The 500GB My Passport Studio Portable Hard Drive from Western Digital is a portable hard drive with an innovative LCD display panel. The display can always be viewed, even when the drive is not connected to a computer. It displays your custom drive label, available capacity, and security status. This allows you to quickly identify what is stored on the drive, perfect for anyone who owns multiple drives.
The drive can connect to your computer via FireWire-800 or USB 2.0, or via FireWire-400 using the included adapter. It ships as an HFS+ formatted drive for use in Mac OS X, but can be reformatted for use by Windows operating systems. It ships with the WD SmartWare software suite, which provides visual backup, diagnostic tools, 256-bit hardware encryption, and more. The drive is bus-powered for truly portable operation.
- See your backup as it happens - Seeing is believing. Visual backup displays your content in categories and shows the progress of your backup
- 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
- Bring back lost files effortlessly - Retrieve your valuable data to its original location whether you've lost all your data 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