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And that was with the drive in performance mode there’s also a battery-save mode that squeezes out about an extra half hour to forty-five minutes.

The My Passport Wireless Pro more than doubles its predecessor’s four-hour run time, delivering 9 hours and 10 minutes in our test. Battery life and performanceĪs to those extra four ounces of battery. The addition of the Plex media server lets the My Passport Wireless Pro support more devices, more easily than the Twonky DLNA server, which is still included as well. Twonky does not, and it does a pretty decent job streaming movies and audio to client devices. Note that Plex requires signing up for a free account.

But Plex has a slicker interface, offers a choice of proprietary or DLNA serving, and it provides clients for nearly every operating system (but not the 32-bit Windows 7 on my older Acer laptop. Plex is optional, as the Twonky DLNA server is already included. Good job WD.Īdditionally, you’re asked if you want to download the Plex media server in order to stream media files from the My Passport Wireless Pro. It also walked me through the process of connecting the parent network to pass through the Internet connection. The browser headed directly for the setup routine without my having to type in the URL for its configuration page. With my iPad, all I had to do was select the My Passport network, join using the password prominently displayed on a sticker on the front of the unit, and then open Safari. The new Passport Wireless Pro is even easier to set up that its predecessor. The Wireless Pro’s two USB 3.0 ports and SD card slot are visible in this side shot. You can push a button if you don’t.) The new model weighs in at nearly a pound–that’s four ounces heavier than the original–and we’re pretty sure it’s attributable to the 6400 mAh battery.

Except that this enclosure sports a micro-USB 3.0 connector, a USB 2.0 Type A port (for charging other devices from the drive’s battery), and an SD memory-card slot (for transferring files-automatically on insert, if you so choose.

Unlike its very thick predecessor, the My Passport Wireless Pro could easily be mistaken for a portable optical drive (you remember those, right?).