

MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL SOFTWARE FOR MAC FOR MAC
WD My Book Essential hard drives are designed for Windows-based PCs while WD My Book for Mac drives are formatted for Mac computers and are compatible with Apple TimeMachine, Apple’s integrated backup solution. WD SmartWare software works on Windows PCs and Mac computers. “WD’s new drives combine massive storage capacity, visual backup, and hardware encryption, so consumers can now actually see their digital life, safe in one place.†WD’s new My Book Essential and My Book for Mac external hard drives, powered by WD SmartWare, have finally made it easy enough so that anyone can do it,†said Dale Pistilli, vice president of marketing for WD’s branded products group.

€œKeeping an extra copy of your digital life used to be a painstaking, manual task undertaken only by the most expert and diligent of users. Typically found only on much more expensive drive systems, the encryption acts as a virtual padlock to keep users’ data safe. My Book Essential and My Book for Mac drives also feature user-selected password protection combined with military-grade 256-bit hardware encryption, which scrambles files before they are stored. After the first backup, users’ files are backed up automatically every time they change or add a file. The real-time visual interface of WD SmartWare software gives users a reassuring view of their backup as it happens. When the My Book Essential drive is plugged in for the first time, the simple and intuitive first backup process launches automatically. Available now at select retailers, the new My Book Essential and My Book for Mac drives are offered in capacities ranging from 500 GB to 2 TB. The new appliances visually present consumers’ data in a software control center, providing them peace of mind that their precious photos, videos and files are securely protected. Western Digital today introduced its new, smaller, sleeker My Book Essential and My Book for Mac desktop external hard drives equipped with the new WD SmartWare software and hardware-based encryption.
