2024-04-20

Western Digital HardDrives

How To Backup Data For All Series Of Western Digital Hard Drives?

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How To Backup Data For All Series Of Western Digital Hard Drives?Keep a backup of your important data at all times! Backing up your data protects you in case of a computer virus, data corruption, hardware issues, or electrical problems.

Western digital is one of the most popular hard drive manufacturers. This article will give some tips on how to backup data on all series of these hard drives.

1. My Book 3.0, My Book AV DVR Expander, and My Passport AV:
These drives do not come with any backup software. You can manually copy and paste your data to the drive, use Windows Backup or Apple Time Machine if applicable, or you can use a third party backup software of your choice.

2. My Book Live, My Book Elite, My Book For Mac, My Book Studio, My Book Studio LX, My Book Essential, My Passport Elite, My Passport Essential SE, My Passport Essential, My Passport Studio, My Passport Essential SE, My Passport For Mac and My Passport SE For Mac:
These drives can use the WD SmartWare backup software that comes on the drive to backup your data from your internal hard drive. Please see the link below for step-by-step instructions on how to backup your data.

3. My Book Essential Edition 2.0, My Passport Essential Edition, My Passport Essential Edition SE and My Book Essential (Green Ring):
These drives do not come with any backup software. You can manually copy and paste your data to the drive, use Windows Backup or Apple Time Machine if applicable, or you can use a third party backup software of your choice.

4. My Book Mirror Edition, My Book Home Edition, My Book Studio Edition, My Book Studio Edition II, My Book Office Edition, My Book World Edition (White Light), My Book World Edition II (White Light), My Passport Studio Edition, My Passport Elite Edition, My Book World Edition (Blue Rings), My Book World Edition II (Blue Rings), and WD ShareSpace, drives:
These drives can use the WD Anywhere Backup software that come with them to backup your data from your internal hard drive. Please see link below for step-by-step instructions on how to backup your data.

5. My Book Premium Edition:
This drive came with WD Backup, which you can use to backup your pictures, videos, and other documents. Please see link below for step-by-step instructions on how to backup your data.

6. WD Elements Play , WD Elements Desktop , WD Elements Portable , WD Elements SE Portable, Elements Portable and Elements Desktop:
This drive does not come with any backup software. You can manually copy and paste your data to the drive, use Windows Backup or Apple Time Machine if applicable, or you can use a third party backup software of your choice.

7. My Book Premium ES:
This drive came with Retrospect HD 2.0 software that can backup your data from the internal hard drive. This software also supports a full system backup. Please see the link below for step-by-step instructions on how to backup your data.

8. WD Dual-Option Combo , WD Dual-Option USB, and WD Dual-Option Media Center :
If you have a WD Media Center, Dual-option Combo, or Dual-option USB external hard drive, you can use the Retrospect Express 6.5 software that comes with the drive to create a backup that will backup your data from the internal drive. This software also supports a full system backup.

9. WD TV Live Hub Media Center:
If you have a WD TV Live Hub Media Center, this drive includes a Network Hard Drive (NAS). WD does not recommend using this drive for backup purposes, and does not provide backup software with this unit.

10. Other External hard drives (that did not come with backup software):
If you want to backup only your data onto a second hard drive, please see links below for how you can use your operating system to store your data on an external drive for both Mac and PC.

Note:: Always remember that “backup” means that you have your data stored in at least two (2) locations. Moving data from your system drive to an external hard drive is not a backup, unless there is already a duplicate of the file on a different drive.

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C) External Hard Drives
Desktop

  • My Book 3.0
    This stylish external hard drive features a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface for the fastest transfer rates available on an external hard drive.
  • My Book Elite
    An elegant, easy-to-use storage solution with WD SmartWare backup software, customizable e-label, and password protection.
  • My Book Essential
    An elegant, easy-to-use storage solution with WD SmartWare backup software, password protection and capacity gauge.
  • WD Elements Desktop
    Simple, reliable, portable storage.

Desktop for Mac

  • My Book for Mac
    An elegant, easy-to-use storage solution with automatic, continuous backup software, password protection, and capacity gauge. Compatible with Apple® TimeMachine™.
  • My Book Studio LX
    A super-fast storage solution for your Mac in a premium aluminum enclosure, featuring a customizable e-label and hardware-based encryption. This Apple Time Machine-compatible drive is the perfect complement for your Mac.
  • My Book Studio
    An elegant, super-fast storage solution for your Mac with automatic, continuous backup software, password protection and customizable e-label.
  • My Book Studio Edition II
    Quad interface, RAID-enabled, about 30% less power consumption, formatted for Mac®. The My Book Studio Edition II treads lightly on the earth and carries big performance for creative professionals.

