Western Digital has announced the release of its WD My Passport Ultra portable hard drives in India, through its official distribution channels including retail stores and authorized resellers. The redesigned HDDs have been made available in two storage capacities of 1TB and 2TB. These carry price tags of Rs 4750 and Rs 7550, respectively. They are being sold in four color options of black, white, electric blue and raspberry red.
The newly introduced WD My Passport Ultra is the 7th generation device in this series of portable HDDs by the company. Even though cloud storage is gaining momentum all over the world, physical hard drives are still a big business. They come in handy when people want to access their content on the go and don’t have an Internet connection which lets them lean on online storage.
WD sells the external hard disk drives with backup software pre-loaded into them, offering users a relatively simple way to preserve their data on a conveniently planned schedule. The HDD guards the content stored in it with 256-bit AES hardware encryption. It connects to PCs via a USB 3.0 port interface that’s backward compatible with USB 2.0, and promises up to 5Gbps of data transfer speeds.
WD My Passport Ultra HDD specs at a glance:
– 1TB or 2TB storage
– USB 3.0 port, compatible with USB 2.0
– Up to 5Gbps
– 256-bit AED hardware encryption
– WD Backup software pre-installed
– Blue, white, black and red color options
As mentioned above, you’ll have to shell out Rs 4750 for the 1TB version and Rs 7550 for the 2TB capacity. This HDD is backed by a limited warranty of 3 years. Apart from Western Digital, Seagate is also a well known name in portable storage solutions which has similar options for sale in the Indian market.