Western Digital WDBAAA5000Axx User Manual - Page 47
Enhancing Performance with WD +TURBO
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MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL 3. Verify that the My Passport icon displays on your desktop, where "MY PASSPORT" is the name you assigned to the volume when you reformatted the drive for use with the Mac computer: Your My Passport drive is now ready to use as an external storage device. You can enhance its performance by installing the following software that is on the drive: • WD +TURBO utility (see "Enhancing Performance with WD +TURBO" in the next section) • WD SmartWare software (see "Installing the WD SmartWare Software" on page 44) Enhancing Performance with WD +TURBO WD +TURBO is a utility on the My Passport drive that you can install to improve the performance of the drive on a Mac computer. If you are going to install the WD SmartWare software, you do not need to install the WD +TURBO utility yourself-the WD SmartWare software will install it for you. If you are not going to install the WD SmartWare software, install WD +TURBO to enhance the performance of your My Passport drive. To install WD +TURBO: 1. Double-click the My Passport icon, and then double-click the Extras folder on the screen that displays: 2. Double-click the WD +TURBO Installer icon: USING THE DRIVE WITH A MAC - 42