Western Digital WDBAAH0015HCH - My Book Elite User manual

My Book®
Elite™
External Hard Drives
Premium backup
and storage
Customizable e-label
Visual backup control center
Password protection and hardware-based encryption
With reassuring visual backup, drive
encryption, and password protection,
the My Book Elite is one safe place for all
the chapters of your digital life. Create a
personalized e-label on the spine and
make this elegant drive your own.

See your life safe in one place.
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.
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.
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.
Streamlined design
We’ve made these award-winning
drives even smaller, sleeker, and more
elegant.
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.
My Book Elite
External Hard Drives
Product Features
Product Specifications
Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, My Book and Put Your Life On It are registered trademarks in the U.S. and other countries; Elite, WD GreenPower Technology and WD SmartWare are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to
other companies. Pictures shown may vary from actual products. Not all products may be available in all regions of the world. All product and packaging specications subject to change without notice. The term of your limited warranty depends on the country in which your product was
purchased. Please visit our web site at http:support.wdc.com/warranty for the detailed terms and conditions of our limited warranty and for a list of the specic countries in these regions.
© 2009 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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 transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second
(MB/s) = one million bytes per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second.
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INTERFACE DIMENSIONS SYSTEM COMPATIBILITY CAPACITIES AND MODELS
USB 2.0 Height:
Depth:
Width:
Weight:
6.5 in (165 mm)
5.3 in (135 mm)
1.9 in (48 mm)
2.6 lb (1.18 kg)
Formatted NTFS for Windows®XP,
Windows Vista®, Windows 7,
Mac OS®X Tiger ®, Leopard®,
Snow Leopard™ (requires reformatting)
2 TB
1.5 TB
1 TB
640 GB
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KIT CONTENTS OPERATING SPECIFICATIONS LIMITED WARRANTY
External hard drive
WD SmartWare software
USB cable
AC adapter
Quick Install Guide
Data transfer rate:1Up to 480 Mb/sec
Operating temperature: 5°C to 35°C
Non-op. temperature: –20°C to 65°C
1A USB 2.0 host and USB 2.0 certified cable are
required to obtain Hi-Speed USB performance.
3 years
3 years
3 years
3 years
Americas
EMEA
APAC
Japan
Visual backup displays your content
categories and confirms that your files
have been backed up.
My BookMy Computer
Backup
Complete
53 GB Free
Music
87 GB
Photos
95 GB
Others Folder
10 GB
Movies
165 GB
53 GB Free
Music
87 GB
Photos
95 GB
Others Folder
10 GB
Movies
165 GB