Western Digital My Passport Ultra Portable Hard Drive Review

Test System

• Intel Core i7-4960X
• MSI R9 280 and Sapphire 7950 Crossfire
• Asus P9 X79-E WS Motherboard
• ADATA XPG V2 DDR3 2600 MHz 16 GB RAM kit
• NZXT Phantom 410 Case
• Corsair H100 CPU Cooler
• Thermaltake Toughpower 1350W Power Supply

Benchmarks

Anvil Storage Utilities

Anvil is a good overall benchmark using incompressible data that gives results in MB/s and IOPS for both read and write.
Here the My Passport Ultra was able to pull 116 MB/s read and 115 MB/s write which is quite impressive for an external drive.

ATTO

ATTO is generally considered the “best case” benchmark because it uses fully compressible data.
Here our WD drive maxed out around 122 MB/s read and write, again very respectable numbers.

CrystalDiskMark

CrystalDiskMark is another good benchmark for getting an overall idea of a drives real-world potential.
Similar to the other synthetic benchmarks, the little portable drive had a sequential read of 123 and write of 122.

Real-World Transfer

We finish off our benchmarks with a simple file transfer. In the first case we are transferring about 47 GB of videos to the drive and in the second we are transferring  2 GB of photos. This gives us an idea of what we can expect in a real-world situation.
The 47 GBs of videos transferred in about 8 minutes and averaged around 110 MB/s, very close to what our benchmarks predicted.
The 2 GBs of photos transferred much slower because of there being multiple small files rather than a few large ones. However the My Passport Ultra still averaged about 30 MB/s, getting thousands of pictures over in only a minute.

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