We love the facility that portable hard drives offer, allowing us to lug stacks of data - literally everything on our computers, in some cases- from place to place. But one major complaint we have had about them is that we have to plug them into a machine to find out what’s on them or even how much space they have left. Well, Western Digital have now come out with the My Passport Studio portable drive which comes with a customizable e-label that’s always visible, even when the drive is unplugged.
Called the Smart Display, it reminds users of what is stored on the drive and provides available capacity and security status at a glance even when the drive is not connected to a computer. It can be changed as often as desired using the included WD SmartWare software. Now, that’s really useful! There are a number of other goodies in there too, including FireWire connectivity and encryption facilities, but it is the label that has got us really intrigued.
The drives come in capacities of 500 GB and 640 GB and are priced at Rs. 9,600 and Rs. 10,750, respectively. We do not have a review unit yet, but it sure seems very good value for money.
With storage requirements going up every day, many of us are investing in portable hard drives to back up our digital information, be it documents, pictures, videos or literally anything and everything that is on our computer’s hard drive. But while going for purchasing a portable hard device, the only factor that most people seem to keep in mind is the hard drive’s capacity. Many of us in fact do not even bother using the software that comes with these devices, preferring to drag and drop files from our computer to the had drive - a tedious and repetitive process. 
