Don't apprehend to apprehend a book on 'em, but Western Digital's latest My Passport Studio harder drives affection a customizable e-paper affectation that stays on even if the drive is unplugged.
(e-paper is all the acerbity in alien drives lately, and we've already apparent Western Agenda accomplish the advancement in their larger externals.)
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Aside from the display, the My Passport Studios are preformatted for Macs (though they'll run just accomplished on a PC with a reformat), affix over USB or FireWire 800 and ambit in amount from $150 (for 320GB) to $200 (for 640GB). They're accessible now. [Western Digital]
WD(R) Introduces New My Passport(TM) Studio(TM) Carriageable Drives, Delivering Super-Fast, Go-Anywhere Performance for Mac(R) Computers
E-Label Acute Affectation Helps Artistic Professionals Adapt Their Storage
LAKE FOREST, Calif., March 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — WD® (NYSE: WDC), the world's baton in alien accumulator solutions, today alien its new My Passport™ Studio™ carriageable drives featuring the super-fast FireWire® 800 interface and a customizable e-label that's consistently visible, even if the drive is unplugged. Sporting a glassy and beautiful design, the new high-performance My Passport Studio drives are formatted for Mac® computers, accordant with Apple® TimeMachine® software, and affection automated and connected advancement with WD SmartWare™ software, and 256-bit hardware-based encryption. Accessible now at baddest retailers and shopwd.com, the new My Passport Studio drives are offered in capacities of 320 GB, 500 GB and 640 GB.
WD's My Passport Studio drives are advised for artistic professionals and Mac enthusiasts. Their assembly and use of abounding ample files crave the fast transfers from computer to My Passport Studio drives that FireWire 800 provides. Professionals such as photographers aswell account from the e-labeling arrangement to finer adapt their work.
The e-label acute affectation on the foreground of the My Passport drives can be afflicted as generally as adapted application the included WD SmartWare software. Users can calmly actualize a characterization to personalize their drive or admonish themselves of its contents. The e-label aswell shows accessible accommodation and whether the drive is locked. Utilizing e-paper technology, the advice on the affectation charcoal acutely visible, even if the drive is unplugged.
According to analysis close Parks Associates, the boilerplate U.S. broadband domiciliary currently has over 120 GB of agenda media and files which is projected to abound to over 1 TB of abstracts by 2013.
"Many of our barter abundance their agreeable on assorted alien drives, authoritative it difficult to apperceive what agreeable is on anniversary drive," said Dale Pistilli, carnality admiral of business of WD's Branded Products group. "The e-label acute affectation is an affected and applied band-aid for acclimation and befitting clue of one's agenda activity and work. WD SmartWare software makes it simple for users to assure their admired agreeable with automated and connected advancement and encryption."
The new My Passport Studio is absolutely accordant with Apple TimeMachine software for simple advancement of your a lot of important files. It aswell offers the advantage of the simple and automated WD SmartWare software, with automated connected advancement and real-time beheld interface, giving users a abating appearance of their advancement as it happens. After the aboriginal backup, users' files are backed up automatically every time they change or add a file.
My Passport Studio drives aswell affection user-selected countersign aegis accumulated with 256-bit hardware-based encryption, which scrambles files afore they are stored. Typically begin alone on abundant added big-ticket drive systems, the encryption acts as a basic padlock to accumulate users' abstracts safe.
Price and Availability
The new My Passport Studio drives are offered in capacities of 320 GB, 500 GB and 640 GB and accept a 3-year bound warranty. My Passport Studio ultra-portable drives are accessible now at baddest retailers and online at shopwd.com. MSRP for the My Passport Studio drives ranges from $149.99 USD to $199.99 USD depending on capacity.
My Passport Studio
The new WD My Passport Studio ultra-portable drives feature:
* Acute affectation – a customizable e-label that reminds users of what is stored on the drive and provides accessible accommodation and aegis cachet at a glance even if the drive is unplugged;
* FireWire 800 – users can save and admission abstracts at top speeds with the high-performance FireWire 800 interface;
* Plug-and-play, advised for use with Mac computers and affinity with Apple TimeMachine software;
* WD SmartWare software that visually presents consumers' abstracts in a software ascendancy center;
* 256-bit hardware-based encryption and countersign aegis for accord of apperception alive that abstracts is adequate from crooked access;
* USB 2.0 interface – for accessibility and affinity a part of assorted computers;
* Planet-friendly packaging acquired from recycled abstracts to abbreviate waste;
* HFS+ Journaled formatting and are accordant with Mac OS X Tiger®, Leopard® and Snow Leopard®; and,
* 3-year bound warranty.
WD SmartWare Software
WD SmartWare software features:
* Beheld advancement displays that appearance agreeable in categories and shows the advance of backup;
* Automatic, connected abstracts advancement will instantly accomplish a additional archetype whenever you add or change a file;
* Retrieve admired abstracts to its aboriginal area whether it's absent abstracts or the book has been overwritten; and,
* Customizable abstracts advancement that allows users to set drive security, run diagnostics, administer the ability settings, and added from the WD SmartWare ascendancy center.
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