More hard drives today, this time updates to Western Digital’s My Book Elite and MyBook Studio lines. And unlike this morning’s Lacie/Philippe Starck junkfest, these WD drives have a genuinely neat and very interesting new feature: An e-ink display.
The LCD-like screen shows the remaining capacity of the drive in both pictorial and numerical forms, along with a little lock icon to let you know that the drive is encrypted. You can also choose a name which will act like a label, reminding you just what you tossed into this particular digital junk-drawer.
And because it is e-ink, it stays there even when you switch it off. Forget about fancy promos in paper magazines — e-ink is destined to find its way into more and more handy niches like this.
On the inside, you get the same as ever. Both come bundled with backup software and have 256bit hardware encryption, and the My Book Studio comes Mac-formatted and has a FireWire port (and cable) as well as the USB hookup. Both top out at 2TB, the Mac version being $300 and the USB-only model $280.
Product page [My Book Studio]
Product page [My Book Elite]
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