Portable

  • My Passport Elite
    This ultra-portable USB drive is packed with smart features like automatic, continuous backup, password protection, an illuminated capacity gauge and a convenient grab-and-go dock.
  • My Passport Essential SE
    This stylish, compact portable USB drive now features maximum capacity for all the chapters of your digital life.
  • My Passport Essential
    Our smallest, portable drive ever is also our smartest with automatic, continuous backup and password protection.
  • WD Elements Portable SE
    A portable hard drive with maximum capacity in a compact design for easy plug-and-play storage on the go.
  • WD Elements
    Simple, reliable, portable storage.

Portable for Mac

  • My Passport Studio
    This ultra-portable, Mac-ready drive is packed with innovative features like a fast FireWire 800 interface, customizable e-label, and visual, automatic, continuous backup.
  • My Passport SE for Mac
    This stylish, compact portable USB drive now features maximum capacity for all the chapters of your digital life.
  • My Passport for Mac
    An elegant, easy-to-use portable storage solution with automatic, continuous backup software and password protection. Compatible with Apple® TimeMachine™.
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Western Digital Hard Drive Families (Part I)

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Western Digital Hard Drive FamiliesWestern Digital Corporation (often abbreviated to WD) is the second largest computer hard disk drives manufacturer in the world, after Seagate and has a long history in the electronics industry as an integrated circuit maker and a storage products company. Western Digital was founded on April 23, 1970 by Alvin B. Phillips, a Motorola employee, as General Digital, initially (and briefly) a manufacturer of MOS test equipment. It rapidly became a speciality semiconductor maker, with start-up capital provided by several individual investors and industrial giant Emerson Electric Company.

A) Internal Hard Drives

Desktop

Mobile

Enterprise

  • WD VelociRaptor
    The PC enthusiasts’ favorite 10,000 RPM hard drive is still the fastest, most dangerous carnivore around – now with an ultra-fast 32 MB cache and SATA 6 Gb/s interface and twice the capacity of previous generations.
  • WD S25
    The 2.5-inch WD S25 SAS drives offer the powerful combination of enterprise-class performance and reduced power consumption required for demanding high-performance computing and mission-critical environments.
  • WD RE4
    Massive capacity, 64 MB cache, 1.2 million hours MTBF, and a 5-year limited warranty, WD RE4 drives offer an ideal combination of high capacity, optimum performance, and 24×7 reliability for enterprise applications.
  • WD RE4-GP
    WD RE4-GP enterprise-class SATA drives are designed for power-conscious, large-scale data centers.
  • WD RE3
    1.2 million hours MTBF. Best-in-class vibration tolerance. 5-year limited warranty. Just three of the reasons why WD RE3 drives are the world’s most reliable SATA drives.

Audio/Video

  • WD AV-GP
    Power-conserving WD AV-GP drives offer significant power savings and thermally optimized operation resulting in lower cost of ownership and unsurpassed reliability for PVR/DVR, IPTV boxes and media server manufacturers.
  • WD AV-25
    Low power storage engineered to thrive in 24×7 streaming environments.
  • WD AV
    Significant design advances in WD’s hard drive technology, combine optimized AV performance with best-in-class power consumption and thermally optimized operation enabling unparalleled cost of ownership for manufacturers of digital video recording devices.

Solid State

  • WD SiliconEdge Blue
    Solid state drives that will satisfy the most demanding technology enthusiasts and bring a new level of performance and ruggedness to laptop and desktop PCs.

B) Network Products

  • WD ShareSpace
    A high-speed network-attached storage system with capacities up to 8 TB. Perfect for centralizing and sharing data and multimedia files on a small office or home network.
  • My Book Live
    Centralize your photos, music, movies and files on your wired or wireless network for your whole family to access.
  • My Book World Edition II
    Central storage and backup for all the computers in your network and double-safe data protection with RAID mirroring technology.
  • My Book World Edition
    The home network drive that everyone in the house can use, whether they’re on a Mac or PC, to save and share photos, music, and movies on a wired or wireless network.
  • WD Livewire
    Use your home’s electrical outlets to create wired, streaming-ready, high-speed Internet connections anywhere in your home without running wires between rooms.
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