Western Digital My Passport Ultra for Mac User Manual - Page 7

Disk Drive Format, Physical Description, USB Type-C™ Interface, Power/Activity LED, USB Type-C - and windows

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About Your WD Drive Disk Drive Format Your My Passport Ultra for Mac drive is formatted as a single HSF+J partition for compatibility with macOS X operating systems. If you want to use the drive with a Windows computer, see Reformatting the Drive and Troubleshooting. Physical Description As shown in figure 2, the My Passport Ultra for Mac drive has: ▪ A USB 3.1 interface port ▪ A power/activity LED indicator USB Type-C™ Interface The USB Type-C™ interface supports interface transfer rates up to 10 Gb/s. USB 3.1 is backward compatible with USB 2.0. A USB 2.0 interface supports data transfer rates up to 480 Mb/s. Figure 2: My Passport Ultra for Mac drive Power/Activity LED The power/activity LED shows the drive's power state as follows: LED Appearance Power State/Activity On steady Idle Fast flashing, approximately 3 times per second Slow flashing, approximately every 2.5 seconds Activity System standby Off Unit off or has been configured to have the LED turned off using WD Drive Utilities My Passport Ultra for Mac 3 User Manual

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Disk Drive Format
Your My Passport Ultra for Mac drive is formatted as a single HSF+J partition for
compatibility with macOS X operating systems. If you want to use the drive with a
Windows computer, see
Reformatting the Drive
and
Troubleshooting
.
Physical Description
As shown in
figure
2, the My Passport Ultra for Mac drive has:
A USB 3.1 interface port
A power/activity LED indicator
USB Type-C
Interface
The USB Type-C
interface supports interface transfer rates up to 10 Gb/s.
USB 3.1 is backward compatible with USB 2.0. A USB 2.0 interface supports data
transfer rates up to 480 Mb/s.
Figure 2: My Passport Ultra for Mac drive
Power/Activity LED
The power/activity LED shows the drive’s power state as follows:
LED Appearance
Power State/Activity
On steady
Idle
Fast
flashing,
approximately 3 times per second
Activity
Slow
flashing,
approximately every 2.5 seconds
System standby
Off
Unit off or has been
configured
to have the LED
turned off using WD Drive Utilities
About Your WD Drive
My Passport Ultra for Mac
User Manual
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