Sure, 85.3 percent of your best buds are kickin’ it in Cozumel right right away, though the couple of splendid minds during California State University, Long Beach have been toiling around a clock in those dreaded summer sessions in sequence to assistance create the five-pack you see graphic here. In sequence to give the already full of color My Passport Essential line a long owing refresh, Western Digital has now combined the handful of limited book 500GB models with rather than in vogue exteriors. Boom Box, Black Hole, Cityscape, Fuchsia Leaf as well as Wave are a prints to select from, as well as all five can be snapped up for the window of time at Best Buy or around WD directly. As for specs? You know a cavalcade — USB 2.0 powered, 256-bit hardware encryption and a two-year warranty. Take your pick for $119.99, city slicker. Show full PR textNew My Passport® Essential™ Limited Edition Designs Portable Drives Personalize Storage With Signature Styles

For Students by Students: WD® Collaborates with Design Students at California State University, Long Beach to Make External Hard Drives Fashionable

LAKE TIMBERLAND, Calif., July 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — WD® (NYSE: WDC), a world’s leader in outmost storage solutions, currently introduced its brand-new 500 GB My Passport® Essential™ singular book designs (photo) moveable hard drives, accessible to one side during Best Buy® and WD’s store. Consumers can choose from multiform singular designs which interest to the far-reaching variety of personal styles, trimming from outside enthusiasts to civic trendsetters.

Designed by students during California State University, Long Beach’s Industrial Design module, a drives have been available in a following styles: Boom Box, Black Hole, Cityscape, Fuchsia Leaf as well as Wave. The musical patterns have been especially geared for students who wish to demonstrate their particular character while selecting the arguable, ultra-portable place to store their media as well as back up their profitable work.

The drives are Windows® concordant and include WD SmartWare™ software, which provides a elementary, visual process for backup regulating the single-screen perspective of the drive’s contents.

“The essence of people’ moveable storage enclose all the ways they demonstrate themselves – song, images, and videos – as well as tell a story about who they have been,” pronounced Dale Pistilli, vice boss of marketing of WD’s branded products organisation. “Expressing individual character is important. That’s because we teamed up with California State University, Long Beach design students, who have their finger on a ultimate conform trends.”

My Passport Essential singular edition designs moveable drives additionally feature user-selected cue insurance combined with 256-bit hardware-based encryption. Typically found only upon much some-more expensive drive systems, a encryption acts as a virtual clinch to keep users’ data in isolation.

Price as well as Availability

The brand-new My Passport Essential limited edition designs are offering in 500 GB as well as have the 2-year singular warranty. My Passport Essential singular edition designs have been now accessible to one side during Best Buy and online during www.wdstore.com. MSRP is $119.99 USD.

My Passport Essential Limited Edition Designs

The brand-new WD My Passport Essential limited edition designs moveable hard drives feature:

* Five unique designs which let consumers demonstrate their individuality;
* 256-bit hardware encryption for assent of thoughts knowing which data is protected from unapproved entrance;
* USB 2.0 interface that powers(1) a drive directly from a USB pier upon the user’s computer (no separate power supply is needed);
* Planet-friendly wrapping derived from recycled materials to minimize rubbish;
* Ready to plug-and-play with Windows PCs; as well as,
* A 2-year limited guaranty.