Portable Hard Drives
500 GB, USB 2.0

Plug and play storage
Fast, reliable storage
Compact design

Plain and simple, this portable hard drive is an easy way to add storage to your PC or Macintosh notebook computer. Is it reliable…of course, it's from Western Digital.

Plain and simple portable drives that are easy to use, light and easy to carry, and require no power adapter--they are powered directly through the USB cable.

Key Features

Easy to Use - Just plug it in and it's ready to receive your data. USB Powered - These drives require no power adapter--they are powered directly through the USB cable.* Compact Design - Weighing in at only a few ounces, these tiny drives fit easily into pocket or purse. Reliable - All WD drives, even our most basic products, are designed to protect your data and put through a comprehensive battery of tests before they are ready for market. * An optional cable is available for the few computers that limit bus power.

Ideal For

Carrying large files between work and home or on the road.

System Requirements

• Available USB port
• Windows® 2000/XP/Vista™
• Mac® OS 10.3+

Package Contents

• USB 2.0 portable hard drive
• USB 2.0 certified cable
• Quick Install Guide

Important interface information

This drive requires a USB connection [WD Interface Guide]

	Up to 71,400 digital photos
	Up to 62,500 songs (MP3)
	Up to 6,250 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
	Up to 19 hours of Digital Video (DV)
	Up to 110 hours of DVD quality video
	Up to 30 hours of HD video
Mouse over each item to see how it was calculated. (Examples of the number of photos, songs, videos and any other files that can be stored on a hard drive are provided for illustrative purposes only. Your results will vary based on file size and format, settings, features, software and other factors.) One gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes. One terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.

Performance Specifications

Serial Transfer Rate
	USB 2.0
	Serial Bus Transfer Rate (USB 2.0)	480 Mbits/s (Max)

Physical Specifications
	Capacity	250 GB
	Interface	USB 2.0

Physical Dimensions
English
	Height	0.70 Inches (Max)
	Length	4.89 Inches (Max)
	Width	3.09 Inches (+/- 0.010 inch)
	Weight	0.34 Pounds

Metric
	Height	17.8 mm (Max)
	Length	124.4 mm (Max)
	Width	78.6 mm
	Weight	0.155 kg

Environmental Specifications
Temperature (English)
	Operating	41° F to 104° F
	Non-operating	-40° F to 149° F

Temperature (Metric)
	Operating	5° C to 40° C
	Non-operating	-40° C to 65° C