But for some reason, I was only able to find the Easystore products exclusively through BestBuy.įurthermore, the 3 TB model of the Easystore product wasn’t available at all in the United States, and neither was the My Passport 2 TB. It is possible to purchase the My Passport products either directly from WD or through a reseller like Amazon, Best Buy, or Insight. For some reason or another, I was not able to find the Easystore 3 TB available in the US. I did want to chime in and notify you of an oddity I found when searching for locations where the products are available. But before we dig in further, I did want to bring up something I found a little strange.Ī Note Regarding Easystore 3 TB and The My Passport 2 TB To be fair, there are a few slight variations between the features offered with each product, but in all honesty, they are more or less the same. Given that the pricing models are nearly identical, I think the comparison can only come down to a determination of superior power features, though the products are similar with regards to their features too. The following outlines the cost of storage My Passport products:Īs you can see, the pricing plans are the same for all models but the 1 TB version, which is only $10 cheaper with the Easystore product. The following outlines the cost of the storage Eaststore products: My Passport’s 1 TB is only $10 more expensive and costs $59.99. If you need a terabyte of storage, which is pretty difficult for the average user to completely fill up (unless you’re a media junkie and have hard disks packed with movies and music), you can get an Easystore 1 TB for only $50. I was surprised to see how much space storage has dropped since the beginning of the year. 02:26 pm GMT WD Easystore vs My Passport Price With that said, let’s get started with a pricing comparison.
#MY PASSPORT FOR MAC 4TB EXTERNAL USB 3.0 PORTABLE HARD DRIVE PORTABLE#
Said a different way, I want you to be aware that none of the products compared here are portable SSD (Solid State Drives), which transfer data at a much higher rate, though typically offer lower amounts of storage. There are many similarities between these products, such as the ability to purchase them in 1, 2, 3, and 4 TB quantities, but which one is better? I’ll break down the in’s and out’s of each product to help you make the most informed decision, but first, I did want to begin by explaining that these technologies are traditional hard drives, meaning they have moving parts and work by spinning platters and employing the use of read/write heads.
Today we’re going to compare two of Western Digitals most popular portable hard drive products: Easystore vs My Passport.
There are multitudes of manufacturers, and due to some white labeling product shenanigans, sometimes multiple brands look different on the outside and go by different names, but still contain the exact same hardware on the inside. The problem is, however, that we are inundated with portable drive models from which to choose if you need some external storage, and it’s tough knowing if you’re getting a good deal. Thank goodness, these days we can get terabytes of storage space for less than $100 and keep all the files you want.
Just consider the old AD for “ The Hard Disk You’ve Been Waiting For,” which cost a jaw-dropping $3398 and offered an astounding 10 MB of storage space. Storage has never been so inexpensive and vast, and as you may well already know, the price of storage devices continues to plummet, and hard drive space and power expands as time moves forward.
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