WD claims the drive’s battery should deliver around six hours of run time my experience was more like four to five hours-and that was without streaming anything. For those reasons, I give the WD My Passport Wireless middling marks on the streaming front. Pressing the WPS button would bring it back. The network would also occasionally disappear if the hot spot was not constantly in use. I noticed no such stalls with lower bit-rate MPEG and audio files, but I have a lot of large MKV rips and I’d rather not be forced to convert them. It streamed a high-bit rate, 1080p MKV rip of Master and Commander to a laptop sitting right next to it smoothly-for the most part-it periodically stalled for up to 10 seconds to refill the buffer. The WD My Passport Wireless’s streaming performance seemed to suffer some of the same issues as the aforementioned Samsung drive. The user interface for WD’s My Passport Wireless is better than most. (Although to be fair, Samsung’s drive has no support for iOS devices at all.) And while it does have UPnP and DLNA servers on board, it doesn’t have an iTunes server. Unlike Samsung’s device, for instance, it can’t serve as a battery backup for other portable devices. The My Passport Wireless’s repertoire is shy a feature or two when compared to some of its competitors.
The device and any media on board are also accessible via WD’s M圜loud apps for Android and iOS. Connect the drive to another network that has Internet access, and you can pass that access through to any devices connected to the My Passport Wireless’s portal.
You can also check the storage, upgrade the firmware, and change the Wi-Fi security settings here.
The WD My Passport Wireless’s default IP address is 192.168.60.1, which is where you surf to configure the device. The WD My Passport Wireless has a handy SD card reader on its side. The top of the unit is home to power/battery and Wi-Fi status lights. It can be configured to do this automatically when you insert a card, which is a handy trick. The left side sports an SD card slot for uploading multimedia content from digital cameras and camcorders. The female USB connector at one end is bordered by an on/off switch and a Wi-Fi Protected Setup/battery status button. The drive has a USB 3.0 interface and it will charge its battery off that bus when attached to a computer. Other wireless portable hard drives we’ve reviewed: Seagate’s Wireless Plus, Corsair’s Voyager Air, Samsung’s Wireless Mobile, Patriot’s Aero, and Toshiba’s Canvio AeroMobile.
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