About Your Wd Drive; Major Features Of The Drive - Western Digital WDBACX7500Axx - My Passport Essential SE User Manual

About Your WD Drive

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Welcome to your My Passport™ Elite™ ultra-portable hard drive, an elegant, high-
capacity storage solution for all the chapters of your digital life. Our latest edition is
packed with features: automatic, continuous backup, password protection, a capacity
gauge, and a convenient grab-and-go USB dock.
This introductory chapter includes the following topics:

Major Features of the Drive

Kit Contents
Optional Accessories
Compatibility
Drive Format
Physical Description
Registering Your WD Product
Handling Precautions
Major Features of the Drive
Major features of the My Passport Elite drive include:
Smaller, sleeker, more streamlined design - We've designed a smaller, high-quality
integrated USB hard drive inside a stylish package in a variety of fun colors.
WD SmartWare™ software - An easy-to-use solution for your drive that gives you the
power to:
• Protect your data automatically - Relax! Your data is secure. Automatic,
continuous backup will instantly make a second copy whenever you add or
change a file.
• See your backup as it happens - Seeing is believing. Visual backup organizes and
displays your content into categories and shows the progress of your backup.
• Bring back lost files effortlessly - Retrieve your valuable data to its original
location whether you've lost all your data, deleted a file, or just overwritten an
important file.
• Take control - Customize your backup, set drive security, run diagnostics, manage
the power settings, and more from the WD SmartWare control center.
Drive lock - Gain peace of mind knowing that your data is protected from unauthorized
access or theft with password protection and 256-bit hardware-based encryption.
Capacity gauge - Connect the drive to your computer and see at a glance how much
space is available on your drive.
Ready to plug-and-play with Windows PCs - Formatted NTFS for compatibility with all
Windows operating systems.
USB 2.0 interface - A simple connection that offers convenience and compatibility
among multiple computers.
Grab-and-go docking station. Convenient one-hand connection to your computer.
Powered directly from the USB port on your computer - No separate power supply is
needed. (An optional cable is available for the few computers that limit power from the
USB port.)
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