A personal hard drive is more than just a storage device. In many ways, it’s the keys to your digital life. You store everything on it — from the music collection you’ve been building since college to those personal photos that you really, really don’t want to see anyone get ahold of. That time you dressed up as Joe the Plumber for Halloween? A mistake — but you just can’t seem to bring yourself to get rid of the picture, can you. Sure, the reference was old and cliche by the time you decided on your costume, but how were you to know?
Now, you don’t have to, thanks to the blazing fast new Western Digital My Passport SSD. The extremely compact (the size of a lighter) portable SSD is a USB Type-C drive capable of speeds up to 515 MB/s. It’s so fast that it can even help you run virtual machines on your computer, the kind of thing you tell everyone you know how to do but don’t entirely understand. It offers a number of hardware encryption options, like built-in 256-bit AES protection armed with WD’s industry leading security software. Compatible with both the MacOS and Windows operating systems, this sweet baby is even USB 3.1 Gen 2 ready, meaning that your data is future proof, at least for another few months. It’s also built to withstand a drop of over six feet and with the included backup software makes the perfect option for automatically backing up those high-capacity files to your Dropbox or Apple Time Machine service.