WD Announces 3TB single-drive my book essential, two USB 3.0 Passport drives

By Darren Murph 2010 posted October 5th 11: 47 PM you may or may not have noticed, but Western Digital only followed up on Seagate's previous efforts by outbreak of external drive with 3 TB of eigenen-- one that has only a single hard drive within. Latest my book essential not only houses with auto 3 TB, but also packs a USB 3.0 port on the back and the same rounded black shell, you come to knowledge and love / hate. If this is to swallow too much for you (or just too big to move), the my passport essential and my passport essential SE lines are 3.0 on USB, came is the former shipping to a 500 GB version and the latter in 750 GB / 1 TB. Both of these guys will start colours exclusively through USB and ship in a variety of mind bending with prices at $ 99.99 for 500 gigger and running up to $ 249.99 free up more space, driven than you ever need.

WD ® delivers USB 3.0 and 3 TB with its new external hard drive product lines

Ultra fast USB 3.0 Flash drive connectivity immediately with my book ® and my Passport ® external hard drives

LAKE FOREST, California, Oct. 5 FirstCall /-WD ® (NYSE: WDC), the the world leader in external storage solutions, today introduced its new my passport ™ essential portable hard drive (photo), my passport ® essential ™ SE portable hard drive (photo) and my book ® essential external hard drive (photo).All three drive families come in a variety of capacities and lightning-fast USB 3.0 connectivity (1) offer. highest industry capacity is another important feature for the my book essential drive capacity of 1 and 2 TB capacity is available now in 3 TB. Equipped with WD Smartware ™ Visual backup software for automatic, continuous backup, users these drives offer the extra space needed to save or save all of your digital memories, such as high resolution photos and videos, along with music, and other critical files, all in one place.

The drives that use not only the latest ultra-fast USB 3.0 technology, but are also fully compatible with USB 2.0 for those that still not your computers USB 3.0 to aktualisieren.Wenn a Superspeed USB 3.0 port connected consumers up to 150 MB / s data transfer speeds. At that rate, a two-hour HD video is transferred in less than three minutes.The same two hours video want to transfer to a USB-2.0-port(2) in 13 minutes.

My passport essential, nor WD's smallest portable hard drive, a 500 GB capacity is available and comes in five colors - midnight black, cool silver, real red, Pacific Blue and Arctic white (Arctic white only available in EMEA and APAC) Spaß.My Passport essential SE portable hard drive 750 GB and 1 TB capacity are available and come in stylish black, silver, metallic blue metallic colors red and.The pocket-sized my Passport portable hard drives are powered directly through the USB cable; no separate power supply is needed(3).

My book essential hard drive, the world number one selling also impressed with its small footprint, slim design and high capacity of 1 TB to a massive 3 TB(4) storage.The drive is compatible with both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports and WD Smartware used Visual backup software.

"" With more and more devices as touch ®, iPhone ® 4 and other smart phones, adding video-enabled cameras, digital video iPod is the always allgegenwärtig.Die most houses have already raise thousands of photos and music files, additional capacity to store these files and quickly move the need for memory around the Haus.Die a major problem for many consumers around the world, always will be, said Dale Pistilli, Vice President of marketing for WD branded products group."WD's newest line of my book and my Passport external hard disk drives of the latest USB 3.0 connection technology, more than tripled the speed transferring media files, but still working with today's USB 2.0. Moreover, consumers can the highest capacity available on external hard drives with the new 3 TB my book essential-use drive."

Features:

My book essential external hard drives, drives my passport essential and my passport essential SE portable hard feature:

Dual USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 interfaces;
Up to 3 X faster transfer rates than USB 2.0;
* WD Smartware software for automatic, continuous backup;
Password protection for privacy; and,
Planet friendly packaging from recycled materials, which are also recycled.

Capacity and compatibility:

The my passport essential portable hard drive 500 GB capacity is builders.the my passport essential portable hard drive is SE in 750 GB and 1 TB capacity assisttroubleshooting.the my book essential external hard drive is 1 TB, 1.5 TB, 2 TB and TB Kapazität.Die 3 drives are formatted NTFS for Windows ® XP, Windows Vista ® or Windows 7.Diese drives require reformatting for Mac ® OS ® X Leopard or snow Leopard ®.

Price and availability

My passport essential portable hard drives and my book essential external hard drives offer a 2 year guarantee in the United States and are now available and online at wdstore.com at select U.S. retailers.

EIA my passport essential portable drive for the is $ 99.99 USD.UVP for my passport essential SE ranges drives from $ 129.99 USD, $ 169.99 USD.UVP my book ranges essential drives from $ 129.99 USD release $ 249.99 USD.

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