MY BOOK ELITE
USER MANUAL
ABOUT YOUR WD DRIVE
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About Your WD Drive
Welcome to your My Book™
Elite™ external hard drive, an elegant, high-capacity
storage solution for all the chapters of your digital life. Our latest edition features a
customizable smart display to identify what's on your drive, visual automatic, continuous
backup software, and drive lock security protection. The new sleeker design brings
beauty and brains together.
WD's best-selling My Book Elite USB external hard drive features WD SmartWare
software that backs up your data automatically and continuously, shows your backup as
it happens, and brings back lost files effortlessly.
This chapter includes the following topics:
Operating System Compatibility
Disk Drive Format
Physical Description
Registering Your WD Product
Handling Precautions
Features
Major features of the My Book Elite drive include:
Smart display
—Create your own personalized drive label to remind you what's stored
on each drive. You can even view the label when the drive is unplugged. The display also
includes available capacity and security status.
Smaller, sleeker, more streamlined design
—We've made these award-winning drives
even smaller, sleeker, and more elegant. As always, this book-like shape takes up less
space on your desk and allows two or more My Book drives to nestle neatly together 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.
Illuminated capacity gauge
—See at a glance how much space is available on your
drive.
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