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

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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
About Your WD Drive
My Passport
User Manual
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