Creative professionals like photographers (who go on site and sometimes alone) work in an environment where file usage are usually heavy, projects for advertising industry for example require multiple visual concepts that laptops cant store. Catering to the needs for these mobile rangers, Western Digital made available the WD Pro Series My Passport Wireless Pro Wi-Fi and My Cloud Pro Series NAS,
Using the My Cloud mobile app – the new version will be compatible with the Adobe CC, which is essential when most creative agency us CC for design and layout. In addition, both the series are also compatible with the Plex Media Server and My Cloud OS 3 software for editing, streaming and sharing of content.
“Portability, reliability, capacity, speed and interoperability are crucial for creative professionals, whose very livelihoods rely on the strength of the technology they use to store their life’s work,” said Sven Rathjen, vice president of marketing for content solutions at WD. “We created the WD Pro Series as a comprehensive, feature-rich storage solution designed to fit seamlessly into their workflow, regardless of where the work actually happens, so storage, transfer, back-up, editing and even streaming options are readily available.”
My Passport Wireless Pro
Using direct Wi-Fi connection, users can automatically backup files from compatible cameras, as well as save, edit and transfer work seamlessly up to eight other devices connected to the drive. Tethered connections is possible with and includes a built-in SD card reader as well as a USB 2.0 port. It comes in capacity up to 3TB and able to last 10 hours of usage time with the built in battery pack that can be used to even charge mobile phones.
My Cloud Pro Series NAS
This one goes up to 32TB of storage, like a desktop server My Cloud Pro Series NAS has easy set-up ans usage. Customers can import from cameras/memory card readers and other USB storage with a simple one touch backup button. Supported with a hardware accelerated video processor, its has transcoding capabilities that can ingest, edit, store and stream content to and from popular formats, including 4K video. Useful for motion video creators.
Pricing and Availability
My Passport Wireless Pro Wi-Fi mobile storage is available at select retailers in August and is distributed by Eternal Asia in Malaysia. Suggested retail price is RM 1,099.00 for 3TB and comes with a 2-year limited warranty.
My Cloud Pro Series NAS will retails RM 1,759.00 for the diskless My Cloud Pro 2-bay (PR2100) NAS, RM 2,699.00 for 4TB, RM 3,279.00 for 8TB, RM 4,229.00 for 12TB and RM 4,599.00 for 16TB while for the My Cloud Pro 4-bay (PR4100) NAS is RM 2,589.00 for diskless, RM 4,159.00 for 8TB, RM 5,749.00 for 16TB, RM 7,699.00 for 24TB and RM 7,999.00 for 32TB. WD offers a 2-year limited warranty for diskless models and 3-year limited warranty for populated models.
