Western Digital My Passport Essential 500GB Portable Hard Drive

The world's most popular portable drive is now smaller than ever. And it's smarter than ever with WD SmartWare™ data management and backup software that backs up your data automatically and continuously, shows your backup as it happens, and restoreslost files effortlessly. Password protection and military-grade, 256-bit hardware-based encryption lets you secure your data. One of the five beautiful colors is just what you need to make you look smart (and very stylish).

• WD's smallest portable drive ever
• Automatic, continuous backup will instantly make a second copy whenever you add or change a file
• Visual backup displays your content categories and shows the progress of your backup
• Retrieve your valuable data to its original location whether you've lost all your data or just overwritten an important file
• Customize your backup, set drive security, run diagnostics, manage the power settings, and more from the WD SmartWare control center
• Gain peace of mind knowing that your data is protected from unauthorized access or theft with password protection and military-grade 256-bit hardware-based encryption
• USB 2.0 powered