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Wednesday May 21, 2008
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 Western Digital announced the slim, and sexy My Passport Studio portable drives, designed specifically for Mac users. It's compatible with Apple's Time Machine backup feature, found on Leopard. WD now offers a complete storage backup system for Mac users everywhere they go.
The drives weigh in at 5 ounces each, and are available in 250GB ($159.99 list) and 320GB ($219.99 list) capacities. You can store thousands of songs, photos, and videos or completely back up the contents of your MacBook with a single My Passport Studio drive. The drives are also equipped with FireWire 400 and the USB 2.0 interface, negating the need for an external power source and extra cords. A Capacity Gauge also allows users to see how much space is available on the drive quickly and easily.
According to Western Digital's site it can hold
• 91,400 digital photos
• 80,000 MP3 files
• 8,000 CD-quality songs
• 24 hrs of DV video
• 140 hrs of DVD video
• 38 hrs of HD video
The drives can easily be formatted to work with Windows 2000/XP/Vista. This is great for college students, film makers, music geeks, people that just love to download, and anybody in need of extra storage on their Macs.
WD's My Passport Studio portable drives are available now at select retail stores and from WD's online store.
Posted By:
Chris Gampat
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May 23, 2008 11:59 AM
It is funny that they say they 'support' mac as the drive isn't even FireWire bus-powered.... if you use FW, you have to also use a USB cable...
From their press release -- "If using the FireWire cable, you must plug both the FireWire and USB connectors into the device."
Not the smartest thing I've ever seen...
May 24, 2008 11:17 AM
This drive is actually Firewire bus-powered.
On one end of the cable you have a regular 6-pin firewire connector (going into 1 port on the computer), and on the other end you have 2 connectors going to the 2 connectors on the drive.
No AC power and only 1 port (firewire) used on the computer.