If all you want for Christmas is more hard disk space, then let Western Digital play Santa with their new 320GB Passport(R) Portable Drive. That’s a heck of a lot of storage for something that weighs five ounces.

I’ll have to agree with the following quote from Jim Welsh, vice president and general manager of WD’s branded products group: "It’s not only music that’s consuming space on desktops. Higher resolution pictures and HD videos eat up storage very quickly so we’re excited to make a portable 320 GB solution available for
consumers on the move."

Before you reach for your wallet, do be warned that it isn’t exactly cheap at $229.99 USD. WD has also slapped on some Google software on the drive – the Google Desktop Search, Picasa and yeah, that annoying toolbar. WD’s also included their own WD Sync(TM) software to make data synchronisation simpler and for the paranoid, 128-bit encryption just in case you, well, misplace your expensive pocket drive.

If you must have this, then the drive should be available, along with convenient carry-cases, at selected stores or online at http://www.shopwd.com

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Entry was posted on Monday, December 3rd, 2007 at 11:55 am under Storage.

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