Western Digital My Passport (6TB) review: spacious and stocky | Tom's Hardware
After years of capacity stagnation at 5TB, Western Digital recently upped its top-capacity portable hard drives to 6TB
the thickness of WD's My Passport drives increases at every capacity pump — starting at 0.44 inches for 1TB, and nearly doubling that (0.81 inches) for the 6TB model
Overall, the 6TB WD drive feels a bit chunky and hefty (it weighs nearly half a pound) for an external hard drive, and it's positively massive compared to most modern external SSDs. Crucial's X9 and X10 drives are about 1/6th the size, though they do top out at 4TB. Samsung's T5 Evo SSD is about half the size and houses up to 8TB of storage. But the Samsung drive is in another price league (at around $600)
you'll pay extra for the highest possible capacity. As of this writing,
the 6TB model sells for $180, while the 5TB model sells for $127.
the 6TB model sells for $180, while the 5TB model sells for $127.
The capacity jump comes with an increase in z-height, with the 6TB model being 0.81 inches thick to the 5TB's 0.75 inches. So it's likely that the company simply added an extra platter over the 5TB model we looked at back in 2020.
you can buy a version of this drive with a USB-C cable on the drive side, but it costs $5 more and only comes in gray
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