WD My Passport Wireless In Depth Review and Benchmarks - FTP, SSH, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android

Author: Lon.TV
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Buy it on Amazon - http://lon.tv/mlmob (affiliate link). This product has been replaced by a new version that you can find my review of here: http://lon.tv/evc6o VIDEO INDEX: 00:14 - Hardware overview 02:38 - Web based control panel 06:25 - DLNA demonstration 07:10 - SD Card data transfer 08:17 - SSH demonstration 09:43 - Wireless benchmark 10:39 - USB 3.0 benchmark 11:23 - Mobile app demonstration 13:12 - Mac / Windows demonstration 13:25 - Conclusion and final thoughts WD has another easy to use Network Attached Storage (NAS) device with the My Passport Wireless. This one is portable and has a battery that can power the device for several hours. Think of it as a mini-My Cloud. The drive works with PCs, Macs, and Linux computers as well as mobile devices running Android and iOS. The WD My Cloud app is the same app that is used to connect to the device with those mobile devices. PC users will use their existing file system to connect. It has a feature to transfer the contents to an SD card to the My Passport Wireless' hard drive. It can do this automatically or via a button push in the web based control panel. It will do a one-way sync so it won't copy over any files that have been previously written to the My Passport Wireless. It also has a neat hotspot feature that can share a public wifi connection but still maintain privacy for the shared files. Users connect to the drive vs. the coffee shop wifi and the drive will then pass the Internet connection onto its connections. This locks out other patrons at a coffee shop from seeing files but does give those accessing the drive simultaneous access to the Internet. Performance is decent for a wireless device. It was able to get about 60 megabits per second when directly connected via WiFi from my Macbook Air. The drive can also be directly connected via USB 3.0 to a compatible PC - but that connection will disable the wireless file sharing capabilities. Like all NAS devices it's best to move large volumes of data through a wired connection - in this case USB 3. But overall this is a great device with very clever features that can very easily share files while on the go. Subscribe to my email list to get a weekly digest of upcoming videos! - http://lon.tv/email Visit the Lon.TV store to purchase some of my previously reviewed items! http://lon.tv/store Want to help the channel? Start a Patreon subscription! http://lon.tv/patreon Follow me on Facebook! http://facebook.com/lonreviewstech Follow me on Twitter! http://twitter.com/lonseidman Follow me on Google+ http://lonseidman.com DISCLOSURE - WD provided me with this product to review.

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  1. I have a question, can I copy files from my micro sd card (using sd adapter) directly into this device (without using any laptop or tablet)? I'm going on a looong trip and I want to carry as little as possible.
  2. I´ve a WD Mypassport Ultra USB 500GB HDD with USB3.0 connector. Can I connect it to MyPasspor Wireless to access files? Somebody knows?
  3. Im planning to buy it and keep it connected most of the time to my TV via USB and transfer HD movies to it through my computer to be able to watch it in my tv, is that possible?
  4. 5-10 minutes for a gigabyte or a terabyte?
  5. Can someone help me add this as on my time machine :( im no tech savvy. it keeps on asking for a password that i never set up
  6. I subed! Do you think a VMWare machine should work fine being the NAS unit at a distance of 3mts? The host machine is vaio z canvas core i7 skylake with 8gb ram and 256 ssd running windows 10. Thanks for the reply in advance!
  7. also how do I setup a my cloud account
  8. how do I setup a WD account I purchased my WD my passport 2tb drive on amazon
  9. is it SSD or hdd
  10. Hi Lon.
    I watch the video and how much i understood when you connect drive with usb cable wifi disable it self. Is that right?
    I ask because i wanted to connect this device to LG smart tv as movie library and then send movies from pc to this drive via wifi home connection, not to play them from pc but just to send them so they stay on drive. I need this so i don't have to disconnect drive from TV every time when i want to put movie on it. What do you think is that possible, or after i connect it to TV, WiFi will not be available?
  11. one question... if i'm on a trip and I finish my memory space con the card I just put the card in and it wil back up everything every time I do this?
  12. How long does it take to upload/download a 1GB file from iOS to the drive or drive to iOS When connected to the Drive's wifi. ?
    Planning to buy this. This info would be helpful.
    Thanks.
  13. Seagate wireless plus OR WD My Passport Wireless for iOS devices?
  14. Hi, thanks for this review. I have a question (apologies if it's not the smatterst question). I'm going on vacation and take my action cam with me. Of course the memory card inside isn't big enough to store all video's. Is it possible to remove the microsd card from the action cam (which has wifi build in), put this microsd card inside this wireless drive and it copies the files without having a laptop available so I can later format the card inside the action cam to have all memory available again for shooting video's?

    Thanks for your expert answer
  15. Can i see the files & folders same like which appears in normal external hard dive & can i create / edit the files & folders directly from the drive, please help also i want to know about WD my cloud, can i directly create / edit the files from any where with the help of Internet
  16. Bought the device? Click on the power button and nothing happen it is working offline but, no luck with wifi so far
  17. Which one to choose?
    WD My Passport Wireless 2 TB
    or
    Kingston Digital MobileLite Wireless Pro.

    Please also tell me why?
  18. Not sure if he said this if he did I completely missed it. With the wireless hard drive are you able to upload to it from mobile? Like lets say you are out camping, no wifi, but your phone or ipod is full and you want to move it, are you able to move it to the drive?
  19. Extremly professional , thank you
  20. outstanding just got one. thanks