Enhancing Performance With Wd +Turbo - Western Digital WDBAAA2500Axx - My Passport Essential User Manual

3. Verify that the My Passport icon displays on your desktop, where "MY PASSPORT"
is the name you assigned to the volume when you reformatted the drive for use with
the Mac computer:
Your My Passport drive is now ready to use as an external storage device. You can
enhance its performance by installing the following software that is on the drive:
• WD +TURBO utility (see "Enhancing Performance with WD +TURBO" in the
next section)
• WD SmartWare software (see "Installing the WD SmartWare Software" on
page 44)

Enhancing Performance with WD +TURBO

WD +TURBO is a utility on the My Passport drive that you can install to improve the
performance of the drive on a Mac computer.
If you are going to install the WD SmartWare software, you do not need to install the WD
+TURBO utility yourself—the WD SmartWare software will install it for you. If you are not
going to install the WD SmartWare software, install WD +TURBO to enhance the
performance of your My Passport drive.
To install WD +TURBO:
1.
Double-click the My Passport icon, and then double-click the Extras folder on the
screen that displays:
2. Double-click the WD +TURBO Installer icon:
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