When it comes to hard drives, Western Digital is a household name. As the world's largest hard disk drive manufacturer in terms of market share, Western Digital has won the favor of many enterprises and individual users with its excellent technical strength and product performance.
 
In recent years, acquisitions in the hard disk industry have been common, and Western Digital's acquisition of Hitachi in 2011 was one of the most watched mergers and acquisitions. After many anti-monopoly investigations, Western Digital successfully acquired Hitachi, which had the third largest market share at the time, and firmly occupied the position of the leader in the hard disk industry. With the rise of the SSD industry, Western Digital acquired SanDisk, a major flash memory manufacturer, in 2016 and entered the SSD market in great strides.
 
In recent years, the capacity of portable hard disks has been expanding, and the maximum capacity of portable portable hard disks can reach more than 4T. However, some businesses and individuals need hard drives to store large amounts of data, and portable portable hard drives cannot meet the storage needs. As a result, desktop portable hard drives with larger volumes and larger capacities have emerged. Western Digital's My Book series of desktop portable hard drives, which supports 8T of storage capacity, won the "Editor's Choice Award" in the PCMag Best External Hard Drive Awards.
 
Western Digital's portable hard drives are divided into two series: "Element" and My Passport. The "Element" series uses a plastic shell, the price is low, the read and write speed can reach more than 120MB/s, and the performance is guaranteed, and the 2T version is 539 yuan. Compared with the "element" series, the appearance of the My Passport series is more recognizable, My Passport is divided into the basic version of the plastic shell and the Ultra version of the metal case, the read and write speed of the Ultra version is greater than 125MB/s, slightly higher than the basic model, the 2T version is 599 yuan, it is worth buying.
 
With the gradual development of network technology, mobile hard disks with wireless transmission functions have also become popular. Western Digital's wireless hard drive My Passport Wireless Pro has comprehensive functions, which can be used wirelessly for multiple devices, and the mobile phone can directly access the content in the hard drive, which is extremely convenient to use, and My Passport Wireless Pro has an SD card slot, which can back up the data in the card with one click, which is suitable for photographers to copy materials at any time. The 3T version is 1799 yuan, and the 4T version is 1999 yuan, although the price is slightly expensive, it is still worth recommending.
 
My Passport SSD is a portable SSD produced by Western Digital and has been praised by digital media The Wirecutter. Its 400MB/s read and write speed is more than 3 times that of HDD. The My Passport SSD is more expensive, with the 512GB version priced at 1,389 yuan, nearly 300 yuan higher than similar products from Seagate and Samsung.