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Western Digital launches 320GB portable drive
A new Western Digital portable drive with nearly a third of a terabyte of storage capacity has come onto the market, retailing at £140.
The USB drive, dubbed the Passport, can hold up to 320GB of films, music, pictures and other bits and bobs, and is protected by 128-bit encryption. It's plug and play and weighs only a few ounces, making it perfect for customers on move, they say.
For anyone interested, 320GB means you can squeeze some of the following on to it: up to 91,000 digital photos, 80,000 songs (MP3), 8,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality), up to 24 hours of digital video (DV), 100 hours of DVD-quality video and up to 38 hours of HD video.
"The need for travel-friendly storage devices continues to be an area that is growing immensely with the advent of rich media content generated by consumers, " said Jim Welsh, a Western Digital exec.
"It's not only music that's consuming space on desktops. Higher resolution pictures and HD videos eat up storage very quickly so we're excited to make a portable 320 GB solution available for consumers on the move." µ
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"and is protected by 128-bit encryption."
From the site I seem to understand that they just give you a software package that encrypts and 'syncs' your files to the passport drive.
So any old software can do that already and it's not really a product feature, it's not on-the-go hardware encryption like some drives have then? 
Bit lame to make that part of the specs in that case, reminiscent of the picture upscale software packed bundled with many webcams that then makes them print silly amounts of megapixels on the package.
I think reviewers and especially technews sites like inq should try to not cater to that, even when paid to advertise a product.
Seems like Apple never is included...

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