If you are on a PC, you shouldn’t have this issue. To fix this, you’ll need to install the Paragon NTFS for Mac driver that WD offers with this product. If you don’t do this cycle, the drive will start to charge rather than function as connected media.īecause the drive comes formatted as NTFS, Mac systems will only be able to read the drive out of the box. Once connected and powered on again, it will show up as an external drive on our system. Our first hurdle with media offload was that the drive needed to be turned off before connecting the USB cable. With the Wi-Fi data rates so low, it’s better to connect the My Passport Wireless SSD directly to a computer to pull off the data. We were impressed that it could play back 10-bit video, though not smoothly.ĭata transfer to a computer can be fast, but… We tested with 10-bit video from the Panasonic GH5 and GH5s along with 10-bit ProRes 422 files captured on an Atomos Shogun paired with the Nikon Z7 and Z6 and the Canon EOS R. The Wi-Fi can also be used for previewing files and verifying that they transferred to the drive. With read and write speeds of 160 megabits per second, we would only expect to be able to smoothly playback video with a bitrate or 160mbps or lower. Its wireless function is the My Passport Wireless SSD’s main competitive difference, but transferring data via Wi-Fi to or from the drive is painfully slow. Other external batteries could give the iPhone than five times the charge in the same time period. Over 45 minutes, we saw a 10 percent increase in power when charging an iPhone 8 Plus.
Additionally, beware that it doesn’t charge things very fast. The power you get from it has to be more important than the ability to offload your media for this setup to work. If you drain the drive of its power, it won’t have the power to function. Though you can use the drive to charge other devices, this use case presents an unwelcome tradeoff.
The drive will go into a power save mode when not in use, but we would just turn it off. WD states that the drive has up to 10-hour battery life and we believe it - if you don’t use it as an emergency battery pack for another device.
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