| Developers: | Western Digital |
| Technology: | DWH |
WD, division of Western Digital company, begins with spring of 2013 of sale of portable hard drives of the My Passport Ultra series in which additional opportunities for data protection are combined with high-speed USB interface 3.0. Devices are delivered in the thin and compact body of four flowers and allow to store most safely and comfortably digital content. The drives My Passport Ultra have the volume of 500 GB, 1 TB and, for the first time, 2 TB. They are delivered with the software for backup of WD SmartWare Pro which supports work with the account of Dropbox service, provides password protection and accomplishment of hardware encryption. The bag cover which is designed to protect the drive from different physical impacts is included in the delivery.
"Hard drives of the WD My Passport Ultra series are designed to become safe portable storage location of digital content for modern mobile users. Devices are equipped with USB interface 3.0, are delivered in the body of four different flowers and differ in a broad set of standard software and additional hardware functions" — Jim Welsh, the executive vice president of WD corporation and the CEO of groups of branded products and drives for consumer electronics says. — "Having connected in one product of a possibility of our technology of automatic backup and password protection of WD SmartWare Pro to high-speed USB interface 3.0, we provide to mobile users the convenient solution for protection and storage of their personal data".
WD, division of Western Digital company, announced in July, 2013 the beginning of sales in Russia of portable hard drives of the My Passport Ultra series in which additional opportunities for data protection are combined with high-speed USB interface 3.0. The drives My Passport Ultra have the capacity 500GB and 1TB, are executed in the thin and compact body of black and dark gray colors and allow to store most safely and comfortably digital content. They are delivered with the software for backup of WD SmartWare Pro which supports work with the account of Dropbox service. The bag cover which is designed to protect the drive from different physical impacts is included in the delivery.
"During creation of My Passport Ultra we tried to consider everything that is important for most of users: reliability of storage, high data transfer rate using USB interface 3.0, a possibility of automatic backup. WD SmartWare Pro updated software going complete with My Passport Ultra allows to save backup copies not only on a disk, but also directly in a cloud service of Dropbox and also to do a backup from several drives" — Andrey Tyshchenko, the sales director of branded products in Eastern Europe noted. — "Thanks to the dimensions My Passport Ultra will become the best satellites for Ultrabook or other thin notebook".
The new portable drive My Passport Ultra can be purchased in a number of retail outlets of the Russian Federation from now on. Average retail price for model with a capacity of 500GB is 2300 rub, 1TB – 2900 rub.
