Western Digital today introduced its smaller, smarter and more secure My Passport Essential and My Passport for Mac ultra-portable external hard drives featuring WD’s new WD SmartWare software and equipped with hardware-based encryption. The new My Passport drives are more than 20 percent smaller than the previous generation My Passport. My Passport Essential and My Passport for Mac drives also feature user-selected password protection combined with military-grade 256-bit hardware encryption, which scrambles files before they are stored. Typically found only on much more expensive drive systems, the encryption acts as a virtual padloc¬k to keep users’ data secure.
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Western Digital introduced its newly redesigned My Book World Edition II dual- drive network storage system in capacities of up to 4TB. With the double protection of two Mirrored (RAID 1) drives and continuous backup software, the My Book World Edition II network storage system provides an extra-safe place for users to back up and store data.

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Western Digital announced the world’s first 2TB hard disk drive. The Constellation HDD family is an enterprise storage solution designed for Tier 2 nearline storage applications. The latest Seagate family include two models, the 2.5-inch Constellation and the 3.5-inch Constellation ES hard drives.

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Western Digital has announced the world first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive which is environmentally friendly, cool and quiet. This WD Caviar Green hard drive family is a 3.5-inch platform based on WD’s industry-leading 500 GB/platter technology (with 400 Gb/in2 areal density) with 32 MB cache, producing drives with capacities of up to 2 TB.
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Western Digital has introduced two new My Passport external hard drives for Mac portable drive and the My Book Mac Edition external hard drive. Pre-formatted for Mac and offering a simple USB interface, these drives offer the ever-growing Mac community reliable, easy-to-use storage. WD’s latest Mac-ready drives work seamlessly with Apple Time Machine or other popular Mac backup software to provide protection for consumers’ valuable digital photos and media.
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