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Despite this extra exterior protection, the drive's 95mm x 50mm x 14.5mm dimensions are only marginally more bulky than the non-ruggedized WD My Passport SSD.
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Its standout feature is its ruggedized design that protects the drive against a 3-metre drop and 1000lb of crushing force, plus the exterior is IP67 rated to resist dust and moisture.
Until recently this drive was known as the G-DRIVE Mobile SSD R-Series, and may still be called this at some retailers.
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Pricey per gigabyte -Needs reformatting for PC
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The Envoy Pro EX is available in 460GB, 1TB, 2TB and 4TB capacities - the latter being unusual among portable SSDs, and ideal if you need to keep 4K or even 8K video content backed up and mobile. That image write rate did peak at a healthier 413MB/s during the transfer, but the drive couldn't sustain this speed, hence the slower average figure.
An average 612MB/s read speed moving multiple image files is also superb, though write speeds take a significant performance hit, with an average 481MB/s when writing video and just 278MB/s when writing multiple images.
Real world file transfers will always be slower than a synthetic benchmark test, but we still recorded a hugely impressive 995MB/s peak read speed when shifting one massive video file, though this figure did drop as the transfer progressed, leaving the final averaged video read speed at a more modest - though still very rapid - 645MB/s. Thankfully, with NVMe SSD technology and a Thunderbolt 3 connection promising a theoretical 40Gbps bandwidth (that's 4x faster than USB 3.1 Gen 2), the Envoy Pro EX has all the right ingredients for winning performance.ĬrystalDiskMark gets things off to a good start with stunning peak sequential read/write speeds of 1440/726MB/s respectively, though this is some way short of OWC's claim of "up to 2800MB/s". So it'd better have plenty of performance to compensate. At 14.5 x 7.4 x 2.3cm and 300g with the bumper in place, this drive is positively gargantuan next to rival Sandisk or WD portable SSDs, and it even outsizes the power brick for our high-end testing laptop. However, all this ruggedness does have a downside: bulk. With its removable rubberized bumper and bombproof build quality, it's no surprise that the rock-solid Envoy Pro EX boasts military-grade MIL-STD810G drop protection. Write speeds disappointingly average -Huge and heavy A USB-C to USB-A adapter is included in the box. These are marginally faster results than the SanDisk's superb Extreme Pro Portable SSD, apart from the image write speed where the My Passport SSD was nearly 30% slower.Ĭapacity options include 500GB, 1TB and 2TB, with connectivity being via USB Type-C 3.2 Gen 2. We achieved an average 651MB/s and 569MB/s read/write speed with video files, and 538/364MB/s with multiple image files. Switching to real-world testing inevitably brings a performance hit, but the new My Passport SSD still performs well. And refreshingly we found WD's claims to be bang-on, as CrystalDiskMark measured 1041MB/s and 1002MB/s read/write rates - very impressive. We weren't all that impressed with the speeds we got from the old My Passport SSD, but this new one is built around NVMe SSD technology and promises to be nearly twice as fast, with advertised max read/write speeds of 1050MB/s and 1000MB/s respectively. The new version has a smoother, more rounded design, but while it looks different, it still goes by the exact same My Passport SSD name, just for that little extra confusion. This is WD's latest version of its popular MyPassport SSD, not to be confused with the previous incarnation which is still on sale. Video write speed not class-leading -Bland looks
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