You can, in fact, simply plug n’ play with them. They measure approximately 4” x 3” and have very minimal set-up required. The My Passport series drives from Western Digital are powerful and portable. Western Digital makes a really nice line of small, portable hard drives and they recently released a new version of the My Passport for Mac. While that might be enough when I’m stationary at my office or at home, when I travel I liked to have redundant backup space and usually carry a portable hard drive. I opted to upgrade my internal storage to 1TB because of the amount of video and photo editing I do on my computer. And, I, too, have been faced with the hard drive space selection. Within the past few days, I recently ordered a new laptop for myself, too (the 2016 MacBook Pro). She does rely a lot on external hard drive storage to backup her files often. While I questioned her decision, she has made it work well for the most part. A couple of years ago, my fiancé upgraded her laptop to a MacBook Pro Retina, but she chose the smaller hard drive capacity due to the price difference. While all the components keep getting smaller and smaller, it seems that hard drive space in computers is getting smaller, too. My Passport for Mac ideal for video file backups and transfers.įile storage seems to always at a premium these days.