This sounds like a good idea.
It reminds me of Sanyo Hyperdrive that I had used for a few years, but stopped using because its HDD became too small, and the card-reader was too slow for the moder card size and speed.
I am also a bit worried about low-priced WD HDDs. I am a bit more confident about Seagate portable drives.
In fairness, I think all manufacturers' low-priced HDDs are prone to be defective. ... maybe to a slightly different extent... Knowing a bit about HDD industry, I am guessing the reasons for that: For the cheap consumer drives, it is cheaper for the company to replace some deffective drives than to carefully test all of them. Enterprise-level drives are much more expensive, and they undergo very careful testing.
So, expecting the price being around $200, I wouldn't jump on it (cheap drive + relatively high price).
I might consider instead something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=1E8-0003-00001 and a separate mobile HDD from Seagate or Transcend. (I've been recently looking at Transcend rugged 2TB HDDs that cost in the vicinity of $115-125.) Igor On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Matthew Hunt wrote:
This may be of interest to photographers who travel without a laptop. Western Digital has a new line of portable hard drives with a built-in SD card reader and the ability to back up the card without a computer:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8472/western-digital-launches-my-passport-wireless-mobile-storage-lineup
It also seems like you could use the WiFi functionality to review images on your tablet or phone (though I always worry about raw file support).
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