Oct 06

WD unveils new My Books with e-ink, while My Passport shrinks even further

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Good news for hardcore portable storage buffs: looks like Western Digital is taking a hint from Verbatim and putting an e-ink display on its My Book Elite and My Book Studio portable hard drives, offering the device’s label and free space up-front, perfect for those of us juggling multiple portable storage devices. In addition, both offer WD SmartWare, 256-bit hardware-based encryption, and are available in capacities ranging from 500GB to 2TB. My Book Studio (formatted for Mac and sportin’ a FireWire 800 interface) ranges from $149.99 to $299.99 depending on size, while My Book Elite (with a USB 2.0 interface and NTFS formatting) will run you anywhere from $169.99 to $279.99.

If what you’re looking for however, is the company’s “smallest drive to date,” check out My Passport Elite. Featuring a USB dock, illuminated capacity gauge, a secure “drive lock” indicator, and that 256-bit hardware-based encryption, this bad boy is sports up to 640GB storage (which will run you $169.99). This one is available in one of three “metallic” colors — Metallic Red, Metallic Blue, or Charcoal Metallic. Sadly, the company hasn’t yet teamed up with MusicSkins for a Metallica skin — but our fingers are crossed.

Read – My Book Studio
Read – My Book Elite
Read – My Passport Elite

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