Western Digital My Book Studio/Studio LX User Manual - Manual (Page 6)

MY BOOK STUDIO AND STUDIO LX
USER MANUAL
ABOUT YOUR WD DRIVE – 1
About Your WD Drive
Welcome to your My Book ® Studio ™ or Studio LX external hard drive. My Book Studio
and Studio LX external drives are the high-performance answer to your storage needs
with WD SmartWare software for automatic, continuous backup, an innovative e-label
system to personalize your drive and easily archive media collections, and a blazing-fast
FireWire 800 interface. Our latest editions feature visual, easy-to-use, automatic,
continuous backup software and drive lock security protection.
This chapter includes the following topics:
Features
Kit Contents
Optional Accessories
Operating System Compatibility
Disk Drive Format
Physical Description
Registering Your Drive
Handling Precautions
Features
Formatted for Mac computers, the My Book Studio and Studio LX external drives feature
an innovative e-label system to personalize your drive and easily archive media
collections, WD SmartWare software, and a fast FireWire 800 interface.
Major features of the My Book Studio and Studio LX drives 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.
Designed for Mac —Formatted for Mac and compatible with Apple ® TimeMachine™,
these drives are plug-and-play ready for Mac computers.
Smart display —Create your own personalized drive label to show what is stored on
each drive. You can even see the label when the drive is unplugged. The display also
provides available capacity and security status information.
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