About your wd drive, Features – Western Digital My Book Essential User Manual User Manual
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MY BOOK ESSENTIAL
USER MANUAL
ABOUT YOUR WD DRIVE
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About Your WD Drive
Welcome to your My Book
®
Essential external hard drive, an elegant, high-capacity
storage solution for all the chapters of your digital life. Our latest edition features visual,
easy-to-use, automatic, continuous backup software and drive lock security protection.
WD's best-selling My Book Essential USB external hard drive features WD SmartWare
software that backs up your data automatically and continuously, shows your backup as
it happens, and brings back lost files effortlessly.
This chapter includes the following topics:
Operating System Compatibility
Disk Drive Format
Physical Description
Registering the Drive
Handling Precautions
Features
Major features of the My Book Essential drive include:
Smaller, sleeker, more streamlined design—We've made these award-winning drives
even smaller, sleeker, and more elegant. As always, the book-like shape takes up less
space on your desk and allows two or more My Book drives to nestle neatly together like
volumes on a shelf.
WD SmartWare™ software—An easy-to-use backup solution that gives you the power
to:
• Protect your data automatically—Relax! Your data is secure. Automatic,
continuous backup will instantly make a second copy whenever you add or
change a file.
• See your backup as it happens—Seeing is believing. Visual backup organizes and
displays your content into categories and shows the progress of your backup.
• Bring back lost files effortlessly—Retrieve your valuable data to its original
location whether you've lost all your data, deleted a file, or just overwritten an
important file.
• Take control—Customize your backup, set drive security, run diagnostics,
manage the power settings, and more from the WD SmartWare control center.
• Drive lock—Gain peace of mind knowing that your data is protected from
unauthorized access or theft with password protection and 256-bit hardware-
based encryption.
USB 3.0 interface—A simple connection that offers convenience and compatibility
among multiple computers.
Power miser—My Book external drives are designed to save energy. WD GreenPower
Technology™ lowers internal drive power consumption by up to 30%, a sleep mode
reduces power during idle times, and a power-saving feature turns the drive on and off
with your computer.
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