Western Digital My Passport Studio User Manual - Manual (Page 6)

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MY PASSPORT STUDIO
USER MANUAL
ABOUT YOUR WD DRIVE – 1
About Your WD Drive
Welcome to your My Passport ™ Studio ™ ultra-portable 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 Passport Studio FireWire 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 introductory chapter includes the following topics:
Major Features of the Drive
Kit Contents
Optional Accessories
Compatibility
Drive Format
Physical Description
Registering Your WD Product
Handling Precautions
Major Features of the Drive
WD's ultra-portable, Mac ® -ready My Passport Studio drive is smaller than ever but
packed with innovative features to help you organize your digital life.
Smart display—Create your own personalized drive label to remind you of what's stored
on each drive. You can even view the label when the drive is unplugged. The display also
includes available capacity and security status.
Our smallest portable drive ever—We're experts in portable storage, so we designed a
smaller, high-quality hard drive inside a premium finished package.
FireWire ® 800—Save and access data at top speeds with the high-performance
FireWire 800 interface.
USB 2.0—For maximum flexibility, you can also connect your drive via the USB 2.0 port
on your computer. No separate power supply is needed.
Note: An optional cable is available for the few computers that limit power from
the USB port.
Designed for use with Mac computers—Formatted for Mac and compatible with
Apple
® Time Machine ™ , this drive is plug-and-play ready for Mac computer users.
WD SmartWare™ software—See your life safe in one place.
• See your backup as it happens—Seeing is believing. Visual backup displays
your content in categories and shows the progress of your backup.
• 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.
• Bring back lost files effortlessly—Retrieve your valuable data to its original
location whether you've lost all your data or just overwritten an important file.