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.
This chapter includes the following topics:
Features
Kit Contents
Optional Accessories
Operating System Compatibility
Disk Drive Format
Physical Description
Registering the Drive
Handling Precautions
Features
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.
Major features of the My Passport Studio drive include:
Our smallest portable drive ever—We are experts in portable storage, so we designed
a smaller, high-quality hard drive inside a premium finished package.
Designed for Mac—Formatted for Mac and compatible with Apple
®
TimeMachine™,
this drives is plug-and-play ready for Mac computers.
WD Security software—Gain peace of mind knowing that your data is protected from
unauthorized access or theft with password protection and 256-bit hardware-based
encryption.
WD Drive Utilities software—Keep your drive performing at its best by running
diagnostics, managing the power settings, and more.
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.
Planet friendly—We designed a small box from recycled materials to minimize waste.
We encourage you to recycle it.
Important: For the latest WD product information and news, visit our website at
www.westerndigital.com. For the latest software, firmware, and product documentation
and information, go to http://support.wdc.com/downloads.
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