{"id":2064,"date":"2012-04-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asbis.com\/news\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2023-07-28T14:12:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T14:12:47","slug":"wd-my-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.asbis.com\/news\/suppliers\/wd-my-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"WD Ships First 2 Tb Portable Hard Drive with Next-Gen My Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style='margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px' border='1' cellspacing='0' bordercolor='#f0f0f0' cellpadding='0' width='200' align='right'>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h3 style='text-align: center'>BUY ONLINE<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href='http:\/\/www.it4profit.com\/ecatalog\/userend\/shopITProdLite.jsp?SUPPLIER=701&#038;LANG=en&#038;SDATA=1&#038;COND=701&#038;PATERN=My+Passport&#038;PT=247&#038;MNF=170130 '>My Passport<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;at ASBIS B2B e-Shop <a href='http:\/\/www.it4profit.com\/ecatalog\/userend\/shopITProdLite.jsp?SUPPLIER=701&#038;LANG=en&#038;SDATA=1&#038;COND=701&#038;PATERN=My+Passport&#038;PT=247&#038;MNF=170130 '><img title='Buy online at ASBIS B2B e-Shop' border='0' alt='Buy online at ASBIS B2B e-Shop' width='18' height='18' src='\/share\/common\/110608\/buy-online.gif' \/><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style='text-align: center'>&nbsp;<a href='http:\/\/www.it4profit.com\/ecatalog\/userend\/shopITProdLite.jsp?SUPPLIER=701&#038;LANG=en&#038;SDATA=1&#038;COND=701&#038;PATERN=My+Passport&#038;PT=247&#038;MNF=170130'><img alt='WD My Passport' align='middle' width='93' height='150' src='\/share\/common\/wdfMPBlack_2TB_main.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>World&apos;s top-selling external storage solution gets capacity boost, premium new design, improved signature features of security and automatic backup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Western Digital&reg; (NYSE: WDC) announced the next generation of its top-selling <a href='http:\/\/www.it4profit.com\/ecatalog\/userend\/shopITProdLite.jsp?SUPPLIER=701&#038;LANG=en&#038;SDATA=1&#038;COND=701&#038;PATERN=My+Passport&#038;PT=247&#038;MNF=170130 '>My Passport<\/a>&reg; line of portable hard drives, offering consumers a fresh new enclosure design and the first-ever 2 TB capacity in a portable drive. Now available in five popular colors: white, black, silver, blue, and red, with a range of capacities beginning from 500 GB, the new sleeker <a href='http:\/\/www.it4profit.com\/ecatalog\/userend\/shopITProdLite.jsp?SUPPLIER=701&#038;LANG=en&#038;SDATA=1&#038;COND=701&#038;PATERN=My+Passport&#038;PT=247&#038;MNF=170130 '>My Passport portable drives<\/a> offer digital consumers an appealing array of storage options that reflect their personal style. Additionally, the new My Passport drives offer WD SmartWare&trade; automatic backup software and WD Security&trade; for password protection and hardware encryption. <\/p>\n<p>With the addition of premium finishes, specially-engineered to make the outer shell more resistant to scratches and fingerprints, the <a href='http:\/\/www.it4profit.com\/ecatalog\/userend\/shopITProdLite.jsp?SUPPLIER=701&#038;LANG=en&#038;SDATA=1&#038;COND=701&#038;PATERN=My+Passport&#038;PT=247&#038;MNF=170130 '>new My Passport external drives<\/a> feature ultra-fast USB 3.0 connectivity; USB 2.0 compatibility; continuous, automatic backup software; and password protection with hardware encryption. The included software offers the flexibility to customize the drive to a user&apos;s storage preferences: installing all features, just the components needed, or using the drive without the software.The new 2 TB model offers massive capacity in an amazing pocket-sized enclosure, affording plenty of secure storage for all of one&apos;s photos, video, music and other important files. <\/p>\n<p>Given the small form factor and easy portability of&nbsp;<a href='http:\/\/www.it4profit.com\/ecatalog\/userend\/shopITProdLite.jsp?SUPPLIER=701&#038;LANG=en&#038;SDATA=1&#038;COND=701&#038;PATERN=My+Passport&#038;PT=247&#038;MNF=170130 '>My Passport drives<\/a>, the built-in security features of password protection and hardware encryption help protect files from unauthorized use, making the drives safe data repositories for data while offering peace of mind to busy consumers on the go.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&quot;More than money, jewelry and other valuables, the item most missed if ever lost or stolen is ones computer &#8211; and everything on it &#8211; so our goal in launching the next-generation of the popular My Passport drives is to encourage more consumers to protect their data before something happens,&quot; said Jim Welsh, executive vice president and general manager of WD&apos;s branded products and consumer electronics groups. &quot;The new My Passport makes backing up and preserving one&apos;s digital life easier, reliable and more secure than ever &#8211; it&apos;s the perfect blend of monstrous capacity, reliability and user-friendly technology in a sleek form factor, now in five colors.&quot; <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Related news about <a href='http:\/\/www.asbis.com\/suppliers?RS=0&#038;NC_ID=&#038;STR=wd&#038;x=2&#038;y=7'>WD<\/a> products<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.asbis.com\/news\/suppliers\/wd-my-book-live-duo'>WD&apos;s My Book&reg; Live&trade; Duo Personal Cloud Storage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.asbis.com\/news\/suppliers\/wd-sentinel-dx4000'>WD&reg; Delivers New Line of Network Storage Servers For Small to Medium Busimesses<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.asbis.com\/news\/suppliers\/wd-delivers-the-personal-cloud'>WD Delivers The Personal Cloud<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUY ONLINE My Passport&nbsp;at ASBIS B2B e-Shop &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; World&apos;s top-selling external storage solution gets capacity boost, premium new design, improved signature features of security and automatic backup. Western Digital&reg; (NYSE: WDC) announced the next generation of its top-selling My Passport&reg; line of portable hard drives, offering consumers a fresh new enclosure design and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[241,197,218],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suppliers","tag-external","tag-hdd","tag-wd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WD Ships First 2 Tb Portable Hard Drive with Next-Gen My Passport - ASBIS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.asbis.com\/news\/suppliers\/wd-my-passport\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WD Ships First 2 Tb Portable Hard Drive with Next-Gen My Passport - ASBIS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BUY ONLINE My Passport&nbsp;at ASBIS B2B e-Shop &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; World&amp;apos;s top-selling external storage solution gets capacity boost, premium new design, improved signature features of security and automatic backup. 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