Western Digital introduced its thinnest 5TB portable external drive

Press Release: Western Digital presented at the IFA 2019 trade fair innovative external drives WD My Passport a WD_My Passport for Mac. This award-winning product line has now been expanded with the thinnest external portable drive with a capacity of 5 TB. The drive is only 19,15 mm (0,75”) thin, has a stylish design, compact dimensions and fits in the palm of your hand. The new drive has a large capacity for storing, sorting and sharing a huge amount of photos, videos, music files and other documents.

"For years, users have trusted My Passport external drives to store their digital content on the go, from family videos to important documents," says David Ellis, vice president of digital content solutions at Western Digital, adding: “People want more and more storage capacity in a smaller size and design. They then expect external drives to become an attractive addition to their lifestyle and their new digital devices. Our goal is to offer a best-in-class solution that keeps digital life backed up and protected so that users can enjoy their precious memories in digitized form for years to come.”

New stylish drives in a modern design are available in capacities of up to 5 TB. The My Passport range is offered in attractive new colors including black, blue and red. The version of My Passport for Mac is dark blue. My Passport drives are formatted for Windows 10 and have a USB 3.0 connector that is backward compatible with the USB 2.0 interface. My Passport for Mac is formatted for macOS Mojave and has a USB-C connector, so it's ready to use right out of the box.

These external drives also provide additional protection for stored digital content thanks to WD Security software (password protection and 256-bit AES hardware encryption), the ability to back up social media content and cloud storage (such as Facebook, Dropbox and Google Drive) and also have WD control software Drive Utilities™. The new external drives use Western Digital's proven reliability and are backed by a three-year limited warranty.

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The new My Passport external drives will be available through online stores and select retailers. Prices will start at CZK 1 for the 790TB model and end at CZK 1 for the 4TB model. For the My Passport for Mac model, the recommended final price is CZK 780.