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The Western Digital WDBAAF0015HBK My Book Essential 1.5TB External USB Hard Drive features a new, smart, visual backup solution that protects your data automatically. Western Digital's best-selling My Book external drive is an elegant, high-capacity storage solution for all the chapters of your digital life. The latest edition, the Western Digital WDBAAF0015HBK My Book Essential, now features visual, easy-to-use, automatic, continuous backup software and drive lock security protection - giving you beauty, brains, and simplicity together.
Key Features
- WD SmartWare software: A visual control centre with a single screen view of all your data. From it you can back up, retrieve, and secure your files.
- Password protection: An extra level of security with password protection and 256-bit hardware-based encryption.
- Smaller, sleeker, more streamlined design: We've made these award-winning drives even smaller, sleeker, and more elegant. As always, the book-like shaped Western Digital My Book Essential Hard Drive WDBAAF0015HBK 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: Customise 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 unauthorised 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 Western Digital My Book Essential WDBAAF0015HBK-UESN.
- 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.
Western Digital WDBAAF0015HBK My Book Essential Holds:
- Up to 300,000 digital photos
- Up to 375,000 songs (MP3)
- Up to 37,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
- Up to 110 hours of Digital Video (DV)
- Up to 570 hours of DVD quality video
- Up to 180 hours of HD video
(Examples of the number of photos, songs, videos and any other files that can be stored on a hard drive are provided for illustrative purposes only. Your results will vary based on file size and format, settings, features, software and other factors.) One gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes. One terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.
General Advice
What is an External Hard Drive?
An external hard drive is the same type of drive you'd find inside a PC or laptop, except that it is mounted in a separate enclosure. It can be used to store data permanently or temporarily, in the same way as a computer's hard drive.
External hard drives (the actual drive itself) come in two main sizes (physical size), 2.5" and 3.5". The 2.5" drives are the same as you would find in a laptop computer, whereas the 3.5" drives are identical to hard drives found in desktop PCs. The difference is in the interface that connects the external hard drive to your computer.
Usually, external hard drives connect to the computer via a USB/Firewire cable and often come with a separate power supply. Most modern operating systems will automatically recognise the hard drive as a storage device and assign it a drive letter.
The fact that external hard drives are simply placed in an enclosure, means you can usually change the actual hard drive itself without too much effort. This allows you to swap drives between enclosures, so you only have to buy one enclosure for many drives of the same type.
The storage capacity of these drives currently store up to and beyond 1TB (TeraByte) worth of data.
When shopping for your new external hard drive, bear in mind the explanations below for common terms used in the products descriptions.
Hard Drive Capacity: This figure, quoted in GB (GigaBytes), indicates the storage capacity of the hard drive. Your choice will depend on your requirements. As a guideline, a 160GB (GigaByte) hard drive would hold over 40,000 MP3 songs or 133,000 digital photos.
Spindle Speed: This refers to the speed at which the drive rotates - the higher the speed the better. The speed will be stated in RPM (revolutions per minute), 5,400RPM is around the average speed of portable drives, whereas 7,200RPM (and above) is common in desktop hard drives.
Interface: This indicates how the hard drive is connected to the computer, usually USB and/or Firewire (IEEE 1394).
