MY BOOK STUDIO
USER MANUAL
ABOUT YOUR WD DRIVE – 1
About Your WD Drive
Welcom e to you r My Boo k® Studio™ external hard drive. My Book Studio is the high-
performance answer to your storage needs with WD SmartWare™ software for
automatic, continuous backup, and a blazing-fast FireWire 800 interface. Our latest
edition features visual, easy-to-use, automatic, continuous backup software and drive
lock security protection.
This chapter includes the following topics:
Features
Kit Contents
Optional Accessories
Operating System Compatibility
Disk Drive Format
Physical Description
Registering Your Drive
Handling Precautions

Features

Major features of the My Book Studio drive include:
Smaller, sleeker, more streamlined design—We've made these award-winning drives
even smaller, sleeker, and more elegant. As always, the book-like shape takes up less
space on your desk and allows two or more My Book drives to nestle neatly togeth er like
volumes on a shelf.
WD SmartWare software—An easy-to-use backup solution 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.
Pure performance—Save and access data at top speeds with the high-performance
FireWire 800 interface. A USB 2.0 interface is also provided for maximum flexibility.
Power miser—My Book external drives are designed to save energy. WD GreenPower
Technology™ lowers internal drive power consumption by up to 30%, a sleep mode
reduces power during idle times, and a power-saving feature turns the drive off and on
with your computer.
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