WD's 320GB My Passport AV external HDD wants to have and hold your media

Western Digital has played this card before with the strategically named My DVR Expander, but for those who don't realize that an external hard drive is an external hard drive, there's the My Passport AV. For all intents and purposes, this 320GB HDD is nothing more than a standard drive with a fancy marketing scheme following it closely. Oh, sure -- it may work "seamlessly" with Sony's Direct Copy feature on the outfit's range of Handycam camcorders, but outside of that, we don't see anything in particular that makes us long to pay more for something that doesn't really do more than any other 320GB HDD on shelves today. If you're in complete opposition (it's cool... really), it's available to order today for $109.99.

[Snowman Posted Mar 10th 2010 5:09PM]

Sucks that the Xbox 360 (and the PS3) will only read FAT32 usb drives.

[yourbrokenamp Posted Mar 10th 2010 6:58PM]

@Snowman

Actually the 360 also reads HFS+. It can detect iPods that are formatted under OS X.

[PBB Posted Mar 10th 2010 9:16PM]

@Snowman
It picks up my 500GB WD MyBook just fine. Its NTFS.

[APV Posted Mar 10th 2010 5:09PM]

Wow... that looks a heck of a lot like my REGULAR Passport HDD... Except mine was $89 and hold 500GB...

[Vol Posted Mar 10th 2010 5:12PM]

For use with a 360? FAIL.

[Vol Posted Mar 10th 2010 5:16PM]

@Vol

I say this because Microsoft is a money sucking leech when it comes to their hard drive policies and upgrade paths.

[mattcoz Posted Mar 10th 2010 6:13PM]

@Vol It's for playing media off of, they clearly state that.

[dingus Posted Mar 10th 2010 5:12PM]

I bought that exact same drive in that exact same case two years ago for exactly that much.

[SuperHaole Posted Mar 10th 2010 6:42PM]

@dingus
exactly 2 years ago?

[htd Posted Mar 10th 2010 5:13PM]

I like seagate white freeagent go with dock better, and it matches wii perfectly.

http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/76/36/49/01/0076364901193_500X500.jpg

[eXistenZ Posted Mar 10th 2010 5:28PM]

next...

[pika2000 Posted Mar 11th 2010 4:39AM]

The problem with the 360 is that you cannot copy anything from the 360 hard-drive to the external hard-drive.