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Wednesday, April 24th, 2013Contest: WD My Passport portable hard disk drives to be won
Saturday, March 23rd, 2013Here’s your chance to win a My Passport 2TB, a My Passport Studio 2TB, or a My Passport Edge 500GB portable hard drive, worth a total of S$637. Giveaway ends 31 March 2013.
Update (3 April, 2013):
We have the final winner for the WD My Passport Studio 2TB (S$299). It is Rex Heng. Congratulations!
I will be contacting all the winners by email to arrange the mailing/delivery of the WD My Passport hard drives.
To all the others who took the time and effort to submit your entries, THANK YOU!
Update (2 April, 2013):
We have the winner for the WD My Passport 2TB (S$229). It is Denise Ting. Congratulations!
Update (1 April, 2013):
We have a winner for the WD My Passport Edge 500GB (S$109). It is Lam SK. Congratulations!
Stand a chance to win a WD My Passport 2TB (S$229), My Passport Studio 2TB (S$299), and My Passport Edge 500GB (S$109).
We consume so much music, photos and videos in our digital life, there’s just not enough storage to bring them around or back them up.
WD portable hard drives up for grabs:
- 1 Apr: My Passport Edge 500GB (S$109)
- 2 Apr: My Passport 2TB (S$229)
- 3 Apr: My Passport Studio 2TB (S$299)
From now till 31 March 2013, simply share – in less than 50 words – how you plan to use any one of the three WD My Passport portable hard drives should you win it.
Post your responses as comments at the end of this post.
Check out the rules of the Giveaway below.
WD Singapore Facebook Contest: Portable drives, routers & cash vouchers
Saturday, March 16th, 2013WD Singapore is having a contest on its Facebook page – called “WD’s Winning Five”. Simply submit – today or tomorrow – your particulars via its contest app and you may be randomly selected as one of 10 lucky winners.
Win one of five main prizes or one of five consolation prizes at WD Singapore’s Facebook page.
The winners will be announced over six days from 18 to 23 March.
If you’re selected as a daily winner and have an IT Show 2013 invoice for any WD product purchased, you’ll receive an additional S$40 CapitaLand voucher!
Here’s what’s up for grabs:
Review: WD My Passport Studio 2TB portable HDD for Macs
Monday, March 11th, 2013Two super-fast FireWire 800 ports, password protection, and a MacBook-inspired, metal enclosure make this drive the ideal companion for the photographer, videographer, graphic artist, or creative professional on the go. RRP: S$299.
You can see (from right) two FireWire 800 ports, a USB 2.0 port and a white/blue activity light at the back of the WD My Passport Studio 2TB portable hard drive.
The two super-fast FireWire 800 ports enables you to save and access data at up to 800 Mb/s.
WD My Passport Studio 2TB measures 127 x 84 x 25.4 mm and weighs 363g.
The WD My Passport Studio 2TB comes pre-formatted in HFS+ Journaled for Mac OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard.
So you can simply connect the drive to the Mac with the included FireWire 800 cable to enjoy instant compatibility with Apple Time Machine, which provides quick and easy automatic backup for your Mac hard drives.
Review: WD My Passport Edge 500GB portable hard drive
Sunday, March 10th, 2013WD’s My Passport Edge 500GB is slimmer than its siblings in the My Passport range of portable hard drives, supports both USB 2.0 and 3.0, and comes bundled with backup and data protection software. RRP: S$109.
WD My Passport Edge offers high capacity in an ultra-compact design – an ideal companion for anyone who needs to take their digital content on the road.
Only available in 500GB capacity, My Passport Edge is ultra-compact and comes with automatic, backup software, software protection and hardware encryption to help protect your files from unauthorised use.
WD My Passport Edge measures 110 x 82 x 12.5 mm and weighs 255g.
Only 12.5mm thin, My Passport Edge comes pre-formatted with NTFS for Windows computers (up to Windows 8), and WD SmartWare backup software and WD Security hardware encryption with password protection.
Review: WD My Passport 2TB portable hard drive
Saturday, March 9th, 2013WD’s My Passport 2TB portable drive supports both USB 2.0 and 3.0 and has an outer shell that is resistant to scratches and fingerprints. RRP: S$229.
WD My Passport 2TB offers high capacity in a sleek portable drive. There’s plenty of room to store all your photos, music, movies and files.
Launched last year, the 2.5-inch-based My Passport 2TB portable drive was the first to squeeze such a high capacity into a portable drive – at a time when rivals believed cramming such capacities required new recording technology.
My Passport 2TB measures 111 x 82 x 21 mm and weighs 230g.
A single standard half-metre USB cable connects the drive to the computer and provides both the data and power connection.
IT Show 2013 promotions: Western Digital storage solutions
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013WD will be at IT Show 2013 at Marina Bay Sands at Booth B123.
Click to view or download WD promotions during IT Show 2013.
Check out discounts and promotions from WD for their portable and external hard drives.
SITEX 2012 promotions: WD storage drives and media players
Friday, November 23rd, 2012WD will be at SITEX 2012 in the Singapore EXPO with resellers Challenger (6A30) and Newstead (6F30).
Click to view or download WD promotions for SITEX 2012.
Check out WD’s SITEX 2012 discounts and bundled freebies for its range of portable and desktop hard drives, as well as its media players.
In addition, WD has an ongoing promotion for purchases from 1 November 2012 to 15 January 2013, with $7,000 in cash vouchers and WD products.
COMEX 2012 promotions: Western Digital
Wednesday, August 29th, 2012Western Digital will be at COMEX 2012 at Suntec Singapore at Hall 6, Booth 6205.
Click to view or download WD promotions during COMEX 2012.
Check out WD’s COMEX 2012 promotional discounts for its comprehensive range of desktop external hard drives, portable drives, media players, personal cloud storage, and the Sentinel DX4000 storage server NAS for the small office.
New portable hard drive: WD My Passport 2TB
Thursday, April 5th, 2012Western Digital has announced the first 2TB portable drive in its My Passport line. It is available now at S$319. Review here. (Update: WD has also launched the My Passport Studio 2TB for Mac users for S$369.)
Western Digital My Passport 2TB portable hard drive, S$319.
With a new enclosure design, the 2TB My Passport portable drive has an outer shell that is resistant to scratches and fingerprints.
My Passport portable drives come in many colours.
My Passport portable drives feature fast USB 3.0 connectivity; USB 2.0 compatibility; continuous, automatic backup software; and password protection with hardware encryption.
The included software offers the flexibility to customize the drive to a user’s storage preferences: installing all features, only the components needed, or using the drive without the software.
Below is the fact sheet for the hard drive.
