WD's My Passport Essential: now in 11 different colors

Face it: Western Digital's My Passport Essential family of portable hard drives was hamstrung from day one. After all, with just about every other external HDD from the company coming in any amount of colors, who exactly is going to be kosher with just black? Never fear, as WD's dutiful painting squad has stepped up and given prospective buyers 11 different hues to select from. Each drive comes in 120GB, 160GB, 250GB and 320GB capacities and gets all the juice it needs via USB 2.0, but choosing between candy apple red and banana yellow could really slow up the checkout process.

[Via I4U News]

[Mike @ Apr 9th 2008 11:59AM]

Still no silver?

[Luke from Montreal @ Apr 9th 2008 12:10PM]

Seriously! Silver would be nice...

[Luke from Montreal @ Apr 9th 2008 12:11PM]

...however I would only buy the black or silver (if offered) anyway

[Anonymoose @ Apr 9th 2008 12:15PM]

dude, that dramatic effect you did with the ellipses? breathtaking and totally necessary. that just simply would not have been the same if written all in one post.

[John @ Apr 9th 2008 12:46PM]

Forget silver, I want Gold

[Shadowise @ Apr 9th 2008 12:50PM]

The original (read: chunkier/uglier) passport came in silver. Guess they decided it wasn't popular.

[thatrotierkid @ Apr 9th 2008 1:41PM]

i love gold...

[Jared @ Apr 9th 2008 2:12PM]

I would prefer gold with diamonds encrusted on it, probably would only cost $7,500

[LondonConsultant @ Apr 9th 2008 4:23PM]

Rainbow RAID array...

[Anonymoose @ Apr 9th 2008 12:01PM]

pez?

[Anonymoose @ Apr 9th 2008 12:02PM]

and don't worry, pez in its original greek means "first" so i crossed a couple of things off my posting checklist with that one post

[aardvark sandwich @ Apr 9th 2008 12:06PM]

Too bad it doesnt mean second.

[Anonymoose @ Apr 9th 2008 12:07PM]

heavens to betsy! what happened???? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[RyanTV @ Apr 9th 2008 12:51PM]

I'm kind of surprised it doesn't me "Stupid".

[RyanTV @ Apr 9th 2008 12:51PM]

I'm kind of surprised it doesn't mean "Stupid".

[Juaquin @ Apr 9th 2008 1:31PM]

Semi-epic fail

[Christian Martin @ Apr 9th 2008 12:02PM]

At a glance, that pic could almost be mistaken for a stack of Colorware'd iPod Minis.

[cDub @ Apr 9th 2008 2:40PM]

Am I the only one who thought it was a Winrar archive?

[tom @ Apr 9th 2008 12:04PM]

It does look very nice, but taking power only from USB, how fast will the DTR be?

Instead of different colour, why don't WD just sell mod kits. I hate when I order a red, only white is available

[Shinigami @ Apr 9th 2008 12:10PM]

And in the end you still buy the black one...

[tom @ Apr 9th 2008 12:12PM]

for the sake of matching my thinkpad, YES =P

[Tim @ Apr 9th 2008 12:13PM]

Off topic, but how effective would this be with an eee running xp?

[chrisaroz @ Apr 9th 2008 12:18PM]

Well I guess that depends... If you want to back stuff up to a portable hard drive it would probably knock your socks off, however, if you want to make flapjacks - not so much.

[Carnaval13 @ Apr 9th 2008 12:17PM]

There is a silver one (and 2 other colors) but it's a Passport Elite, not a Passport Essential

http://wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=408

Can plug it on your xbox as a movie library.

[paulb67 @ Apr 9th 2008 1:38PM]

They should spend more time fixing their reliability. Do a search and see all the people having problems with drives failing or overheating, and data loss.

[x20mar @ Apr 9th 2008 12:24PM]

My Passport Hard Drives now available in more colours than your ipod

[raptorspike @ Apr 9th 2008 12:39PM]

Can they allow the Wii to use a external HD? That white one would look great next to my Wii. As for the person who said this should slow down data transfer: you are aware that two of the four pins in a USB plug are for power, and the other two for data?

[Eli @ Apr 9th 2008 1:21PM]

I think he means that because USB supplies little power, the spin rate of the drive would be limited, probably no more than 4200 RPM.

[davr @ Apr 9th 2008 4:48PM]

no, wii does not currently accept external USB disks. it may be theoretically possible, but there is no official word that they will ever do it. right now you're limited to 0.5GB of internal storage and 2GB of SD storage.

[Joseph @ Apr 9th 2008 12:53PM]

I want it in clear.

[Jesus @ Apr 9th 2008 5:03PM]

Like on 30 rock when Jack was asked what color plane he'd want to buy "Clear, like Wonder Woman"

[Itchy Pajamas @ Apr 9th 2008 12:55PM]

I'm torn between Viola and Ultra Mint. Maybe I'll get both.

I can't imagine Best Buy stores stocking all of these. Even the on-line order places will have to add another digit to their SKUs to support this proliferation of color in products.

[mrhammerstein @ Apr 9th 2008 1:17PM]

now if they could only have a 5 year warranty like Seagate instead of their measly 1 year warranty

[XGM @ Apr 9th 2008 6:17PM]

They do have 5 years on the desktop ones... But as most hard-drives I have had goes, it'll burn out in a month or it lasts for ever (Still use my 8GB Quantum Fireball on one of my linux rigs)

[StuperMang @ Apr 9th 2008 1:18PM]

Taste the rainbow!

[David Becker @ Apr 9th 2008 2:29PM]

to bad WD is crap!

[phanbouy @ Apr 9th 2008 2:58PM]

to bad or not to bad, that is the question

[Grammar Queen @ Apr 9th 2008 4:03PM]

It's "too" bad, not "to" bad

[Christian Martin @ Apr 9th 2008 3:13PM]

Okay, I actually laughed out loud at that, cDub.

[IT-Accountant @ Apr 9th 2008 4:19PM]

Thank God! I would never buy a storage device that wasn't yellow!

j/k

[OneLove @ Apr 9th 2008 4:27PM]

I only see 10 different colors

[Bill @ Apr 9th 2008 4:54PM]

WD needs a 500GB version for $199 by the end of the year.

[Matt @ Apr 9th 2008 5:03PM]

When a decent company loses the plot.

Well at least we can look forward to vomitous colour 320GB WD Passports in the bargain bucket in months to come :)

[kei @ Apr 10th 2008 12:10AM]

looks like a box of crayons when all different colors are stacked together.

Its only good to get if you can buy more than one and stack them