Western Digital has updated its portable hard drives, coinciding with the launch of the Scorpio Blue 1TB. The new model is called WD My Passport Essential SE, and its main innovation over previous Passport is its ability: two models of 750 GB and 1 TB of capacity.

Maintaining the vast majority of characteristics: same size (15 × 80 × 126 mm), weight (180 grams) and USB 2.0 interface to connect the disk to the computer. As is customary in external hard drives for the vast majority of manufacturers, the new WD My Passport Essential are several additional software, such as to add a certain level of security to encrypt data, or programs for backup and synchronization information.

For now only be available one color, gray titanium, but Western Digital is likely to increase the range of colors in the future to maintain the range of previous models.

The WD Scorpio Blue is the first hard drive 2.5-inch magnetic plate that reaches the terabytes of capacity. That is, we get what we can and in some laptops to use two hard drives, but saving one. The paste is that, although it is a SATA 2.5-inch, has a thickness of 12.5 mm, which is not suitable for the majority of laptops, using the standard 9.5 mm.