WD REDESIGNS WORLD’S No. 1 SELLING PORTABLE HARD DRIVE
SYDNEY, Australia – May 28, 2015 – WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) company, and world leader in storage solutions, today introduced the new, redesigned My Passport® Ultra portable hard drives and My Passport for Mac drives. With the My Passport line now in its 7th generation, the My Passport Ultra and My Passport for Mac portable hard drives are now available in capacities up to 3 TB1 and in four stylish colours2 – Classic Black, Brilliant White, Wild Berry and Noble Blue.
“With more photos being taken than ever before, it’s critical to have a high capacity, reliable external storage solution that you can carry everywhere,” said Tony Tate, general manager and vice president of Content Storage Solutions at WD. “The latest generation My Passport drives deliver an easier automatic back-up experience, hardware-based encryption for security and higher capacities than ever before.”
My Passport Ultra portable drives come in 3 TB, 2 TB, 1 TB and 500 GB capacities and feature 256-bit AES hardware encryption3 – delivering a high level of security with no impact to write-speed or CPU activity. If your My Passport Ultra falls into the wrong hands, the 256-bit AES hardware encryption protects users’ files, folders, photos, videos and music with a password known only to them. USB 3.0 compatibility provides fast data transfer rates of up to 5 gigabits per second, while being backwardly compatible with USB 2.0. My Passport for Mac portable drives are available in capacities of 3 TB, 2 TB, 1 TB and also feature 256-bit AES hardware encryption with USB 3.0 connectivity.
My Passport Ultra’s built-in WD Backup software is a simple-to-use application with focus on reducing frustration when setting up a backup plan to preserve data. Since 31% of devices have had malware at some point, having your data safely backed up onto a secondary device like a My Passport drive is critical to preserving precious data.
Pricing and Availability
Australian Distributors: Dicker Data & Synnex AU
New Zealand Distributor: Synnex NZ
Availability: My Passport Ultra and My Passport for Mac portable drives are available now through retailers and resellers (3 TB capacity available next month).
Warranty: Both the My Passport Ultra and My Passport for Mac will offer a 3-year limited warranty. Terms and conditions of WD’s limited warranty may be found at support.wdc.com/warranty.
| My Passport Ultra | Capacity | AU RRP | NZ RRP |
| WDBWWM5000Axx4 | 500 GB | $89.99 AUD | $99.99 NZD |
| WDBGPU0010Bxx | 1 TB | $109.99 AUD | $129.99 NZD |
| WDBBKD0020Bxx | 2 TB | $169.99 AUD | $199.99 NZD |
| WDBBKD0030Bxx | 3 TB | $299.99 AUD | $319.99 NZD |
| My Passport for Mac | Capacity | AU RRP | NZ RRP |
| WDBJBS0010BSL | 1 TB | $109.99 AUD | $129.99 NZD |
| WDBCGL0020BSL | 2 TB | $169.99 AUD | $199.99 NZD |
| WDBCGL0030BSL | 3 TB | $299.99 AUD | $319.99 NZD |
1 3 TB will be available next month 2 Colours only available on the My Passport Ultra 3 Password must be set in order to use encryption. 4 The last two letters decode the color of the product, BK=Classic Black, BL=Noble Blue, BY=Wild Berry, WT=Brilliant White
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