14 DAY TRIAL // Western Digital has gone all out, these days, with the company announcing a couple of updates to its line of internal and external storage solutions. Following the introduction of its new, 640GB, 2.5-inch hard drives for notebook systems and the new, revamped My Passport portable hard drives, the Lake Forest, California-based, storage-product vendor has introduced its new, smaller My Book Essential and My Book for Mack desktop external hard drives.
Like in the case of the new My Passport series, the new My Book family has been featured with the company’s latest WD SmartWare software and hardware-based encryption solution. These features will essentially provide users with a secure, external storage alternative to similar products on the market.
“Keeping an extra copy of your digital life used to be a painstaking, manual task undertaken only by the most expert and diligent of users. WD's new My Book Essential and My Book for Mac external hard drives, powered by WD SmartWare, have finally made it easy enough so that anyone can do it,” Dale Pistilli, vice president of marketing for WD's branded products group, said. “WD's new drives combine massive storage capacity, visual backup, and hardware encryption, so consumers can now actually see their digital life, safe in one place.”
Western Digital’s new WD SmartWave software is designed to work on both Windows PCs and Mac computers, providing users with a choice for backing up their digital data in a secure and visual way. The utility is designed to work so that, after the first backup is performed, the user’s data is automatically backed up every time they change or add a file.
The revamped line of My Book Essential external drives is available in capacities of 500GB, 1TB, 1.5TB and the company’s largest capacity model, boasting a 2TB storage solution. Price-wise, you are looking at products that range from US$99.99 to US$249.99, depending on the model.