WD manages 2TB on a 2.5-inch USB drive

With SSDs seeming to become the norm with Ultrabooks and the like, it makes sense that more and more people will need a portable hard drive that has vast amounts of storage. Previously, you would only a thumb drive to move small files from one computer to another, but since SSDs are expensive for any sort of storage, our needs have become increasingly large to the point where thumb drives can't keep up. Let me introduce you to the Western Digital's next-generation My Passport.

Before this launch, 2TB drives relied on the larger 3.5-inch drive. These larger drives require more power than a 2.5-inch drive and often couldn't be powered solely over a USB port. To achieve this, the size of the device is up slightly to a total thickness of 21mm versus the 19mm of the 1TB and 750GB models, and the 15 mm of the 500GB model. No performance numbers have been quoted regarding the new drives, but it features USB 3.0 and the case comes in a range of colors as long as you don't want the 2TB model, which seems to be limited to black. It comes with a suggested retail price of $250 for the 2TB model. The 500GB-1TB flavors will ring up between $130 and $200, according to WD.