The 500GB is £49, the 1TB £65 and the 2TB £99 - not bad prices, but there will likely be cheaper USB 2.0 drives out there to tempt you if the slower transfer speeds aren't of the utmost importance for your needs. There are also four colour options: black, blue, red and titanium. The WD Ultra is available in three different capacities: 500GB, 1TB or 2TB. Is the WD My Passport the ultimate storage solution? Capacities, colours and pricing It wrote data over SCSI or parallel ports.įast-forward to today, and you can move 2TB of data around on a device that costs half what a ZIP drive ever did. The option, then, was a ZIP drive - remember those? An Iomega creation, it allowed you to move 120MB around on giant 'floppy' disks. If you did multimedia, as we did, then you might need to move huge music and video files around.
A TV-style flashback then commenced as we remembered what it was like when we were doing our degree.īack then - if you're as old as us anyway - things were stored on floppy disks, CD writing wasn't affordable for most, and wasn't practical either for lots of reasons. (Pocket-lint) - Portable hard drives aren't that glamorous, but when Western Digital offered to send over a USB 3.0 hard drive, it mentioned something interesting - that it was aimed at students going back to school.
