WD today introduced its new 500 GB My Passport Essential limited edition designs portable hard drives, available exclusively at Best Buy and the WD Store. The new HDD are available in several unique designs, designed by students at California State University, Long Beach's Industrial Design program. The drives are available in the following styles: Boom Box, Black Hole, Cityscape, Fuchsia Leaf and Wave.

The drives are Windows compatible and include WD SmartWare software, which provides a simple, visual method for backup using a single-screen view of the drive's contents.

My Passport Essential limited edition designs portable drives also feature user-selected password protection combined with 256-bit hardware-based encryption.

The new My Passport Essential limited edition designs are offered in 500 GB and have a 2-year limited warranty. My Passport Essential limited edition designs are now available exclusively at Best Buy and online at www.wdstore.com. MSRP is $119.99 USD.

Specifications

Serial Transfer Rate
USB 2.0
Serial Bus Transfer Rate (USB 2.0): 480 Mb/s (Max)

Capacity: 500 GB
Interface: USB 2.0
Height: 0.60 Inches
Length: 3.2 Inches
Width: 4.3 Inches
Weight: 0.44 Pounds