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.

Regarding prices, we are 300 and $ 200 for WDMET10000 and WDMET7500TN, the names of specific models of 750 GB and 1 TB, respectively. Like what happened to the internal hard drives this morning, the My Passport Essential are available in SE United States and the rest of the world will arrive in coming days.

By the way, and a half years ago we analyzed a Passport of the first models with 250 GB capacity and with features very similar to the discs presented today. The results were generally quite interesting.