Western Digital 500GB My Passport Essential

Western digital is working to enable you to store, collect, access, and use a vast and growing body of digital information. Their reliable hard drives and solid state drives, marketed under the WD and HGST brands, are everywhere that digital information and content is found: in the cloud, supporting your mobile digital lifestyle; in business and personal computers; in external storage devices; in the digital video recorder in your home; and in sophisticated medical, military, aerospace, automotive, manufacturing and telecommunications systems. They also make media players that enable you to enjoy your digital content on the biggest screen in your house, in your TV.

About the Product

Western Digital?s My Passport Essential is a portable hard drive that fits easily into your jeans pocket. It?s simple to use, really quiet, and offers read speeds that closely rival other drives in its category.My Passport Essential comes in five fun colors and offers high capacity in a slender, portable drive. This Essential hard drive is one of the most light-weight hard drive in its segment. It features ultra-fast USB 3.0 connectivity, compatibility with USB 2.0, automatic backup software, and password protection and hardware encryption to help protect your files from unauthorized use. The WD Essential hard drive comes with the data storage capacity up to 500 GB to centralise and store all your important files and folders along with your complete collection of music, movies and photographs. The WD hard drive comes with USB 3.0 connectivity. Yout get the experience of superior data transfer speeds up to 4.8 Gbps. With about 10 times the transfer speeds offered by a USB 2.0 port, you can now copy a complete DVD movie in just about 5 minutes with a USB 3.0. Backward compatible with USB 2.0, USB 3.0 connectivity also provides power to run the WD disk drive. The Essential hard drive is compatible with Windows and Mac Operating Systems.

Features

• Ultra-fast transfer rates: When connected to a USB 3.0 port, My Passport portable hard drives let you access and save files with blazing speed. Reduce transfer time by up to 3 times when compared to USB 2.0 transfer rates. Performance may vary based on user's hardware and system configuration.
• USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatibility: With this single drive you get compatibility with your USB 2.0 devices today and the ultra-fast speed of USB 3.0 when you're ready to step up to the next generation.
• High capacity, small design: Offering up to 2 TB capacity in a compact drive, My Passport is the ideal companion for anyone with lots of videos, photos, music and files that they want to help protect and take on the road.
• USB-powered: Powered directly from the USB port on your PC. No separate power supply is needed.
• Automatic, continuous backup:WD's automatic backup software works quietly in the background to help protect your data using minimal PC resources. Whenever you add or change a file, it's instantly backed up.
• WD Security: WD Security utility allows you to set password protection and hardware encryption for your drive to help protect your files from unauthorized use or access.
• WD Drive Utilities: Register your drive, set drive timer, run diagnostics and more using WD Drive Utilities.