Managing the Passport Pro is very easy thanks to the simple utilities software included on the drive. You also can't daisy chain, which some would argue is a good thing actually. But the inability to remove the thunderbolt cable means if you break this one, you basically break your drive. To make the Passport Pro more portable, it does wrap around the outside and attach snugly in place so you don't have to worry about wayward cables in your bag, a feature I really like and see as a great design addition. What could be somewhat disappointing to many of you is that the thunderbolt cable does not detach from the unit. It is a dual drive, so it's not entirely surprising that it would be kind of huge. Coming from my original WD Passport drive, it's significantly larger. It's small, but it's pushing the limits of what I see as "portable." It has the girth of a brick and is easily as heavy. The first thing I noticed when I opened the box was the size of this drive.
I got my hands on one to see how it handled, and if it came anywhere close to the advertised read/write speed 233 Mb/s. When WD announced a thunderbolt-powered RAID dual hard drive that was also portable, I was immediately interested. Though SSD will generate ridiculous read and write speeds, it's hard for me and many others to rationalize paying hundreds of dollars for what amounts to enough space for maybe a few photo shoots with a D800 and one or two video projects. They're much easier to get your hands on than an SSD, where 256 GB will cost you more than a couple terabytes of the a standard spinning disk. In an age where solid state drives are becoming more and more popular, why would anyone go for an old fashioned hard disk? Because they're affordable. No additional cables, small, user-selectable RAID and fast? The My Passport Pro looked like it could easily be the road-version of my Lacie d2. WD, of the Western Digital Company, released what I thought to be an outstanding addition to their line: a thunderbolt-powered dual hard drive that promised speeds of up to 233 MB/s.
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