Testseek.com have collected 60 expert reviews of the Western Digital My Passport Pro WDBRNB Thunderbolt and the average rating is 82%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital My Passport Pro WDBRNB Thunderbolt.
June 2014
(82%)
60 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(80%)
29 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Large capacity
Tethered Thunderbolt cable with adequate length
Bus powered RAID solution
Great striped drive performance
Good capacity/performance balance
Easytouse tools
Really nicely made
Bus-powered over Thunderbolt
Twin hard drives in RAID 0
Neat design
The WD My Passport Pro is fast
Portable
And has some of the largest storage capacity you can find. It supports multiple RAID setups
Has a well-designed built-in Thunderbolt cable
And is comparatively affordable
No external power needed
Impressive speeds
The editors didn't like
Fan is infrequent but noisy
Big and bulky
$499.99 (2TB)
$649.99 (4TB)
Loud fan whirr
Thunderboltonly
No SSD option at all
Cost could be a barrier for some users
Our speed results are a little lower than WD's quoted figures
The drive doesn't support USB nor does it have an extra Thunderbolt port. The 4TB version is bulky
Real Thunderbolt transfer speeds of up to 233 MBps, Integrated Thunderbolt cable means one less thing to buy, RAID 0, RAID 1 or JBOD configuration, Relatively small foot print for storage of this size
Integrated Thunderbolt cable, could be a point of failure (not user replaceable), Weight is on the hefty side for a portable, No extra Thunderbolt port on device for daisy chaining
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 run...
Abstract: The sturdy, all-aluminum enclosure with its twin drives is compact and surprisingly heavy at 1.01 lbs. (0.46kg). Western Digital also offers a 4TB version that is even heavier. There is a cleverly integrated Thunderbolt cable making for grab-and-go portab...
The WD My Passport Pro is fast, portable, and has some of the largest storage capacity you can find. It supports multiple RAID setups, has a well-designed built-in Thunderbolt cable, and is comparatively affordable
The drive doesn't support USB nor does it have an extra Thunderbolt port. The 4TB version is bulky
The WD My Passport Pro is an all-around excellent storage solution for any Thunderbolt-enabled Macs, particularly the MacBook Pro or Air....
The WD My Passport Pro portable hard drive provides 2TB or 4TB of portable storage with some good numbers to boot. One of the features we really liked was the ability to easily configure drives in either RAID0, RAID1, and JBOD, allowing the WD portab...
Published: 2014-07-02, Author: Andrew , review by: techadvisor.co.uk
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 nevert...
Abstract: The key word here, I'd argue, is Thunderbolt. The 4TB version of the My Passport Pro offers transfer speeds of up to 230MB/s; the 2TB version, which Western Digital provided to us for review, does even better at 233MB/s. If you've got a Thunderbolt Mac, y...
The WD My Passport Pro is fast, portable, and has some of the largest storage capacity you can find. It supports multiple RAID setups, has a well-designed built-in Thunderbolt cable, and is comparatively affordable
The drive doesn't support USB nor does it have an extra Thunderbolt port. The 4TB version is bulky
The WD My Passport Pro is an all-around excellent storage solution for any Thunderbolt-enabled Macs, particularly the MacBook Pro or Air....
