Western Digital 1.5TB My Book Essential (WDBAAF0015HBK) External Hard Drives

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Product Description:
Smart Back up and storage. The world's best-selling external hard drive now features a new, smart, visual backup solution that protects your data automatically.

Our best-selling My Book external drive is an elegant, high-capacity storage solution for all the chapters of your digital life. Our latest edition now features visual, easy-to-use, automatic, continuous backup software and drive lock security protection. At last, beauty, brains, and simplicity together.

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 minimal space on your desk and allows two or more My Book drives to nestle neatly together like volumes on a shelf.

Product Features

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 minimal space on your desk and allows two or more My Book drives to nestle neatly together like volumes on a shelf.

See your backup as it happens  Seeing is believing. Visual backup displays your content in categories and shows the progress of your backup.

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.

Bring back lost files effortlessly  Retrieve your valuable data to its original location whether you've lost all your data 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.

USB 2.0 interface - A simple connection that offers convenience and compatibility among multiple computers.

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 on and off with your computer.

Planet friendly - We designed a small retail box from recycled materials to minimize waste. We encourage you to recycle it.

Ready to plug-and-play with Windows PCs - if you're a Mac user, check out our Mac version of this product.

Elegant design.	See your life safe in one place.	Password protection.
This book-like shape takes up minimal space on your desk and allows two or more My Book drives to nestle neatly together like volumes on a shelf.	WD SmartWare software - A visual control center with a single screen view of all your data. From it you can back up, retrieve, and secure your files.	An extra level of security with password protection and 256-bit hardware-based encryption.

Compatibility

Formatted NTFS
Windows® XP, Windows Vista®, Windows 7
Mac OS® X, Tiger®, Leopard®, Snow Leopard (requires reformatting)

Performance Specifications
Serial Transfer Rate
	USB 2.0
	Serial Bus Transfer Rate (USB 2.0)	480 Mb/s (Max)

Physical Specifications
	Capacity	1.5 TB
	Interface	USB 2.0

Physical Dimensions
English
	Height	6.50 Inches
	Length	5.3 Inches
	Width	1.9 Inches
	Weight	2.60 Pounds

Metric
	Height	165 mm
	Length	135 mm
	Width	48.0 mm
	Weight	1.18 kg

Environmental Specifications
Temperature (English)
	Operating	41° F to 95° F
	Non-operating	-4° F to 149° F

Temperature (Metric)
	Operating	5° C to 35° C
	Non-operating	-20° C to 65° C

Electrical Specifications
Current Requirements
	Power Dissipation
	AC Input Voltage	100-240 VAC
	AC Input Frequency	47-63 Hz

As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, megabit per second (Mb/s) = one million bits per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second.

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