My Passport is a series of portable

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s produced by

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. There are currently six series of My Passport drives; ''Essential Edition'', ''Essential SE Edition'', ''Elite Edition'', ''Essential for Mac'', ''Studio Edition'' and the ''Essential SE for Mac''. Drives in the series are designed to look like and be the size of a passport. None of them require a power socket although the "elite editions" feature a docking system.

Standard editions

Essential Edition

''Essential Editions'' include

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ports, the white

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Indicator.

Essential SE Edition

''Essential SE Editions'' have both

and

ports and come in 750 GB and 1 TB variations; the Essential SE Edition has the same physical appearance as the Essential Edition.

Elite Edition

''Elite Editions'' have a

port and come in 320 GB (298

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), 500 GB (466

)and 640 GB (596

) variations. Elite Editions include a desktop dock and have a LED capacity gauge on the front and a lock indicator. This edition comes in red, blue and black.

Mac editions

Essential Edition

The ''Essential Edition for MacBook Pro and Air'' has a

port and a capacity of 320 GB (298 GiB) and is available in gloss black. It has the same design as the Essential Edition.wdc.com – Western Digital portable range for mac.
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Essential SE Edition

The ''Essential SE Edition for Mac'' has a

port and a capacity of 1 TB and comes in silver. It has the same design as the Essential Edition.

Studio Edition

The ''Studio Edition'' has FireWire 400, FireWire 800 and

ports and a capacity of 320 GB (298

) and 640 GB (596

). The Studio Edition has a capacity gauge on the top side and has a silver appearance.

Console editions

My Passport X Edition

The My Passport X editions include a

port and come in 1TB and 2TB variations. This specific edition has been marketed as a hard drive designed to extend the storage capacity of consoles such as the

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