but the My Passport Pro is the first to feature Thunderbolt. See all storage device reviews . The Passport Pro takes the same basic case as earlier metal-bodied My...

By PC Advisor on July 02, 2014

A cheaper but slower alternative to a Thunderbolt...

By Expert Reviews on June 20, 2014

The WD My Passport Pro 4TB Thunderbolt drive does what it says it will do, and it does it without sacrificing the read and write performance. The ~200MBps read and write speeds will keep you editing high-definition videos without having to worry about...

By FutureLooks on June 18, 2014

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