#MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL SE FORMAT FOR MAC FOR MAC#
The smaller, USB-powered My Passport Essential, My Passport Essential SE, and My Passport for Mac encompass the “ultra-small, ultra-portable” segment.
The drives come in two basic flavors: portable or stationary. Might sound a bit over the top, but WD said they wanted to err on the side of total security.
In other words, without the password, the data is basically impossible to access. If the password is lost, there is NO way to retrieve it because the password is never shared with Western Digital in any capacity.īeyond the password, every bit of data stored on the drive is protected by 256-bit AES encryption. Once the password is set, the owner (or anyone who knows the pw) is the only person who can access the data. it resides on a separate partition on the hard drive, but the auto-backup can be disabled.Īs for the “safer” attributes of the new drives, each one comes equipped with WD Drive Lock – password protection + 256-bit hardware encryption. In the demo I saw, the software appeared to be very intuitive and included some nice touches like a search function and real-time backup status reporting.Īfter configuring the software the very first time you boot up the drive, SmartWare will run automatically (if you allow it), providing an automatic and continuous “backup and drive management” solution. To cut down on problems, SmartWare relies on user-friendly visual aids and simple, straightforward options to backup and/or retrieve files.
One of WD’s goals was to make the software easy for everyone to use and help users avoid making mistakes with their precious data.
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