Straightforward to use once inctructions downloaded from WD website. Access to images by smart devices makes this far more useful than conventional external hard drive.

The unit is slow and has no handshake ability with pc on network . i might as well walk around house and plug unit in port. what a waste of wifi (144mB/s)

According to reviews, the WD My Passport Wireless Pro is the top choice among wireless external hard drives. It's versatile, too, able to act as a personal hot spot that can share an Internet connection with up to eight devices, and as a media streamer, wirelessly delivering stored movies, music and...

Wireless capability; Can stream stored video; Can act as a Wi-Fi hub; Connects to multiple devices simultaneously; SD card slot for easy photo backups

RAW photo files can't be viewed as thumbnails; Some complaints of glitches

Western Digital is following up their mobile My Passport Wireless drive with the My Passport Wireless Pro, a lightweight portable drive that is lighter, faster, and available in larger capacities with greater battery life.

Large storage capacity; lightweight and portable; decent battery life; pass-through Wi-Fi; integration with Plex and Adobe CC; user-friendly software

Occasional disconnects during streaming; streaming can lag if more than three or four devices are connected at once; getting it to work well with Plex takes quite a bit of effort and know-how; My Cloud app could use more file organization options; not rugged

The content creators of today demand portability and convenience from storage drives, so what would fit their needs? Western Digital's answer: a portable drive with fast wireless speeds and multiple device interfaces – the My Passport Wireless Pro.

Wireless transfer; Long battery life

Speed limited by hardware

The My Cloud app is largely unchanged from the version launched with the original My Passport Wireless. We detailed most of those features All connected media can be accessed from the app - you can browse all files on attached SD cards as well as smartphones connected to the USB 2.0 port.

Broadly speaking, there are two types of people who need a portable hard drive. One type just needs a little additional storage periodically and would rather have something flexible and portable than a big honking drive that plugs into the wall.

We had only two real complaints about WD's original My Passport Wireless media-streaming Wi-Fi hard drive: short-ish battery life, and an inability to charge other devices. WD has remedied both shortcomings with the all-new My Passport Wireless Pro.

This time around, the My Passport Wireless Pro , a souped-up version of the aforementioned wireless drive, landed on our desk for evaluation – note that it complements rather than replaces the existing model.

Great battery life; Sturdy design; Simplified software setup

USB Type-C port would have been nice; Price will put some people off