WD with the My Passport line is one of the largest manufacturers of external storage. I myself have three pieces with a capacity of 2–4 TB. In 2017, they launched the My Passport SSD, which belonged to the first generation of external SSDs. It impressed us mainly with its unique design and compact dimensions, but unfortunately it never got into my hands. However, this is now changing, as we have received an upgraded version with the same name for 2020.
Read: practical tests
Reading tests are a bit tighter than writing. WD wins the 9 GB one by 5%, we see a 1% difference at 24–36 MB. 5–10 MB one is more suitable for My Passport with a lead of 21%, but in 427–1235 KB, the PXD is 17% faster for a change. The biggest difference is again seen in the smallest files, where the PXD dominates again. My Passport took 16 minutes to complete this test, the T5 and SanDisk up to 40. However, the PXD only took a little over two minutes, which is a really huge difference.
Read: synthetic tests
Synthetic read tests are in favor of My Passport with one exception. However, the differences in sequential, 4K (64 threads) and access time are only 1–2%, which means nothing in real life. 4K read is the only one in which the PXD wins, quite significantly with a 28% difference.
