Western Digital My Passport Essential 500GB USB 2.0, My Passport Essential 320GB USB 2.0, My Passport Essential SE 1TB User Manual

My Passport

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Essential

Portable Hard Drives

Smaller, smarter
backup and storage

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Automatic, continuous backup

Visual backup control center

Password protection and hardware-based encryption

The world’s most popular portable drive is
now smaller and smarter than ever.
WD SmartWare™ software automatically and
continuously backs up your data and gives
you a visual display of your backup as it
happens.

My Passport Essential

My Passport

My Computer

Backup

Complete

53 GB Free

Music

87 GB

Photos

95 GB

Others Folder
10 GB

Movies

165 GB

53 GB Free

Music

87 GB

Photos

95 GB

Others Folder
10 GB

Movies

165 GB

Portable Hard Drives

Product Features

See your life safe in one place.

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

Visual backup displays your content
categories and confirms that your files
have been backed up.

Our smallest portable
drive ever

We designed a smaller, high-quality,
integrated USB hard drive inside a
stylish package. With a variety of fun
colors, there’s sure to be one to suit
your style.

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.

Planet friendly

We designed a small retail box from
recycled materials to minimize waste.
We encourage you to recycle it.

security, run diagnostics, manage the
power settings, and more from the
WD SmartWare control center.

Product Specifications

INTERFACE

USB 2.0 Height:

KIT CONTENTS OPERATING SPECIFICATIONS LIMITED WARRANTY

Portable hard drive
WD SmartWare software
USB cable
AC adapter
Quick Install Guide

DIMENSIONS SYSTEM COMPATIBILITY CAPACITIES AND MODELS

Depth:
Width:
Weight:

3.20 in (83 mm)

4.30 in (110 mm)

0.44 lb (0.20 kg)

Data transfer rate:1 Up to 480 Mb/sec
Operating temperature: 5°C to 35°C
Non-op. temperature: –20°C to 65°C

1

A USB 2.0 host and USB 2.0 certified cable are

required to obtain Hi-Speed USB performance.

0.60 in (15 mm)

Formatted NTFS for Windows® XP,
Windows Vista®, Windows 7,
Mac OS® X, Tiger®, Leopard®,
Snow Leopard™ (requires reformatting)

2 years

Americas

2 years

EMEA

3 years

APAC

3 years

Japan

Ready to plug-and-play with
Windows PCs

If you’re a Mac user, check out our Mac
version of this product.

USB 2.0 interface

Powered directly from the USB port on
your PC. No separate power supply is
needed.

An optional cable is available for the few computers that
limit power from the USB port.

250 GB (black only), 320 GB, 500 GB, 640 GB

Midnight Black
Pacific Blue
Real Red
Cool Silver
Arctic White

* Arctic White available only in EMEA, Middle East and Africa.

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Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, and Put Your Life On It are registered trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. My Passport, Essential, and WD SmartWare are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to other
companies. Pictures shown may vary from actual products. Not all products may be available in all regions of the world. All product and packaging specifications subject to change without notice. The term of your limited warranty depends on the country in which your product was
purchased. Please visit our web site at http:support.wdc.com/warranty for the detailed terms and conditions of our limited warranty and for a list of the specific countries in these regions.

© 2009 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second

(MB/s) = one million bytes per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second.

4178-705051-A00 Sept 2009