WD—a subsidiary of Western Digital—unveiled new portable drives today. The My Passport Edge drives are sleek, and they’re affordable. But, depending on how you intend to use a portable drive, or what type of data you plan to store on it, the My Passport Edge drives might not be the way to go.
I have a 320GB WD Passport drive that I carry around in my messenger bag when I travel. It gives me some extra space if the 128GB SSD in my MacBook Air runs out of space, and it provides me with a simple way of transferring very large files from one PC to another.
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