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Streaming was a mixed bag of easy and not so easy. If youвЂ™re planning to use the drive with a Mac, on the other hand, youвЂ™ll want to leave the drive formatted as exFAT: Macs can read NTFS-formatted drives, but they canвЂ™t write to them. That said, exFAT formatting canвЂ™t explain the slow reading of the 20GB batch of files and folders, where exFAT and NTFS generally perform the same. Small-file write performance improved significantly after I re-formatted the drive from exFAT to the NTFS files system that the other drives in the chart used. The 20GB file and folder write performance will increase significantly if you re-format the drive from exFAT to NTFS.

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The My Passport Wireless Pro performs well as a USB 3.0 hard drive. Our 20GB large-file copy tests came up with almost exactly the same rates however, speeds dropped significantlyВ with our 20GB batch of smaller files and folders: to 75MBps reading and 55MBps writing. AS SSD rated the drive as reading 10GB sequentially at 120MBps, and writing it at 113MBps. Used as a direct-attached USB hard drive, performance was a slightly below average. If you donвЂ™t need to stream on battery power, that kind of juice can go a long way to charging other USB devices. And that was with the drive in performance mode thereвЂ™s also a battery-save mode that squeezes out about an extra half hour to forty-five minutes.

The My Passport Wireless Pro more than doubles its predecessorвЂ™s four-hour run time, delivering 9 hours and 10 minutes in our test. Battery life and performanceДЄs to those extra four ounces of battery.

The addition of the Plex media server lets the My Passport Wireless Pro support more devices, more easily than the Twonky DLNA server, which is still included as well. Twonky does not, and it does a pretty decent job streaming movies and audio to client devices. Note that Plex requires signing up for a free account.

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But Plex has a slicker interface, offers a choice of proprietary or DLNA serving, and it provides clients for nearly every operating system (but not the 32-bit Windows 7 on my older Acer laptop. Plex is optional, as the Twonky DLNA server is already included. Good job WD.ДЄdditionally, youвЂ™re asked if you want to download the Plex media server in order to stream media files from the My Passport Wireless Pro. It also walked me through the process of connecting the parent network to pass through the Internet connection. The browser headed directly for the setup routine without my having to type in the URL for its configuration page.

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With my iPad, all I had to do was select the My Passport network, join using the password prominently displayed on a sticker on the front of the unit, and then open Safari. The new Passport Wireless Pro is even easier to set up that its predecessor. The Wireless ProвЂ™s two USB 3.0 ports and SD card slot are visible in this side shot. You can push a button if you donвЂ™t.) The new model weighs in at nearly a poundвЂ“thatвЂ™s four ounces heavier than the originalвЂ“and weвЂ™re pretty sure itвЂ™s attributable to the 6400 mAh battery. Except that this enclosure sports a micro-USB 3.0 connector, a USB 2.0 Type A port (for charging other devices from the driveвЂ™s battery), and an SD memory-card slot (for transferring files-automatically on insert, if you so choose.

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Unlike its very thick predecessor, the My Passport Wireless Pro could easily be mistaken for a portable optical drive (you remember those, right?). You can also use it for like a NAS box or even a direct-attached USB 3.0 portable hard drive. Log onto the hot spot the My Passport Pro creates and you can stream music, video, or photographs from it to your laptop, tablet, or smartphone. In this case, you get a dual-band 802.11ac hot spot and either 2TB ($230) or 3TB ($250) of storage. If youвЂ™re new to wireless media-streaming hard drives, theyвЂ™re basically a marriage of Wi-Fi hot spot and battery-powered USB storage.

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