Western Digital just destitute out a little new outmost drives for all you Apple lovers out there. The My Book Studio LX drives (which are in brushed aluminum cases to element your MacBook, we suppose) exaggerate FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 and WD, have been Mac concordant as well as come in 1TB as well as 2TB models. If you’re really failing to get your hands upon one, you can right now — it’ll run you $199 for a 1TB and $299 for the 2TB indication. Full press recover is below.Show full PR content
New WD(R) My Book(R) Studio(TM) LX Drive Combines Speed as well as Intuitive Functionality in the Sleek Aluminum Enclosure

Mac(R) Users and Creative Professionals Can Upgrade Storage with Custom Labeling, High Performance as well as Full Metal Sleekness

LAKE FOREST, Calif., June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — WD® (NYSE: WDC), the world’s personality in outmost storage solutions, currently introduced the brand-new high opening My Book® Studio™ LX outmost hard drive, that offers the high-speed FireWire 800 interface as well as facilities the sleek new, cool-to-the-touch aluminum case which complements any iMac®, G5 or MacBook Pro®. The award-winning, book-like pattern, with its customizable, always-on digital e-label, allows beautiful professionals to simply archive as well as find photos as well as videos from dissimilar projects and time periods, even when a drives are unplugged.

Key facilities embody the FireWire 800 interface to give users the speed they need for demanding tasks similar to photo and video modifying as well as striking design, as good as a customizable e-label which enables users to simply personalize their media pickup as well as brand critical report about a drive, such as the essence as well as superfluous capacity, without carrying to boot up their mechanism as well as block in a drive. The My Book Studio LX drives additionally support USB 2.0, so users have limit flexibility in allocating their FireWire as well as USB ports or plugging a drive into the variety of computers.

My Book Studio LX drives suggest involuntary, successive backup by WD SmartWare program as well as additionally sync seamlessly with Apple Time Machine software, so consumers can select a backup method which suits their needs. And a 256-bit hardware-based encryption, typically only found on much some-more costly drive systems, provides the tall level of interpretation confidence along with cue insurance that acts as the virtual clinch to keep users’ interpretation protected. Available right away at name retailers as well as a WD online store (shopwd.com), the brand-new My Book Studio LX drives have been formatted for Mac® and come in capacities of 1 TB as well as 2 TB.

“When selecting a right tough drive, creative professionals look for high-quality materials, limit speed as well as visible appeal to element their creative toolkit. The My Book Studio LX drives suggest high-speed FireWire 800 opening as well as a pattern which will look right during home subsequent to their G5 or MacBook Pro computer,” said Dale Pistilli, clamp boss of selling for WD’s branded products organisation. “With a customizable e-label, My Book Studio LX drives help videographers, photographers as well as graphic designers emanate, classify as well as locate their clients’ valuable calm, no matter how many drives have been in their college of music.”

The brand-new My Book Studio LX drives come versed with WD SmartWare program, an discretionary application that provides involuntary as well as successive backup, carryout of the e-label arrangement, cue as well as alternative settings. The real-time visible interface of WD SmartWare program gives users the calming perspective of their backup as it happens. After a first backup, users’ files are corroborated up automatically every time they shift or add the record.

My Book Studio LX External Drive

The new My Book Studio LX drive facilities:

* New, contemporary aluminum surrounding which remains cold to a hold as well as matches a aesthetics of Mac computers;
* High-performance FireWire 800 interface to entrance interpretation at top speeds as well as USB 2.0 interface for limit coherence;
* Smart arrangement with a customizable e-label which reminds users of what is stored upon the drive, accessible capacity as well as security status at-a-glance, even when a drive is unplugged;
* Plug-and-play ready for Mac users and compatible with Apple Time Machine;
* WD SmartWare visible backup program, 256-bit hardware-based encryption as well as cue protection to give users assent of thoughts knowing which interpretation is protected from unapproved access;
* WD GreenPower Technology™, lowers inner drive energy consumption by up to 30 percent. WD GreenPower Technology also includes the nap mode which reduces energy during resting times, as well as the power-saving feature turns a drive upon and off with your mechanism;
* Planet-friendly packaging derived from recycled materials to minimize waste; and,
* HFS + Journaled formatting as well as have been concordant with Mac OS X Tiger®, Leopard® as well as Snow Leopard®.

Price as well as Availability

The brand-new My Book Studio LX drives have been offering in capacities of 1 TB and 2 TB and have a 3-year singular warranty. My Book Studio LX drives have been available right away during name retailers and online at shopwd.com. MSRP ranges from $199.99 to $269.99 USD depending upon a model.

About WD

WD, a single of a storage industry’s pioneers as well as long-time leaders, provides products and services for people as well as organizations which pickup, manage as well as use digital report. The company designs and produces arguable, high-performance tough drives as well as plain state drives which keep users’ data permitted as well as secure from loss. Its modernized technologies are configured into applications for customer as well as enterprise computing, embedded systems and consumer wiring, as good as the own consumer storage as well as media products.

WD was founded in 1970. The company’s storage products have been marketed to leading OEMs, systems manufacturers, comparison resellers as well as retailers underneath a Western Digital® as well as WD brand names. Visit a Investor section of a company’s website (www.westerndigital.com) to entrance a accumulation of financial and financier report.

This press recover contains forward-looking statements, together with statements relating to expected growth in digital libraries, consumer demands for access to personal media, as well as a marketplace for continuous consumer electronics inclination. These forward-looking statements are formed upon stream management expectations, as well as actual formula might vary materially as the outcome of several factors, together with business conditions generally as well as alternative risks as well as uncertainties listed in WD’s new SEC filings, together with the form 10-Q for the third mercantile quarter of 2010. WD undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect new report or events or for any alternative reason.

Western Digital, WD, WD trademark as well as My Book have been purebred trademarks; Studio, WD GreenPower Technology, and WD SmartWare are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Other marks may be referred to herein which go to alternative companies. All alternative brand as well as product names mentioned herein have been a skill of their respective companies. One terabyte (TB) = a single trillion bytes. Total accessible genius varies depending on handling environment.