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Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 750 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive WDBABM7500ABK-NESN (Midnight Black)

Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 750 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive WDBABM7500ABK-NESN (Midnight Black)

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Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE

List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $88.88
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Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars 183 reviews
Sales Rank: 330

Color: Midnight Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows XP Professional Edition
CPU Manufacturer: Intel
CPU Speed: 2.10
CPU Type: PowerPC G4
Processors: 1
System Memory: 2000
Memory Type: SDRAM
Hard Drive Size: 1
Size: 750 GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 4.3 x 3.2 x 0.1
Warranty: 2 years warranty

MPN: WDBABM7500ABK-NESN
Model: WDBABM7500ABK-NESN
UPC: 718037758718
EAN: 0718037758718
ASIN: B002OB49SC

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Features:
   750GB Maximun capacity in the palm of you hand
   Automatic, continuous backup
   Password protection and military-grade 256-bit hardware-based encryption
   Ultra-portanble design
   Powered directly from the USB port

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Product Description
Western Digital WDBABM7500ABK-NESN Passport Essential SE External Hard Drive proves to be a high capacity, high-quality, integrated USB hard drive inside a stylish package. Moreover, it gives you numerous color options, there's sure to be one to suit your style.

Amazon.com Product Description

The world's most popular portable drive now features maximum capacity to store all your favorite videos, music, photos, and important files. Still sleek and compact, you can load it up and take it with you anywhere.

Maximum capacity.

Only a few milimiters thicker to accomodate our highest capacity mobile drives. Plenty of room for all your stuff.

See your life safe in one place.

WD SmartWare software - A visual control center 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.


Features at a glance
  • Automatic, continous backup
  • Visual backup control center
  • Hardware encryption, password protection
  • WD SmartWare software
  • 2-years limited warranty

Maximum capacity, maximum style - Store all your favorite videos, music, photos, and important files. Still sleek and compact, you can load it up and take it with you anywhere.

WD SmartWare™ - A control center for your drive that gives you the power to:

-- 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.

-- See your backup as it happens - Seeing is believing. Visual backup displays your content in categories and shows the progress of your backup.

-- 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 - Customize your backup, set drive security, run diagnostics, manage the power settings, and more from the WD SmartWare control center.

Find out more about WD SmartWare™

Drive lock - Gain peace of mind knowing that your data is protected from unauthorized access or theft with password protection and 256-bit hardware-based encryption.

Ready to plug-and-play with Windows PC's - if you're a Mac user, check out our Mac version of this product.

USB 2.0 interface - Powered directly from the USB port on your PC. No separate power supply is needed*.
* An optional cable is available for the few computers that limit power from the USB port.

Planet friendly - We designed a small box from recycled materials to minimize waste. We encourage you to recycle it.

Ideal For

  • Protecting your data with automatic, continous backup
  • Retrieving lost data effortlessly
  • Adding extra storage space for photos, videos and music
  • Securing private or sensitive data

Compatibility

Formatted NTFS
Windows® XP, Windows Vista®, Windows 7
Mac OS® X Tiger®, Leopard®, Snow Leopard™ (requires reformatting)

What's in the box

Ultra-portable hard drive, WD SmartWare software, USB cable, Quick Install Guide.


Backup software you'll really use � WD SmartWare

Five great reasons to love it:

1. It's easy - Data backup can be a chore, but it's your family photos, your movies, your music - your life - and it's important to protect it. So we made this software extra easy because we really want you to use it.

2. You can see your life safe in one place -
See your content displayed in easy to understand categories like movies and photos. Watch the progress of your backup as it happens with the instant-feedback color bars. Now you can truly be sure that all your stuff is backed up.

  • A unique visual interface lets you see the drives connected to your computer.
  • WD SmartWare will automatically scan your computer and find all of your personal files, including e-mail.
  • Content category gauges show how much information you have to be backed up in each category. You can even mouse over a category to see a file count.
  • Simply click Run Backup and WD SmartWare will automatically start backing up your files.
  • As your backup is running the category gauges will change color showing you the backup as it happens.
  • When finished, you’ll see a status screen and information about your backup. You only have to do this once. After the first backup your files will be backed up automatically every time you change or add a file.

3. It's always on the job - WD SmartWare is always watching your computer, so when you change a file and save it, create new files, add new pictures, movies, or songs, WD SmartWare will instantly back them up.

4. You can bring back lost files effortlessly - If you ever accidentally delete an important file, or need to get an earlier version of a file, you can find and retrieve it in seconds with this easy-to-use interface.

  • Restore files and folders by categories – photos, music, video, for example.
  • Find a lost file with the search function.
  • Go back in time to retrieve an older version of a file.

5. You're in control - WD SmartWare software is also a control center for your external drives. From it you can:

  • Customize your backup
  • Set drive security
  • Run diagnostics
  • Manage the power settings, and more...



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5 out of 5 stars Works well on a mac. Regular micro-USB cable.   July 30, 2010
T. Kaplan (Berkeley, CA USA)
Works just fine with my mac. I did not use the installed software. Could be used with a standard micro-USB cable (e.g. http://www.amazon.com/BlackBerry-Cable-Micro-1-0m-Black/dp/B001QATRCA). Very compact and quite.


2 out of 5 stars Disappointing......   July 27, 2010
Just Another Shopper
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I've been a big fan of the prior WD portable drives, so I was amazed at how far off base they were on this implementation. The bloatware is awful, and if I'd wanted that crap on my drive I'd install it myself. What a big-brother implementation with it already installed and causing problems. Also, what's with the terrible tenuous micro-usb connection? WD, how could you be so wrong???


4 out of 5 stars Great drive - no major problems for me   July 27, 2010
Michael Shirk (Poulsbo, WA United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

I bought mine from a local store and started reading the reviews on Amazon before I opened it. I actually delayed opening the package for like two weeks because I thought I might want to take it back due to the bad reviews. However, now that I've been using it for several weeks, I'm pleased as punch. As everyone who has reviewed this drive has noted, there are/were two major flaws: the USB connection and Smartware.

1) USB connection: Western Digital must have started replacing those cables before mine was packaged, because I honestly have never had such a tenacious USB cable. In fact, it's so secure I have to yank pretty hard on the plug to get it out at both ends. I beleive all the frustrated people who complained about theirs, but mine is rock solid.

2) Smartware: Annoying? Yes. A major problem? Not at all. Apparently there are many fixes, but the one I used took all of 15 seconds. It worked on my Vista machine as well as my Windows 7 laptop. It probably works on XP, too.

Control Panel -> Device Manager -> DVD/CD-ROM drives
Right-click on WD Virtual CD 1110 USB Device.
Click Disable.

That's it. It hasn't bothered me since and it takes up almost no space on the drive. (Thanks to Moeman32 on the WD community forums for the fix.)

I only gave this drive four stars because it took me a while to find that simple fix, but if you're reading this you won't have the same problem. I can't think of any reason not to get this drive. Enjoy!



1 out of 5 stars DONT BUY THIS............   July 25, 2010
E. Yildiray Saricicek (ISTANBUL, Turkey)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

i made a mistake.. i buyed and used different times wd d passport model(80-250-or 500gb).but this new model is disaster... its now acc. some titles after 650gb...
special program is very bad..choose another brand...



1 out of 5 stars Hard Drive   July 25, 2010
Brion
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

ive had it less than a month and it no longer works! it freezes my computer and I'm in a remote deployed location with little chance to contact any customer support

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