Western Digital My Passport User Manual - Page 7
Disk Drive Format, Physical Description, USB 3.0 Interface, Power/Activity LED
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About Your WD Drive Disk Drive Format Your My Passport drive is formatted as a single NTFS partition for compatibility with all updated Windows operating systems. If you want to use the drive with a Mac computer, see Reformatting the Drive and Troubleshooting. Physical Description As shown in figure 2, the My Passport drive has: ▪ A USB 3.0 interface port ▪ A power/activity LED indicator USB 3.0 Interface The USB 3.0 interface supports data transfer rates up to 5 Gb/s. USB 3.0 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 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 My Passport™ 3 User Manual