The new My Passport Studio, which is not to be confused with the old version of the same name, probably is the most full-featured portable external hard drive that Western Digital has ever created.Doing that with an external hard drive is tough though because it’s such a barebones product. If a drive is just a dumb box for your pictures and videos (and honestly, not many casual consumers care about the specifications) then who cares if their drive is a Western Digital or Seagate? No one wants their product to be a commidity, so what we see are companies striving for innovation. Here’s a little secret though–hard drive manufacturers hate just selling hard drives. In the recent past we’ve seen more drive enclosures offering color options and docks of negligible usefulness, but that’s about all the drive manufacturers offered up to consumers. Maybe one was a bit smaller than another, or it had Firewire in addition to USB 2.0, but there has often been little to differentiate them aside from capacity and price (generally a function of capacity). There has generally been little difference from one external hard drive to the next (especially in the highly portable 2.5-inch models).