WD 3 TB My Passport Wireless Pro, Black

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And finally on the right side is another button used to initiate SD card backups or to briefly check the battery life, indicated by four blue LEDs on the upper surface of the drive. The software is able to read thumbnails from RAW files (using the embedded JPEG thumbnails in RAW files), so you can preview images from both SD cards and the built-in storage.

To my knowledge, the only camera that allows this is the Ricoh GRII (see my compact camera roundup for the method).Finally, the drive has it’s own inbuilt battery which gives it up to 10 hours of power for backing up the cards or connecting to a tablet or phone. I've previously managed back up with an iPad (to the device and thence to the cloud if there's adequate wifi) but now I find myself doing more bird photography and taking more bursts, the iPad struggles a bit. Taking these capabilities and running with them further, the My Passport Wireless drives can also be used as DLNA or Plex media servers, wirelessly streaming content to compatible players like smart TVs, and their batteries can also be used to charge other devices over USB like phones.

Cost range will vary depending upon Service Level, type of device, cause of data loss, drive condition, and other factors.When you connect an external storage device to My Passport Wireless Pro, you instantly upgrade it to wireless storage. Then you can use your phone or tablet to wirelessly connect to the drive and browse or share your work. You simply turn it on, insert the SD card into the slot in the side, then press the SD button and the drive starts to copy the data on the card.

And if your camera has Wifi and you only want to copy a few images onto your phone for sharing, then the camera’s own app is the way forward. I transferred the same 53 GB data twice and managed to back up another full 32 GB SD card and I still had 79% battery life left, even with the device powered on for quite a while during the process of writing this review. If you like to edit and share multiple photos via your smart phone and tablet, the wireless functionality of this product can help.I’ve owned the 2TB version for a little over a month now, having used it both professionally in my work as a wedding photographer, and for personal use while traveling with my family. Inserting and removing SD cards is a pretty straightforward process (it works just like doing it on a camera), but there are a few things one should keep in mind. Tapping any photo file or thumbnail retrieves a version to fill the phone’s screen and once in this view you can pinch to zoom-in a little or swipe fairly quickly and responsively between them. Above: BlackMagic’s Disk Speed Test running on a Mac measuring the speed of the WD My Passport Wireless SSD using a cabled USB connection, left, and a wireless connection, right. There’s no display on the drive, but four blue LEDs indicate the backup progress, one quarter at a time.