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A My Passport Essential SE Edition External Hard Drive with 1 TB capacity. My Passport is a series of portable external hard drives and solid state drives produced by Western Digital. There are currently six series of My Passport drives; Essential Edition, Essential SE Edition, Elite Edition, Essential for Mac, Studio Edition and the Essential ...
Western Digital My Book external hard drive. My Book is a series of external hard drives produced by Western Digital.There are at least nine series of My Book drives: Essential Edition, Home Edition, Office Edition, Mirror Edition, Studio Edition, Premium Edition, Elite Edition, Pro Edition, AV DVR "Live Edition", and the World Edition.
Western Digital also started to produce the energy efficient GP (Green Power) range of drives. In 2007, Western Digital announced the WD GP drive touting rotational speed "between 7200 and 5400 rpm", which is technically correct while also being misleading; the drive spins at 5405 rpm, and the Green Power spin speed is not variable. [22]
Depending on the type of interface being used, some S.M.A.R.T.-enabled motherboards and related software may not communicate with certain S.M.A.R.T.-capable drives. For example, few external drives connected via USB and FireWire correctly send S.M.A.R.T. data over those interfaces.
WD Anywhere Access (also known as WD Anywhere Access Powered by MioNet and MioNet) was a remote-access product offered by Western Digital from 2007 to 2016. MioNet was originally a product of Palo Alto–based Senvid. Western Digital purchased the assets of Senvid in 2007.
Some drives such as Western Digital Raptor have rated 1.4 million hours MTBF, [22] while SAS/FC drives are rated for upwards of 1.6 million hours. [23] Modern helium-filled drives are completely sealed without a breather port, thus eliminating the risk of debris ingression, resulting in a typical MTBF of 2.5 million hours.
This operation induced the familiar clicking vibration emanating from a seeking hard drive. Western Digital provides a demonstration flash movie illustrating just-in-time head positioning on their web site. To provide best acoustic performance, some drive manufacturers may limit the maximum seek velocity of the heads for AAM operation.
Western Digital WD740GD A Fujitsu laptop drive (80 GB, 7,200 RPM) on the left and a Western Digital VelociRaptor (300 GB, 10,000 RPM). The Western Digital Raptor (often marketed as WD Raptor, 2.5" models known as VelociRaptor) is a discontinued series of high performance hard disk drives produced by Western Digital first marketed in 2003.