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This drive is PMR-based and ( Update - : The ST4000LM016 uses platters that operate partly in PMR mode and partly in SMR, along with multi-tier caching (MTC) which includes DRAM and flash - The efficiency of MTC ensures that an empty drive maintains as much consistency as a PMR drive even under heavy traffic.) offers performance similar to the My Passport 4TB. OS X Snow Leopard had a magical and invisible PowerPC emulation application, called Rosetta, that worked seamlessly in the background that still allowed older. At $139, it is around $20 more than the Seagate Backup Plus Portable 4TB drive which comes with 200GB of cloud storage for two years. The My Passport 4TB pricing follows a similar trend.
However, to WD's advantage, it does sport a helium drive with consistent performance compared to the Archive HDD used in the offerings from Seagate. This is much cheaper than the $349 of the Seagate Innov8, but priced around $35 more than the Seagate Backup Plus 8TB that comes with 200GB of cloud storage for two years. We ran CrystalDiskMark with an encrypted drive and found that there was no performance loss due to the activation of the security features.Ĭoming to the business end of the review, the new My Book 8TB model retains the price of the earlier model - $250. Note that this password activates the AES-256 hardware encryption block on the drive (the encryption is in the drive, rather than the USB bridge chip) for both models.