WD Passport Portable Drive 320GB Announced

Western Digital doubled the capacity of its Passport portable drive to 320GB. The USB-powered external 2.5-inch drive is available in several colors and priced at $199.

The WD Passport comes with syncronization and search software preloaded for Windows users. The Western Digital Passport will work on MacBooks, but the bundled software is not Mac friendly.

Western Digital will continue selling the Passport 120GB and Passport 160GB drives. The Passport weighs less than four ounces and is just over half an inch thick.

Western Digital claims the 320GB Passport can store:

Up to 91,000 digital photos
Up to 80,000 songs (MP3)
Up to 8,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
Up to 24 hours of Digital Video (DV)
Up to 100 hours of DVD quality video
Up to 38 hours of HD video